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Show Planning A Trip On 4th of July? Then Heed Safety Hints Going somewhere over the Fourth of July? If you are, then plan your trip safely. But even if you stay home, keep safety in mind for the Fourth of July holiday holi-day one of the most dangerous weekends of the year. That is the advice of the National Safety Council, which is coordinating a nationwide campaign cam-paign to hold down the usual upsurge up-surge of accidental deaths during the Independence. Day celebration. One hundred .and thirty national organizations, as well as state and city public officials, are cooperating coopera-ting in the effort. Motor vehicle accidents lead the list of holiday hazards, the Council Coun-cil said. Drowning from swimming and fishing accidents iis the second biggest risk. Other deaths are due from fireworks and firearms, sunstroke and heat exhaustion, food poisoning, falls and miscellaneous miscell-aneous accidents. The death toll for the month of July last year was 8,700, the Council Coun-cil said. While it 3s impossible to determined the exact number of deaths from all causes occurring during the Fourth of July holiday, the Council said the total was well above the average for other days of the month. The Council expects more pleasure-seeking holiday motorists to pile into more cars and roll up more miles during this one weekend week-end celebration than ever before in the nation's history. More than 33 million motor vehicles will be on the move during the holiday. The increasing number of new oars on the road and the substantias substan-tias rise in .gasoline consumption this year indicate a heavy death toll unless everyone is fully a-ware a-ware of the holiday hazards and makes a real effort to avoid them. "There are two ways to hold downs deaths during a holiday period such as the Fourth," said Ned H. Dearborn, President of the National Safety Council. "One is for .police, beach guards and others who have some authoritative auth-oritative control over public safety to be especially alert and vigorous in their enforcement of sane rules of public behavior. "The other is for all of us to recognize that holidays are danger dan-ger days, and to drive a car, walk across the street, swim, fish or otherwise conduct ourselves in a safe and prudent manner. "If everyone would keep in mind the words 'Take It Easy on the Fourth Be Alive on the Fifth,' this Fourth of July would bring much less tragedy and much more pleasure- |