Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-09-21 | Page 13 | Provo Adopts Traffic Flag Safety Record System

Provo Adopts Traffic Flag Safety Record System Provo Thursday adopted the flag system of recording traffic traf-fic deathless days as a step forward in Utah county's drive for highway safety. The system is similar to that Inaugurated In-augurated last January 1 by The Salt Lake Telegram, with a white flag, denoting a deathless day, raised atop The Tribune-Telegram building. The white banner of safety flew Wednesday over the old Provo Jpost office for the first time, with attention of citizens directed by jifficials to its location and purpose. V black flag is raited to denote a 'traffic death. ! Police Chief Henry East of jprovo. John S. Evans, Utah county sheriff, and other-city and county officials have Indorsed the plan, which has proved highly successful success-ful in Salt Lake City as a medium of establishing public traffic consciousness. con-sciousness. They urged citizens to help authorities in their efforts to banish traffic death from Provo streets and Utah county highways. Beth Sutton, "the girl in white." will aid the campaign Saturday by pinning safety buttons on Provo pedestrians and motorists, Chief East reported.