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Show BEAVER ROAD-E-0 PLANS SHAPING UP Plans for the first annual Beaver Jaycee Road-E-O are rounding into shape under direction di-rection of Norman Muir, gener-. al chairman. Committees are handling details of the teenage teen-age driver tests, and all young drivers who will not have reached their 20th birthday by August 15 are invited to enter the contest. The road-e-o is designed to give the nation's young motorists motor-ists an opportunity to prove and improve their driving habits and attitudes, and to stimulate community com-munity interest in better high school driver education programs. pro-grams. The contest includes a written writ-ten test, completed under supervision of Jaycee and law enforcement personnel, and a stiff test of the driver's ability, 1 which includes parking cars between be-tween spaced stanchions; driving driv-ing forward and backward in a straight line, serpentine driving, driv-ing, and starting and stopping tests. Written tests will be held at the High School, Friday, April 12, and the driver tests on Saturday, Sat-urday, April 13, on the street in front of Low's Farm Equipment Equip-ment Co. "The Beaver Jaycees will sponsor this teen-age driving contest because we feel there is a definite need for a positive safety program in our community," commun-ity," Mr. Muir said, "and the Teen Age Road-e-o, nationally, has been recognized as one of the most important methods of promoting, in our teen-age drivers, driv-ers, a realization of their responsibility re-sponsibility as drivers. "The program is carried out through cooperation of the young drivers, parents, educators, educat-ors, traffic authorities and community com-munity leaders, and reflects the growing interest of safety authorities, au-thorities, and the teen-agers themselves, in traffic safety." |