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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1957)
o o o Motor Vehicles Nation's Greatest Killer of 1956; 40,000 Counted Chicago 'U.Ri The National Safety Cou4il hf repor.d 99, 000 Amg-icans ed in ccidenl last year, 40,000 of them victims of thAation'a greatest killer, tli. motor vehicle. Q The traffic tcj was an increase oT 4 per cent over the 1955 oount of 33.426 and set a possible new record in highway carnage. The council said he traffic death count put 1956 in "virtual ly a dead heat" with the all time high of 39,696 set in 1941. However, the organization said its 40.000 fizure cannot be called a new record because later re ports w?8 revise the estimate and the final total may be greater or less than estimated. A record high 1956 toll had been considered virtually a cer tainty on the basis of a steadily increasing death rate each month until October. A sharp decrease occurred then, and the tide was turned in December. The toll in the final month was 4.000 unchanged from December of 1955 despite record traffic slaughters during the Christmas and New Year's holi days. Cost Is Hear? In addition to the heavy death toll, traffic accidents resulted in about 1,400,000 non-fatal injuries in 1956 and caused damages esti mated at SI. 85 billion. The injury rate in all acci dents during the year was 9.540, 000, and the cost was some S10.3 billion. Reducing the statistics still further, it meant that one out of every 18 persons in the United States suffered a disabling in jury during 1956. The economic cost included wage losses, medical expense, production delays, and equip ment and property damage. Home accidents were the spc ond biggest killer, claiming 27,- 500 lives or 500 fewer than 1955. The council credited its "back the attack on traffic accidents" campaign with helping check the climbing death toll in the latter part of the year. Eighteen states showed traf fic fatality decreases from 1955 and 29 had increases. Rhode Island had the best record with a drop of 23 per cent in its high way toll. Nevada followed with a reduc tion of 21 per cent and Dela ware was third with a 20 per cent decline. The only other Western state to show a reduction was Colorado. Among cities with more than 200,000 population, Cincinnati, and Rochester, N.Y., tied for the greatest reduction in fatalities, both 38 per cent below 1955. Other large cities showing few er deaths and the percentages in cluded San Francisco, 12 and Long Beach, Calif., 11. 51st Year Medford Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire. Tribune United Press Full Leased Win 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1957 Pages 1 to 6 Faith in Human Nature Renewed Schroon Lake, N.Y. (U.P.) A Schroon Lake man's faith in human nature has been renew ed. In September, 1949, Charles Cole, service manager of a gar age here lost his wallet contain ing $40 in the rest room of the garage. The next day the wal let turned up on the parts coun ter minus the money. Recently seven years after the incident Cole received a registered and signed letter bearing a New York City return address. Enclosed were $40 in cash and this note: "This is your money; keep it. Many thanks." Coos Bay Organization Fined for Gambling Coos Bay (U.PJ Justice of the Peace Thomas Swanton Fri day ordered the Coos Bay Pir ates to pay a $100 fine and $4.50 court costs after the promotion al organization pleaded guilty to a gambling charge. The justice denied a defense motion seeking return of $3000 worth' of gambling equipment seized as evidence in a raid in April of 1955. He said filing of a suit in circuit court for return of the equipment had taken the matter out of his jurisdiction. MM O lS3 PACIFIC 7" INDUSTRIAL" 16 S. 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