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Show National News Summary Traffic Toll President Truman urges that the nations annual traffic toll be cut tq at ieast 75,00 by 1950, or 25,000 below the present level and believes that this can be done "if everyone does his part." More than 100,000 persons are killed and 10,000,000 injurpd in this country every year in motpr traffic accidents. Motor Vehicles Production of automobiles for the first eight months of this year was 2,365,155 new passenger passen-ger cars, compared with 1,153,-705 1,153,-705 in the first eight months of 1946. The output also included 862,034 motor trucks as against 571,847 In the comparable period per-iod of last year., Jap Scrap Iron The War Department has announced an-nounced that some of the scrap iron sold to Japan before the war may come back to this country to help alleviate the steel shortage. short-age. Part of the Japanese fleet will be scrapped and the junked share of. the fleet will be offered for sale in Japan, but must be shipped by the purchasers to the United States. With the exception excep-tion of submarines, which have been sunk, all operable Japanese warships of destroyer size or smaller have been divided equally equal-ly among the United States, The United Kingdom, the Soviet Union Un-ion and China. Vei Sludeni Cosls The Veterans Administration lf planning a national survey of the rising cost of education as it affects veterans of World War II. Many colleges have increased fees, assessing veteran students special fees to finance the cost of additional buildings and teachers to care for the veterans, although the "G. I. Bill" enables them to charge all veterans nonresident non-resident rates, which in most cases, are almost double the resident res-ident rale. Automobile Taxes The nation's highway users, from January through August, paid in Federal automobile taxes a total of S742.000.000. compared compar-ed with $526,000,000 for eight months last year, according to the National Highway Users' Conference, which is supporting the repeal of all Federal automotive auto-motive taxes at the next session of Congress. While in 194G these collections totaled a record $803,-000,000, $803,-000,000, it is now apparent that 1947 collections will pass the billion-dollar mark. |