Report Shows That
Drowning Claims 150
Each Year ln State
Precautions Are Urged
While Enjoying Wa
ter Recreation
More than 150 North Carolinians an
nually lose their lives in accidental
drownings, it is revealed by the Acci
dent Prevention Section of the North
Carolina State Board of Health in
asking all persons to exercise pre
cautions while engaging in water
sports this summer.
Dr. Charles M. Cameron, Jr., Chief
of the Accident Prevention Section,
pointed out that while a sizeable num
ber of drownings occur in every sea
son of the year, the toll is heaviest
in the summer when outdoor recrea
tional activities are at their peak.
“Almost half of all accidental
drownings occur in June and July,”
Dr. Cameron said. “Most victims of
drowning are males with the high
est death rates from this cause be
ing recorded for boys from 15-19
years of age.”
Some insight into the circumstances
under which drownings occur at vari
ous age periods has been provided bv
the files of the State Board of Health
which investigates many of the ac
cidental deaths reported by tbe local
health departments and physicians, it
was pointed out.
“Most of the drownings at ages
from one to nine years appear to re
sult from youngsters falling into or
wading in rivers, creeks, and other
bodies of water,” Dr. Cameron said.
“Among the younger of these chil
dren, there is evidence that a consid
erable proportion of the deaths took
place around the home—some of them
in ornamental garden pools, cesspools,
septic tanks, wells, cisterns, and
ponds.”
“Quite different is the situation at
the older ages,” the state health of
ficial continued. “Swimming account
ed for more than two-fifths of ac
cidental drownings among boys and
young men and watercraft accidents
caused an additional one-sixth.”
The Board of Health stated that the
number of deaths from accidental
drownings can be reduced only when
every person is aware of the dangers
associated with outdoor recreational
activities.
“The state is adequately provided
with lakes, parks, and beaches where
safe-guards against drowning have
been provided,” Dr. Cameron said.
"All persons are urged to utilize these
designated recreation areas. Much
credit should also go to the Ameri
can Red Cross, the Boy and Girl
Scouts, the Coast Guard, and the Nat
ional Safety Council for their activi
ties designed to reduce the needless
waste of lives from drowning.”
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Pamphlets Distributed
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is now distributing a new highway
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Edward Scheidt, Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles, said the new pamph
let has been produced in cooperation
with the North Carolina Petroleum
Industries Committee and will be dis
tributed to motorists of the state.
Pointing out that individual driver
failures are the cause of a good 80
per cent of all highway accidents, the
pamphlet underscores the point that
“safe drivers make safe highways,”
Scheidt said.
The pamphlet emphasizes the hu
man element of traffic hazards and
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THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY JULY 1, 1954.
| contains a number of revealing quo
tations from traffic engineers, public
officials, jurists and casualty insur
ance companies, all tending to discount
the dangerous and all too common at
titude that the modern highway is
foolproof.
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the old ones; not new duties, but new
strength from on high to fulfill those
that are plain before us.
—Tryon Edwards.
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America by 1975 will have a popu
lation of 190,000,000, according to es
timates made by the Social Security
Administration.
This will represent an increase of
about 29,000,000 over the population!
of 1954. These figures reflect the j
potentialities for this country’s growth
and demonstrate that there is no fore
seeable limit on our capacity to pro
duce, if we have the incentives and
if we use our physical resources in
telligently.
An increase in population and con
tinuance of America’s traditionally ex
panding economy will bring an in
crease in the labor force to about 88,-
600,000. This will mean 22,100,000
more persons will be at work in 1975
than were in 1954.
Capsule Facts On
’53 Traffic Accidents
Raleigh More than half of the
1,256 drivers involved in fatal traf
fic collisions last year in North Caro
lina had driving experience of long
er than five years the Motor Vehicles
Department reports.
Os the same number 908 were li
censed Tar Heel drivers.
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Id Scheldt Orders
Careful Watch For
“Car Bootlegging”
Is Unlawful to Tamper
With Identification
Numbers
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The Motor Vehicles Department has
issued a directive to its field agents
jto be on the lookout for cars and
i trucks being offered for sale with j
| concealed or altered identification j
( numbers. '.
Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed
ward Scheldt took steps to ston the I
practice of concealing identification,
numbers which some persons and
firms are reported to be doing.
The practice stems from what has
been called “car bootlegging”, Scheldt'
said. Some firms reported selling,
used cars and representing them as
new cars are allegedly concealing or
altering the numbers to prevent iden
tification.
Scheidt indicated the Department of
Motor Vehicles had no interest in the
so-called bootlegging other than tbe
I wilful altering or concealing of identi
fication nunibers.
He said the law clcarlv covers his
action in ordering the oractice stoo
ped. Tbr Motor Vehicle Manual states
in part that it is.. . . "unlawful to al
ter, cover, remove or conceal the
identification numbers of a motor ve
hicle or to be in possession of or of
fer for sale any motor vehicle with the
identification numbers altered, remov
ed, covered or concealed.”
j Scheidt also said that some firms
were not giving purchasers title pa
pers with the seller as owner of the
. SECTION TWO-
vehicle. He pointed out this, too, is a
violation of registration laws.
Scheidt has instructed motor vehicle
agents to be particularly watchful of
persons and firms suspected of such
practices. He said indictments would
jbe made where such practices exist.
May Milk Production
Hits All-Time High
Estimated milk production on farms
in North Carolina totaled 173 million
pounds during May—the highest
j monthly production ever recorded in
(the Tar Heel State, according to the
|N. C. Crop Reporting Service. Fol
lowing a normal seasonal pattern, pro
duction during May registered an in-
I crease of 12 million pounds over the
1161-million pound flow of the previous
month. Further comparisons show
.that production during May of this
' year was 14 million pounds above that
lof Mav. 1953. and 30 million pounds
above the 1943-52 average for the
month.
There was an estimated 394,000 milk
; cows in herds in the State during
, Mav. This was also the highest of
record for the month, comparing with
381.000 cows in herds during May of
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