Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1957 — Page 2

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Nation's Capitol Sets Excellent Safety Code

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) - The nation’s capital is setting a traffic safety example for U.S. cities. While the national toll of traffic deaths was climbing to an all-time high of 40,200 last year, ’the District of Columbia toll dropped to 57, the lowest figure since records wore established in 1923. Washington's 1956 traffic death rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population was the lowest of any major city in the nation. Officials attribute this achievement to a six-point safety program. Two of the key features

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have been adopted within the past t year. Others have been in effect for several years and are now -• bearing the fruit of long - range • effort. Here's what Washington is going ( to save lives on its streets and ! highways: Enforcement 1 Police are cracking down on 1 traffic violators with a “selective ; enforcement program" that concentrates police manpower on a few “accident-prone” areas at a time. This strategy was adopted last April 1. Almost immediately it brought a sharp drop in accidents. "Selective enforcement" begins in a big chart room at police headquarters where every traffic arrest or accident is carefully plotted to show time, {dace, and type of driving violation at fault. Chief John J. Agnew, head of the traffic division, pinpoints streets, intersections or whole areas that are becoming dangerous. He also notes what the main trouble is—speeding, cutting in and out of traffic lanes,/ cars following each other too closely. Agnew then orders his "roving squad" of motorcycle patrolmen

into action. The 30 picked men on the squad have no regular beats. They are available, on round-the-clock, shifts, for spot enforcement drives in any part •of the city. When they descend on an area and begin passing out tickets for the particular violation that has been causing accidents driving safety increases quiejdy< • After a few days Im the fun treatment, Agnew gradually reduces the concentration of polibe manpower in that area. Then he sends the roving squad back at irregular and unpredictable intervals to revive the fear of the law in any motorist who may have concluded that the heat is off. After 10 months experimentation with selective enforcement, Agnew told the United Press that “I am convinced that it is the best tool at our disposal to reduce traffic accidents. Court Cooperation Prior to last May, Municipal Court judges were assigned to traffic court duty here on a monthly rotation basis. Some were tough on traffic violators, others werelenient. Smart lawyers soon learned to seek a postponement of a drunk driving case or other serious offense until a lenient judge was on the bench. Thanks to the initative of a citizens' group i called the Commissioner’s Traffic Advispry Council, judges now are assigned to

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traffic court for six months at a time. The result has been a marked trend toward stiffer penalties. Agnew and other officials believe the traffic court's tougher attitude been a major factor in reducing accidents. Newspaper Publicity All three of Washington’s daily newspapers hammer, hard at traffic safety. Serious accidents are front-page news, often accompanied by grim photographs of the scene. Stiff sentences handed out to traffic violators are prominently reported. Agnew says the “incomparable cooperation" police have had from the local press has been “one of the biggest single contributions” to traffic safety. Safety Education A former Columbia University professor, Dr. Anthony L. Ellison, conducts an imaginative and farreaching public education program as the police department’s “traffic safety officer.” Samples: A weekly television program called "Traffic Court” which dramatizes real-life accident cases; leaflets mailed out with social security checks to warn elderly residents that persons over 60 are the victims of nearly half of the pedestrian deaths; placards placed on bar and tavern tables during the Christmas holidays reminding wassatfers to “watch out when you step out;” and annual "bicycle rodeo” to teach youngsters

how to ride ■ bike in the streets safely; regular "safety conferences" for high school students; a grisly “parade of death” through downtown streets which displays a black-draped coffin for each of the traffic victims of the previous year. Point System Since 1953, Washington has had a “point system” aimed at locating, warning, and if necessary sidelining those motorists who are "habitual” bad drivers. Parking tickets don't count, but all “moving" violations are charged against a driver on a scale of 2 points for a minor offense like running a red light to 12 points for driving drunk. Accumulate 3 points and you get a warning letter from Traffic Director George E. Keneipp; 5 points and Keneipp calls you in for a conference; 8 points brings suspension of your license for a period of two to 30 days; 12 points and your driver's license is revoked. Keneipp’s verdict after four years’ trial; “the point system is one of the most effective measures ever adopted to win the cooperation of drivers with poor and possibly dangerous driving habits." Pedestrians As you probably guessed, Jaywalking just' isn’t allowed. Start across the street against the light, or away from the intersection, and a police whistle shrills at you. Major intersections are marked with prominent pedestrian "walk" and "Don’t Walk” lights. Police have handed out so many thousands of tickets to pedestrians over the past few years that jaywalking has virtually ceased to be a problem in Washington. A recent survey showed 97 per cent compliance with “Walk” signs. Farm Bureau Heads Visit Indianapolis Discuss Proposed Agricultural Issues Farm Bureau leaders from Adams county were in Indianapolis on Friday, February 8 to meet with their state legislators. During the forenoon they gathered at the state offices of the organization to talk over their mutual problems. Later they saw their legislature in action. During the day the farm leaders conferred with representatives and senators from their home communities on the issues affecting agriculture. Discussions concerned primarily the hills which would establish a School of Veterinary Medicine - at Purdueadd a surtax to the gross income tax for additional revenue which may be needed in the state budget; amend the state law which established Central Standard as legal time in Indiana. so that it can be enforced; and revise rates for assessing personal property on the farm. Those who made the trip to the capital from this county were: Harvey Lehman, Paul Brehm’ James Garboden, Mrs. Arthur Koeneman and Glen Workinger, District IV Fieldman. Farm Bureau leaders from Wells, Tipton, Miami, Jay Huntington. Blackford, Wabash, Grant, and Howard counties also made the trip to Indianapolis the same day. Traffic Deaths Reach New Low In Indiana By UNITED PRESS Death took a holiday fr<sm Hoosier streets and highways Saturday and Sunday, as Indiana recorded one of its lowest traffic fatality tolls in recent months. Only two highway fatalities were reported in the 54-hour weekend, both Friday night. The low total was in sharp contrast to the previous weekend when at least nine persons lost their lives in Indiana traffic accidents. Killed in separate accidents Friday night were Clayton W. Bond, 21, Valparaiso, and Roger Ludwig, about 30, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bond's automobile skidded into the path of a truck on U.S. 30 west of Hanna. The impact of the crash threw Bond beneath the wheels of the truck. Trade in a good town — Decatur

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New Orders In Israel Crisis Are Asked For Hammarskjold Asks For Course To Be Followed UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (UP)— Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold today asked the United Nations General Assembly for new instructions in dealing with the Israeli-Egyptian deadlock in the Middle East. He informed the assembly in a new report published this morning that Egypt has reaffirmed “its intent to observe fully" the provisions of the 1949 armistice agreement which outlaws “hostile or warlike acts” by either Egyptian or Israeli forces. He pointed out that the assembly could recommend “collective measures’—the sanctions demanded by the Arab countries—but that such a recommendation would not be compulsory upon U.N. members. Hammarskjold warned, however, that invoking sanctions against Israel, “while supporting efforts to achieve peaceful solutions, may perhaps, on the other hand, be introducing new elements of conflict.” Israel Repeats Demands Hammarskjold, in his 2.500-word report, justified on grounds of law and logic his refusal to seek from Egypt a specific guarantee on nonbelligerency, as demanded by Israel, before Israel agrees to evacuate its forces from all Egyptian territory. Israeli Ambassador Abba S. Eban filed a note with Hammarskjold Sunday, repeating his country’s demand for guarantees that freedom of navigation for Israeli shipping will be respected in the Gulf of Aqaba and in the Suez Canal. Eban said he had informed his government that Hammarskjold had refused to press Egypt for these guarantees, and said Israel must proceed on these assumptions: 1. That Egypt insists on Israeli withdrawal while reserving belligerent rights for herself to remain in effect after such evacuation. 2. That Egypt has not agreed that free navigation will be insured in the Gulf of Aqaba' after the withdrawalnAT that the U.N. emergency force should be stationed on the Aqaba shoreline. . 3 That Egypt will continue to blockade the Suez Canal against Israeli shipping once the waterway is reopened to international traffic. 4. That the “doctrine and practice of continuing belligerency” will govern Egypt’s relations with Israel. j — Auditor Urges Filing For '57 Tax Exemptions Churches, lodges, cemetaries, and service clubs have only until the end of the month to file their applications for property tax exemptions for 1957 with the county auditor, Edward F. Jaberg ex plained today. Officials of these groups were urged to meet the deadline, so that their groups would be assured of the their exemptions. Persons filing exemptions of 81,000 mortgages, or veterans with a ten percent disability filing their $2,000 exemption, should file between’ March 1 and May 6, Jaberg added. Mortgages must be on file at the auditor’s office before the exemption can be allowed. Also, veterans must bring in a disability check, as the voucher number is used as proof of eligibity for the $2,000 exemption.

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Bioodmobile Fails To FiR Quota Visit Friday Falls 20 Pints Short The bioodmobile visit in Decatur Friday fell 20 pints short of the desired goal of 127 pints of blood, Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the committee, sAid today. The committee thanked all the volunteers who worked during the day at the Community building, including the doctors, nurses, young men who helped load and unload, and the personnel of the community center itself. New blood donors numbered 35. Bill Gass joined the lists of 2 gallon donors, and one gallon donors are Mrs. Mary Burnett, Burdette Custer, Mrs. H. H. Krueckeberg, Roger Gentis. Mrs. Martin Schroder, 'Earl K. Shoaff, and Joseph Trentadue. Donors were—Mrs. Alvin Egly, Robert Baker. O. M. McGeath, Clifford Mann, Mrs. Calvin Burnette, A. R. Kershner, Albert Tinkham, Edgar Thieme, Jim Beery, Mrs. H. H. Krueckeberg, Rev. Carroll Myers. Mrs. Ray Stingely, James M. Lose, Albert Gillig, Arthur Suttles, Jr.; Lawrence Anspaueh, Frank Sardella. Ruben ' Thieme, Joseph Schultz, Mrs. Norman Kruse. John Stuckey, Karl Scare, Harry James, Kenneth Schnepf. Mrs. Martin Schroeder, Charles Backhause. Wilmer Bultemever, Mrs. Georgd Thomas. Mrs. Wayne Bodie, August Heiman, Mrs. Frances Magley, Mrs. DondPurke, James Merriman. Mrs. Marcella Loshe, Eugene Heiman: Mary Worthman. Phoebe Miller, Oscar Miller, Mrs. Lowell Smith. Mrs. Julius Lengerich. Thurman Drew, Dorothv Schneof, Wm. Gass. Harley Straub. M. J. Pryor. Anthony Murphy. Milton Hoffman, Wm. Hutker. Mrs. Jean Bowers, Charles E. Jessup, Burdette Custer. Reid Erekson, Mrs. Charles Whitman: Mrs. Herb LaFontaine, Rev. V. W. Sexton, Bernard Meyer. Herbert Kitson, Melvin Tinkham, James Cowen, Fred Soldner. Roger Gentis. Mrs. George Hazelwood. Edmond Thieme. Mrs. Wm. Boerger, Dr. John Spalding. T. E. Lambert, Mrs. Otto Wefel, Earl K. Shoaf, Mrs. Mary Jane Miller; Delmor Wechler, Ruth Baughman, Otto Thieme, Mrs. W. H. Kirkpatrick, Roy Kalver, Mrs. Wm. Felton, Joe Trentadue. Harold Hitchcock, Lawrence Kohne. Lester Mitchel, Mrs. Arnold Thieme. Clarence Lengerich. Edna Moser. Leland Smith, Mildred Miller. Mrs. Jack Holthouse. Esther Meyer, Pauline Dixon. Mrs. Ruth Hunter, Mrs. Marion Brandyberry, Ralph Uhlman, Charles Cook, Grover Levy, Waldo Marbach. Those who walked in without scheduling are:. ’ Mr. Leo Thieme. Mrs. Helen Johnson, Wm. Grant. Charles Stonestreet, Elisha Merriman, Mrs. Valair Custer, Gene C. Myers, Vincent Fgurote, Mrs. Max Kreps, Lawrence Fuelling, Donald K. Kimpel, Mrs. Morris Bleeke. Vaughn Liechty, Jason Moser, Cal

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