Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-04-10 | Page 15 | Salt Lake Schools Slate Course in Traffic Safety

y I F ft I- I r r r i alt It Lake Schools Slate Course in Traffic Safety Safety- E Women Leaders in Move ment for Traffic Safety tiJi lV- lV P f f r n Fk f lil j f. I f 4 5 1 t I 4 W 4 4 Wae 7 9 a LEADERS IN SAFETY DAY INSTITUTE SPONSORED BY SALT LAKE WOMEN Mrs Samuel A. A Cotterell left Mrs 1 Pauline S. S Yard Mrs 1 Walter R. R Hansen seated Mrs W. W V. C C. Brown M 1 Mrs rs Arch J. J West TEACHING PLAN WILL INCLUDE DRIVING CUSS CLASS Compulsory Lessons For All Grades Features Program By FRED FIlED E. E HAMLIN JR Traffic safety teaching will become become become be be- come an integral part of the Salt Lake public school sy system tem next fall it lt was disclosed Wednesday Joseph B. B Driggs Lincoln high school principal and chairman of the Salt Lake board of education safety committee told of the plans at a safety day institute institute tute at the Newhouse use hotel sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- by several women's organ organ- A traffic safety course covering students from to upper upper upper up up- per division high school will be placed in the curriculum next fall Mr Driggs said The teaching willbe will willbe willbe be compulsory and probably will embrace actual driving Instruction for older students he indicated Stresses Requirements Mr Driggs said the- the traffic safety course will stress not only proper driving but attention to all all safety requirements It will be part of the social study program of Salt Lake City public schools We are trying to obtain dual control automobiles and proving i grounds for actual instruction for forI upper division high school students students stu stu- I dents Mr Driggs said so they can be given actual driving in in- in Mayor Ab Jenkins addressing the institute gave advice on driving driving driving ing habits He urged t that at automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles be kept in good repair and that tires particularly be kept in good condition Other speakers at the morning session were Chief of Police Charles H. H Olson Sergeant Harvey C. C Peirce head of the police traffic division and J Jed d' d F. F Woolley Jr general manager of the Utah Light and Traction company Other Speakers Afternoon speakers were Mrs James A. A Hogle who discussed lIedes pedestrian rian safety and Herbert B. B Simpson executive secretary of the Utah traffic safety The institute was sponsored bythe by bythe bythe the Women's Safety Council of Salt 4 Lake City Teacher Parent associations associations asso asso- the Salt Lake Council of Women the Salt Lake district of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs and the city traffic commis commis- sion Mrs Walter R. R Hansen was In charge of the institute Mrs Pauline S. S Yard represented the city traffic commission of which she is a member