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Show Soil Groups To Assist With Safety Week Observance If farm accidents can be reduced re-duced by 10 per cent during the next year, 1750 lives will be saved, 150,000 disabling accidents acci-dents will be prevented, and $100,000,000 in property damage dam-age will be prevented, according accord-ing to Howard M. Ivory, SCS district conservationist at Roosevelt. Roos-evelt. In order to try to make people peo-ple more safety conscious and to prevent accidents, Mr. Ivory said that the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation district and representatives repre-sentatives of the Soil Conservation Conserva-tion service in this area plan to assist with the observance of National Farm Safety Week, July 23-29. Each day of the week has been assigned for special recognition recog-nition in preventing farm accidents: ac-cidents: Sunday will be Church Day, when farm people are requested to give special emphasis to saving sav-ing a life. Monday is Home Safety Day, with emphasis on good housekeeping. house-keeping. Tuesday is Livestock Safety Day, with emphasis on proper handling of livestock. Wednesday is Safety - From-Falls-Day. Fix up that old ladder, lad-der, that stairway, or anything that will help prevent a fall. Thursday is Highway Safety Day with emphasis on safe driving. driv-ing. Friday is Machinery Safety Day. Look over your farm machinery ma-chinery and fix up those things which might be the cause of an accident, and watch your use of machinery to see if you are always al-ways doing the job the safe way. Saturday is Safety Review Day. This is a good time to analyze an-alyze conditions on your place, what are the things that might cause an accident? What are you going to do to correct them? Review the many different dif-ferent types of accidents that could happen and see what you can do to prevent them. The goal of the 1950 Farm Safety Week, which has been officially proclaimed by President Presi-dent Truman, will be to encourage en-courage all farm residents to learn and obey farm safety rules, Mr. Ivory said. In stressing the importance of Farm Safety Week, Mr. Ivory pointed out that the National Safety 'Council and the National Fire Protection Association estimate es-timate that farm accidents and fires take a toll of around one billion dollars annually. This cost, he said, represents the equivalent of an annual tax of $35 per year to every farm resident resi-dent throughout the country, and most of this could be prevented. |