Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1961 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1961

Stage Is Set For Four Days Os Death

By FRANK L. SPENCER United Press International CHICAGO (UPD—The cars are stopped now- They are lined up on the shoulders, their drivers and passengers standing in a loose circle. They talk softly. There is

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blood on the concrete. From a mile or so away a siren screams. The police are on the way. So is the hearse. In a few minutes the wreckers will clear the road and the drivers and the passengers will resume their jour-

ney. Everything is all right: It didn’t happen to them. Over their car radios will come the baseball scores and the traffic death count.- In this manner will many Americans spend part of their long Fourth of July holiday. The stage already is being set. It is several days before the holiday begins. A crew cut man punches out a paragraph on his typewriter. He is an employe of a safety organization, and he is

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writing a warning to his fellow Americans. He admonishes 'them to be careful. He has written such words for scores of holidays. He hopes somebody will listen to him. In a suburb of a big city there is a hospital and in the emergency ward an intern gets briefed on the holiday ahead. “Mostly there'will be head injuries.” an older doctor says. “Then there are Involvements of the neck and cervical spine and the thorax and the thoracic spine.”

In an office one secretary tells another, “Fred is going to drive me back home to meet my family —it’s 800 miles but we are going to leave right after work and by driving all night we can make it.” A ‘ young man tn the Chicago Bureau of the United Prdss International prepares a chart the size of a baby blanket. On it the states are listed alphabetically. The figures will stream in from throughout the nation and there will be inventory of those who didn’t make it home.t

Thus the stage is getting set for four days of death. Perhaps these will be the bloodiest four days in the history of Fourth Os July holiday traffic. Perhaps the 1950 record of 491 will be broken. Perhaps the recent Memorial Day toll of 468 will be topped. The big question is, “Why does it have to happen?” Really nobody knows why. The National Safety Council, which for decades has gathered and analyzed statistics on this re-

current american tragedy says there is no single answer: "No one can, say exactly how many motor vehicle accidents are due to a particular circumstance, because most accidents have a combination of several circumstances and few accidents are investigated carefully enough to determine exactly what the underlying causes were.’ There are, of course, obvious answers, like drunk drivers and reckless drivers, but the council’s experts are quick to admit they

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don’t know why these driven behave the way they do. Not all who will die in traffic during the holiday will be drunk or reckless drivers. If the statistics hold up, most of the fatalities will result because somebody failed to yield the right of way. The experts say that practically all of the drivers who score remarkable safety records invariably refuse to contest another driver's claim on who has what part of the road. There are two other important factors in nearly all fatal traffic accidents—speed and following too closely. In urban areas following too closely ranks second behind failure to yield. Speed is third. With rural areas weighed in, speed is second and following too closely is third. Learning Russian ■ Now Made Easier CHICAGO (UPI) — A teacher said today Russian is no more difficult to master than French or German. Wayne D. Fisher, president of the National Council of High School Teachers of Russian, said that new teaching techniques have made the Russian language easier to leagi. Fisher, assistant professor in the graduate school of education of the University of Chicago, said that under the new system the student does not study grammar of the foreign language for the first four weeks of instruction, and his native tongue is forbidden entirely in classroom work. The organization which Fisher heads convened here today for a one-day annual meeting on the University of Chicago campus. While Russian Still runs a poor fourth behind French, Spanish and German in curricula of the approximately 20,000 American secondary schools. Fisher said, “interest in the language has been zooming since Russia launched its Sputnik and the world became engaged in the space race.” This increased interest was reflected in an announcement that the council, the University of Chicago and the U.S. Office of Education win join in sponsoring a study z conference here next October of high school teachers of Riifis&n. Coffee Drinkers WASHINGTON (UPI) — Americans drink about 400 million cups of coffee daily, or nearly 16 pounds a year for every man, woman and child. The Commerce Department recently predicted that coffee consumption would continue to rise and that prices would be stable at least until 1965. It also said that coffee is served at least once a day in 95 per cent of all homes.

I tote Ifck I ~ dMHFnfc i to ] 3k' p 'toHEr ! EDUCATION LEADER— Ewald Turner, 38, of Pendleton, Ore., has been elected president of the National Education Associat»<'-

KIDNAPPED, SLAIN — The nude body of Andrew T. Ashlev, 3, third child kidnaped by a mystery woman in two months, was found floating in a park lake at Buffalo, N.Y. A woman's silk stocking was wound tightly around the boy's neck. He had been bound and gagged. Two children previously abducted by a woman were found alive, after aacanina their bonds.