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Show 1attieek: of the drivers suspected of drunk-eness drunk-eness objected to have their blood taken anyway. To give the results of ten other interviews with politicians would only add to the foolish answers already given, but a bus driver told me the following: "I fell in behind a driver as I crossed the Orem bench, who was crossing yellow lines and chasing cars off the road like crazy. Passed Pass-ed him again near American Fork. He was evidently drunk, so I called the Highway Patrol. Because I turned the driver in, I had to appear ap-pear in court and tell what happened. hap-pened. The officer proved that the driver's buddy had passed out and the empty whiskey bottles found in the car proved drunken driving. Neither consented to a blood test. The buddy said he was car sick and the driver said he always drove like that when he had migraine mi-graine headaches." The bus driver lost a day's pay and the trial was a farce and a mockery. Fatal accidents from drunken driving are much more important than most legislators will admit. Of the 166 fatal accidents in 1955, 18 per cent or 31 of the deaths were from this cause. The 18 per cent figure is evidently too low Dear Karl: Enjoyed your last article and your plea for the public pub-lic to unite if they want things done to save human lives. The following fol-lowing should be of interest to everyone. Some years ago, I rode a bus to Salt Lake City. As we crossed the state line near Stravel, Idaho, the driver announced that smoking on a bus in Utah is illegal. At that minute I was reading a Salt Lake paper which described a car accident that claimed three victims. vic-tims. The article was cautiously written, but it was evident that a drunken driver was the cause. Not being near another passenger, passen-ger, I asked myself the question, "Why do we elect legislators who pass laws to protect passengers from tobacco smoke; but do nothing noth-ing about enacting drunken driving driv-ing laws which would save human lives?" Since I could not answer my own question I began to look about for someone who could. The people who make the laws should have the answer. A friend of many years and a big shot in the Utah Legislature, was contacted. He did not think that drunken driving was high enough on the list to cause statewide state-wide concern. Four years later, since in many cases no attempt is made to secure a blood test if the person is dead. Idaho is currently giving the drunken driver the works. If he refuses to submit to a test, his license is suspended and a stiff fine is added. New York State, Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, California and others are away out in front in stamping out drunken driving. What about Utah? Our legislators legis-lators are made up of people of high moral standards. If these men do not have the courage to stop the highway killing from this cause, it's time that every organized organ-ized group contact their legislative legisla-tive representatives and demand that this highway carnage be retarded, re-tarded, by amended laws and enforcement. en-forcement. If the coming legislature legisla-ture passes up the opportunity, at least 62 people will be killed by drunken drivers before the Legislature Legis-lature meets again. Respectfully, L. A. Clark Our readers may be interested that a marked copy of this column is being sent to every legislative candidate . in Utah County. Their replies are respectfully solicited. So long 'til Thursday. this same legislator greeted me at the State Capitol and confessed that he was ready to act. His wife had been on the side of the road changing a tire, and a drunken driver crashed into his car and her. She had been in a cast for a year, with little physical improvement. im-provement. My next contact was a newly elected legislator from Utah County. Coun-ty. He pointed out that a "Freshmen" "Fresh-men" should spend his first year catching on, and that nothing could be expected of him as far as a drunken driving law was concerned. con-cerned. During his next term he learned only how to pass the buck, so did nothing. He was recently re-nominated and my pre-election visit brought the following reaction: reac-tion: He pledged support of a drunken driving law only if his party was elected in mass; but that nothing could be expected if the opposing party fouled up the works. Another political leader claimed he was not concerned with drunken drunk-en driving because our present laws were good enough. He went on to say that it was too expensive expen-sive to arrest drunken drivers and have them tested; and that most |