ASH, Russell - Putnam

Three weekend drownings have been reported in Indiana, including two  young Brown County boys who went for a swim in a forbidden farm pond.  Russell Ash, 18, RR 2, Greencastle drowned Saturday afternoon while swimming in an abandoned gravel pit on the Cecil Modesitt farm, three miles south of Reelsville.  

Jerry Durham, 13 and James Wilkerson, 10, both of RR 3, Morgantown drowned late Friday while swimming in a pond on the farm of Mrs. Mary Albright near their homes.