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rarfie Safety Drive 10 Curb Public Road Editor'i note: President Eisenhow ers lommiitee for Traffic Salely is prumoting the country's second annual safe driving campaign in the hope of reducing death and injury on streets and highways. The campaign starts Nov. 1 and ends Dec. 1 Safe Driving Dav. Following is the first of three diipau-hes on traffic slaughter in America, causes of accidents, and what can be done to make the auto motive age less dangerous. ting the country's second annual I for safety." jSafe Driving Day S.D.D. I Its challenge: "Not a single traffic accident during the 24 i hour period in daylight or darkness." Inattention Big Factor The hope: To show Americans that "if they can greatly reduce 1 XiUl&UdJ, J. 1. " S.D.D.'s purpose: To demon strate that "traffic accidents can he greatly reduced when motor ists and pedestrians fulfill their moral and civic responsibility By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent "Washington (tj.R; Traffic accidents are killing 36,000 Am ericans a year. Does anybody care? Of 1,250',?!30 merely injured, 100,000 are disabled for the rest of their lives. Last year traffic accidents cost T3. S. citizens $4,400,000,000 in medical and burial bills and pro perty loss. T Anyone listening? From the turn of the century through 1951, cars and trucks killed 1,000,000 persons. At pres ent rates it will take only an other 25 years to add 1,000,000 dead. . And by 2000 A.D. the accumu lated toll for the first 100 years of the motor vehicle in Ameri ca could hit: - More than 3.000,000 killed, more than 100,000,000 hurt, and some 10,500,000 permanently disabled. But does anybody care? Public apathy toward the ceaseless carnage on the nation's roads and streets is, authorities say, suffocatingly profound. Of course, there are many who do care the bereaved, the Injured, for example, and such organizations as the Nation al Safety Council, the Automo tive Safety foundation, the Am erican Automobile association, civic groups and schools, and hosts of city, state, smd federal officials, not to mention the auto and insurance industries. And President Elsenhower cares deeply. Last year he great ly expanded the siz and pro gram of the White House confer ence on highway safety, estab lished in 1946, and called elo quently for reduction of the slaughter. This year, while Mr. Eisen hower recovers from his heart attack, the President's Commit tee for Traffic Safety is promo- Nina Warren To Wed Beverly Hills Surgeon Santa Monica, Calif. (U.RS Nina (Honeybear) Warren, 22, daughter of Chief Justice Earl . Warren and surgeon Stuart Brien, 33, Beverly Hills, took out a marriage license yesterday. Miss Warren, youngest of the former California governor's three daughters, attended UCLA. 1 the accidents for one day, they can do it every day of the year." The American Automobile As sociation makes a business of studying causes of traffic acci dents and trying to figure out how to prevent them. Causes are myriad everything from alco hol to zigzag highways. But what is the one big fac tor, W. L. Robinson, associate director of the AAA's traffic en gineering and safety department, answered this way: "It boils down to inattention and poor judgment." MEDF0RDJlti& v a s J .O Tribune Unitea Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wir Second Section BEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1955 Pages 1-6 Map of Oregon To Be Displayed At Chin Up Sale A map of Oregon, made of stones with each county cut to scale from various rocks, will be on display at the fifth annual hobby show and sale, sponsored by the Chin Up club, according to an announcement by Paul Olson, general chairman. The sale will be held at the Eagles Hall, 217 West Main st., Tues day and Wednesday, Nov. 8 and 9. Hours will be 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day. Olson said a wide variety of articles will be offered for sale, Tanging from fancy work to Hewelry to a saddle. Money de rived from the sale will be used by the Chin Up club to finance its activities for the coming year, including making of favors for convalescent homes and the county farm on various holidays throughout the year. Considerable interest is being shown in the "Thieves' Market, a new innovation of the show this year, Olson said. Items in his special department will be of the "white elephant" variety and will not necessarily be hob bies, he said. A cooked foods sale also will be held in conjunction with the hobby sale and indications , are that this department will sur pass previous years. Miss Jose phine Swayne will be in charge of a tea table for convenience of patrons. POULTRY MENACE Evansville, Ind. (U.R) Re gardless of why chickens cross the road, Walter F. Sill Jr., 23, wishes they wouldn't. He was hospitalized recently because he swerved his car and crashed into a utility pole near here while trying to avoid a flock of them. . "'. . . , . iX CARRYING THE BALL FOR U. S. The American team is shown as the Big Four open at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In front, left to right: Defense Secy. Charles E. Wilson, State Secy. John Foster Dulles, Asst. Secy, of State for European Affairs Livingston T. Merchant and Douglas MacArthur n, State Department counselor. Those seated behind them are unidentified. A normally-safe driver goofs off. Another gets sore at a slow- poke. A guy who never did it j before takes a chance because he j is a couple of minutes late for j dinner. A pedestrian who knows ' better jaywalks across the street i in the middle of the block. Says the AAA: "Alertness avoids accidents." A scientifically dependable study of traffic accident statis tics is impossible because acci dent reporting, the AAA says, "is inadequate." But the National (Safety Coun cil has made surveys here and there to find out what was going on when fatal accidents occur red. They show that in 72 per cent of the cases drivers were guilty of some violation or oth er. In 94 per cent nothing was found mechanically wrong with the car. (Tomorrow: The worst violators) CONTINUES AT LEON'S TOTS-TO-TEENS WEDNESDAY -I TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE Terrific Savings HURRY TO LEON'S TOTS-TO-TEENS 105 EAST MAIN OPEN WED. TIL -9 Newbry Mailed Check For Too Much Coffee Time Salem U.R) A national in stitution showed signs of crack ing here today. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry said he received a $95 check from a Lebanon woman employed by the state to make up for time wasted while over staying coffee breaks during a one-year period. G Small amounts of linseed oil poured into the container before putty is stored will keep it from drying out. ... : : - ; h . t : ;iol - f! flv - 4 RARE TEXAS DOCUMENT Berkeley, Calif. U.R) One of the six known copies of the Con stitution for the abortive State of West Texas has been obtained by the University of California. It will be preserved in Bancroft Library on the campus here. SHINGLES TREATMENT Chicago iU.R) Gamma glo bulin has been found helpful in relieving the severe pain of shingles, according to an article by Dr. I. Irving Weintraub, Gainsville, Fla., condensed in the Science Digest. o G CHRISTMAS CARDS With Your Name Imprinted See our distinctive Hallmark Albums . . . . filled with cards to please every taste . . . suit every budget! Smart Slim Jims . . . beautiful religious cards . . . designs by world-famous artists . . . gay, sophisti cated greetings . . . now on display in our Christ mas Card Department. Come in and select yours soon. ON THE BALCONY OPEN WED. 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