Traffic Deaths In
December Nay Be
Greatest In Years
Prediet Highway Fatalities
Vi ill Exeeed 36.000 In
Nation This Year
December may be one of the
worst months for traffic deaths
m recent years unless the public
and law enforcement officials
work together to reduce 1950
year-end highway casualties, the
Accident Prevention Department
of the Association of Casualty and
Surety Companies warned today
■'December was the deadliest
month on the highways during
the past decade, with the excep
tion of 194ti and 1942, declared
Julien H Harvey. the depart
ment's manager "There is every
reason to believe that unless m >
torists and pedestrians voluntar
ily exercise more caution than
usual this month, and unless our
I law enforcement officers crack
down on drinking drivers and
flagrant violators of speed laws.
December 1950 will exact an even
worse toll than it usually does.”
Last year 3.220 persons died in
December traffic accidents. Dur
ing the past decade nearly 32,000
people were killed in December i
on streets and highways De
cember's greatest dangers to driv
er and pedestrian alike are well
illustrated, he observed, by the
fact that the aggreate of deaths
in ten Decembers since 1940 is
greater than last year’s 12-month
toll of 31,500 deaths
Pointing out that 1950 already
has become the worst year since
the end of World War II for
traffic deaths, with predictions of
3(1,000 fatalities frequently heard.
Mr. Harvey urged positive acti in
to save as many lives as possible
on the highways before the year
ends.
He warned that the following j
extra hazards have contributed
greatly to December accident I
peaks and urged motorists and
pedestrians to bi on guard against
THE TOPS IN CHRISTMAS DISPLAYS
WITH A "CEILING OF STARS" blazing again.-1 the night skies over New
York’s Rockefeller Center Plaza, the greatest Christinas show on earth
is inaugurated. An 05-foot Christinas tree, a giant Norway spruce deco
rated by 7,500 lights, is almost lost in the general brilliance of the
scene. The “ceiling” contains more than 500 blue lights. (International)
f hem:
1 - More drinking drivers, be
cause of Christinas holiday festiv
ities.
2 - Bad weather, with icy roads
usually prevalent in many sec
tions.
3 - Increased travel in hours of
darkness for holiday shopping
and trips home for Christmas.
4 - More driver-fatigue and
speeding among those making
long drives home for the holidays.
5 Greater danger to pedes
trians, especially m cities, due 1o
Christmas shopping activity, par
ticularly at night
“Speeding and the use of al
coholic beverages are the primary
causes of highway accidents," says
Harvey. “A drink taken before
driving can become a toast to
death on the highway.
"Our motorists cannot be re
minded too often during the ap
proaching Christmas holidays that
they must not mix drinking and
driving. II enough of them take to
heart the No, 1 safety rule of die
road ' If you drink, don't drive.
If you drive, don’t drink' —
many lives will be saved.
“Drinking breeds speeding and
reekioness Both are major killers
on the road. Every driver should
be made to realize this month that
Ins own lile and the lives of mem
bers of his family and others may
depend on his 1OU per, cent ob
servance of the road code regard
ing drinking.’’
During the three day 1949
Christmas holiday week-end
alone, 1179 lives were lost on the
highways. This toll was 101 high
er than in 1948, during a two-day
Christmas period. Another three
day week-end this year calls foi
added safety precautions and law
enforcement, Mr. Harvey warned,
to keep Christmas highway trage
dies to an absolute minimum.
Oklahoma City and Lansing,
Mich., lied for the National Safe
ty Councils safest city title for
1949.
ONLY 4 MORE f
Shopping Days 'Til Christmas |
II c Still Hurt' ,4 ;f|
SUPPLY OF GIFTS |
For ) on of! hnl (IhI
B. S. Courtney & Son f
Furniture Since 1914 %
Open lri<l;i\ Kveniii"; ‘lit *>:00 $
Jhere is no finer gill than lifetimi
Town Steihng — and it's a doubly
thoughtful gill avhen you give precious
pieces m the Town pattern she chose
herself1 Town Sterling gilts aie all
attractive and all attractively priced!
We have many lovely sets, combin
ing useful serving pieces, tor under
J10 00 And we now have the new
TOWlt I'rf or take Serving Kmlr, the
Choose Serving Kmle, as well as the
1 OWLl Carving Sets. (Out Town
Stfilrng suggestions aif modestly
priced from $?,2S)
Come in today and ee how much
Chnstniar, shopping \nu ian do light
in oui silver department.
LA I K SHOPPERS — You’ll Mill fin.l a liruiiliful ar
ia \ uf j{ifl» in our i>lori', Drop ill today ami w«*‘ll In-Ip
you willi iIiom* laM iiiiuuti' “lias i*vi*rylliiuj*" mono on 1
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121 Main
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William- ■ >
'County Girls At
Woman's College
.
Woman's College has an en
| rnllmont of 2.473 students, its
j largest in history, during the fall
| semester, according to a tabula
tion made by the admissions of -.
(ice. The renort shows that there
I are 14 students enrolled from
1 Martin county
There are 271 students register
| ed from 22 other states, nine for
eign countries, the District of
; Columbia, and the Canal zone,
! making the Tar Heel girls total
I 2.207.
Only two counties in North
Carolina—Clay and Currituck—
j are not represented in the student
1 body. Flight counties with the
largest representations are Guil
ford, 307; Mecklenburg, 139; For
syth, 109; Buncombe, 73; Wake,
09; Alamance, 54; Rockingham,
53; and Gaston, 51.
Virginia has sent 45 students.
New Jersey 30, New York 31,
j South Carolina 23, Maryland and
I Georgia 19 each, Florida 15, and
| Pennsylvania and District of Co
lumbia 11 each. Foreign countries
I represented at W. C. are Rel
Igium, Canada, Chile, Colombia,
Cuba, Germany, Iran, and Ven
ezuela.
i Aside from its record enroll
merit, Woman's College is having
I a distinctive year in other re
spects. It is making first use of
new buildings erected under a
new $6,000,000 building program
and is under the administration
of a new chancellor, Dr. Edward
Kidder Graham.
Christmas holidays for the col-!
lege begin today.
Rose's Workers
Get Cash Gifts
T. B. Rose, Jr., Executive Vice- |
President of Rose’s 5-10-25c|
Stores, Inc., recently announced \
a schedule of cash Christmas gifts
to be paid to every employee in i
each of 131 stores now in opera- i
tion.
These Christmas gifts will
range from $100.00 for those reg
lar employees who have been
with the Company the last nine
years, to $2.50 for the part-time
help employed December 1.
The Christmas gift program for
I
Now Is The Time
. to go to
COURTNEY’S
For
FURNITURE
1950 is in keeping with the Com
pany policy of sharing with the
employees the results of a profit
able year. In addition, those who
have beer with the Company
three years or more, also par
ticipate in a Profit-Sharing Trust.
Other benefits which are pro
vided by the Rose Company are
health and accident insurance, and
annual vacations with full pay.
The REA estimates that more
than five million farms, or 86.3
per cent of all y. S. Farms, had
central station electric service ^is
A June 30. 1950.
Drop Reported In
Maternity Deaths
The Journal of the American
Medical Association has announc
ed that last year only one mother
out of a thousand died during live
child-birth in the United States,
an all-time low for any large na
tion. By comparison, it was re
ported, the rate was 6.2 percent
in 1933.
New York led the nation in
Paper and Paperboard production
in 1946.
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