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Show Utah State Highway Patrol Activities Increase Spring weather and the lure of the open road seems to have made more Utah motorists forget to keep their minds on their driving and their attention on the speedometer according to the report just received re-ceived by the Road Commission on Highway Patrol activities for March. The patrol made 1087 arrests ar-rests during March as compared with 855 during February. Three hundred and three arests were made for speeding, more than half of which were in Salt Lake county. coun-ty. During February, 231 tickets were issued by the patrol for speeding. One hundred fifty-four motorists motor-ists were given tickets for running stop signs, as compared with 93 during February. The surprising feature of the report re-port is the number of Utah motor, ists who continue to drive with-driver's with-driver's license requirement, while 175 motorists were given tickets because the cars they were driving were not properly registered. During the month, the patrol issued 574 warning tickets as compared to 384 issued during February. With 35 traffic fatalities already al-ready this year, W. D. Hamond, chairman of the Road Commission, has issued an earnest appeal to all Utah motorists to use extreme ex-treme caution in driving during the balance of the year, and to also be sure that the cars they drive are in first class mechanical who had failed to comply with the condition. Mr. Hamond expressed the opinion that this is the only out a driver's license. The patrol pa-trol issued 249 tickets to drivers way that traffic fatalities can be held to a minimum. |