OCR Text |
Show CAR INSPECTION DEADLINE. AUG. 15 With August 15 established as the dead-line for vehicle safety -n-speition, less than one half of all Utah owned motor vehicles owci received mechanical attention, P. I L. Dew, Highway Patrol Superintendent, Superin-tendent, announced today. The Safety Inspection Program was designed primarily to eliminate elimin-ate where and when possible the expensive and murderous automobile automo-bile collision caused by defective equipment. During the war vears the orogram became an essential measure of motor vehicle conservation. conserva-tion. Our automobiles have attain ed ar. average age of nine years and the excessive us imposed upon their is now reflected in the head-lir.es head-lir.es and in the vital statistics sec-ti'-ni of the daily press. Many of the gruesome stories written 107 t'liu'S to dale this veut on thp surface of our Utah high-vVLiys high-vVLiys can he charged h i -1 1 v 'o defective -nritor vehicles. Knperin-tcnoent Knperin-tcnoent Dow stated. National fig-1 fig-1 ures reveal one out of every three '-ars is defective, while in Utah the limine is much hii;her. Authorized arid equipped inspection inspec-tion agencies are provided all sections sec-tions of the .State. It is essential to highway safety that our motor vehicles are repaired and adjusted I to rst.ti.sf y the demands of safe operation. oper-ation. The Highway Patrol will exert every effort to enforce thu inspection regulations against those who refuse or neglect voluntary volun-tary compliance therewith. (I'aid advertisement.) |