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Show DRINKING AND DRIVING The combination of drinking and then driving is putting increasingly more people in morgues and hospitals and junking more cars than ever before. Last year in the State of Utah police records rec-ords showed that 569 persons involved in traffic accidents had been drinking. And indications are that this year the treTid is up. A recent survey covering 34 sta;es indicates indi-cates an alarming increase in drunken driving. driv-ing. In more than half the states covered, this increase ranged from 50 to 100 per cent. Drinking was the cause of one out of every six fatal traffic accidents in the United States last year. The driver who kids himself into believing believ-ing he can "hold his liquor," or take one or two quick ones and still be a safe driver, is sooner or later liquidated in the casualty column. col-umn. If he were endangering only his own life, that would be his problem. But when his erratic, lack-of-control driving threatens the lives of others, he becomes a highway menace to be dealt with by law. Repeated tests prove that alcohol has a depressing effect upon driver reactions, vision vi-sion and good judgment. The real drank seldom gets far. He either runs off the road or stops and falls asleep. But the person with just enough alcohol in his system to be- |