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Show ANTI-JAYWALKER DRIVE NETS ONE Grant Burrows, II, of IMS Tenth Cut street, u taken to police headquarter on Jaywalking charge Monday, first victim la aa announced an-nounced drive against pedestrian who Ignore crosswalk and signal of officers. Th Burrow arrest and ' th planned drive came oa the first day that an augmented traffic police po-lice force wa on duty In th business busi-ness section. By transfer announced Saturday by Chief of Police William C. Webb, th traffic department wa boosted to 41 men, largest In history, with eight assigned to "foot" duty downtown. down-town. O'Brlea Makea Arrest Patrolman Fred O'Brien, newly aaalgned to the traffic work, arrested ar-rested Burrows a th latter crossed South Temple streej between Main and State street outside the pedestrian pedes-trian lane. Burrow wa booked on charge of Jaywalking and not obeying an officer's signals. Immediately he wa taken to police court by Patrolman Pa-trolman O'Brien and pleaded guilty to both charge. Judge Rev. Beck Boeon fined him $S, with an alternative of two day In Jail, on the charge of falling fall-ing to obey an officer' signal, and suspended a sentence of $3 or two dava on the Jaywalking count. Sergeant Harvey C. Pelrce, bead of the traffic department, said "plenty more arrest for Jaywalking Jaywalk-ing are going to follow. " Place Is 'Bad "This arrest wa made at particularly par-ticularly bad place for Jaywalking," Sergeant Pelrce said. "We are going go-ing to watch this place and others. "The eight officers who were newly assigned to traffic duty downtown are Instructed to concentrate con-centrate on Jaywalking aa well aa other violations." |