Show THE OGDEN (UTAH) 12B MAY 29 SUNDAY MORNING STANDARD-EXAMINE- k v A--- s Jf via 1953 w j PJhaeh: A Speed 0' - i n to 'Sio iv Down end Live By CLIFF THOMPSON vcma The young fellow was in a '' ' o’clock one was almost It hurry "and the girl’s father had been emphatic when he said “have her home by midnight” - So the speedometer needle was ' M '£: W A $v hovering around 80 with frequent jumps to 85 as the big car roared through the night —to a road an old dilapidated pickup There wasn’t much the youth date with death truck rolled slowly into the head- - could do —except maybe pray a sideSuddenly out of a dark light beams of the hurtling car little And you can’t even do f ‘ Vy v- ‘ much of that in the split second takes an accident to happen Tires trying to cling to a dampened highway in the dead of night when brakes are applied hard and fast make an eerie sound Like the wail of a banshee —or maybe its more like the mocking laugh of a hyena: bulance Took Them An ambulance took them away £rom the place where the stench of melting rubber and the odor of burning upholstery blended with the smell of death The boy was dead His death had been painless except for the second of terror just before the impact of the crash But he was still dead The girl would live Months of YES IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU plastic surgery could even make a face from the mincemeat the wreck had made of her once ty Safety Council is pushing the pretty features But the new face nationwide safety plan it also wouldn’t attract any admirers — hopes to pull itself by its boot- straps to the station of influence YouTvffusreTd about a “ ““f Srild 01 county minds in lhe BTohnCindhithhouaht feaders fet hen only a hand- " of showed ful IL up to hear people d Jlf kick off the official State Hit IA safety '£ fuslw foin J much speed a moment of carelessness and this could be you too ihe car looks bad enough but what happened to the occupants is much worse According to the records of practically everything with the late Rev John Edward though else including the end of sthe Carver and came up with the Mrs C J 'Anderson prominent world has been foretold Friendly Observer Plan The plan has never brought the decades the Utah Stafety Council So while the sights on their organized shortly after Gov A 100 —Too flexible VrrXXe eTilen ’“"T'fL'’ Persistently "'Vm? misted it has Bl‘‘VaT £t £”r!'d 'Frltnd1 0blnr potential l‘nn "' 'ur"“ !Lbf" i'r0‘i Basically it works this way: A Weber Men Actir ' friendly observer witnesses a traf- - During its embryo years the How Service Shows forest Down “Slow of fic violation He or she copies tha state council was dominated by county’s phase One of the things they are license number of the auto na- - Weber County men The first and Live” at is the achievement inds itself with of a Forest Service safety pro- in seven years a $37 treasury and a nucleus gram which an accident of veteran safety workersdropped frequency jt was oniy a £ew yearg ag0 rate from 4294 per cent to 851 that the council was attracting per cent and a severity rate from 100 to 150 people t0 its meetings 794 to 13 per cent The local safety leaders can re- and piaying an important role in the three Es of safety— engineer- member what happened when the Council was organized in the ing education and enforcement dediwell- 1930s The of a handful mere Today As the rebuilding gets under shooting and thSr the Weber County Safety Council is aiming at as it opens the local phase of the nationwide “Slow Down and Live program Starts Memorial Day The program starts Memorial Day By the time it officially Ward Xfc " 44V sy y $ X A X A f VA s way the Council - well-planne- d ture time and place of the violation and forwards this informa- tion to a clearing center There the name of the car owner is looked up and a post- card mailed explaining the pos-sible consequence of the offend- er’s action and making a plea for safe and sane driving The main deterrent to its bios- soming into the safety vehicle for president was George H Lowe who many claim has never been excelled as a leader in the war against carelessness and acd dents a 23SJ2J!&ii w in w rmm safetv Council todav with several years ago is another example of an undesirable trend avt to revme tjut TOO happen t I '£ come second nature The “Slow Down and Live” program started in the East a few years ago It was so successful in reducing highway accident rates and severity that it has been adopted on a national basis this year The “Slow Down and Live” program is founded on the prem- ise that most accidents are caused by speed and the seventy of aiT°UnJ °f Pl°perty Ah iiu5"sta"tCkf s haVj a dict speed trend’ says Leonard Davidson recently reelected to a second term as council president How do they intend to regain their lost membership and con- vert new recruits to the fight for safety?” Virginia Campaign cam- y Mrg Dividson says “using Jerssonai contact as one of our major weapons” He goes on to explain that the d few people still con- - wtake'oern eveavT at6 Tn°hla SOMETIMES THEY’RE LUCKY—This smashup should have killed the occupants but almost mirac- ca- ulously none was seriously hurt This expensive sedan was flattened when a huge semi-trailon it cautions Weber Coun- reened and tipped over on it Sometimes you’re lucky but don’t depend ’ ty Safey Council IPod UlrD By LOU GLADWELL The men and women pushing for combined operation of the health departments of Ogden City and Weber County feel they would win ample support to get the program over if the public would only take the time to look at the benefits So far the effort has enlisted but a relatively small following although it is growing in numbers But in spite of the failures of the movement’s leaders to arouse an enthusiastic interest among city and county public of- ficers more attempts are just around the corner The sad facts are in the opinion of Dr Joseph R Morrell that public health services in both the city and county aren’t up of today’s needs Morrell a retired Ogden physician is one of the chief pushers for merged health departments His practice extended over several eras of medicine — from 1904 to 1945 and he was a member of the Utah State Board of Health for 25 years Now Studying Proposals t Ogden City Council members now studying merger pro- posals They recently asked for mdre time to make up their minds However in past discussions some members have g the city is doing reasonably well with what it has and has plans to elaborate its services as fast as it can finance Dr balked-contendin- them The Weber County Commissioners likewise have the problem under study One feature some of its members don’t like health services? In its simplest terms public health is preventive medicine It is concerned with the conditions that affect mass health —the drinking watey supply sewage disposals public hygiene It must keep vital statistics so proof of results or lack of results will be on hand at all times It does not provide hospitals or in other ways care for the sick No Director Neither Ogden City nor Weber County governments now provide services of a health director although the city charter calls for one in its organizational framework comThe absence ofa specialist in public health work petent medical director results in and in his field as much a spehaving employes of lesser ability cialist as a brain surgeon who direct health programs with Could Evaluate Results ' sometimes "poor results mfcrger-backe“A doctor trained in public feel health work who could put his Supporters of consolidation full time at the job would be point out that the combined able to evaluate the results ob- wages of the county physician tained” he stated “He would be ($7200) and the city physician able to see where we are going ($3720) would total $10920 and how fast and what needed which comes close to the estie mated $12000 a health doing first and so forth” Consolidated health operations director would require also - provide uniform would Lack of money to pay wages standards of work and equal at- of the health director has often tention to public health matters been given by city and county in the county and the city he bosses as one of the obstacles to argued “Germs and epidemics the plan The city further draws attenignore political boundaries” he stated tion to the fact that the city A bad condition in Hooper would largely finance a where an infected farmer raises health unit since it would say tomatoes could show up on pay more than 70 per cent of your table in Ogden city for the costs Further the qity holds working example What is public health work — complications would be met by the field served by the public a staff that would be half under is the fact the city manager would have administrative control over sledded health service But no official and final decisions have been made by the local governmental bosses and that is encouraging to the promerger groups which hope to work up a strong following before that time comes What do the groups claim that combined health services of the-ci- ty and county can do that isn’t being done under of separate operathe system " ! tions? most the important Perhaps Dr Morrell thinks is the employment of a full-tim- e health director uch an official would be a pro-merg- ’ er Full-Tim- n — 1 inline injuries I6W Two-Pronge- er e full-tim- e full-tim- e rs full-tim- ‘ city-coun- ty ers lacking in safety education or awareness could bring Primary credit for its organiza- tion could probably be given to forest che?ice °fficials without S”?"”®?- urated the safety program me n- - '5 JIlJ? w? £C were ir i--h ? li Swr 6 Ah nf ta asgJlf many miles each day 85 88 AvhiH! onuhlie: ores erv icc roads Officials become concerned over the prospect of the young men behind the wheels of ve- - “c‘ trination ib"ul adeluae with a sound Philosophy calUdyinmadfeewhceoimmPianUy indoc- - safety then lead they do not condone traffic ft® Ffijlhril--F©- gafety program in Weber Countv But the 55000 living here can not expect 'the 12 or 15 people wij0 have reraaine(i active in our Council to load " lations Another setback has been the lack of a satisfactory clearing house with adequate information facilities for an effective op- - are £?ning their hopes 100 per cent and acceptance participation in the “Slow Down and Live” pro-gram At the next meeting of the Council time and place to be announced soon its officers are expecting a large turnout of people who desire to make Weber County a safe place to live Mr Davidson is Issuing a per- sonal appeal to luncheon and civic clubs and Industrial concerns with safety programs to have their representatives at the meet- ing “We have to reach and eon-- 1 vinee every traffic violator no matter how smaU the violation may appear that he is risking1 on Red Cross Serving Tj)e pp(j cross chapter is currently acting as the clearing house for the Friendly Observers In the Past other organizations or individuls have performed this task But as has its predecessors the Rpd Cros$ clearing house has been unable to obtain a listing of vehicle license numbers w ith the owners’ names and addresses Without this listing the license numbers forwarded by the ob- servers are practically worthless The sheriff’s office has been help- fui jn providing this information as far as it can But the Council leaders feel more effective if it were adopted tjon that if all drivers £jrms “Our fight will end when county or statewide ness there are no deaths injuries or r property damage in the home aeaJns or on the highways — anywhere — due tQ accents d Campaign There has been no one to pre- The local campaign is two- - diet this eventuality since the pronged While the Weber Coun- - birth of the horseless carriage al- crimVc -- that highways clogged with safety-minde- actve jn council work will and church the program is aimed at reducing tact business civic all walks of in people groupSt and make for life their pitch the Hurry Bug with the “Me-: afety n pson do not want to wait until The idea behind it is simple an They accident has traced its finger of tra8edy through the lives of a anridlnfeheSnrflSllpJnnr will oLly injured fade accord'-- tTcv Webe? County ln ‘"of ’courae everyone has to tamily in par cafptv conscious tioipate to make it work If one every hour person is driving at a safe rate of speed and another is not the (Met H ’tea hjelieve The Council was organized in are hesitant about offering their j0 jt themselves 1937 by a group of men with the sendees and members have been n £0jjy £0 think that we jj foresight to envision the misery reluctant to go all out even though cannot ha ve a sound effective driv- vio- - at’ - jts maxjmum effective- - You can look at it this wav he says a man who drives hi car at a fast and reckless speed" with his wife and children with him gives the impression that he is not -- concerned whether they are hurt seriously or even Although it has had a sporadic activity since its organization the Friendly Observer Plan has made one very significant contribution to state safety It spawned the die State Safety Council- - Quick Agreement The reaction was unanimous and instantaneous agreement Three forest service men Vern Despain C N Woods and Ches- ter Olsen got their heads together JodohII3 ir county-wid- e eftnap: personnel in Support of combined services H health either is snowballing The Ogden Feddepartment t is done work feels the that being eration of Women’s Dubs which n the same as that being done by backers other “part-timeBut the health depart- has proved its ability as an arous-e- r of public interest in such proargue that administrative diffi- ments elsewhere He is simply if culties could be worked out the anxious to get better results for grams as pure water and sewage big bosses want them worked the public and at a faster pace disposal is in action and that he feels combined health out Its members are out to prooperations would do this He be- mote effective ' Important Inspection ' public interest ' city and Morrell: “Inspection lieves that the present combined Said Dr 7 X of all places where foods are proc- county staffs could be through educational work The a director health under women have appealed to other public essed sold or served and fre- and with- civic function satisfactorily groups to join and have alquent examinations of all per- out any or very few additional sons who handle food are imready enlisted aid from the Legisworkers being hired portant phases of a health departA new and very challenging lative Council Ogden League of ment's work “The need for care to avoid problem in public health writ is Women Voters Ogden Chamber contamination of the food must brought on by the fact people are' of‘ Commerce Kiwanis Rotary Clubs and be taught to every food handler living into real old age In the Lions Exchange has life the few inothers span or years carelessness past “Ignorance The federated clubs named difference might result in many been doubled offihealth to be used Mrs that John Lewis one of its mem“It types of communicable diseases conalmost were to keep the ball rolling by cers bers totally Only when an employe knows mass health with apthe cerned appealing to other organizations why he should keep his hands a with now to jump into the battle Bui growing avoid the he will clean proach doing beis of oldsters it which diseases Tireless Worker population spread things “These facts are taught by a coming more of an individual A tireless worker in the drive standard health department t as problem stated Dr Morrell and has been Dr Orson Whitney part of in educational program his group of Weber College faculty It is therefore becoming more Young to see with adequate follow-uwho been chairman of a spehas and more apparent that all doc- cial citizens’ that they are applied merare also examined at in- tors must become part of the pub- ger benefits group studying tervals to see that they are not lic health system Every medical He has appeared often before doctor must be Milling to accept the carriers of infectious diseases city and county pleading for “A victim of chronic disease his responsibility of teaching the a combined status He has arcould readily transmit his infec- families he serves how to keep ranged for many citizens’ meetwell if public health agencies are tion to the food he handles and seen them attended by “These funptions are not ade- going to keep up with today’s ings small very groups Sometimes nogreater and greater demands quately carried out in a part-tim- e showed body up But he hasn’t ' health organization” Nothing More Important tossed in the sponge feeling Joint health supporters hold backers hasn’t the that simply argue message Amalgamation that one of the great benefits of there is nothing more important reached enough people the program functioning under a in local government than providPublic health work is like that trained health director is the edu- ing for good health And under — prosaic seldom spectacular combined organization the maxi- Unless there is a blow up such as LEAD PROGRAM —Drs Joseph R Morrell (seated) and Orson cational aspects No Criticism Then everybody combine to mum good for all residents of the an epidemic the headed effort have for years Whitney Young vrants to his realizedhave be Uxed can and Weber health say and ha said Tb county Ogden City County physician departments city li is not criticizing civil service as the city’s workers would be and half under the political form of Weber County’s pro-merg- k er ” Xl - 20-3- 0 p Food-handle- - rj rs x - |