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Show MAYOR SLATES POLICE WATCH AT STOP SIGNS Plainclothesmen Will Be Posted at Many Intersections By BOB HALE A strict enforcement policy against stop sign violations was laid down Wednesday by Mayor Ab Jenkins. The mayor said that, beginning March 10. a special detail of police plain clothes men will be assigned to duty at stop signs at hazardous and high accident locations. Until then, he said, there will be no "crack down" on motorists, and he expressed hope that the metering puMIe will eoopsrate ead observe the stop sign ordinance. But thereafter there will be no "warnings" and no "bawling! out" of offending motorists, he pointed out There will be arrests. Many Escape Arrest Msyor Jenkins said that police are enforcing the stop sign ordl-nsnce ordl-nsnce as fully as possible, but that many violations occur without arrests ar-rests because of the obvious Impossibility Im-possibility of patrolling the entire city at all times. Decision to move against stop sign violations was an outgrowth of the death Sunday of Clark Rom-ney, Rom-ney, 35, of 2450 Ninth East street Mr. Romney's car, westbound on Twenty-first South street was struck broadside by a northbound machine driven on Third East street by Jess Anderson, 21, of 261 Delmar court. The police report, which Is to be sent to the county sttorney, said Anderson drove past a stop sign. Anderson said he did not know the sign was here, but that he attempted to stop after h saw It |