Kenneth Arrington

Accidents and Drownings
Five Killed in Accidents in Butts, Henry and Monroe During Holidays
Tragic accidents in Butts, Monroe and Henry Counties during the 102 hour holiday period added five victims to the 21 lives lost over the state in miscellaneous mishaps.
Early Wednesday morning, July 3rd, a 27 year old construction employee was fatally electrocuted in an accident near Jackson at the intersection of State Route 16 east and Halls Bridge Road. The victim, Kenneth Arrington of Mt. Airy, N. C., was engaged as a groundman with a crew pulling a pole on the Central Georgia EMC lines when the pole struck a hot line, fatally shocking him while he was leaning against 2 trucks.
Marshall W. Maddox Sr., 49, of Juliette, was killed Friday when a vehicle overturned several times about 12 miles east of Forsyth.
The second Monroe County tragedy occurred Sunday morning when Billy Richards, 16, of Atlanta, drowned in the Falls below the dam at High Falls Lake. The young boy, son of the former Miss Sara Outhouse of Jackson, was a member of the Explorer Post No. 455, Boy Scouts of America, who were enjoying an outing at High Falls State Park. The young boy and several companions were swimming in a pool below the Falls when they lost their footing in the swift current. A companion almost drowned but was saved by artificial respiration.
Later reports indicate that Billy suffered two blows on the head from being tossed against rocks in the turbulent stream, either or both of which could possibly have caused death.
A flaming head-on crash early Sunday evening about two miles South of McDonough on State Route 42 claimed the lives of a Warner Robins couple. They were identified as Mr. and Mrs. Otis C. Lowery of Route 1, Warner Robins. The State Patrol said the Lowery vehicle was passing a line of automobiles on a hill when it collided with another car and caught fire. Mr. Lowery was 64 and his wife, Heddie, was 61. The badly burned bodies were unidentified for several hours following the accident.
Several other minor accidents in and about the county were reported but none with serious injury.

(Jackson Progress Argus - 11 Apr 1963)

Submitted by V. S. Harrison