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Show Indiana's fifty-mile water front I on Lake Michigan is a great industrial indus-trial center. More High Schools : Sponsor Safe Driving Courses A sharp upsurge during the past year in the number of high schools throughout the country which ttach mojor vehicle safe driver training courses, reflecting a rapidly growing public awareness aware-ness of the need for reducing street and highway accidents, was reported today by the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies. At the same time, the underwriters' under-writers' organization, which maintains main-tains a close watch over motor vehiole accident statistics announced announ-ced that a board of leading educators edu-cators and safty specialists had selected 17 states to receive -awards for outstanding achieve- mcnts in advancing safe driver education in their high schools. The states selected for this recognition recog-nition are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina Texas, Washington, West Virginia Virgin-ia and Wisconsin. The official reports of 43 states which participated in the award program show that 6,191 high schools in those states offered safe driver training courses during dur-ing the 1948-49 school year. This was an increase of nearly 4 per cent over the 1947-48 figure of 4,307 high schools. During the same period the number of students stu-dents enrolled in the courses rose from 33.017 to 481,723, an increase of 45 per cent. |