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Show Wichita Has S.L. Beaten on Deaths Salt Lake City, on the basis of past experience, has a commendable com-mendable record this year In keeping down traffic deaths. But take a look at the record of Wichita, Kan a city In the same population group. On November 10, Wichita chalked up its seventh traffic fatality, fa-tality, of 1939. On that date. Salt Lake City had counted 19 dead for the year. Either Wichita's public Is not much concerned over the problem prob-lem of traffic fatality, or It regards re-gards Its small toll as not alarming, alarm-ing, for the account of the death was given only bripf notice on an Inside page of a Wichita newspaper. news-paper. Wichita Is smaller than Salt Lake City in actual population. Its 1930 census listed 111,110 residents. resi-dents. For purposes of accident records, the National Safety council lists it In the same group as Salt Lake City that Is, cities of from 100,000 to 230,000 population. popu-lation. ' |