Show Safely Safety Contest Rates Rales S. S SL L L. High Salt Lake City ranked high in all aU divisions of the 1947 national traffic safety contest except one showing healthy gains in most activities activities ac ac- ac- ac the National Safety council council coun coun- cil cli reported Friday An analysis of the report which showed Salt Lake City in the upper third of 36 cities of ot comparable population was delivered to L. L C. C Romney public safety commissioner commissioner commissioner commis commis- and Lt U. F. F Clark Sanford The report stated that the city ranked sixth on its motor vehicle traffic death record with 19 fatal accidents in 1947 comp compared red with 30 during 1946 and 30 during a year three average The city's population death rate of deaths per population population population tion and its registration rate of 35 deaths per registered vehicles represented decreases of and respectively Thc The city climbed from rom See Sec Page 4 Column 4 SAFETY CONTEST Continued from Page Fage One place to place in maintenance of accident deaths the safety council explained adding that the number of ot reports appeared low but that very good use was made of accident records for engineering purposes In the matter of ot traffic law enforcement enforcement enforcement en en- the city Jumped from place in 1946 to a a. tie for tor third in 1947 1941 The report explained explained explained ex ex- that an increase in the number of accidents Investigated was noted and that the city's convictions for hazardous moving violations placed the city among the group leaders School safety also was praised by the report which noted Salt Lake Lako City had jumped from position in 1946 1948 to ninth in 1947 1941 The report did recommend that a supervisor be named to direct safely safety safety safe safe- ty ly education in the public school system In public education the city climbed from place to ninth in a year Only loss noted in the report was in traffic engineering where the city slipped from seventh place in 1946 to in 1947 1941 The report recommended that the city's traffic engineering be divorced from the police department department department depart depart- ment and that a traffic engineering engineer engineer- ing unit be inaugurated with a traffic engineer and assistance equal to the full fuU time of two men The report also noted Salt Lake City generally fell below the level of the top 30 in its group in investigations and surveys Recommended also were a study of the benefits of municipally operated operated operated op op- or controlled street off-street facilities fa- fa facilities facilities fa fa- and channeling of or parking meter revenues into exclusively traffic improvements The Salt Lake Parking council and other groups have been studying off- off street parking problems for the past several months |