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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
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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.
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