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Show nnd yours?" Public officials and safety leaders alone cannot handle this gigantic safely problem. Individuals Indi-viduals are t'ne only ones who can cut down this mounting death toll by becoming aware of the need for caution and acting upon it. Frank G. Shelley, director of he farm division, Utah Safety Council, and chairman of the Farm Safety Week general committee, com-mittee, says "Help stop the rising ris-ing tide of farm injuries caused, many times, by little acts of carelessness and thoughtlessness. Let's make every farm dweller in your community conscious of his danger. Safeguard your neighbor life your family's lives. In fact, the life you save may be your own." The week of July 20-26 has been proclaimed N a f i o nal Farm Safely Week by President Presi-dent Truman, and Governor Herbert B. Maw has called upon the citizens of the state to observe Farm Safety Week "as a spearhead to a year-round year-round program, and requests all persons and organizations concerned with agriculture and farm life to cooperate in the observance of this fourth annual Farm Safety Week." Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, states that "the farm has the greatest work accident toll. Records indicate that 25 farm residents per 100,000 died in farm accidents in 1946. Records also show that an occupational accident happens every year on one out of every 20 farms in the nation. It is estimated that the total time lost thru farm accidents acci-dents in a typical year costs the t:me needed to produce the entire en-tire annual wheat crop of the United States. Agriculture has more accidental acci-dental work deaths than any other major industry. Farm fire losses alone total 90 million dollars annually. These figures need no analysis. They only explain ex-plain in cold dollars and sacrificed sacri-ficed lives, a part of the results of one year's carelessness on the American farm. How long will it be before tragedy will become a personal matter with you |