Show spotlighting utah highway safety conference calad governor maw has announced a highway safety conference to be held beld in salt lake city wednes wednesday lay septa the place will be the newhouse hotel the time a m law enforcement agencies civic organizations and others interested in traffic safety have been invited to the conference it is hoped that this first statewide state slate wide highway safety conference will set up a balanced plan in traffic accident prevention that will prove effective for every city and town in he stae the governor states our approach to the problem of highway safety must be positive and constructive defeatism has no place in our thinking when we consider a basic element of our existence motor vehicle transportation is an integral part of the social and economic life of our country and highway safety is inseparable from efficient highway transportation there is no more tragic waste of human lives no more unnecessary background to human suffering no more needless source of economic loss than traffie traffic accidents needless because a completely adequate traffic safety program of state and local governments ern ments fully supported by the people both through organizations and as individuals can bring down and hold down the highway casualty list experience proves that I 1 such a purposeful all inclusive program of traffic safety will lower the accident rate iron age and geneva generva iron age the powerful organ of the steel industry in several recent issues has paid favorable attention to the geneva steel company in the issue of august 8 it reported at length the freight hearing held at san francisco on july 31 and found highly relevant the testimony of governor maw because of the prestige of iron age throughout the united states as well as the pertinent information contained in the following paragraphs we quote salient parts of the article geneva is the pin up girl of western steel consumers judging from the testimony given at the public hearing bea before ore J P haynes agent for the pacific freight tariff bureau and assembled railroads traffic men held july 31 to determine what if any opposition om existed to the establishment of erf arc am per ton rate on finished steed from the geneva steel company in utah to pacific coast points governor maw of utah considered the matter of such importance that he drove all night to t appear before the rail representatives stressing the importance of the continued operation of tha geneva plant to the economics s ability of his state he said 1 perfectly apparent that unless unkei freight rates are materially reduced on finished steel products there can be no industrial expansion of the west in fact the economic future of utah is so closely tied up with lower freight rates on finished products from geneva to points on the pacific coast that its future industrial expansion is dependent upon the action of this board at the present time a number of manufacturing institutions are awaiting the determination of this issue before accepting invitations extended by agencies of the state to establish branch manufacturing plants in utah and the west reasonable freight rates on unprocessed nept serials have long been enjoyed ke ia companies which have follow the practice of shipping our natural resources to other areas to be processed IZ I 1 utah and the west are to enjoy their full share sharo of industrialization and if fabricating plants are to be set urs west of the and a decem of industry which wilb be desirable during an atomic aget age is to materialize then freight rates on finished products manufactured in the west mastbe must ba reduced to whatever degree is necessary to put them on a competitive basis the issue therefore is bigger than might at first bethought for the industrial future of my state and other western states is largely dependent on its determination |