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Show Springville Kiwanians Initiate Driver Trainer Course In Senior High School Following a program of the National organization, organiza-tion, the Public Affairs Committee of the Springville Kiwanis' club is sponsoring a drivers' training coarse in the senior high school, it was.$ announced this week. A move is also underway to back up more fully the local and county safety offices in safety and traffic patrols, pa-trols, according to the committee members. Composed of Maurice Bird, W. B. Gogarty, Ernest A. Strong and Chairman Lee R. Taylor, the committee com-mittee have been given the use of a new AAA dual-controlled Ford through the cooperation of G. Lowry Anderson, local Ford dealer, whose fine spirit of cooperation coop-eration is praised by the clubmen in this project. Principal Paul K. Walker and high school faculty members will have charge of the car and will administer the program, it is stated. sta-ted. Qualified instructors will be provided both for the girls and the boys and each will be given a driver dri-ver education course. Several periods per-iods will be scheduled for the students stu-dents so that training will reach out as far as possible. Committee members in charge I of the driver ' education program point out that about two million boys and girls become old enough each year to begin driving a car and that about 100 of these are in the Springville high school. The point is also stressed that this community is responsible to see that these 100 or more are careful, effecient drivers, willing to cooperate coop-erate and obey all the safety rules. Commenting on the program, the committee stated that it is generally gener-ally believed that teen-agers can be trained and persuaded to drive carefully. A teenager behind the steering wheel is one of the biggest big-gest problems of this day. These young people have the most in life to live for and they should be fully ful-ly conscious of their responsibility (Continued on Page Eleven.) Springville Kiwanis Club Initiates Driver Training (Continued from Page One) to society. The execution of pledge cards is expected to help in putting over the program and these are to be used as often as the instructors deem necessary. The pledges in part state: I wui try to drive this car each time I take it out as carefully and cautiously as possible. I will not try to show off with it, because I know it has the power to kill and injure many people. I will keep within the speed limits specified on the city streets and highways, always remembering remember-ing they are maximums. I will slow down and look both ways at all intersections, even tho I may have the right of way. I will not race with another car regardless of the temptation to do so. I will not' attempt to drive if I feel sleepy or if I have been drinking. drink-ing. I will obey all stop signs, street and highway marking, signaling and other traffic regulations. Kiwanians has eight general objects ob-jects for this year. Three of which backs up the objects of this driver dri-ver youth program. The three are: Reinforcement of the school, the home and the church. Proper guidance for youth in citizenship training and recreational recrea-tional programs. Initiate and support safety and educational programs in the community, com-munity, in industry, and in the home. |