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Show UNIVERSAL VOL. V DECEMBER 20, 1952 NO. 7 A UICROFILUING P.O.BBOX 147 BALT LAKE CITTfOTAl) 10c t CORP. Nows and Features oflntorostto Residents o! Davis County. LAYTON, DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH r i When the white-hglare over Hiroshima faded away, the world trembled at the thought pne blast, 78,150 lives! Yet since the turn of the century one million lives have been wiped out on the highways of our country. It would take the death-dealipower of thirteen to 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? ' e 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 highways, 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. ot ng Hiro-shim- as . Drivo As Though Your Lifo Doponds On It 17 t |