(The Register’s Iowa News Service)

  ST. ANSGAR, IA - Two Mitchell County teen-agers were killed Sunday morning and three others were critically injured when a car they were in collided head-on with another car on Highway 105, 1½ miles west of here.

  Dead are Steven Borchert, 18, the driver of the car and son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren R. Borchert of rural Plymouth, and Marsha [SIC s/b Marcia] McKinley, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip McKinley of St. Ansgar.

  Critical Condition

  In critical condition at Rochester, Minn., are:

  Ann McKinley, 16, sister of Marsha; Karla Kittleson, 19 [SIC s/b 16], daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kittleson of St. Ansgar, and Cindy Novak, 19 [SIC s/b 18], daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lou [Louis] Novak of Grafton.

  The driver of the other car, Judith Bublitz, 19, of St. Ansgar, is in Mitchell County Memorial Hospital at Osage with a fractured wrist and fractured pelvis. There were no passengers in that car.

  Officials said the accident occurred about 9:30 a.m. as the Bublitz girl was driving east into St. Ansgar and Borchert was driving west. Both cars rolled into a ditch after the collision.

  The passengers in the Borchert car were going to a wedding in western Iowa.

  List Survivors

  The Borchert youth also is survived by a brother, Stanley, 19 at home; a sister, Mrs. Gary Cole of Mason City, and twins Linda and Larry, 14.

  Miss McKinley also is survived by two brothers, William 14, and Philip, jr., 7, and two sisters, Jane 12, and Priscilla, 5.

  Funeral arrangements are pending at the Schroeder and Houg Funeral Home here.