Phillips County News - One Nation, Under God

They say that things happen in threes, and in 1966, residents of Phillips County took that to the extreme.

Now, in my lifetime, I remember three or four instances of a car driving into a building. But within 10 days in April of 1966, there were three cases of cars careening into local establishments. On Sunday, a car lurched into the front of the post office, on Tuesday, a car from Great Falls “moved into” the front of the J.C. Penney store, and the following Tuesday a carload of young men from Washington state lost control on icy roads and crashed right into the Choo Choo Café. Thankf...