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Wednesday, Nov. IS, 1963 For Women MOStly By PAQUITA FINE The next time you open the front door to wave your children off to school, take a good look at both the weather and the clothing they're wearing. It could be the difference between life and death. If it's a drab, grey day and your children’s outer garments match the weather, you’re in viting disaster. According to the National Safety Council more than 1,000 children under 15 will , be killed, and more than 45,000 injured by automobiles while while walking to and from school this year. The most dan gerous months are from Septem ber through December with Dec ember the deadliest. These are the months when daylight hours are the shortest and visibility of tyou'te SaoUed to HOME f IIAAiI/) I/Ifll I THIIRS.-FRI.-SAT. BUILDING SUPPLY’S I II lU/l I J/fil k r . 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A number of parents have had their children cover their note books in this colors; others have provided their youngsters with ponchos of international-orange. The ponchos are lightweight plas tic three-cornered affairs which resemble capes worn by old-time Mexican peasants. The kids have had great fun decorating them with their latest slang expres sions. While the statistics on hand deal only with pedestrian-stu dents, Chief Blake noted that bi cycle riders should be alerted to their dangers and the traffic hazards they create for motor ists when they neglect simple safety precautions. “They should observe the same traffic laws as motorists do in making turns and stopping for traffic signals,” he said. He observed, however, that inexperienced cyclists some times have a tenuency to wobble THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY when they glance behind them or lift a hand to make a turn signal. "Riding a bicycle on sidewalks is prohibited,” said Chief Blake. “Most of the danger here is to older people who can’t dodge out of the way, and to the few blind people we have here.” A great number of bicycles in Chapel Hill are not equipped with either front lights or tail reflect ors, yet more than one UNC stu dent, studying late at the library, still rides his dark bike home. The same is true of youngsters visiting or playing a few blocks from home. “All that the law requires is a light and a reflect or,” said Chief Blake, “but bi cycles should be better lighted. I don’t know if rear tail-lights for bicycles are available but they’d be far more effective than a reflector.” Chief Blake mentioned two other safety measures that are good accident insurance: 1. Children should be instruct ed by their parents that parking areas at shopping centers can be as dangerous as any busy city street. 2. Pedestrians who walk on streets or highways where there are no sidewalks should walk facing the traffic. They should wear light, clothing and carry a flashlight at night. Even a white handkerchief will offer some pro tection. Another problem that frequent ly sends a person leaping for his life and may frighten a motorist into a heart attack is the jay walker who, because he can see “clear as day” due to headlights approaching from both directions, is apparently unaware that those very lights meeting each other make it practically impossible for either motorist to see him in time to stop. This is particu larly true in bad weather and when the pedestrian is wearing dark clothing. “A man may throw up his headlights after passing another car and see an object in his path that he couldn't see before,” said Chief Blake. Lt. Graham Creel, looking ahead to the first snow, warns that children' should not hook rides on motor vehicles or ride their sleds on toe streets. "We have never blocked off any of the streets for sledding since there are plenty of places around here that are safe. When it snows, most of the kids use the Country Club golf course or the hillsides around Tenny Meadow.” Lt. Creel is one of the officers concerned with traffic hazards near schools in Estes Hills. “The town is putting up signs this week to stop parents from un loading students helter-skelter in stead of at designated points,” he said. “This is for tile chil dren’s safety. There’s another danger, though. Some of the students don’t wait for the school guard’s comand to cross. There is also an after-school pro blem created by junior high stu dents who are still hanging around the edges of the school grounds when the guards leave. Once we leave, there’s no pro tection and no supervision. One student alone wouldn't be so bad but often they’re in groups.” The reason for these “groups” may be because some parents have requested permission for their children to remain on the school grounds until they can be picked up by their parents, usual ly around four or four-thirty. So long as these students remain school grounds, they are supervised by school personnel. There is a tendency, however, for the students to wander down to the road to do their waiting. Some of the working parents who live in the Glen Lennox area and cannot pick their children up immediately after school, are making use of the Chapel Hill Transit Lines which provides bus service for school children to and from Phillips Junior High. At a cost of $8 a month (or about 20 cents a trip) students from Glen Lennox and nearby areas may catch a bus at 7:45 a.m. at eith er the Glen Lennox Dairy Bar or toe Holy Family Episcopal Church. For the return trip, the students are picked up in front of the Junior High at 3:40 p.m. Page 3-B Livingstone Will Address Seminar Dr. Daniel A. Livingstone of the Duke University Department of Zoology will address a UNC Zoology seminar Thursday at 4:45 p.m. in 105 Wilson Hall. Dr. Livingstone will speak on "The Paleoecology of a Tropical Mountain.” Dr. Livingstone is a graduate of Dalhousie and Vale Univer sities. He also spent a year at the Botany School, Cambridge, before coming to Duke University in 1956. Much of his research has been concerned with elaboration of the ecological and climatic condi tions of the Pleistocene, through toe analysis of pollen profiles, chemical conditions in toe hydro sphere, and the study of lake basins and sedimentation. A great deal of his research time has been spent in Nova Scotia, Arctic Alaska, and East and Central Africa.
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