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Show THE RIVER THE BEAR Published by the VALLEY , LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. on Thursday afternoon, for Friday Distribution SUBSCRIPTION RATES per year $3.00 (In advance) "f Entered at the post office at Tremonton, Utah as Second Class matter October 15, 1925 under act of March J, 1879. A. N. RYTTING. r Editor-Publishe- UTAH DRIVERS GO FREE AFTER HIGHWAY KILLING EDITOR'S NOTE This is the first in a series of articles point ing up the continuing seriousness of Utah's traffic safety situa tion and means by which the problem may be alleviated. 16 accidents took You can kill with near immunity in Utah motor vehicle is the fatal weapon. of affairs, one hardly Factual nrnnf of this-statcalculated to induce law breaking motorists to mend their ways, can be found in the files of Utah's Drivers' licensing Bureau, where harrassed staff members . jstrive without much success to maintain rpoorrls on the men. women and teen aerers who have mowed down pedestrians, caused multiple fatalities by high-spee- d driving or Killed ana maimed otners Dy drunk. while driving Take the case of motorist X. Records show that he was on the wrong side of th0 road and moving at excess speed when party to a fatality this February. Prior to this fatal crash Mr. X had been in two accidents involving speeding. Driver Fined $15 Since the February killing this same driver has been convicted of speeding through Lehi. Result? A $15 but no action taken, fine on the latter conviction in the fatal crash. In January, Mr. K, driving while drunk; rammed a parked vehicle in Sevier County, causing a death directly attributed by the investigating officer to K's "obvious intoxication." "This driver had no license, there's been no action on involuntary manslaughter charges," says License Bureau Director Howard P. Leatham. "We don't know whether there's been a trial. You know the courts often fail to report convictions to us." e up-to-ia- ie Mr. Y Paid $25 Take Mtr. Y of Salt Lake City. He's 73, had three previous accidents since 1945 before he failed to halt at a stop sign and killed another motorist this February. Mr. Y paid a penalty of $25 and is still driv- ing. The truck driver involved in fatalities No. 85 and Ho. 86 this year was on the wrong side of the road when the crashes came. He was arrested on charges of having an expired driving license. No other action ! For the month of March, despite 20 deaths in 11 fatal crashes, no arrests listed on the records of surviving drivers involved. For April the count shows 12 killed in an even dozen accidents, but no arrests. In bution? BE SURE YOUR COAL ROOM IS FULL OF J to BLUE BLAZE U COAL Before Cold Weather Comes! Just Pick Up Your Phone and Dial ; 2301 AND WE WILL DELIVER LUMP - STOVE - NUT OIL TREATED SLACK Tremonton Lumber Phone 2301 & Hdw. Tremonton - LEADER WANT ADS PAY BEAR RICER STAKE SUNDAY SCHOOL Russell Boss was sustained "as superintendent o f the Bear River Stake Sunday School at the recent conference of the stake. He was released from the second assistant to take the new position. His counselors are William O. Linford and Lamon Simmons. Donna Linford was retained as secretary. Also released were Carl Welling as superintendent and M. L. Nelson as counselor. FARM BUREAU SETS MEETING The Tremonton Ladies Farm Bureau will meet at the home of Mrs. W. R. Rucker next Thursday at 2:30 for their next meeting. . Prophetic Lecture Series EVERY TUESDAY and THURSDAY NIGHT Opening Lecture TUESDAY 1I6I1T Sept. "Will The Future Bring Many but not all drivel's who have survived fa tal crashes for which they bore the brunt of the blame, ! have lost their driving licenses temporarily. At present, ,260 licenses are suspended or revoked, but in many cases such motorists can obtain "limited" licenses valid or business purposes and other "necessary driving." $ By Arrangement With Salt Lake Tribune I7? zooma AHEAD GEORGE SL close limit. the we're So BENSON $275,000,000,000 Second Lecture THURSDAY N!GI1T Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m. not paying our way today. We didn't pay our way in 10 of the last 22 years. we Since 1930 the people, WE PAY OUR DEBTS? SHALL "Jesus Will Return To Earth" through our government, have a $260,000,000,000 quarter of a trillion dollars. How much of it will today's earners pay? How much will this adult generation leave to be paid by today's children? These are fair questions. Some political orators answered: "Forget the national debt; forget the fact that we're borrowing; we're doing all right, aren't we?" Debts have to be repaid by someone, sometime. If we do not pay this debt made during our lifetime, who will? Future generations will have to. If we are to pay it we must do three tilings that aren't easily done: i ""duce government spending; (? balance the budget; and (3) immediately a program of deb, reduction. When the debt reaches $275,000,000,000 next year the interest alone will re- - WHERE? WHEN? WHY borrowed Sometime next year a new milestone is expected to be reached in Washington, D. C. The national debt, according to several official estimates, will reach the legal limit of If it wishes, $275,000,000,000. Congress may lift the limit to some new astronomical If Congress doesn't heights. whoever next is President year will be obliged to operate the government within its in- come. This will be an important milestone. It will bring a decision on ' whether to place additional mortgages on earnings of future generations or whether we citizens of today shall begin paying our own way. I've been studying the" budget for this fiscal year "House Document No. 285." It weighs five pounds, one ounce. It contains 1,222 pages. Two paragraphs, 15 lines of type, are devoted to "Borrowing and The Public Debt." Those two paragraphs predict that the debt will be reached next year. Examining the Facts of .Prophecy reveals the future! You are invited to hear P AOL G. 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'Job-Rate- and understood all the facts involved in thej decision to be made on the limit for the national debt they would flood Congress with requests not to permit a further Increase. For the past week I've been examin In 1900 ing some of the facts. we had a public debt of slightly more than one billion dollars Fifteen years later the debt was smaller. The Federal government borrowed money throughout World War I. But beginning in 1920 and for the next 10 years the budget was balanced and the debt reduced v each year following the pay-a- s you-g- o practice that had been the rule since our FprWaJ government was founded. In 19 of the 22 years from 1930 to 1952 the government each year spent more money than It received, and thus the debt grew in peacetime as well as wartime. The budeft for our present fiscal year called for expenditures of $91,400,000,-00Congres whittled this tlown to $80,300,000,000, which is more than the average spent during each of the four big spending years of World War n. The approved budget will necessitate the borrowing of about and will push the debt There's a Dodge truck that fits your job. 4-t- on "Dodge power really puts out the work at low cost!"-- America high-capac- ity fuel systems on all 8 save engines gas. Heavier models offer twin carburetion and exhaust system. High-efficien- cy . For g power, can Fluid Drive on Vi- -t you get gyrol and Route-Va- n models. extra-smoot- h, wear-tavin- See us today for a demonstration. Power with economy! Powerful Dodge engines have compression ratios as high as 7.0 to 1. Dodge economy features like light- weight aluminum-allo- y pistons help keep operating costs low. Power with low upkeep! Dodge engines save on maintenance . . . keep your truck on the job. You get such famous Dodge advantages as exhaust valve seat inserts and chrome-plate- d top piston rings. Power with long life! The Dodge truck you choose will be right tor your job in every y axles and way. Deep frames, springs are just a few of features. many long-lif- e ; . extra-sturd- high-capaci- t See. ' fcto.. I ty cm irffi usMoy far Ma 6esf 6oy in tow-co- st ttonsportotioet. v $10,000,-000,0- p.m. Which should we prepare for? Prophecy hrings the answer Not Easily Done , iftinjr JjtttMMt . to 16, 7:30 War or Peace? " Licenses Suspended 0. ANY AMOUNT ANYTIME 00 the budget. This is a proper function of Congress. And it is the only way through which the citizens can exercise any control over government finances. The second needed step would be to drastically cut government expenses. Then the taxpayers could support a program of debt reduction that would permit us, 20 or 30 years from now, to say to the youth of America: "Here: This is your nation. We have enjoyed its blessings. Our stewardship now is ended. We are passing it on to you free of debt." -On such an occasion we could be proud. But can we be proud of the situation today? COMING TO TREMOnTOn ce justice-of-the-pea- knew 1 ! The answers are not easy to come by, due to lack of central agency reporting of the numbers of manslaughter cases and traffic trials growing out of highway accidents. Blame for this rests in part with county court clerks, who move slowly if at all to report to state authorities ; in part with the inability of staffs in Utah Highway Patrol and licensing offices to tally adequately what reports are obtained and in large measure with the antiquated system under which only two score of Utah s approximately 130 rural justices regularly file reports. If the people -- quire $700,000,000,000 otherwise " ... Thursday, September 11, 1952 . ? s Tremonton, Utah $80,000,-000,0- . - there were two 23 lives, expect after being at least partially responsible for the death of their neighbors? What can the if a bereaved expect in terms of recompence if not retri By Jack Goodman k , a year from the taxpayers. arrests on license violation charges. Can We Be Proud? 26 Died In June, If In addition to paying the interest we desire to reduce the Traffic officers took somewhat more drastic action debt itself by $10,000,000,000 a in June, a month that saw 26 deaths and five arrests. year, that would mean the naA Moab driver who was speeding, passing on a tional debt alone would be costhill and unlicensed, was charged with involuntary man- ing each citizen with an income, an average of $261 a year. slaughter in connection with 1952's 96th fatality. One And it would require 27 years to motorist involved in a pedestrian death was "arrested wipe out the debt. When we for failure to keep proper lookout." A driver who fell add taxes for this year's asleep at the wheel and caused a death near Provo was budget, we have a yearly tax bill averaging $1,500 a year arrested on a "no license" charge. lad who for every person with an inCharges are pending against a and against the motorists who took come. That's" the outlook imhit a mediately ahead when we face lives No. 104 and No. 105. Meanwhile a driver concerned up to the hard facts on the in fatalities No. 109 and No. 110 was charged with budget and the national debt. The most important first step "traveling too fast for conditions" and faces a. lawsuit. ciizens could take in this situaAnswers Elusive tion would be to prevail upon their Congressmen to abalance What can drivers speeding, drunken, asleep or May, when SERVING LE A DE R 00 PHONE 5181 TREMONTON, UTAn ei. |