Springville Herald | 1946-06-27 | Page 8 | Officials Warn of Accidents on July Fourth

OFFICIALS WARN OF ACCIDENTS ON JULY FOURTH This Fourth of July may see a holiday-starved public roll up the greatest mileage ever recorded on the nation's speedometers in any one week-end, the National Safety Council said today. More important, the Council fears it will be the deadliest week end in the country's accident history his-tory unless the emergency is met with emergency caution by everybody. every-body. More than 20,000,000 vehicles will pack the highways during the four-day holiday period, the Council Coun-cil estimated. They will travel more than four billion miles. Mobilizing to avert the threatened threaten-ed disaster, 150 national organizations organiza-tions are cooperating with the council in a nationwide Fourth of July campaign to consolidate public and official support behind the slogan, "Be Alive on the Fifth!" In appealing for public cooperation coopera-tion in the campaign, Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Coun- cil, said, "I hate to throw cold water on holiday anticipation, but we still have the same combination combina-tion of facts which led the Council Coun-cil before V-J Day to predict the present upsurge in accidental deaths. ' "More travel, a long-awaited vacation season in full swing, worn out tires and cars, run-down highways and a carefree attitude that, often becomes a careless attitude at-titude all this simply adds up to more tragedy. A prediction can't spoil your holiday, but an accident can."