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Show members to be active in the ' coming primaries, registration and voting on Nov. 7. ' Utah's appalling traffic record discussed at UCWL council meet at a cost of 60 million dollars, or $60 per person in the state he reported. Nationally there are 50,000 killed, 42 million injured, at an economic cost to the public of 9 billion dollars. Each of the 327 statistical numbers was once a real live person, enjoyed life, family, friends, and the void cannot be filled. 13 of the 15,000 injured in-jured are permanently disabled. The impact doesn't always reach us till it comes close to home, and it happened 327 times in Utah last year. What can we do, he asked and then stated "OBEY the laws." Thankfully we have a heritage of laws in our country, coun-try, rules of the road are the best mankind can devise and have survived the test of time, he noted. President Allen reminded the The Utah County Women's Legislative Council met Thursday Thurs-day morning at the Women's Club House in Provo, with Mrs. O. S. Allen, president, conducting. Mrs. James A. Thorn of Springville, gave a musical reading, "Our American Ameri-can Heritage," accompanied by Mrs. Maurice Bird of Springville. Spring-ville. Mrs. J. Keith Melville sang the Star Spankled Banner," Ban-ner," accompanied by Mrs. Rose Whitaker. Mrs. Brady Dirker gave a report from the State Legislative Legisla-tive meeting held recently, "Patriots, and the Right to Dissent" Dis-sent" by Professor VanAlstine of the U. of U. School of Law. Mrs. Allen introduced Captain Cap-tain E. M. Pitcher, head of the Utah State Highway Patrol. Captain Pitcher paid tribute to the council for their interest and consciousness of traffic safety and promoting the addition ad-dition of 25 new highway patrolmen pa-trolmen to the staff, which is still understaffed and underpaid. under-paid. He stated that to date 218 have lost their lives on Utah highways; 327 in 1966. We have become too complacent and regard re-gard these as just statistics until un-til it happens to us or one of our loved ones. There are 15,-000 15,-000 injured in Utah each year |