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Show UNIVERSAL UICROFILHING CORP. P.O.BBOX 147 SALT LAKE CITT.UTAB VOL. VIII AUGUST, 9, 1952 NO. 40 News and Foaturos oi Interest to Residents oi Davis County. I LAYTON. DAVIS COUNTY. UTAH ' glare over Hiroshima faded away, the world trembled at the thought one blast, 78,150 lives! Yet since the turn of the century one million lives have been wiped out on the g highways of our country. It would take the power of thirteen equal that slaughter. All the American military deaths since Lexington, after 176 years, just equaled at the end of 1951 the toll of automobile deaths since 1900. And death continues to ride the highways at an increasingly alarming rate. 35,000 killed in 1950! 300,000 in the ten years since Pearl Harbor! Last year more than 100 lives sacrificed to speed and carelessness every day I 5,000 injured every day! You ask: What can I do about it? When the white-h- ot death-dealin- t Hiro-shimas.- . j f ? , , to v 4 ( j , 1 You and 60,000,000 other drivers can do everything about it. You can be a safe driver alert to danger, sensitive to the killing power of speed. You can be a courteous driver considerate of other drivers and pedestrians. Your contribution toward reducing this wanton waste of life on the high- ways, this calamitous toll of injuries and destruction of property, is your own effort to drive and walk safely and the common sense you use behind the wheel. , Though Your Life Deponds On lf ( IT DQESI i |