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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT. Editor See You On The Fifth .... Where are you going to be July 5? At home? At work? On vacation? Are you real sure? What makes you so certain you may not be one of the hundreds of people who will start out on a Fourth of July holiday trip and won't come back? Not a pleasant thought, is it? You may even be a little provoked that we've brought it up. Well, that's all right with us. For the more provoked you get, the more you may think about this Fourth of . July traffic toll that annually makes a massacre out of a holiday that oug'ht to' be for pleasure and patriotism, not for tragedy. You think it couldn't be you? That's what the 360 people thought who were killed over the Memorial Day holiday just a month ago." That's what the 8,936 people thought who have died in holiday traffic in the last six years. Yes, that's right -- 8,936 people killed in holiday traffic traf-fic in the last six years! Almost three times as many as were killed at Pearl Harbor. Half as many as have died for America on the battlefields of Korea. How many of these 8,936 people thought when they started out during the holiday that they would never come back? Not one! This one was just driving around the block to get a morning paper. This one was taking his family to visit friends in Peoria. This one was merely crossing the street. Not orie of them was purposely going out to get killed not one! So, you see, it could be you. Bui here's the bright spot in the picture: it doesn't have to be you! The National Safety Council, which has the grim responsibility re-sponsibility for estimating these holiday tolls in advance, says you can make its estimates look silly by merely using' a little extra caution, common sense and courtesy to offset the extra holiday traffic hazards. The Council says the toll could be cut in half, or even by two thirds, if you and I would make up our minds that, by golly, we aren't going to be one of those holiday traffic statistics. sta-tistics. It's just that simple. Instead of saying, "It couldn't : i be me," just say, "It won't be me!" Then act accordingly. Happy Fourth of July! See you on the Fifth! v E v WHAT PRICE BEEFSTAKE .... "Butch" Oldroyd, down at Safeways, came up with a pretty good one Tuesday .... A kindly old gentlemen trudged up to his show case a few days ago and after looking over the display, pointed to the choice T-Bones (which were plainly marked so the cost would run about $1.25 each) and said "Give me four of them." While "Butch' was pulling them out of the case, the old gentleman pulled a dollar bill and as he laid it down on the counter said, 'Shucks, you might as well make it a whole dollar's worth." v E v The impression we make on our children goes deeper than our instructions. : Warm hearts make sound homes but hot heads may break them. There's an old saying that "It isn't the size pf the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog." "I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample tram-ple underfoot." Horace Greeley. 30 |