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Show Bradshaw to Receive One of 21 Utah Safety Awards Twenty-one Utah automobile dealers on Thursday will receive Highway Safety awards for their contributions to Utah's driver training program, at the annual convention of the Utah Automobile Automo-bile Dealers Association in Salt Lake city. Among those receiving awards is Stanley Bradshaw of Cedar City. Karl M. Richards, Detroit, native na-tive Utahn who is now manager ot the field service department and the motor truck division of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, will make the presentations. pre-sentations. All dealers receiving awards have lent automobiles to Utah high schools for use in their driver dri-ver safety training program. Ellas J. Strong, UADA manager, said that 21 cars, valued at approximately ap-proximately $50,000, have been lent to high schools by Utah dealers, during the school year ending in June. "In addition to these car loans, other automobiles automo-biles have been provided Utah colleges, parochial schools, and civic clubs in the safety training program," Mr. Strong said. A resolution will be introduced at the convention asking Utah's legislature to lower the learn- i er's driving license age from 16 to 15 and one-half years, according accord-ing to Richard C. Freed, UADA president. "Such a law would give substantial encouragement tc the safety driving program now being conducted in our high schools," Mr. Freed said. "As the law now stands, the learner's license li-cense age is the same as the age for a regular driving license sixteen years. There is not much incentive to a youngster to take a safety training course if he has already passed the test for a reg. ular driver's license." Mr. Freed added that surveys i in other states show that youths who have had behind-the-wheel j safety instruction by authorized teachers are involved in 50 per cent less accidents than are those not having the training. |
