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Show Governor Cites Need For '58 Traffic Safety Two hundred twenty-two human hu-man lives were snuffed out in Utah traffic in 1957, Governor George D. Clyde reported to fellow fel-low Utahns this week. The bloody record was the next to worst in all the state's history. It was compiled despite strenu-our strenu-our efforts on the part of government gov-ernment officials, law enforcement enforce-ment agencies and safety organization organi-zation in the state. In commenting on highway safety the governor said: 'Almost a week of the new year had gone by before the first 1958 highway death marred the record. Thie was a welcome respite res-pite from the death filled closing clos-ing days of 1957. Before we become be-come complacent about our new safe driving habits, however, we should look back a year the traffic record for the early days of 1957 was also good, but driver carelessness later in the year still cost us 222 irreplaceable lives. "If we are to reduce 1957's tragic toll, we must have your full cooperation and support. The governor and all state officials, and the law enforcement officers and the courts and the schools and the dedicated safety organizations organi-zations all these together, by themselves, cannot do the job. Without full public support, the efforts are largely in vain, as was proved in 1957. With wholehearted whole-hearted public support, the state traffic toll can be cut to a fraction frac-tion of its present frightful size as his been proven by experience experi-ence in Connecticut and other states. "When you take the wheel of a car you have a trenmendous responsibility, re-sponsibility, for your own life and for the lives of your fellow citizens. |