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Show State Lashes Out At Unlicensed Vehicle Drivers Between thirty-five and forty unlicensed Uintah Basin automobile automo-bile drivers have paid off In Justice Court since the Utah i State Tax Commission blockaded Roosevelt's Main Street last Thursday, and demanded drivers licenses of all "who passed their way," John Baumgaertel, Precinct Pre-cinct Justice disclosed this week. Terming an unlicensed automobile auto-mobile driver the greatest hazard haz-ard on Utah roads, the Tax Commission Com-mission pounded home the idea that it would move relentlessly to curb the driving of automobiles automo-biles by operators who do not possess a valid drivers license. The campaign is scheduled to become more widespread, and the penalties for violators of the Operators License Act increasingly increas-ingly stiffer. The Uintah Basin was picked as one of the first blockade spots because of its number of unlicensed unli-censed automobile drivers. Laxity Lax-ity in the observance, the enforcement en-forcement and the prosecution of unlicensed motor vehicle operators op-erators in Duchesne and Uintah counties, tagged the Basin as a number one spot in the Big Book" of the Tax Commission. uuring me lerau u""j amination held in Duchesne county, 300 automobile operators made application for drivers licenses. li-censes. County Attorney Earl R. Dillman disclosed Tuesday. These applicants had not been previously pre-viously licensed, the County Attorney At-torney advised. . The newly licensed drivers constitutes only about one-fourth of the unlicensed Duchesne county coun-ty drivers. Another 1000 remains to be certified. "If these 1000 . persons persist in driving their automobiles without drivers licenses li-censes they will be cracked down on. without mercy," Mr. Dill- man warned. Examinations for drivers licenses li-censes will be held during October Oc-tober as follows: Duchesne Tuesday, October 7 and Tuesday, , October 21 from 12 noon to 3 p. m. Vernal Wednesday October Oc-tober 8 and Wednesday. October 22, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Roosevelt Thursday, October 9 and Thursday, October 23 from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. It begins to look like everybody's every-body's going to have to have a drivers license to be safe - especially es-pecially in the Uintah Basin. |