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Show Highway Patrol Effectiveness Shown by Report Increase in personnel of the highway patrol is already bearing fruit according to the April report re-port of the Patrol's activity to the State Road Commission by R. W. Groo, Superintendent of the Patrol. During the month of April, the patrol made 1.158 arrests ar-rests as compard with 1,087 for the previous month. Following the usual pattern, speeding headed the list of offenses of-fenses and 402 arrests were made for that violation. This. This was followed slosely with 228 arrests for failure to have driver's license, while 163 arrests were made for running through stop signs. Arrests Ar-rests for drunken driving nearly doubled the previous month with 34 tickets issued as compared to 19 for the month of March. Improper Im-proper registration of cars accounted ac-counted for 94 arrests and 47 motorists mo-torists were ticketed for improper passing. During the month 716 warning tickets were issued as compared to 574 for March. The issuing of warning tickets is a continuation of the educational activities of the patrol. That this method of education edu-cation is proving effective is borne out by figures just released by the National Safety Council, showing that Utah has one of the lowest traffic death rates in the United States. |