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State Defensive Driving Record Tops In U. S.
RALEIGH The Driver
Education and Accident
Records Division of the
Department of Motor Ve
hicles has just received
word that North Carolina
leads all other states in
conducting defensive driv
ing courses for 1968.
In reaching the nur ber
one spot, the Tar Heel
r State reached 94 per cent
of its 1968 goal during the
first seven months of the
year.
C. S. Waters, director of
* the division, said the Na
tional Safety Council set
North Carolina's goal at
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25,382 for 1968. During
the first seven months of
the year the division train
ed 19,105 persons. "We’ll
certainly set a new record
by the end of the year,"
Waters said.
The Department of Mo
tor Vehicles is one of 19
different agencies con
ducting defensive driving
courses in North Carolina
and is the only agency of
lering the course free to
the public. The course
consists of eight hours of
intensive training in driv
ing techniques developed
to help the motorists sur-
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, September 26, 1968.
vive in today’s traffic.
North Carolina's number
one position is due in part
to the large number of
state employees who have
participated in the train
ing course.
Waters, believing that •
good driving like charity
begins at home, set out at 1
the beginning of the year
to try to teach defensive <
driving to every member
of the state employees
family during 1968,
The big push got under
way among state agencies
in July. “Were going to
just keep on working until
every state employee has
been reached,'’ says Wat
ers.
By the end of July,
more than 16,000 state em
ployees had received the
full eight hour course. A
majority of motor vehicle
employees and an estimat
ed 10,000 of the approxi
mately 12,000 highway
commission employees
boosted considerably the
total number of state em
ployees.
j Other state agencies that
! have participated include
; the welfare department.
health department, admin
! istrative department, ar
-1 chives and history, person
nel department, board of
paroles and the probation
commission.
Motor Vehicles Commis
sioner Ralph Howland
| and Assistant Commission
er Joe W. Garrett are
among the graduates. Both
! are completely sold on its
merits as a weapon in the
continuing war on traffic
i c'eath and injury.
During the past two and
one-half years the depart
'me n t has carried the
course to thousands of
drivers through civic,
! church and fraternal
groups and through priv
• ate industry.
The course has been
conducted for members of
panoramic windows. To say nothing of a Rocket
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with all the new GM safety features. There’s even
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senior citizens groups and
for groups of teenagers. If
a person drives a car, he
can benefit from the course
regardless of his age, Wat
ers feels. “It is really a
very practical thing,” he
says.
The veteran motor ve
il ic 1 e employee admits
that he and his field force
of 59 are “selling defensive
driving” with evangelistic
zeal.
“No other project that I
can remember has served
to unite driver education
personnel the way defen
sive driving has,” he says.
“The men are sold on the
value of the course and
thoroughly enjoy teaching
it.”
Even extended teaching
of the course doesn’t dull
the enthusiasm, says Wat
ers. “One man has taught
more than 2,000 people
and he still enjoys it.
“We feel that if one life
is saved by each course,
all the work is worth
while.”
As an experiment, the
defensive driving course
has been substituted for
tegular instruction in driv
er improvement clinics
conducted by the Driver
Education Division in Ra
leigh, Greensboro Char
lotte, Asheville, Fayette
ville and Kinston.
So far, says Waters, “the
response has been very
good.” An analysis will be
made following more ex
tensive experimentation.
1 One thing already is ap
parent to Waters though:
The course definitely has a
place in regular driver
education. In some coun
ties the entire 11 and 12
grades of the county school
systems have taken the
course. The planning and
packaging of the course
and the excellent visual
aids make it ideal for
holding the interest of
teenagers. Waters feels. In
several counties the course
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DEFENSIVE DRIVING TAUGHT
is used as a follow up to
the regular training pro
gram for school bus driv
ers.
The teaching of defen
sive driving is Waters’ re
sponse to Gov. Moore’s
challenge in 1965 to motor
vehicle employees to do
something extra.
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Something extra is just
what defensive driving is
for motor vehicle driver
education personnel. With
out additional appropria
tions and without reduc
ing other services, the di
vision has trained thous
ands of North Carolinians
in life-saving driving tech
niques.
Chrystal Page Now On Record
Miss Chrystal Page, an
Edenton native who is a
rising star in the country
and western music field,
will appear with the Stone
wall Jackson Show in
Jacksonville, October 5.
She also has a contract
to appear on the Bill An
derson Show in January.
Miss Page is a regular
on the Buck Jones and The
WWesterneers Show each
Saturday night in Wil
liamston.
She is under contract
with a major recording
company and cut her first
record two weeks ago.
In a recent interview
she was asked if Williams
ton was her hometown. To
this she replied: “The
only home 1 know and the
Individuals who set out
to reform the human race
will be pretty tired before
the job is done.
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one place I love and I’m
very proud of it, is Eden
ton.”
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MISS CHRYSTAL PAGE
If everyone worked as
hard as he described it,
there would be no undone
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