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Show Vehicles Carry 1061 Pupils Over Capacity On out of every feur school buses operating in Utah are eon- geeted. the Utah highway patrol reported Wednesday following Its aemisnnual inspection of the vehicles. ve-hicles. The number of pajeengers in excess of rated capacity of the 411 school buses inspected Is 1M1, the report said. Mechanical condition of the vehicles, ve-hicles, compared with the previous inspection in Msy, shows an improvement, im-provement, "generally apeeiklng," said Sit. Dan Beckatead, who supervised su-pervised the inspection. Compared with the previous In-. In-. ipectlon. when 408 tuswere operating, of which 104 were found to be carrying 945 paasen-geraJn-Sxcees nfraudcapacity. the latest survey ahowe 412 bueea operating, of which log are crowded. Other eompariaona, with previous pre-vious number of defects noted in psrentheses, follow: Foot brakes Four buses with defects (14); emergency brake, IB (3f): steering gear, t (8); tires S (10; windshield, 14 (IT); window!, 1M (181); headlights, 8 (15); spotlights, 10 (31); chains, 117. (98); defective emergency doors, 17 (14); first-aid equipment, equip-ment, 41 (1). Copiee of the report wW be forwarded to the stats department depart-ment of public Instruction for study in connection with its supervision super-vision of the transportation fadll-tiee fadll-tiee in the state s 40 school districts. |