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Show School Bus Safety Week Proclaimed by Rampton Governor Calvin Rampton Ramp-ton this week declared the week of April 19 - 24 as National School Bus Safety Safe-ty Week in Utah. The purpose pur-pose of the declaration is to bring attention to the system which every school day transports nearly 20 million young Americans to and from school. In Utah, on the average techool day, busses from the districts travel an average av-erage of 50,000 miles carrying car-rying over 90,000 students. They bring youngsters from some of the state's most remote areas to centrally cen-trally located schools. In some cases, the distances involve more than a hundred hund-red miles round trip daily. The school bus system in Utah and other states tallowy children in rural areas the chance to a more comprehensive education. The system has been the biggest single factor in moderndzing rural educational educa-tional and sounding the death knell for the outdated out-dated one - room school house. Nationally the school bus is the safest method of transportation. School buses are 64 times safer than private automobiles. |