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Show Corbin Renamed To Utah Safety Council .1. Wallace Corbin, of Moab h'is been reelected to th Board of Directors of the Utah Safety Council. The incumbent in-cumbent director will serve a term scheduled to expire in 1971. Mr. Corbin and other officers of-ficers and directors of the Utah Safety Council, were named at a joint Rotary-Safety Council meeting at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City. The Moab electee is general gener-al manager of the Midland Telephone Co.. and involved in organizational plans for a local safety council. As such, he was particularly interested interest-ed in the subject chosen by key speaker, James P. Ecoti-omos. Ecoti-omos. Chicago, director of the Traffic Court program of the American Bar Association. Associa-tion. Mr. Eco""Tios spoke on the link between traffic court judges and the cubing of traffic accidents. "Traffic judges can make or breik any community's traff;c saf-t;tv saf-t;tv program, he sa:d. He pointed out tint the traffic court reaches the greatest number of peon'? and is, therefore, the judical branch with the most influence in-fluence on the public. He advocated ad-vocated mandatory court appearances ap-pearances by all persons who are charged with serious traffic traf-fic violations. Mr, Economos said road improvements can be depended depend-ed on to curb traffic accidents only about 20 per cent. Edii-cation, Edii-cation, he said, is the best long term solution to traffic safety, but better enforcement enforce-ment and the key role played by judges offer nore immediate immed-iate benefits. |