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School Days Increase
Hazards; Motorists
Urged to Heed Laws
By E arl T. N ew bry
S ecretary of State
P racw jB W ^ a e r y d n l j j ^ ^ ^ l w h y we
traffic laws. W hat happens w hen
th ey ’re disregarded is m ade all too
clear by a glance at th e S ^ ^ W n t
ports received by the departm ent of
by th e h undreds every day.
There is a new one on the books,
how ever, that" d em andaf^S M land com-
plete observance—because it directly
affects the safety of some 80,000 O re
gon school youngsters who rely on bus
tran sp o rtatio n ' to get to school. It
calls for the form ation of a new d riv-
ing hab it on the „part of^all: m otorists!
from operators of full tru c k -a n d -tra il-
er units to th e occasional passenger
car * sSafiliF« I A nd yet it’s a sim ple la w
—it req u ires you to come to a com
plete stop w hen ^meeiaBanpr overtaking
'a ‘school bus th a t has stopped to load
or unload passengers. You m ay not
proceed 11! long' as; any children are
leaving th e bus or crossing i S j l R b S
way. The only e M ^ y ibn is traffic
m oving in the opposite direction on the
fan^s ^ e oaia th ree or fo u r-lan e high
way, w hich m ay proceed cautiously
w ithout stopping.
A lthough th e law has'^ bOenSj^g g ig
feet since last spring, a rem inder now
is tim ely. Thpv reopening of schools
showed th a t enrollm ents everyw here
are expanding and th ere is every in
dication they will continue to expand
iri the years to come. This fact, coupled
w ith the
of m any ru ra l
school districts, m akes school bus
tran sp o rtatio n an essential fe atu re of
our public education facilities.
There have been num erous in s ta n c ^
in w hich school youngsters w ere
s t r u c k g the roadway be-
fore boarding or after leaving a school
bus. H ad the present law been in ef<
feet, m any of these tragedies $%>uld
have been avoided. W ith m ore buses
carrying m ore pupils for g re ater dis-
tances, and w ith jgMaJERume of all
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