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* Reviews Activity Of N. C. Highway ' Patrol For 1953 —®— Decrease In Number fil Road Fatalities Noted In The Report -•— If last year seemed like a long one to employees of the State De partment of Motor Vehicles, chances are it was due to the de partment's unprecedented attack * on the state’s number one traffic problem—accidents, injuries and deaths. With final official reports in the department summarized its ex tensive activities. As has now become generally recognized, the second largest state agency con cerned itself mainly with finding solutions to the accident specter. And for many employees the search called for longer hours on the job. With six months of 1953 gone £ department workers greeted new commissioner Edward Scheidt, former G-man and prominent law enforcement officer. Scheidt re ceived the oath of office on June 15 and set right to work to reduce the TCarsome toll of automobile wrecks which up to that date had claimed 460 victims. As the year ended, Motor Ve hicles employees happily noted a •6 Proof Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pritchard of Morganton announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Ruby Pritchard, to Mr. Jim Manning, son of Mr. B. R. Manning of Williamstnn, and the late Mrs. Manning. A February 14th wedding is planned. distinct decrease in highway fa talities. Commissioner and clerk alike are hoping the trend will continue in 1954. Since the first, fatalities have been running from two to twenty three fewer than the corresponding period of 1953. Scientific speed recording equipment and stern enforcement has generally been credited with reducing the accident toll. In re cent months, the State Highway Patrol, an integral unit of the Motor Vehicle Department, has put into service 20 electronic in struments for determining vehicu lar speed. Worked in conjunction with five mobile radar cars, patrol officials feel the devices are in valuable in their attack on flag rant speeders. The psychological angle is to be considered too, pa trolmen say. No one can be sure just where the instruments are set The patrol, in it's annual report to the commissioner, pointed to 145,959 arrests made during 1953 An impressive paper, ...the report went on to list 24,604 accidents in vestigated by troopers who rolled up 22,170,700 miles of travel oil k fashion and in fabric DISCIPLINED FABRIC* $ Fashion* and fabric* inspired bv tba nolor and baautgr « America'* grant Mktoaat >a Csmo inlbapagMof ademotaeDa. A/tMMMtt tlltlML- Fig «re flattery in cording Wrapped high around an em pire waistline, a softly gath * |||jj B ritncf MIMONY" in a de lightful changeabout, Bare shoulder dress has a tiny little jacket with self buttons, em broidered panel trim. Sizes 9-15 Mad* to behave —they’re colorfast, shrinkage controlled . . . dry quicker, iron faster and resist mildew. These Bates cottons will never need starch shed wrinkles easily. DARDEN’S „ Department Store routine j(_trols of the state's high ways. In addition, the commis sioner noted, patrolmen reported they inspected 945,851 vehicles, issued 70,490 warning tickets, weighed 7,757 vehicles with porta ble scales, investigated 95,942 complaints a^d recovered 793 stolen cars. An administrative change-about in patrol high comand occurred on November 1 when Scheidt re appointed Col..James H. Smith to the top patrol post. Former Col. W. B. Lentz took Smith’s job at the Highway Patrol garage, with the new rank of major. And lat er in the year big Charlie Speed, a long time fixture in patrol ranks in Asheville was promoted from captain to major and assigned duties as head of the Highway Safety Division, a post left vacant since June 15, the day Commis sioner Scheidt fired former Direc tor H. D. Jones. Highway Safety began to get a shot in the arm as Scheidt an nounced project after project to newsmen. He started hitting the civic club find banquet circuit with an average of three speeches (on highway safety) a week. He made impromptu speakers of nearly all highway patrolmen. Orders went out to troopers to ac cept all speaking engagements in their locale, with traffic safety as their topic. He issued an invi tation to motorists to report in writing eases of flagrant motor violations. Called “Spotters for Safety” the project produced by the end of the year some 300 let ters from citizens. Later Scheidt appealed to busi ness and industry to set up adult driver training and education courses for their employees. Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc., of Winston Salem was first in line. They ac cepted Seheidt’s proposition and inaugurated regular classes for their non-professional employees. He ordered the legend “Drive Safely” stamped on new license plates. A move that caused some criticism, it nonetheless will ap pear on more than 500,000 1954 [auto tags. He added 100 unmarked patrol cars to the patrol fleet, based on the idea if you’re driving at legal speed you’ve nothing to worry about. Otherwise watch out! As early as October definite signs indicated the intensive safe ty efforts were beginning to pay off. From a Highway Commis sion report of October figures re vealed a general decline in aver age highway speeds, a definite reversal in an upward trend that began three years ago. Of violations requiring the sur render rif driving privileges the department announced over hall of all convictions involved liquor For driving drunk 12,148 Tar Heels were relieved of their op erator’s permit. Other violations resulted in a total of 23,547 con ! virtiops by year's end ' i j It was a good year for the Reg istration Division, too. Headed by career worker Fov Ingram, the unit reported 1,384.762 cars and trucks registered for the year, an all time high. In the License and Theft En forcement Division, workers re ported their tyevj^4 inspectors stopped 1,773,320 trucks during the year and collected almost a half million dollars in overload penalties. The auto theft sec tion was instrumental in the re covery of 75 per cent of the 2,369 vehicles reported stolen in North Carolina during 1953. Since January 1 the expanded Financial Responsibility Section under veteran state employee Thomas Creekmore, has struggled with administrative details affect ing everyone who drives In es sence the law makes every driver involved in an accident account able for damaegs. Since the first of the year, Creekmore and his limited staff has been processing some 400 cases daily. In future weeks, the load will grow even heavier. Space, or the lack of it, became acute in IVfotor Vehicle precincts «s the year rt.ow to a close. In a flurry of moving just after the first, a number of units were re located to make slightly more room. The space problem con tinues, however. At present the Department of Motor Vehicles is housed in the Revenue Building and Annex. It employs approxi Prove FREE 'ArthriNs Rheumitisni Pains Relieved is •HI Mir'i liltml PrutriptiM Make This 24 Hr. 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If you are not delighted with results, return for ruffond,. Jugular ocoas-x-jr ©r bc-»s>liaJ alia bottle 12.00. or Special SKI*_ $1.00 Muscle-Aid AT YOUR DRUG STORI ’VUtCU *10 CO., fit W. IWERtON RtY?, ut mu mately 1.275 persons including t.he ! 539 men of the State Highway Patrol. The department again was the Post Office Department’s biggest customer. Processed in 1953 were some 4,000,000 pieces of mail. \uto license renewal cards alone accounted for more than a million pieces. A roster of key department aersonnel is as follows: Edward Scheldt, Commissioner; Joe W. jarrett, Assistant Commissioner; Miss Foy Ingram, Director, Regis iration Division; Col. James R. Smith, Patrol Commander; Major J. A. Speed, Director, Highway Safety Division; A. M. Gilbert, Director. License and Theft En forcement Division (Theft Bu reau). NOT SO Dl MB -* Chorous girls are not no dumb is you think. Who else could skin i wolf and get a mink? (The foledo Sea Blade) Producing Color Television Sets Allen R. Du Mi nt, President of the Allen B. Du Mont Laboratori es, Inc., recently speculated that perhaps 50,000 color TV sets would be produced in 1954. He noted that the limitation was the expensive color tube. This tube done carries u retail price of ibout $300 The $300 tube provides a pic- j lure comparable in size to a welve and a half inch black and j white television receiver. With aich a tube, it is estimated that he cost of a color set. would be aetwee'ri $800 and $1,000 Du Mont.' lays the cost will be this high be ■ause of a bottleneck arising from limitations on production. He says that at least 80,000 of he prospective 50,000 color sets to be produced in 1954 will go to he nation’s television dealers who will use them as floor samples.! Most of the other 20,000, he esti mated, will be required by broad casters and advertisers and people in sales and service trades. In 1955, he predicts, the num ber of color sets will also be great ly limited, and he looks for the price of color TV sets to really start downward in 1956. Du Mont estimates that a few hundred thousand people may be ready to buy color television by 1956. NAOLA CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW ICE CREAM I Jhm lojrortooi ?00 kp Vn«n«4irii , bvr <W Mm We've had more than a fair share of succeuLis this business—bat this •M! the day we opened oar doors to the sew 1954 Baidu, we’ve bees kept hopping by people, questions and k seems that tofles have been hoping for a really big change in the new cars — and Brack’s got what they want, right Brack's got k ia style—in the sleek, swift fear and glamorous look of the sports cars, the room and comfort of Buaek t’s got k in power—in higb-compres aion V8 engines all stepped up to new tr highs and boosted to new with Power-Head Pistons It looks like the biggest hit In BU1CK hisloiy! n np m me minute as look of these great cars. Bat — why don’t you come ace what ail the excitement k about? Then you’ll discover that what’s helping to make the *54 Hoicks the biggest hit ir our history are the prices we’re quoting prices that buy more Buick beauty and power and thrill and iheer automobile than aaaart money ewer bought before. beautiful Ym> t. loom itn a MnuoK. t mutow. y. thn aor9*ou» Bu*d $ , fC, 4 Cemmrfrbl. —V8-pnw.r«W *o . record high -d./'v.n loeaito for iu*f a f.w rioMa.1 mar. mm umitm madtlt mi m» -w—i- *-*.• Highway No. 17 Chos. H. Jenkins & Co. Of Willinmston, Inc. Phone 2147 Williamstbn, N. C 1 ■
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