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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Edilor Valuable-Handle With Care .... Let's wrap up Christmas safely this year and end joyous holiday season with fewer broken homes. The holiday season is significant of life. Yet every uletide hundreds of lives are snuffed out or ruined by ' lareless accidents. Most of the deaths and injuries are in traffic mis-. mis-. kaps- The National Safety Council has found that the daily traffic death toll during the Christmas holiday season is sightly more than twice the annual daily average. Family taiherings and other festivities of the year-end holiday jsason bring the peak travel of the winter and when jiore cars are on the move there is more chance of an accident. Early darkness, plus bad weather, add up to poor visibility. Fogged windshields also make it difficult to see Vli avoid accident situations. , Rain, snow and ice mean slippery streets and high ways, but thousands of holiday drivers fail to adjust their jpeed to hazardous conditions. The good fellowship of the season stimulates more drinking and too often the celebrants clink glasses with death. An accident can be tragic at any time, but at Christmas Christ-mas it is doubly so. And yet the Christmas season .is ruined in thousands of homes every year by suffering and tragedy from accidents that need never have happened. yany a Christmas tree and gaily wrapped gift have become be-come mocking reminders of someone not there to enjoy them. The traditional spirit of Christmas is "Peace on Earth, Good Will to "Men." "A little extra caution, courtesy and common- sense can keep this spirit alive and help reduce re-duce holiday accidents. Remember that your life is the most valuable present pres-ent you can give your family or friends. Handle it with care. Don't lose it in the holiday rush. Don't let death take you- holiday! v E v STORMS PROVOKE ANOTHER SAFETY HAZARD IN CITY .... The coming of winter's snows presents another hazard other than those of the highways, which if properly pro-perly taken care of will prevent a possible accident. . . . I'm thinking of snow and ice on the sidewalks of our business busi-ness district where so many people hurry to and fro completing com-pleting their day's work, which might be shopping, or various other duties. Last winter I commented about the ordinance on the books that makes each business operator responsible I for his own store front .... A shovel, plus a little bit of elbow grease and perhaps a handful of salt, may. save me person from falling and becoming. injured. If the city police and other law enforcing agents in 3;osevelt wanted to do the thing they are encouraged to ii in the ordinance, which we won't print again, any business busi-ness owner who has a sidewalk paralleling his building who fails to sweep and clean the snow and ice from his walk, could be cited into' court. It is really important that we all cooperate with the city officials in keeping the snow, ice and other debris cleaned up in front of our places of business.' ... Won't you, Mr. Businessman take the necessary five minutes required to clean your sidewalk? v E v "The wages of economic sin are debt and taxes." , Irving S. Olds, former chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. "A guy often thinks his girl is the salt of the earth, nd then tries to shake her." Murray Dale. Customer: Do women's slacks come in odd sizes? Clerk: No, they get that way from being worn. Hardly a guy is still alive Who took a hill at 75. Burma Shave 30 |