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Show J Hi liht VX - fl " -.... v v.i,..- .. .J.-.v...-..-.J.......-...S...li TEEN-AGE TARGET . : : More than 150,000 teen-ace drivers throughout the United States have set their sights on the huge National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C., where one phase of the 1954 National Na-tional Teen-Ago Road-E-O will be held in August to determine the nation's champion teen-ae driver. In addition, the Road-E-O, sponsored spon-sored by the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, the American Trucking Truck-ing Associations, and Liberty Mutual Mu-tual Insurance Company, offers college scholar!) ips totaling S3 100 to top winners in the national contest. Already local Road-E-O contests have been held in many U. S. communities com-munities with winners scheduled to compete in state competitions where they will vie for the honor of representing repre-senting their states in the Washington Washing-ton finals. All 48 states, District of Columbia, Hawaii and Canada are expected to send representatives to the Washington competition August 10 through 14; Tests that will face the Wellington Welling-ton finalists include a written qui, road check under actual traffic conditions, personal interview, driving driv-ing skill exercises in the National Guard Armory and a driving attitude atti-tude rating scale. Now in its third year, the Road- E-0 has gained increasing support each year from safety authorities, education othciala, newspapers, parents and teen-agers themselves. |