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Show SPECIAL FORCE IS TO WATCH TRAFFIC Extra Foot and Motorcycle Officers Will Patrol Streets to Prevent Fourth of July Accidents. The minute men of Ihe cities of the United States will be called upon to do much extra work today, this being July 4th. The minute men of 1916 are of different type of those of '7b', but (will be in readiness to respond to whatever what-ever call may arise during the dav in any of the large cities. In Salt Lake C'ity, where traffic is usuallv at its highest on July 4th, the traffic squad of the city police force, under Sergeant Lester Wire, has made extra arrangements arrange-ments to handle the expected street crowds. n addition to the regular number of traffic men, both motorcycle and stationary, sta-tionary, there will be five more motorcyclists motor-cyclists who will ride the city thoroughfares thor-oughfares for twelve hours to prevent any Fourth of Julv accidents. Their territory will involve practically all of: Salt Lake City proper. In speaking ot the usual Independence day activities, Sergeant Wire yesterday said: We can always look for extra work, and tho department always plans for extra work. Today, however, how-ever, we expect little difficulty, as the increasing prudence of citizens of Salt Lake City in Fourth of July demonstrations tends to diminish our worries, and the new traffic ordinances will also have their effect.' ef-fect.' It is interesting how quickly the citizens have erasped the meaning of the new ordinances. The recent Old Folks' dav is an example, there being only two cases of arrests ar-rests for violation of traffic ordinances. ordi-nances. Today we look for a correspondingly cor-respondingly small number, and a minimum number of accidents. |