The Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Clymer

Louis civic leader who was a brother of former senator John Danforth (R-Mo.), died March 29 in St. The trucks were thousands of pounds lighter than the competition's, allowing Consolidated Freightways truckers to haul more payload.ĭonald Danforth Jr., 69, a former Ralston Purina Co. Their prototypes for a modern cab-over-engine truck built with aluminum and magnesium instead of steel became the basis for Freightliner's success. He joined what was then Consolidated Freightways in the 1930s and was put in charge of a handful of draftsmen and mechanics to design and build lightweight trucks for the fleet. 1, the first transcontinental sleeper to roll 1 million miles, died March 27 in Portland.

Taylor, 85, who as president of the Portland, Ore., Freightliner truck manufacturer from 1951 to 1961 helped to develop such early models as the Hyster No. Daley presented her with the Award of Valor for her battle with Ellis, a long-sought rape suspect known in the Chicago media as 'the Friday night rapist.' The two struggled before she picked up Ellis's gun and shot him with it three more times, killing him. Biebel took a gun from her purse and shot Robert Ellis, forcing him to drop his gun.

She was thrown into a car and driven to a public housing project. She was an off-duty police recruit when she was kidnapped at gunpoint outside her Chicago home. Ann Leybourne Biebel, 53, a retired Chicago police sergeant who had earned the department's highest honor after killing a serial rapist who had abducted her in 1973, died of cancer March 25 in North Muskegon, Mich.

The Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Clymer