Troy Ruttman's Son Killed in First Start At Pocono Raceway (Part 1)

$Troy Ruttman's Son Killed in First Start At Pocono Raceway By PAUL REINHARD Troy Ruttman Jr., a rookie race car driver who had hoped to parallel the career of his father, was killed yesterday during a super-modified race at the Pocono International Raceway. The 19-year-old Dearborn Heights, Mich., resident was the son of Troy Ruttman, a retired Indianapolis 500 veteran. He was competing 1 in his first Related Story on Page 28 race - and in the first feature ever to be run on the ¾-mile oval in Tunkhannock Township, Monroe County. Ruttman was pronounced dead on arrival at Monroe County Hospital after being involved in a one crash on the 65th lap of a 100-lap feature event Pocono International. The accident began when he lost control of his Marshall Robbins roadster while going into the third turn, hitting the guardrail. The car bounced off the rail, then hit it again and sped along the rail through the turn. It then shot across the track on the fourth turn, went through a double guardrail and a cyclone fence and ended up at the base of the bleachers. Daniel Warner of Stroudsburg, acting Monroe County coroner, said death was due to a fractured skull and added that Ruttman may also have suffered a broken neck. The driver was examined quickly by a physician at the track and was then rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Ruttman, who was a high school pupil in Michigan, was RUTTMAN JR. driving the same car his father drove in Indianapolis 500 races in 1962 and 1963. He was accompanied to the Pocono race by his uncle, Jim Ruttman, and by car owner Robbins. Spectators in the bleachers near the fourth turn said it appeared Ruttman was unconscious before hitting the guardrail for the final time. "When I saw him hit the rail in the third turn," said one man, "I put the binoculars on him. As his car rode the rail, it looked as though he was unconscious, because his head was hanging back against the back of his cockpit." Court Pulls Plug Price-Fix Rule May Spur Suits By WILLIAM BARTON WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's victory over 15 of the nation's largest plumbing fixture manufacturers "makes other price-fixing cases seem pale by comparison," a Justice Department lawyer says, numerous and clears the way for damage suits against them. The verdict could bring on suits seeking billions of dollars Continued on Page 6, Column 4 (riod between September 1962 and the date of the indictments. Involved, the government charged, were sales of approximately $1 billion-or about 98 per cent of the enameled cast iron plumbing fixtures and 80 per cent of the vitreous china plumbing fixtures sold in the Continued on Page 6, Column 1$

Article from 05 May 1969The Morning Call(Allentown, PA)

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Troy Ruttman's Son Killed in First Start At Pocono Raceway (Part 1)

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