It was midnight when the Ray Munsells' family car, heading from Amorita, Okla. for the hospital at Hardtner, Kans., crossed the state line. In the back seat, Mrs. Ray Munsell Jr., 21, braced herself against sharpening labor pains, and reached out now & then to steady her three-year-old daughter Roberta, who was dozing beside her in a blanket.
Nearing Kiowa the car went out of control, crashed through the guard rail of a bridge over the Medicine Lodge River, and landed upside down in the water. Neither the driver, Ray Munsell Sr. (who apparently had had a heart attack), nor his wife...