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Show Letter to the editor Student tells value of driver education Dear Editor: I would like to express my apppreciation for the drivers' education course offered in our been saved in accidents prevented. pre-vented. Not only does each of us who takes driver's education benefit, but our community benefits as well. Drivers' education not only teaches the skills and good attitude at-titude necessary for safe driving, driv-ing, but it also teaches how an automobile runs, how to take care of your car, and how to bnv. insure, and ODerate vour car. I hope that every parent realizes rea-lizes how important drivers' education is and will encourage his child to take the course, because it is well worth the time when you consider the time each person spends on the highways during his lifetime. Sincerely yours, Barbara Clyde Young children should never be allowed to play with deflated de-flated balloons. A child who breathes in instead of out while blowing up a baloon can easily inhale the rubber and choke to death, warns the National Safety Council. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of accidental death to farm residents, according ac-cording to the National Safety Council. community. For the first time I realize the importance of safe driving. It has been predicted that 49,000 Americans will be killed in automobile accidents in 1966. It is hard to visualize that there will be more people killed on our highways this year than live in the cities of Provo and Springville combined. com-bined. In most of these cases it will not be an error of the car, of the road, or even of the weather conditions, but it will be the error of the drivers. It is quite evident that we need a solution to the traffic-accident traffic-accident problem. Drivers' education edu-cation is an important breakthrough break-through in this solution. Those who take driver's education may expect to be involved in less than one half as many accidents ac-cidents as those who have not. Study has shown that for every ev-ery dollar spent for driver's education three dollars has |