Show ‘ Auto Safety Features Paying Off: Chances of Death Hurts Reduced THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- 3A R OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 2 1958 Health Service and Ford and tended to minimize risks—they Chrysler the latter two con- - cannot guarantee a lack of $200000 each for two jury All experts agree there's no years Some findings to date from this substitute for good careful ing driving made a research: job the Not belts: jSeai enough coni tude parative accidents yet for a solid ?h?t en’ 4 can happen to me answer— expected sometime this million times ' toes’ fall — but evidence points to sig- aAl nificant saving of lives and prevention of injuries Some auto makers and physicians predict seat belts worn universally might save 5 to 10 thou-sand lives annually Others are very pessimistic about their J j ' Highway Toil Ranks as a Major Epidemic Someone Being Killed Every 14 Minutes By ALTON L BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter NEW YORK — Vital questions (Editor’s Note: What can science do about the epidemic of automobile accidents which experts predict will claim 42000 lives and injure more than a million people this year? Are safety belts padded dash- are being answered for everyone who drives or rides in an automobile How good are seat belts safe- UP AND INTO 'EM An auto which hurtled off the road near Clarion Pa and bumped up an embankment is perched three feet off the ground in a small barbershop Harold McFarland driver escaped injury and the barbershop was empty at the time the auto struck yesterday — ( AP Wirephoto) norf-automo-t- Rolling Out Red Carpet Pushing Moscow as Tcurisf Spot Russia Is j overflows are accommodated in the city’s largest hotel the 15-- j story Moscva (Moscow) and visit- ing dignitaries are put up in a i more pretentious hotel about a mile from the downtown section the Sovietskaya None of the hotels is first class by Western 1st j standards NOTICES EXTREME Another more for tourists in Ballet j apd thereby win friends and fluence people visitor first notices the exwidth of the main boulein Moscow They are so that in addition to the two lanes in each direction is a center lane between lines reserved for pleasant must traffic — auto- Moscow is the special at the Bolshoi Sal eam°bVaTces°reTruckf fl the Bolshoi is weatherbeaten corridors and white-painte- d high-spee- 'Theater Outside And it’s a trend that appar-- 1 an unimpressive The ently will continue If you have structure i it— and if the U S State stadium But when you enter the 1 ‘£"5 WIDTH The treme vards broad traffic there J “A"? JLrl Department doesn’t object to your theater itself its magnificence— d odelsPin twiToL”" crowds wherever S going— brother you’re in easier’ RUSSIANS puzzled by the' and the stage settlings are the J0! toofMoscow is traffic bicycle You’ll get there most readily are used for sport only Bicycles and are in a group on a scheduled tour because it’s easier for the Russians to handle you that way But you can get in individually too— and unless you’re someone special you probably won’t be followed or spied upon or annoyed You’ll be largely on your own and you’ll be able to travel to some far corners of the Soviet Union — provided you make the arrangements well in advance and stick to them once theyfre made If you try to change things once they're put in motion or if you fail to make adequate advance preparations you’ll find yourself and buried in all the frustrating red tape of the greatest bureaucracy m (the world hog-tie- T-- itf Rus-Squa- j j j enclosure eerily spotlighted are the bodies First you pass by Lenin He needs a shave and you mentally agree with what you have heard — that he may not be long for this world Disintegration definitely appears to glassed-i- n have set in1 You pass on to the companion his face gross and lifelike The word in Moscow is that in line uith the current attack1 on the “cult of individual” the body of Stalin almost certainly will be removed— even though it is in -- better condition than its mate room- J chandeliers and statuary decorate the subterranean stations A piece (officially 12Va cents) buys you a ride wherever you want to go under the city Muscovites are proud of their big department store the gum facing on Red Square It’s a sort of glassed-ove- r assortment of shops on three floors with several levels of catwalks arching across the broad passageways But in quantity quality and variety of goods offered the pub-th- e lie this finest store in all sia fails to approach the small city department store in the United States Aside from your airline or train ticket the intourist fee in Russia is about $30 a day For this charge you get a coupon book with one page of coupons for each day of your stay For each day you have six cou- pons or tickets — breakfast din- ner tea supper and two sight seeing coupons each entitling you to the use of an automobile and driver for one hour The coupon book also pays for your hotel room As an added tourist lure the Russians have also decided to return 25 rubles ($525) a day to the visitor for spending money and incidentals not covered by the coupons TIPS FROWNED UPON Tips are extra but are officially frowned upon — and usually hastily and gladly accepted There are three regular hotels in Moscow all in decor and furnish- ings but dean and reasonably comfortable The National looks across the broad manege square to the Kremlin with its gleaming gold cathedral cupolas the?’ huge 50-kop- ec d GRUESOME TWOSOME No 1 tourist attraction in Mos- cow is the gruesome twosome in big mausoleum on Red Incredibly long lines of Russians patiently" waiting their turn to get in for a quick look at the embalmed bodies of Lenin and Stalin wind out along the Kremlin walls The line persists rain or in the hottest sun and at night when the mausoleum is closed people cluster in front of it You see them standing there just looking at midnight and as late as 2 or 3 am Westerners in Moscow refer to the occupants of the mauso- leum among themselves as the “cold cuts” And cold they are You descend broad steps into a frigid room and there in a barred from population centers People in Russia walk walk' walk — by the millions The Western tourist also is struck by the shabby appearance of almost all buildings in Russia American housing experts who toured Russia told reporters this is the result of an almost complete lack of building maintenance and a great shortage of skilled workers ' in the housing industries LONGEST IN WORLD The Metro — the handsome underground railroad— is easy to visit and easy to travel on The escalators leading to it are perhaps the longest in the world indicating the extreme depth of the tunnels Costly mosaics In-touri- mid-Victori- ! MUCH DONE BY WOMEN Much of the bricklaying hodcarrying ditchdigging is done by women For this work they wear skirts — slacks for women are frowned upon And they pay no attention whatever to the tourists who stare at or photograph them The Soviet government recently announced it would gradually do away with this type of heavy hand labor for women The average Russian looks poorly dressed but well fed The food in the Intourist Hotels is on the heavy side and not particul- - re st an ty door latches recessed steering boards and recessed steering wheels the answer? Here is a wheels padded instrument panels and other features in making timely report on why scientists autos safer? Are they saving state police physicians and auto makers are keeping a lives and limbs scars and gashes in highway accidents? clinical eye on highway And what can and should come crashes) next? j Answers are promised through new research It involves scien- opinions or only isolated instances tists stale police physicians and behind an idea? Would the public auto makers studying exactly from talk about seat belts what happens and why in auto shy Nor did the public precisely crashes The highway is the clamor for changes clinic With facts answers can be en- a “Theoretically you might build car in which you might never gineered in stylish designs hurt” said one get automofrom Early findings scientist “It could be a padtive crash injury research Corcell with you strapped inded nell University Medical College side passengers perhaps unable indicate the new safety features to see out It wouldn’t look very are paying off sexy Who would buy it?” NEW FEATURES RUMORED Auto makers could point to a Still more new features are ru- number of safety features — nonmored on some 1957 models — shattering glass steel tops better perhaps including recessed han- brakes and lights and steering incontrol greater visibility easier dles and knobs strument panels or dashboards accessibility of controls These helped mainly in avoidless likely to cause injuries They are part of a new trend — ing accidents Along with ima somewhat controversial one —in proved roads safety campaigns and other factors they contributed auto safety The premise is this: If an un- to an impressive drop in the rate expected accident does happen of highway deaths even to expert drivers like you DEATH RATE DOUBLED what can be done inside the car The death rate per 100 million to reduce the chance of death or miles fell from 147 in passenger injury? Can a kind of safety vac- 1937 to in 1954 even though 64 cine be devised against the split- the of cars and miles number second exposure to an accident? traveled doubled Far fewnearly A main safety approach is to er autos killed 2000 actually in accidents the first prevent more 1937 in than in persons place to control the virus of ac- 1955 cident epidemics Injury reduction has not been OLD NEW CAMPAIGNS so sharp Deaths have ranged from 31 to In that line are old and new campaigns to reduce speeds halt nearly 40 thousand every year drunken driving train better silce 1930 with 42000 predicted drivers enforce laws build bet- - ibis year ter highways for Recently facts and findings to traffic tighten licensing to weed support proposals for changes out incompetent and dangerous inside cars came from such agendrivers require periodic exams cies a£ the automotive crash in-- ! and even medical check-up- s jury research project of Cornell stress the horror of highway University Medical College and deaths train more doctors more the Indiana State Police studies skillfully in treating crash in- led by Sgt Elmer C Paul They could repsrt: juries to save more Iive and prevent crippling and many other CHANCE TWICE AS GREAT proposals Your chance of death or inNo one seriously suggests abolis twice as great if you’re ishing the automobile so in- jury thrown of the car than if you dispensable in American life remain out inside That’s based on economy and pleasure statistics — one isolated But highway deaths and in- abundant case proves nothing juries do rank as a major naDoors tional epidemic Five million cent of popped open in 75 per cars in 38 times a year a car or other vecent of cars per struck but not hicle hits something overturned Children and adults 21 someone seconds is Every went flying out hurt— 1350000 persons last year often In half of fatalities the nearly Every 14 minutes someone dies car interior is still — more than 38000 in 1955 (So structurally did some 28000 Americans in accidents in their own homes) j Mr R D Wilson Manager 610 Ecdes BuiWing Phone 2-21- x— i 31 rs two-third- roll-ove- energy-absorbin- g j two-lan- ' e A For Better Vision Have Your "t EYES EXAMINED NOW 2470 Washington Blvd DIAL 2-86- 33 CONVENIENT iL CREDIT SATISFACTION ASSURED Dr Paul K Nasfell Murray Carver Optometrist Optometrist g FARR FUEL COMPANY is now Ihe EXCLUSIVE DEALER IN OGDEN and WEBER COUNTY for ABER- DEEN as weij as CASTLE sizes! 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Some doctors and organizations like the American College of Surgeons and American Medical Assn have long urged steps to minimize injury if an accident ’ ’ S0N0T0NE 1 SOME ARE UNHURT Some people clamber unhurt CAMERAS FORBIDDEN He's wearing 5onotone$ Newest Hearing Aid I over-turne- d y MXBBH 08 JO"? ed e fast-expandi- hard surfaces Face seats backwards limit top speed to 55 mph by governors Install seat belts or shoulder harnesses Design steering columns extra without Good rve4 charge that downward under Georgian wines and champagnes chest telescope Build impact gingerbread to absorb front ends collapsing be had at outrageous shock °?( may prices at a few better restaurants Some critics accused the auto such as the Praga and the Arog-vAt some of the hotels there is industry of beipg more interested in sales appeal and style than dancing to Western music in safety Moscow formerly had many The auto industry didn’t ex- ®3 bars and cocktail lounges but at the snap of medical m prohibition imposed more than a actly jump fingers year ago has closed them Liquor now is available only in the leadSOME IDEAS CONSIDERED ing hotels and restaurants NevIts engineers said some ideas ertheless one can hardly walk a were interesting but impractical block in the evening without en- or too costly How much would a countering drunken Russians given proposal actually reduce mostly men staggering along injury? Were there facts or just m Spasskaya Tower clock by which Moscow sets its watches and the Western tourists incidentally enchanting yellow green blue do not have to stand in the line and red candy stripes of the Intourist the Soviet Travel Servmost distinctive landmark ice Bureau sees to it that the city’s St Basil Church (now a muWesterners are taken to the head seum) of the line and moved right in The Mctropole and the Savoy Cameras are forbidden j in the' are a few blocks away near the mausoleum Guards keep an alert Bolshoi Theater Occasional tour- - driv-exjpand- full-tim- i skull-crackin- j intact People died from hitting things inside or being ejected Forty per cent of all injured drivers are hurt by steering wheel assemblies 38 per cent of injured? front seat passengers by instrument panels windshields protruding objects Half the injury producing accidents occur at impact speeds of 40 miles ab hour or below SAFETY FEATURES Safety features introduced in 1956 cars were based partly on such evidence and partly on re- value' search by 'car makers SAFETY DOOR LATCHES 'j The big three — Ford Chrysler door latches: PrelimiGeneral Motors —devised safety Safety latches to keep doors closed when nary data on a small number of distorted Under impact or comparative accidents indicates s reduction in nearly a Seat belts' to keep you from frequency of doors opening in in which there was no sliding forward or to take up accidents r beof much the collision energy Recessed steering wheels: Not fore giving way were made op- tional equipment Padded instru enough comparative data yet but ment panels— not a brand new apparently a reduction in severe idea — also' were optional with crushing type injuries of the new research conducted to find chest ma’Paddings: The special forms the best t ' do not yet cover this used terials Auto Ford made a recessed steering safety engineers among wheel standard equipment de- tnem A L Haynes of Ford and C Gandelot of General signed to give several inches un- Howard der impact and absorb as well as Motors declare one need is for distribute the blow to the driver’s more medical facts on human chest if he pitched forward At tolerances and variations in with-least two companies experiment- standing whiplash or other ed ' with telescoping steering shocks and what human hips and wheels finding them costly and abdomens can take in the re- probably difficult to mass pro- straint of seat belts duce satisfactorily HIGHER HORSEPOWER How effective are these steps? Higher horsepower has not INDEPENDENT VERDICT greatly increased average speed An independent verdict is but has given greater maneuverAuto- ability in passing on Cornell’s the promised by motive (jrash Injury Research roads in entering traffic flow headed by John O Moore carry- and similarly adding to accident ing on studies begun by Dr Hugh avoidance the auto makers say There is no panacea for auto Dehaven Through official cooperation of safety declares Roy C Haeusler state police and physicians in 11 Chrysler safety engineer Changes states f&cts photographs and can be expected gradually buildsketches are being gathered by ing on experience and facts and the Cornell group and analyzed fitted in with necessities of costs scientifically on thousands of ac- and style 'I Nothing is likely to help you cidents The Automotive Crash Injury much if you want to crack up at Research: Project is supported SO miles an hour the engineers now by the Army U S Public warn The safety features are in- - lf) your order for your winter Fa sup- ply of coal For the most Care- - Remember the Best Coal Mined and Refined t rsj free and Economicat operation CASTLE GATE i of your stoker heating plant or- ABERDEEN OR der these washed sized blend Stohor i ABERDEEN H ra Coal ed and dustproof stoker coals p p m p ii fEJ AND CASTLE GATE P rai 1 PHONE YOUR ORDER NOW! 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