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Show Page 2 Sugar House, Utah December 26, 1957 INDEPENDENT by Richard J. Maughan, B.S., L.L.B. O God! that men should put an enemy In their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. Othello At the head of last week's column we quoted some lines from Thomas Tusser, to the ef-fect that we should play and make "erood Cheer" at Christmas time. No doubt, Tusser envisioned as a part of that good cheer se-veral trips to the punch t ,t'- i ..? z, f if - ' ' , - it if $ , ' 1 .! t Vi r w i f - - "Only a year ago during the holiday season our office was called to an accident where a man who had two previous arrests for drunken driving was involved in a head-o- n collision. This collision not only took his life, but also that of a five year-ol- d boy. The mother and father of the boy are yet in the hospital, and will have the sad second straight Christmas there." "The drunk driver has caused Salt Lake County at least eleven deaths in the past year". "I'd like to make a plea to the motoring public during the holiday season, PLEASE, if you are going to drink, don't drive! Leave the car at home, " call .a cab, or ride with a friend who doesn't drink. If you care not about yourself, re-member the children and their parents who need each other's love at home." "Here's fishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and sane holiday." ARTHUR J. MAYS, A VETRAN ON THE CITY BENCH OF SALT LAKE CITY FOR 13 YEARS. "There has been an increase in drunken driving in the past few years. The enlargement of this problem is being met with stricter enforcement by police agencies, and heavier penalties." WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO ABOUT TIIIS PROBLEM? Well, there you have the picture.. As you can see, the enforcement agencies and the courts merit your consideration and your action. Let me leave you with another quotation from Shakespeare's "Othello." GOOD WINE IS A GOOD FAMILIAR CREATURE, IF IT BE WELL USED. If it is familiar to you don't use it in your automobile. See you next week. police problem, it accounts for a tremendous increase in acci-dents as well as crime. A national survey shows that one out of five accidents involve a drinking driver." "If we are to enjoy the bless-ings of super highways and three hundred horsepower auto-mobiles we must possess the will to keep ourselves physically fit to operate them." 'The serious psychological problem in the drinking driver is the fact that after one or two drinks he cannot judge his phys-ical capacity, the drunker he gets the more competent he feels." "The Salt Lake City Police Department now takes motion pictures of drunken drivers, and frequently those who have been arrested are amazed, after they hove seen the film, to find how drunk they really were. One prominent citizen of a nearby community commented, Tf I hadn't seen it for myself I wouldn't have believed it." GEORGE W. BECKSTEAD, SHERIFF OF SALT LAKE COUNTY FOR THE PAST ELEVEN YEARS, ACTIVE LEADER IN YOUTH PRO-GRAMS: OCCIE EVANS, A VETERAN OF FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE SHERIFF'S FORCE, CAPTAIN IN CHARGE OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. "If you drink don't drive, if you drive don't drink!" "Chemistry, science and law enforcement have found that alcohol and gasoline when mixed is more deadly than any modern gun in use today." "Experiments have proven that even one drink of beer has slowed-u-p the reaction time of the driver to a point where it takes him a few more feet in Which to stop his car. Adding a few more drinks to this adds many more feet to his stopping distance." Alcohol makes a person's thinking slow to react. He gets the idea that he can drive better than any one else-any- one suggesting that he let them drive,, only tends to make him the more determined to stay behind the wheel, just to show them they are wrong. This person is (riding for a serious accident, where he, his loved ones or some innocent person is doomed to die, because of his lack of sensible thinking. bowl but in Tusser's Maughan day there where no three hundred horsepower automobiles coupled with super highways with which an intoxicated driver could kill - one of his neighbors. If there had been, Tusser would likely have been one of the first to say, "If you drive don't drink, if you drink don't drive." THE DRUNKEN DRIVER This individual has increased in such numbers in recent years, has killed so many people, caused so much damage, that law makers in all the states have found it necessary to at-tack the problem of the drunken driver with vigorous arrest sta-- 1 tutes and penalties which are more severe. The 1957 Session of the Utah Legislature over-haule- d our laws in relation to the drunken driver, and provided methods by which conclusive evidence of intoxica-tion can be secured quickly, thus making conviction far more cer-tain than it was formerly. The Utah statute, 41-6-44.- 10 provides for chemical tests to be made of the breath, blood, urine, or saliva, and any person who operates a motor vehicle in the J state of Utah "shall be deemed to have given his consent to" such a chemical test. If he re-fuses to submit to such a test, his license can be revoked for one year. PENALTIES The trend in recent years has been to make penalties for con-viction of driving while under the influence of alcohol progres-sively more severe. They now stand, under our statute, this way: If convicted of a violation of the statute one can be pun-ished by Imprisonment for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, or by a fine of not less than $100.00 or more than $299.00, or-b- both such fine and imprisonment However, if coupled with drunkenness itjis , determiined there was wanton or reckless disregard for human life or safety, one could be jailed for one year and suffer a fine of $1,000.00. OTHER ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM Your correspondent has se-cured statements from three pro-minent law enforcement officers and a city judge for publication in this column. Their views are directed toward the problems they have forced upon them by the drunken driver-- at this time of year. Listen to what they have to say, then give some thought to this problem yourself. W. CLEON SKOUSEN, CHIEF OF POLICE FOR SALT LAKE CITY, A VETERAN OF MANY YEARS OF POLICE WORK AND ENFORCEMENT PRO-BLEMS. "The happiest of Christmases will be when we don't have to put anyone In jail for intemp-erate drinking. At this season drunkenness is always a serious SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT 1123 East 21st South Dial IN 32 , Or HU The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March 1, 1946, in Salt Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. It is published each Thurs-day morning. South East Independent is pub-lished by the News Bulletin, Inc., and Sugar House Press, Inc., at 1123 E. Twenty-Fir- st South St Sugar House, Utah. Subscription rates are 3.00 per year by mail. Single copy price is ten cents. Publisher Clair King Editor Emma D. King NATION A l t D I ! 0 R I A i vy I a s so cITa t f N NOTICE Civil No. 114760 In the Third Judicial District Court, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah. JOHN REX HANSEN, d-- b- HAN-SEN BUILDERS SUPPLY and LAWRENCE E. HETTINGER, Plaintiffs. vs GEORGE H. HOBBS, P. A. HOBBS, BRUCE C. LINDOW and HELEN N. LINDOW, his wife, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that the above named plaintiffs have com-menced action in the above en-titled case for the purpose of fore-closing their lien against the fol-lowing described property, to --wit: ' All of Lot 32, Rambler Heights according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the County Re-corder of Salt Lake County, Utah. All lien claimants are hereby given notice that they shall appear before the Honorable Judge of Di-vision 1 of the above entitled Court, in the Court Room thereof, in the City and County Building in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 6th day of January, 1958, at 10 o'clock a.m. and then and there exhibit and prove their liens ag-ainst the above described proper-ty. The failure of any lien claim-ant to appear at the time and place specified and exhibit and prove their liens against the said property shall be a waiver of right to prove such lien. JOHN REX HANSEN, d-b- -a HANSEN BUILDERS SUPPLY & LAWRENCE E. HETTINGER By QUENTIN L.R. ALSTON HOMER M. JENSEN Attorneys for Plaintiffs c-- o 201 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank H. Berrett Deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned., care of Ramon M. Child, attorney at law, 201 Dixon Building, 2188 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah or or before the 30th day of April, A.D. 1057. Signed Emory Watts Berrett, Executor of the Estate of Frank H. Berrett, Deceased. Date of first publication Dec-ember 26, A.D. 1957. Ramon M. Child, Attorney for Executor. Pub. in S. E. Independent Dec. 26th Jan. 2-9-- 16. I flew Years Eve New Years Eve Watchnight Service and Communion will be held at 11:30 on Dec.30 at the Centenary Church, 1740 So. 5th East. The Sermon is "Not All Clean." This will be an open communion for all believers and affords them an opportunity for the religious approach to the New Year. Army Specialist Third Class James A. Dalton, son of Mrs. Emma P. 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