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Show MOTOR MAIDS Women Spur Safety Checks By Jeanne Smith, Dodge Safety Consultant BY CALLING FEMININE t- ti-ntkn to the importance of keep- inp; th? amily car in Bafe operating operat-ing condition, women'i groupg helped set a new record thi year for the national Vehicle Safety ChwK program. More than two and a half million car o w n r through ou t the country visited vehicle inspection lanes and dealer service for free safety checks l """" Miss Smith many of these drivers encouraged encour-aged by womcn'a organizations. In Cambridge, -Ohio, for example, ex-ample, a group of women organized or-ganized a "Mothers March on Unsafe Vehicles.'' They conducted con-ducted a door-to-door campaign fui 'owed by a telephone drive, to urge every woman in Cambridge Cam-bridge (population 14,739) to supervise the safety check in her family. All over the country, women rallied to similar feminine calls, according to D. H. Tompkins, chairman of the Inter-industry Highway safety committee. But more important than the success of this once-a-year drive, Tompkins believes, is the indication indica-tion that women will continue to take the fami!y car in to service departments for regular inspection. inspec-tion. The importance of regular checks, he points out, is emphasized empha-sized by the fact that one out of every five vehicle aafety-checked aafety-checked this year needed some maintenance attention. For the third consecutive year, he said, rear lights led the list of items which needed immediate service, followed by brakes, front lights, exhaust syst?ms and tires. "In these dnys of incrensed automobile au-tomobile traffic," Tompkins said, "it is vitally important that motorists mo-torists assume individual responsibility respon-sibility for driving safely. "And women can be a positive force in this direction by making sure that the family car is safe for all driving conditions." |