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Show Beaver County High School Students Learn Sale Driving Practices in Dual-Control Training Car More than 40 Milford high school students have received driver training instruction, and nine drivers have received their Utah State drivers licenses.after completing the prescribed course of instruction at Milford High School. The dual control driver training train-ing car, a 1957 Chevrolet, was furnished by Rue Swindlehurst, proprietor of the Beaver Motor Company, and the Milford Jay-cees Jay-cees sponsored the driver train-program. train-program. The car was made available by Mr. Swondlehurst for use in the two Beaver County schools at Milford and Beaver, and it to be used one-half year in each school. The remander of the student instruction time is scheduled sched-uled for classroom work. Ronald Gale, Milford City Marshall, had been employed as student driver instructor during j the first half of the year, and' Milton Albrecht of Minersville, Milford high shop teacher, is presently conducting the classes. The schedule calls for about an equal amount of classroom instruction, devoted to studying driving practices, and study of the fundamentals of driving, safe Utah driving laws, and actual driver training, which is divided between observing other drivers and acthtal behind-the-wheel driving experience. Also included includ-ed are several hours of "dry run" training, to familiarize the student with mechanics of driving, driv-ing, and then the driver begins and stopping, backing, etc.,; his actual driving with starting road driving, then city traffic, parking, etc. Another advantage of the high school driver training program pointed out by Bob Slinkerd, Jaycee president, is the fact that students who complate the course may receive their drivers licenses at age 15Vi, and more important, the insurance companies, com-panies, which have assessed special spec-ial penalty rates on cars being driven by youths under 25, waive the increased rata if the under-25 driver has completed an authorized high school driver training course. "It has pleased me very much," Mr. Swindlehurst said, "to be able to oTfer this dual control con-trol driver training Chevrolet for use in Beaver County schools. I am told that the driver training train-ing program would have been impossible without this car, and the benefits the children of the county will derive from learning safe driving practices in the car, will more than repay me for the cost. I hope to be able to continue con-tinue furnishing Chevrolets for use in the Beaver County schools as long as the Board of Education Educa-tion will continue the program." |