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. VHTBSDAIr, JBIT S, ttt» ■ '...... -■ ..rrrrrrrT- Traffic Safety Organizations Urge Strict Law Enforcement CHICAGO With the nation facing an all-time high traffic death record this year, two leading traffic safety organizations have called for a tough enforcement policy during the Fourth of July holiday' ancT&ther holidays during (Be summer and fall. The National Safety Council and the International Association of Chiefs of Police said that appeals to driver responsibility must be supplemented by strict enforcement of the law to curb the heedless and feckless minority. Such action is the only effective way to hold down the death toll on an immediate and short-term basis, the two traffic safety groups agreed. ' , p The joint enforcement recommendations for the 30-hour Fourth of July period were: _ > .... 1. Cancel all days off for police and put every available officer on duty. Assign as many personnel as possible in , plain clothes and unmarked cars to traffic patrol, especially from 6 p.m. to midnight on Tuesday and Wednesday. 2. Concentrate manpower on high volume or high speed streets and highways where'accidents are mostly likely to occur. 3. Concentrate on hazardous moving violations, especially speeding. Be alert for erratic driving and other evidence of evening-hour driving after drinking. 4. Coordinate the effort with other enforcement agencies. 5. Use whatever other enforcement means are available locally, such as radar. -6. Publicize the program in advance so motorists will understand and cooperate with the objective. The Council estimates that there will be 50 million vehicles on the move during the holiday. Usually extra travel means extra hazard. One hundred and sixty national organizations are participating . in the Fourth of July effort to correct three main holiday driver faults 1. Haste —to crowd the most fun into the shortest time —• 2. Impatience—which- leads to chance-taking as the result of con gestion delays. 3. Drinking and driving. * ,* a " <t . . ...... j From the Ravenswood News, Ravenswood, ,W. Va.: The fairly vital question of “How fast is too ftast?" is no longer a problem of jhighway construction or of auto imobile design, of horsepower or brake effectiveness. It’s gotten way beyond that into the speculative realm of the human mechanism and its responses. As matters stand, the car can take considerably more than the driver. Hence, the differing no tions of what speed limits should be: 60 miles an hour on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turn pikes, 65 on the new Ohio Turn pike and 5b on most ol our other super-highways. On modern, “trou ble-free” roads, with wide-swept curves, gentle grades and excep [tional range of vision, the steady, i uninterrupted pace keeps creeping up somehow as the un-.ccustomed j sense of security slows down the {reflexes. As the minutes and miles igo by, the sense of speed dimin ishes and with it the awareness lof how rapidly slower vehicles are being overtaken, and the distance required for stopping, i “Highway hypnosis." they call it. And at night the conditions are magnified, complicated by oncom ilng headlights and roadside shad ows. ‘"Night-vision” varies widely among drivers, and the same per son's night-vision may be excellent or poor, depending on his state of i Every ounce of JFG Special coffee is Only ih« ' Special Premium . f Flavor" ffoHwi from Um high N*-l/ plateau sections of Latin v I L .1 America** finest coffee pro- _ due ina countries axe *flw best part (/ihe meal” health. 'ip i But, day or night, If a vehicle on the road up ahead Is presumed to be moving when it is actually stopped, the scene is set for trag edy. The very instant a car or truck or bus is disabled on a busy high-speed highway, that vehicle should be so distinguished. Too many truck drivers, for instance, have been killed by oncoming traf fic while in the act of putting out or taking in the pot torches, red electric lanterns or portable re flectors required by law. i ... , • • • From the CatskiU Mountain Star, Saugertles, Kct xwxi To i*»r l automation will create widespread unemployment flies in the face of | history. Every improvement id production methods, along with ev ery invention of importance has ultimately produced not fewer jobs, but more and better jobs. The automobile destroyed the horse and buggy businesses—but an almost infinite Increase in em ployment and opportunity followed. More recently, prophets of doom forecast that dial telephones would bring a catastrophic degree of un employment among operators. Yet there are seventy per cent more phone operators than there were ten years ago. Automation is to be welcomed, not Feared. THE YANCEY RECORD HEROIC DOG TO BE SELECTED FOB AWARD Does anyone lgiow of a heroic dog in this community whose un selfish actions have gone unre warded? t The Quaker Oats Company is scouring the country in search of likely candidates for its, *hird an nual Ken-L-Ration award, to be presented September 8 at the Crystal Room of Chicago’s Palmer House. This award will go to the dog adjudged as having performed the most meritorious service to mankind in the past 12 months, according to J. S. Bray, manager of The Quaker Oats Company’s sales office. The award will carry with it a 81,000 government bohd, a gold plated leash, collar, and medal, a plague, a dog blanket, and a year’s supply of dog food. Winners of sec-| ond, third, fourth, and fifth places will receive, respectively, SSOO, $250, $l5O, and SIOO in government bonds, plus silver-plated leashes, I medals, collars, plagues, and dog) blankets. For three days the prize winner will be a guest, along with his own ers, at one of Chicago’s finest hotels. They will be flown to Chicago from their home city. Winner of last year’s Ken- L- Ration award was a cocker spaniel named Taffy, from Coeur d’ Alene Idaho, who saved his little four year-old master from drowning in an icy lake. The filst year's w'rhner, Tang, a collie from Dension, Texas, saved the lives of four small child ren on different-occasions by push ing them from the path of on coming autos. Any information regarding heroic dogs should be forwarded to the Ken-L-Ration division of The Quaker Oats Company, Merchan dise Mart, Chicago 54, Illinois. ) ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA YANCEY COUNTY Having qualified as Administra tors of the Estate of S. W. Hile mon, deceased, late of Yancey County, this is to notify all per sons having claims against the Decedent to exhibit the same to the undersigned Administrators at their home at Bald Creek, N. C„ on or before the 29th day of June, 1957, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Ali persons owing the Estate will please make Immediate pay ment. This 29th day of June, 1936. Mrs. Bonnie H. Morrow and I Floyd H. Hilemon, Administrators of the Estate of S. W. Hilemon, Deceased. July 5, 12, 19, 26, Aug. 2, 9 ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA VANCEY COUNTY Having qualified as Administra trix of the Estate of Mamie Jane Evans, deceased, late of Yancey County, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Deoed ent to exhibit the same to the un dersigned Administratrix at her home at Rt. 1, Burnsville, N. C-, on -or before the 29th day of May 1957,- or this notice will be pleadef in bar of their recovery. AH persons owing the Estah will please make immediate pay ment. This 29th day of May, 1956. Luna E. Ray, Administratrix of ♦he Estate of Mamie Jane Evans, Deceased. May 81, June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 4 ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA YANCEY COUNTY ,j Having qualified as Administra trix of the Estate of Mrs. Kate Ray, deceased, late of Yancey County, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Deced ent to exhibit the same to the <i dersigned Administratrix at l - home at BurnsvlUe, N. C., on ». before the 7th day of June, 1957, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. AH persons owing the Estate will please make immediMte payment. This 7th day of June, 1966. Lena R. Tilson, Administratrix of the Estate of Mrs. Kate Kay, Deceased. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5, 12 —r- —— £ BS3 Raleigh—There were nine Tar leel communities that suffered five or more Traffic Fatalities in 1955. Those cities and towns, as deter mined in a study by the State De- , partment of Motor Vehicles, were: Charlotte 18, Asheville 10, Winston Salem seven, Fayetteville six, Raleigh six, Staley six, Durham live, Gastonia five, Laurinburg five. Altogether 92 Tar Heel commun ities reported 192 Traffic Fatalities for the year. 1,11 » ■« »•"■» " ]' joUZUTTLB MEN \ ! (jSoT PgDMorg P / it... Aiqhf home a/I day \ 1 > -fbi r three month y/ * it Jhhe ymrpick of the Vies! \ NOW THERE’S A FORD VICTORIA FOR EVERY GARAGE .. . AND ALL HAVE THAT THUNDERBIRD LOOK! \ - : ' '>• ‘ * You can expect to be envied in your • ’ • , choice of Ford’s hardtop queens.' FAIRLANE From the surprisingly low-priced VICTORIA * Customline Victoria .. . through the J.' a tUj ? » jig \ queenly Fairlane Victoria ... up to .*■ V; J iC i, „ the Fordor Victoria with 4-door con- ] FORDOR "*..'■ venience . . . they all give you the I flßjl' VICTORIA '. ' ' I long, low lines of the Thunderbird. j ' 2* I. .. in^ \ < l^Perfomance... Safety... Economy BANKSYOUNG MOTOR CO. V ' FRANCHISED DEALER No. 1160 , PHONE 17 -:■ BURNSVILLE, N. C. iWK r: ? a. . q*: SUBURBAN Grand Rapids resi dent demonstrates where he and his family found shelter In the southwest corner of his basement after finally hearing a tornado warning on his radio only two . minutes before the twister Struck at 7:13 p.m. <FC*;i Photo) ““‘ “ : Ip- -'.'—sr* •oueh/l/ Now! An entirely new kind of truck tire this is the worid's j EXCLUSIVE j toughest truck tire | < SAFETY (SKfiJ SHIELD IldL 1 Prevents ruptures, cuts and blowouts in the 'y/- vital tread area. jHpPI Prevents grooves*racking and tread separation. - 1 \ KSnrmSl More recaps than ever before! H « U.S.KOYAIW ■ -- - THE WORLD'S SAFEST., .TOUGHEST Royal Tire Service phone 135 BURNSVILLE, N. C. Expert Wheel Balancing Tires-Tubes & Batteries Tri- County Tire & Recapping Co. ___ Royal Tire Service SPRUCE PINE, N. C. Marion, n. a ■I t - I I J 1 dipped out of a mur- I ky. yellow-p-een sky at supper- I time on AprJ 8. smashing the 1 Michigan communities of Hud i' sonvill-. Standaie and Comstock l Park near Grand Rapids. It did tremendous damage Eighteen were killed and 94 hospitalized by the twister which also destroyed 329 homes and damaged 172 along with 398 | business and farm buildings But it also taught a dramatic lesson on what an alert and well manned local civil defense can do to save lives in the first erit ical hours before outside heln can arrive. Within 24 hours, some 1 000 CD volunteers were on the job headed by Tom Walsh, Kent County CD director ... THE DETROIT NEWS, tn Its coversge of the tornado said 'The efficiency of the CD volun teers was immediately apparent “Kent County's (Grand Rapids) CD organization was at work before the tornado struck Its men and equipment were at the scene tn Standaie and Com stock Park within 30 minutes after the twister left, and those men were there furstest with the mostest.* “Within 20 minutes, 17 ambulances and 22 station wagons were at the scenes of the devastation ... In tlon, more than 100 blood donors were on their way to Grand Rapids hospitals to await (he arrival of the wounded - a plan prear ranged by Dr. Wlnthrop ' Prothro, Grand Rapids health officer who heads the ' CD medical committee. h " Bjp i p ™“ ,ess tha « two hours after the storm, emergen cy housing for 500 had been ar ranged at downtown hotels and school gymnasiums by Rupert e V'e. regional director of the State Welfare Department. He ui°. 13 CU s housing and relief cruet. • • • “WHEN SURVIVORS returned the next day to begin salvage operations, they were amazed to find more than 200 pieces of heavy equipment had been assem bled by Jack Barnes, head of a Grand Rapids construction flrm.'i who is CD’s chief of demolition and clearance.” i
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