Show FLY IN I LIGHT DEBATE Y Deputies See Drawbacks I In Ogden Oggen Street Sig Sig- Signal Signal nal System I Words flew thick and fast tast In the tho sheriffs sheriff's office Saturday t S afternoon on I as ns the tho white while hot subject of or Ogden's Oden traffic lights was argued ar pro and con I There There were ere many against as one 1 however for the entire sheriffs sheriff's I force torce lined up lip as opposed to the tho lights as they are now V operated ted I while tho the lone lono defender was a newspaper n man The Tho scribe contended that traffic traffic fic fie was checked checko 1 by the operation of or the lights nn It at nt present and declared them a good thing for tor pc- pc IB JJ Francis II H. Steele county count motor motor- C cle officer came rame out flatfooted and declared the lights a joke jolI Ogden Is a north and south h traffic town Steele declared and while automobile automobiles are continually stringing In these thle two directions there Is but little traffic east and west e the operation of or traffic Is hindered rather than helped by the traffic lights espe espe- especially especially on Sundays and during the night time Long Lon lines of cars arc are held up from the north and south when there Is no cast and west traffic It Is a II common sight right to see traffic traffic fic fie clogged up lip Washington aye ave avenue nue Ille waiting walling for tor the light when hen there Is not a car on the cross streets steels 51 It It would n not be so bad ba 1 if Ir the lights at Twenty sixth street and Twenty third street treet were WE're eliminated ed ld and the light nt at Twenty fifth and Twenty fourth streets operated ed from say 1130 11 30 o'clock In to the daytime until o'clock and then fr m 7 to 9 clock o'clock In the even e e en- en Ing But Rut the way they the run now traffic Is blocked Il Traffic natural natural- naturally ly Iy flows slowly at the crowded cor cor- corners corners ners and In the t te last five years I there has never been a 0 serious ac- ac accident at lit the downtown More fenders tenders and bumpers are arc banged up now than before on account of or people peor-Ie getting over oer the thi lilies lines and hacking up n. Deputy DEput Fred Tout took up the argument at this point and said The manner mannel In which the tights lights are arc now operated caURe au- au automobiles automobiles to drive faster taster than ever Why h when a-when 11 a n driver sees lees a 0 green light ight half halt a block ahead he steps stepson on 01 the tho gas to l beat eat the light before It turns red Ive Ie seen Feen a lone driver come comedown comedown down Iown Twenty fourth street treet aC of a II high speed to get across the In Intersection In- In before the th light changes The fhe green light spurs him on to recklessness Then others try to get Jc their front wheels over the thele ie le Just before the light changes knowing they ne ope permitted to pro pro- proceed proceed If IC their wheels are arc over o They forget torget pedestrians and everything thing rise else to beat the tho lights ts Well ell said the reporter some something something thing has to be done to 0 o check the rush of 01 traffic and the lights are arc the only thing that have stopped It so far tar With all the argument against I still favor tavor them Do you ou drive an automobile one of the deputies Xo No he answered but I ride a II aLic Lk Lic Mode dc cle go 00 I |