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PAGE TEN Highway Fatalities During IMS Lead Mark Previous Year Chowan Aids Increase With Five Highway Deaths Hobeson County led the State in highway fatalities during 1949 with Wake County running a close second, the Department of Motor Vehicles has reported as it released its yearly traffic accident report. The increase of 109 in fatalities in the State in 1949 represented a 15 per cent rise in the death toll over the 734 in 1948. Reported injuries, which reached an all-time high of 9,721, in creased 30 .per cent over the 7,490 re ported in 1948. Reported accidents, also at an all-time high, numbered 21,- 202, a 31 per cent increase over the 16,218 listed in 1948. The fatality trend, which had been downward through January, 1949, started climbing in February and re mained above 1948 throughout the year, with the exception of the month of May, when spring planting ap parently kept many persons in rural areas at home. A dip in number of fatalities always occurs in the spring, motor vehicle officials pointed out, the time depending upon how early or late planting takes place. As usual, rural areas led the fa talities and injuries. A total of 691 persons were killed and 7,654 were in jured in the county as compared with 152 killed in cities and 2,067 injured. Pedestrian fatalities increased six per cent in 1949 over 1948. A total of 197 pedestrians were killed and 918 were injured. As in past years, the largest toll was in the beloiw 10 and above 66 group. Sixty-three children under 10 and 38 persons 65 and over died in highway accidents. Thirty-four \ persons were killed crossing rural highways and 26 were struck and kill ed while they walked along Die road. In cities, unsignalized intersections were the scenes of 13 deaths, while , points away from intersections marked the (location of 62 deaths. Twenty-two persons, mostly children, Host their lives when they dashed from behind 1 parked cars into the street or road- • way. Ten children were killed while they were playing in the roadway. ‘Collisions between vehicles took the \ greatest toll —261—with running off roadway accounting for 249 deaths. Thirty-three bicyclists were killed, 29 persons died in motor vehicle-train collisions, 33 were killed when their vehicles overturned in the roadway and 29 were fatalities when their ve hicles struck fixed objects. Os the 35,972 drivers involved in ac cidents last year, 19,897, or more than half, were in violation of the law at the time of the accident. Nine hun dred and thirty of these drivers were involved in fatal accidents. Speeding topped the list of violations. Drivers traveling at an excess speed at the time of an accident numbered 3,300. Drivers committing other traffic of fenses were listed as follows: driving intoxicated, 1,469; failure to have right-of-way, 4,159; driving on wrong side of road, 3,934. Os the 35,972 motor vehicles invol ved in • accidents, 707 had defective brakes, which were the direct cause of 16 fatalities. Two hundred and seven motor vehicles had defective steering mechanisms, resulting in three deaths. Last year ranked eleventh in the last 20 years in fatalities. In 1941, 1,286 persons were killed; 1937, 1,- 123; 1935, 1,095; 1946, 1,028; 1936, 1,026; 1934, 986; 1940, 980; 1939, 943; 1948, 937; 1933, 853; 1949, 843. More persons were killed in Septem ber and October of 1949 than in any other month—B3 each. May was low with 48. Chowan County contributed to the increase*} fatalities with five in 1949 compared with two in 1948. In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for “the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his wist to ail alike. —<H. B. Stowe. 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The Commission on the Organiza tion of the Executive Branch of the Government in its minute survey of the 1812 Federal agencies, boards, and departments, found a sad lack of effective housekeeping. This Com mission, created by Congress with the approval of President Truman, was headed by former President Hoover. It has provided a vivid picture of the weaknesses in our present set-up, and ■suggested ways of increasing efficien cy so that your taxes may be reduced. Today thousands of tons of obsolete, useless records are stored in steel cabinets in expensive offices at main tenance charges of $29 per year each, when they could be kept in warehouse es at a cost of only $2.15 per year each. In 1928 the Department of Agricul ture had about 22,000 employees and spent less than $26 million. In 1948 it had 82,000 employees and spent 824 millions of your hard-earned tax dollars. 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