Safer Speeds In
Safety Program
Th? faster you drive, the long- j
er, it takes — to stop, that is!
Good drivers know that the
higher the speed the more dis
tance required to stop, according
to L. R. Fisher, acting head of the
Highway Safety Division of the j
North Carolina Department of
Motor V'ehicles.
The question, Fisher said to
day, is: Do we know how much
distance is required to recognize
the need to stop, apply the brakes,
£f»d come to a full stop at any giv
en speed’ And, more important,
ilo you always drive with the
foil realization that you must be j
able to stop in an emergency?
"We’d all be safer drivers,"
Fisher said, "if we’d remember
three things: the driver has to
gee and recognize the need to
stop before he can start stopping.
After he does that, there’s a half
second or more interval called
‘Reaction time’ before he is acu
ally doing the third thing, putting
On the brakes. All this time — un
til the brakes finally stop the
far — the car is moving toward
{hat thing the driver doesn’t want
to hit!”
Here are the figures on how
long it takes an average driver
to see an emergency, react, and
Stop an average car:
" At 20 miles an hour — 43 feet
(including 22 feet of reaction
time).
At 30 miles an hour’ — 80 feet
(33 feet of reaction time).
At 40 miles an hour — 128 feet
(44 feet of reaction time).
At 50 miles an hour — 186 feet
(55 feet of reaction time).
"You see,” said Fisher, “the
faster you go the longer it takes!
And that’s simply because the car
is moving faster while you are
seeing and reacting to the need
to stop, and the greater the speed
the longer it takes for the brakes
I to counteract the energy of that
I speed. Safe, experienced drivers
| know that. All drivers should
remember it."
Safer speeds are the goal of
the Department's program this
month, a part of it’s continuing
traffic safety program: _
Crime drama at its best comes Saturday to
in Republic’s smashing film, "Hideout.”
Lloyd Bridges are featured.
the Marco Theatre
Adrian Booth and
More Women In
U.S. Work Force
| The traditional lament of the
| hen-pecked male that “It s a wo- j
| man’s world" is gaining over-wide j
I acceptance. The fair sex is be
| ginning to take over in earnest.
| infiltrating the male domain
where it hurts the most: in the na
tion's job marts. Distaff employ
ment, after a postwar slump for
a couple of years, is hack with a
bang: the girls now account for 29
percent of the country's work
force; 18.000,000 of them collect
regular paychecks. According to
a Wall Street Journal survey, the
I number of women job-holders and
j job-seekers has jumped 24 percent
I in the past decade, while the num
| ber of men workers has crept up a
scant 7.7 percent. Especially sig
nificant is the fact that married
women are going back to work in
increasing numbers—in the past
10 years the number of hausfraus
l who have swapped their kitchens
; for an office has nearly doubled.
' This is a trend that should ring
j a lot of cash registers for Ameri
can shops. For one thing, it shifts
more of the purchasing power
from men to women, the sex
which does most of the spending.
It may also loosen plenty of purse
strings, since the woman who
earns her own income, instead of
getting it as a gift from hubby, has
less qualms about putting it back
in circulation. And finally, there’s
the fact that when Mama joins
.Papa in the payroll parade, the
'family has more money to spend.
| no clear indication of any over
i! whelming popular trend. Truth of
11 the matter is that many state con
! tests are decided by local issues
jand the personalities involved and
do not give a fair test of national
I issues. _
TURN IN YOUR
BONANZA BANDS
Vrizt'H trill Itr pi mi atray Friday. Jana 2'.!
It 2:20.
ROSE'S 5-10-25c STORE
to visit the newest
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W1LUAMST0N MOTOR CO.
Williamston, North Carolina
IT is with genuine pleasure that we invito
you to visit this newest Mercury dealership
at your earliest convenience.
Here you will he able to sec the new 1050
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Ever” in every wav. Competent salesmen will
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if only just to say “hello. ’
MERCURY DIVISION OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Object of Search
HUNDREDS of policemen, neighbors
and volunteers are seeking James
Knauss, 4, who disappeared from
his Chicago home following the
refusal of his father, Robert J.
Knauss, to give him money for ice
cream. The child's parents became
alarmed when he did not turn up
for his dinner. (International)
Water Dearth Laid
To Politics, War
Philadelphia.—War and politics
are blamed {or the nation's wide
spread water shortages.
This view was expressed by
several experts attending the
American Water Works Associa
tion convention. Harry K. Jordan
of New York, association secre
tary, put it this way:
“Actually, there is intrinsically
no long range water shortage.
The real shortage is in the fa
cilities for bringing water to the
people."
“The major cause of this situa
tion was the war," he said. "Water
during the war years, because re
i quired materials were hard to
I get or could not be obtained at
| all.
, “But another factor in our fail
ure to keep water supply abreast
I the growth of population lies in
i administrative faults and neglect
1 at local levels Here we find that
■administrative officials all too
often do not press for tiro de- 1
velopment of water works pro- j
grams which have been reeom j
mended by engineers. Why is that
so? Well, no doubt because the
programs aren't considered polit
ically expedient."
STOPS RUNAWAY AUTO
LYNWOOD, Calif., - Noticing
a car that was uncontrolled. Jas.
A. Buford, 32-year-old truck driv
er, sped in front of it, slowed
down and herded it for a block
until it bumped into some heavy
roadside machinery. The driver
of the car, K. K Middleton, 7.3,
apparently had suffered a latal
heart attack.
HAUGVIN
Compared with the cost ot nn
olher w;ir, Paul C! Hoffman,
Economic Cooperation Adminis
trator, declared that the SI a,000,
000,000 America was spenriine, to
win the "cold war" was the
best burpain this country has
ever made
ANGLO-AMERICAN FRATERNIZATION
A BEAUTIFUL friendship is in me making as I'.S, tennis star Patricia
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Patricia, who had just helped win the Wightman Cup for the United
States, met the pup at the matches held on the estate of 1 .tidy CrosMtold
for the benefit of devastated Greek village of l.iverus. (fntcnintioau!)
Need Firemen
And Policemen
.1 Julian Jackson, local secre
tary of the U. S. Civil Service
Commission, today announced
there were openings for firemen
and policemen in the District of
Columbia departments.
Applicants must be between tne
ares of 21 and lid and meet cer
tain physical requirements.
Interested persons are directed
to contact Mr. Jackson at the
local post office for details.
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