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Show ' Traffic .... .Traffic Engineers Note New Hazard Oversight Blamed for Absence of Stop Sign at B Street-First Avenue Intersection , Traffic engineering officials of Salt Lake City noted Thursday Thurs-day that an apparent oversight had caused a hazard at. the Intersection Inter-section of B street and First avenue and promised the situation would be remedied speedily. ' Although the traffic commission recently obtained city commission com-mission action making B street a stop street, no stop sign was placed to halt eastbound traffic entering B street at First avenue. It was disclosed. Fire Chief Walter S. Knight, city traffic safety manager, visited vis-ited the intersection with Ceorge French, traffic commission ec- 63 Days Without Death Set As Goal for $. L Motorists Years age, the current rage' was the self-assuring assertion "Day by day, la every way, I am getting better and better." That Importation by a foreign psychologist expired with the . flapper era, but It's not a bad thought to apply to Salt Lake City's effort to keep traffic death off its streets. Day by day, the city eaa Improve Im-prove Its traffic record, if ealy ' everyone will help. As K stands aow, the scare k ae traffic deaths for the last six days, leaving SS ahead to be kept deathless if Salt Lake City Is to set a new modem record of SS consecutive days without a traffic fatality. I December 14 is the goal. i . rotary, and noted a hazard in that northbound traffic, coming up the B street hill, ofttimes tops the hill at considerable speed and there Is no stoppage of cross-traffic from the west. i "The sign apparently was left out Just by an oversight," he ! said. "If a reflectorized ign Is available, we will ask that it be placed at once. If It is necessary to order another sign, we so will recommend at the traffic commission meeting next week." i ; ' 1 |