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Show DEATHLESS DAY HOPES VISIONED FOR S. LREGION City, Four Counties Set Traffic Safety Goals For Year Traffic safety leaders In Utah's metropolitan ' area Salt Lake I City, Salt Lake county, Utah county coun-ty and Davla county set their eyes Tuesday on hopes of setting new record! ot consecutive day without traffic deaths. Since traffic safety became a major phase of public duties, a recognized barometer of accomplishment accom-plishment is the deathless day period, pe-riod, first brought to public sttentlon by The Telegram in 1939. A continuous deathless day chart was maintained here. Salt Lake City almost but not quite, broke Its modern deathless day record in 1939. Its modern record is 68 days, set In 1939 and, last spring, It seemed almost cer- (Contlmitd on Psw Four) I Column On ) ! Deathless Day Hopes Visioned " . tOiatasil Steel Pass oae) ' r tain that the reoord would be broken. ' Bixty-eeven consecutive days d been set, between February a and April 11. with only two needed to shatter the record. But a pedestrian death occurred en April 11 and the 97-day period was the beet attained during the year. ' Of the one dty and three eoun-tlea eoun-tlea la the race, Salt Lake county lias the best Individual record tor 193988 consecutive day without with-out a hlghwsy fatality. The high mark a good oae to hoot at In 190 waa set between January 4 and March JL making the first quarter almost tree of train death. ' Other Catraats ' ' Dewis sounty was not tar be-I be-I hind with a mark of 94 days la 3939, set from October 9 and 1 through December 3L The New Year's morning fatal accident near Sountlf ul spoiled Davis county's chances of equaang the Salt Lake county mark. Utah county, which had 29 traffic traf-fic deaths last year, lagged fourth among the anits. Its best mark was 39 days, set between May IT and Jane 28. Throughout 1940, The Telegram will Include salt Lake, Utah and Davis counties, as weU Salt Lake Ctty, In Ms deathless days' tabu-I tabu-I la lions. |