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Show 'CONTINUE TESTS Of AUTO LIGHTS Leniency Accorded Motorists During Week; Spotlight Is Banned in City Ogd'n's new traffic ordinance Is I now In official effect. But this does not mean that motorists will not still have! an opportunity to have their lights tested, for during the present j week officers will test each night between be-tween the hours of " o'clock and 9 o'clock, according to J Hay Ward, commissioner of public safety, Afler ; this week howi ver. tests will only he made on Monday night of each week. : More than 1100 cars went tnrough the tests last week and as a result. Klarlng headlights on the city streets I huve been greatly decreased Then! . are oino drivers who have not et had their cars put through the tests, hut Ithey are urged to appear this week fr 'leniency will then end on the part of 1 the police and arrests wil probablv be 1 made of violators , T1TK MOXPW NIC. I ITS The Monday night tests have been I arranged for persons w ho purchase new cars and desire to have their lights ! focussed properly, Also drivers who I have once gone through the t 0 i found ih-ir llgnts to be defective, may j again determine whether thi lights I have been properly focussed since. With the new ordinance in working order, Commif sioncr Ward issue, i a 'warning today for all motorists to use care in turning around In the business section of Washington avenue. Signs I have recently been placed ioth at intersections in-tersections and in the centers of blocks and these will mark the only I places where automobiles can M I turned completely around. In the shorter blocks of the downtown section, sec-tion, motorists may only turn at street Intersections. The use of spotlights within tho Citj limits is also banned by the ordinance, 'excepting In cases where a headlight might suddenly fall. Commissioner Ward said that but two litghts should be shown on the front of a car, and j these .hould be headlights. Commissiorfcr Ward railed attention to the fact that everything possible is trying to be done by his department depart-ment to cooperate- with motorists hi Reting the new ordinance In prOpei t working order ami no attempt is be-l be-l ing made to thrust hardship upon car; I owners. Those who arc not clear as to tne requirements of tho new law will in- given every consideration by j the polio- to gain this Information, and it Is urged that the motorists fully acquaint themselves with the rulings MOTORISTS II So far In the trial of the system and : '.n the moe to eliminate glaring head-1 head-1 lights, motorists of ijgdcn havo given h!s department wonderful support, i Com nKs'sloiiere Ward said, and nave . shown every desire to aid in solving , traffic and other motor problems which have confronted the City. With tho ordinance understood thoroughly thorough-ly by motorists and with their cooper-latlon. cooper-latlon. Commissioner Ward feels that accidents can be greatly reduced driv-l I ers wll iind motoring more comfort-' able and safe, and the parking prob- j '-in v .1 I,- solved. Commissioner Ward also called attention at-tention to cars being driven with one number plate within the city. He said that car owners will be gien ample lime to obtain, a new number and they will not be arrested by ire police, if' i bey wil report their los at the police j station when the plate dissuppears. He said motorists should not irj to log officer after their license has been lost, but should notify the pollco; elation where efforts will be made to I awl them rather than prosecute thcm as some drivers apparently believe. l |