I Traffic Accidents On
I Increase In This State
North Carolina streets and
highways ran red with blood of
traffic accident victims last
month, as the death toll showed
an 81 per cent increase over that
of last March, the Highway
Safety Division reported this
week. ,
Records of the division list 96
traffic ' deaths last month,
against 53 for March, 1940. This
IS me gretii/COU iiiucooc uu icuord
in this state. The traffic
toll for the first three months
of this year was 275 persons
killed, against 188 killed in the
same period last year, an increase
of 46 per cent.
Fifty of the 100 counties, including
Jackson Comity, showed
increases over the first quarter
of last year.
The worst counties included
Columbus, which had 11 traffic
deaths the first quarter of this
year, against none ior tne same
period last year; Wake County,
with a death toll of 18 this year,
against three last year; Pender
with six this year against none
the first quarter of last year;
Rockingham, with six this year
against one last year, and
Mecklenburg, with 15 this year,
against 12 last year.
"These shocking figures challenge
every citizen of our state
and every agency having anything
to do with accident prevention
to devote more time,
more thought and more hard
?nrlr t.n t.hp arrident, nrnblem
than ever before,'-' declared Ronald
Hocutt, director of the Highway
Safety Division. '
Traffic deaths in the 20-24 age
group showed an even 100 per
cent increase, from 22 the first
quarter of last year to 44 the
first quarter of this year. Fatalities
among children under
ten years of age also were up
nearly 100 per cent, from ten
last year to 19 this year. Of the
275 persons killed, 211 wer?
& I males.
! Large increases were noted in
the numbers of persons killed
in railroad crossing crashes, bicycle
accidents, pedestrian accidents,
and in cars that struck
fixed objects or ran off the roadway.
The first-quarter toll was
as follows: Pedestrian, 84 this
year, 54 last year; railroad
train, 24 this year, 15 last year;
bicycle, 11 this year, 4 last year;
i fixed objects, 22 this year, 6 last
year; overturned in roadway, 16
this year, 17 last year; other
non-collision accidents, 7 this
year, 5 last year. Only 11 of the
March fatalities occurred in
cities of over 10,00b population.
For the first quarter, only 36
persons were killed in the 28
cities, against 37 for the first
quarter of 1940.
Print Silks Team
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The ensemble holds the center
of the spring sartorial stage and
never was there a more practical
fashion.
Gay printed silks team with
plain woolen coats to create the
sort of an outfit that fits into
any hour of the day, whether it
I,. be luncheon, cocktails or in|
i formal dining.
Occasionally, the coats have
facings to match the frock, but
such a coat cannot be worn with
other frocks. More adaptable
are the coats which simply
match the background color of
the print but use none of the
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silk as a trim.
One ensemble introduced at
a New York fashion showing
featured a frock with a gunmetal
background and a small
print of shamrocks. The coat
was of gunmetal wool with two
large bound button holes at the
neckline through which a tie
of the silk was drawn. w'
Another interesting ensemble
J', ' in -the same show consisted of
a coat of dark blue wool with
three quarter sleeves. The print
beneath was made with long
|K full sleeves, which formed a
puff beneath the sleeve of the
coat. A jabot at the neck of the
dress was fashioned so that it
could be worn outside on the
collarless coat.
For another ensemble the
jprint of the dress had been used
l[| , lor a large handkerchief rwhich
Iltf was tucked into a pocket placed
just below the enbelted waist
line of the coat.
In the ten year period 1931-40,
HI! graduate students in American
colegee and universities produced
nearly 27,000 theses as candidate^
for the doctorate degree.
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