Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-02-05 | Page 9 | 'Hooking' Rides Could Kill, Officer Warns

Attention Parents Hooking Rides Could Kill Officer Warns Its Hits potentially a killer That is the way Lt F F. Clark Sanford chief of salt Lake Lale police traffic division described the practice practice practice i tice o of hooking rides on automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles in which many youngsters I currently are arc engaging I He issued a plea pIca Saturday to parents in the city to educate their children to stop the practice and arid warned that persistent violators of e elementary 1 c men tar y school age and below will be brought to police headquarters in the future and held for their parents High school and junior high school students will be cited and held for juvenile court Lt Sanford said Greatest number of such violations violations violations viola viola- come during hours when children children children chil chil- dren are going to or from school and during recess periods he said He pointed out that numerous minor accidents have occurred in inthe inthe inthe the city during the winter because of the practice adding that fatalities fatalities fatalities fatali fatali- ties might easily have resulted We Ve cant can't handle this problem from the police level alone he said We Ve must have the wholehearted wholehearted wholehearted whole whole- hearted cooperation of both parents parents parents par par- pari i and school authorities in educating educating edu edu- cating eating children to the hazards in in- in Lt U. Sanford also urged that children children children chil chil- dren be he to taught stop slop thumbing rides and walking in the streets