Military rites are being planned for Aviation Cadet Paul Eugene Nipple, 20, student pilot, killed Monday in the crash of an Air Force T-37 jet trainer from Bainbridge Air Base, Ga. The youth, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Nipple, who reside one-half mile east of Burrows on the Tom Scott farm, on Route 2, Camden, was on a solo navigation flight from Bainbridge to Selma Alabama, when the plane crashed five miles north of Hartford, Alabama. Authorities said an investigation is under way to determine the cause of the crash. The telegram of notification sent by Major Felix Scott of the Bain bridge Air Force Base stated a letter with further details would be sent as soon as possible. Born in Logansport July 20, 1940 he was the son of Carl M. and Vera Davis Nipple. He was graduated from Delphi High School in 1958. Mechanically inclined, he had worked at Gerber Industries of Delphi, Randolph’s at Burrows and for Harold Allread, a neighbor. On January 25 of this year he enlisted in the Air Force and was first sent to Lockland Air Base in Texas. He was transferred April 25 to the Bainbridge Air Base. Survivors are the parents; his fiancee, Miss Alice Preston, Delphi, several aunts, uncles and cousins. The body will be returned to Logansport to the McCloskey-Hamilton funeral home.

Delphi Journal August 18, 1960