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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., March 11, 1954, page 1

CLYDE ALVIN PRANTE

Clyde Alvin Prante died Tuesday in the Oakridge Clinic as the result of a car truck collision on highway 58 in Oregon.
Prante, was 37 years old. Funeral services will be held at the Gardner's Funeral Home in White Salmon at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. Burial services were not announced by Gardner's late Wednesday.

The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., March 19, 1954, page 1

DEATHS OF FORMER RESIDENTS NOTED

Word has been received here of the deaths of two former residents of Skamania County.
Tuesday, March 2, Clyde Prante, 37, of Oakridge, was fatally injured in a collision between a car in which he was a passenger and a truck. The crash occurred near Oakridge.
Theodore P. Flynn, who at that time of his death resided at 3630 N.E. Glisan, Portland, died March 10.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen,WA., March 18, 1954, page 8

CRASH VICTIM'S RITES SATURDAY

Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at Gardner's Funeral chapel, W.S. Clyde A. Prante, 38, former employee of Broughton's at Chenowith. Burial was in Christ-Zada cemetery, Underwood.
The deceased is survived by his wife Doris (nee Sellstead) and four children, Victoria 13, Frankie 5, Judy 3, and Rosemary, 1 month; two brothers, Orvil of Kelso and George of Shelton; his father, Frank, and a sister, Mary Ann Asbury, both of Estacada, Ore.
The young father died following a truck-car collision near Oakridge, Oregon, Tuesday evening, March 9. According to state police, the car in which the deceased was a passenger turned out in front of a truck which struck it, mashing it "like a ball and carrying the car 100 feet off the right side of the highway."
Prante was taken to the Oakridge Clinic where he died an hour and a half later. George Harer, 31, Oakridge, the driver of the car, suffered shock, a fractured rib and head lacerations.
The big truck and trailer was driven by Eugene David Rennie, 27, of Portland. Neither he nor his relief driver was hurt. The truck was owned by the Torchis Express Co., of Portland.

The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR., March 10, 1954, page 1
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OAKRIDGE MAN KILLED IN CRASH

A truck car collision on Highway 58 near Oakridge Tuesday evening took the life of a passenger in the automobile.
State police said the car turned out in front of a truck which struck it, mashing it "like a ball and carrying the car 100 feet off the right side of the highway."
Dead was Clyde A. Prante, 38, Oakrdige, who was taken to the Oakridge Clinic and died less than two hours later. Driver of the car, George Harer, 31, of Oakridge, was taken to the clinic and released after outpatient treatment Tuesday night.
Later, after the death of Prante, Harer was taken to Sacred heart Hospital where he was being treated Wednesday for shock, a fractured rib and lacerations of the head and face. His condition was listed as "fairly good" at the hospital.
The big truck and trailer was driven by Eugene David Rennie, 27, of Portland. passenger with him was his relief driver, Joe P. Sunseri, 28, Portland. Both were unhurt. The truck was owned by the Torchis Express Co., of Portland.
Police had issued no citations as of Wednesday morning.