• Free Wheeling Kveryimc the starter whirls, the motorist assumes n*sp Visi bilities vastly beyond those of everyday livin" At the wheel his slightest actio:; is magnified a thousandfold through the power ful machine he controls. It’s been said a person's driv ing behavior is much the same as his behavior anywhere else. Like if he’s thoughtful and courteous to his friends, he'll extend the same i>ene\ ok t*-e to follow mo torists. Hut if he's rude ami aggressive ; he'll probably show lit lie regar I, for others in traffic. It follows thr*f if all people ! were thoughtful and considerate, traffic accuktots would dwindle Lives would *>c spared The dis couraging fact, however is that most people perhaps ore not as thoughtful and courteous as they should be. Perhaps most drivers are good drivers most of the time, liut the problem is in the word "most”. We can't afford to he kindly in traJfic most of the time it must be all the time! Laws help os decide what we ran and cannot do when driving and there are state troopers to make sun* we odby them. And when motorists accept responsi bility to observe the spirit and letter of the regulations there ‘ will he. as Motor Vehicle* Com missioner Kdward Scheldt says, , little viced for enforcement offi cers. Moral responsibility isn't sim ply a matter ol doing the tight thing only when it's convenient or when someone's watching. It's do ing the right thing all the time because it's the right thing to do. It's part of sharing in society. SUDDEN THAWT i>n the road of life don't worry about a voiding temptation after you pass .V> that's when it starts to avoid you. THIS IS YOt'R (CRASH* LIFE --The insurance people have •ome up wih ;• startling preriic ion of a .Vi-year driving career •f today's young male. Based on ’**62 accident rates. it goes lik ■ City Paint Store •AW havo so many sood buys it is impossible to list thorn all" 21fi S. Battleground Ave Phono 739-44315 this: Ho beg.ns dnving at age 16 By the time he gets married at the age of 23. he has had three or four Occident* one probably involving an injury. His ;»ride is elso 23 and she. too. has been driv&ig since she was 16 and h*»r had one or two wrecks. They start a family and have thns» children. By the time the parents are 10, he has had nine mishaps and she has had three. ■ Among the 12 accidents, probabl> four people injured. By the time Mom and Dad are 66. the v.hoie n.miiy will have run up the following score; Fa ther. 13 accident*. four Injuries. Mother, six accidents, two injur ies. The three children liiow with kids of their own* have had a total of 19 wrecks, six injuries. The lifetime total for one man's family; 3s tec dents involving a j dozen injuries. If they wer.- lucky none of the injuries were fatal. POINTS ‘.V PLUGS — ‘ Your highway tare-; at work” is new 1 sign message .-een along high- j >• av« ein" built with Federal aid drought Georgia is the 21st state to set up a me- hanica! inspection program for aotos "orisext ratio dv”. in case yot -re wondering s the art of keeping one's foot out of one's moytii. according to a Denver professor every 90 see onds last year a car was stolen somewhere in the United States your auto engine gulps seven (winds of air an hour to produce iusl one homepower yellow l '.tes first apoeared on Tar Heel highways in 1931 wise motorists, missing a key. look in their trou ser cuff one million Americans had been kill*-.* in auto accidents bv the end of 1931 T. Boddie Ward was North Carolina's first commissioner of motor vehicles ''psiama wagon” that's a truck with a sleeping compartment a good oil filte>- traps two pounds of sludge in 3TOO miles of ordi nary driving. WAY OIT Some more Brit ish road sirns with their Ameri can equivalents: Way Out - Exit: Loose Clip pings Watch for fallen rock: Dural Carriageway Divided h'ghwav: Flyover Overpass; Dead Slow Danger: Verge - Koad shoulder; Road UP—Under repair. Rfcv«« Ik Member Of “Springboard" ROOSEVEL” ROADS. P. R. tFHTNO William S. Rhvnc. aviation electncian's mate second class. USN. son of Mrs. Nettie L. Hope of 616 'Mauney Ave., Kings Mountain. N. C.. is participating in an exercise called "Operation Springboard" while serving with Patrol Squadron 36 in the Carib bean. The opera tun. conducted an nually by units of the Atlantic Fleet, takes advantage of the favorable Caribbean weather to conduct sea assault landings and flight training operations. The squadron normally oper ates out of the Naval Air Sta tion. Norfolk. Va. f ARD OF THANKS We would liki to express our appreciation to our many friends.1 to Shelby ho- ,-ital and Dr. H. C. 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