CENTRAL EQINT AMERICAN. CENTRAL POINT. OREGON
PAGE TWO
THE CENTRAL
POINT
THURSDAY, JULY 29.1<u,
heavy toll of workers and players
alike.
But who are the real criminals in
this wave of death and injury? The
deadly trio do the killing, of course,
but the reason they do is that they
are aided and abetted by their care
less victims. CARELESSNESS is
the basic crime of accidental death.
So the victims are really the crimi
nals.
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That makes it SUICIDE, not
MURDER. Will you commit suicide
this summer? Or will you play safe
and not take chances?
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EDITORIALS
FOR A BETTER WORLD
THE SLOGAN of the 1948 Road
Show of the American Road Build
ers Association is an appropriate
reminder of the contributions of
the roadbuilder and the highway
maintenance man to better living—
from antiquity down to the present
time. Roads have been avenues of
conquest all through history, we
know; they have served as instru
ments of aggression—just as have
metals and scientific instrument the measurable need for public serv
and the latest inventions. But thf ices of all kinds.
wars have been incidents; the real
The slogan of the 1948 Road Show
history of roads has been that of has a confident ring. And it is right
the peaceful progress of nations.
in its fundamental emphasis. The
We have all come to realize that roadbuilders of 1948 are not merely
we are living in a world in which paving the way for astonishing
distance no longer has the meaning numbers of new motor cars. They
it once possessed. The more speota- are building for the better living
cular media of communication are that improved motor transportation
largely to be thanked for that. Yet contributes to. That is a larger and
everywhere on the face of earth it a better concept, On their past
is the state of development of road record, roadbuilders need not be in
systems that measures the advance the least diffident about putting
ment of communities.
their slogan before the world.
Some of our more thoughtful ob
servers like to remind us that auto ARE YOU A KILLER AT HEART?
motive power has wrought a revolu
You would take definite precau
tion in human affairs of which tHe
tions
if the headlines of this news
full measure has not yet been taken.
paper announced: KILLERS AT
This is certainly largely true. Meet
ing the situation adequately implies LARGE! You’d probably lock your
profound long-range adaptations to doors and cancel your evening stroll.
But vicious killers ARE at large
the demands of the superior mobi
lity; it also implies harnessing of during these balmy summer months.
the superior mobility to the basic During July and August they will
needs of people living and working take thousands of unsuspecting
lives. Needlessly and heedlessly
together.
they
will maim and scar thousands
The immediate present has *et
more
victims.
formidable obstacles in the way to
Who are these public enemies?
the road-builders’ better world. The
road administrator is up against the ACCIDENTS.
According to safety experts of the
same situation in his official capa
city that he faces when as a citizen Accident Prevention Department,
he goes out to purchase a pair of Association of Casualty and Surety
shoes or a pound of butter. He can Companies, the three worst killers
not hire all the help, or the kind of during July and August are traffic
help, he wants. Some of his roads accidents, drowning, and excessive
remind him of the suit he had heat. Crippling automobile acci-
patched to last out, the war years.
He would like to increase highway
income, but he is understandably
timid about proposing new taxes.
Ant here he is bound to acknow
ledge a reality from which there is
no escape. For all t’ at his labors
are of the utmost social conse
quence, he is not alone in building
a better world. He ! as companions
in the superintendent of schools, the
health officer and perhaps a half
dozen other public officials. If com
munities need roads, they also need
schools, hospitals, parks and sewage
works.
If long-range highway
planning has been deficient in one
conspicuous respect, it has been in
its failure to develop highway plans
within a perspective accommodating
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON, You are hereby re
quired to appear and answer the
complaint filed against you in the
above entitled suit within four (4)
weeks from the date of the first
publication of this Alias Summons;
and if you fail to answer, for want
thereof the plaintiff will apply to
the court for the relief prayed for
in his complaint, to-wit:
1. That the Bonds of Matrimony
heretofore and now existing be
tween plaintiff and defendant be
dissolved, and that plaintiff be
granted a divorce from the defend
ant;
2. And for such other and further
relief as to the court may seem just
and proper.
By Order of the Honorable H. K.
Hanna, Judge of said Court, made
and dated the 15th day of July,
1948, this Alias Summons is served
upon you by publication for four
successive weeks in the Central
Pojn^American^a^newsgager^^f .
SUIT IN EQUITY FOR DIVORCE _________________________________
ALIAS SUMMONS
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON IN AND
FOR JACKSON COUNTY
CLYDE K. JAMES, Plaintiff.
vs.
EVA JAMES, Defendant.
To EVA JAMES, the above named
defendant:
general circulation, printed . .
published in Central Point jV1'1
County, Oregon, the date of thP » n
publication thereof being the ^5
of July, 1948. and the time
answer expiring the 26th dav ,
August, 1948.
day °f
WM. M. BRIGGS
Attorney for plaintiff
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