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Show 1 Business Firms Back News Safety Campaign Statistics Reveal Great Need for Safety Measures On Utah Highways Realizing the tremendous need for making the people of Utah and this section conscious of the need for greater safety measures on the highways, various business men of St. George are cooperating with the News in presenting a "Safety Campaign" in the next four issues of this paper. News readers are urged to turn to page four and five and read the ads and information' contained on these two pages. Each week additional editorial comment, pictures, news items and statistics will be given to assist in bringing home to the people of this section the tremendous toll that accidents take in lives, permanent injuries and financial loss. This year's record for the county is better than last year, according to Marion Snow, state patrol officer. The records show that four have lost their lives in the county this year through accidents ac-cidents where seven had been killed by this time last year. C. N. Woods, regional forester at Ogden, and a recent speaker at a Rotary meeting, told Rotarians Rotar-ians that Utah was the only state west of the Mississippi that had shown an increase in traffic fatalities fa-talities in the last four years. He further declared that there are L. only thn:e sUitcs in Al nation with a higher per capita loss than Utah. He pointed out that these states have a low literacy standard, stand-ard, whereas Utah has a high standard. The nation as a whole has shown an 18 per cent decrease while last year Utah had a six per cent increase. Utah's fatalities fatal-ities are 17 per cent worse than any other western state. For further fur-ther details watch this paper. |
