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Show Safety Leaders Slate Conference in Provo Hopeful of beginning a new traffic safety program that will give Utah county a far better record than ithad in 1939, safety leaders will meet at the Provo chamber of commerce at 7:30 p. m. Friday. In session will be 15 Utah county members of the Utah Traffic Safety Safe-ty council, which will have other representatives at the meeting. John O. Beesley of Provo and Owen L. Bartlett of Spanish Fork, members mem-bers of the council executive committee, com-mittee, called the session. The council executive committee proposed the session and suggested that Utah county receive special attention in view of Its 23 traffic deaths In 1939, contrasted with the 18 in 1938. One step at the meeting will be a study of all traffic enforcement facilities in the county, aiming at making enforcement as effective as possible. The education phase will receive attention, with churches and civic and fraternal groups expected to be enlisted in the program. Along with Salt Lake and Davis counties. Utah county forms the metropolitan area of the sea, In which is concentrated more than half the population and a majority of motor traffic Two meetings had been called Wednesday by the enforcement committee of the council, which will sit with local enforcement authorities. au-thorities. The first such zone meeting will be held at Brigham City January 25 and the second at Logan January Janu-ary 26. |