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Funeral Flower* or
* Holly Wreath
“Don’t lot a spray of funeral flowers replace the holly wreath on your door this Christinas sea* eon,” was the warning from Col C. W. Woodson, Jr., Superintendent of State Police and Executive Chairman of the ■Governor’s Highway Safety Committee.
Col. Woodsftn went on to say that traffic between Christmas Eve and New. Year’s last year cost 21 lives in Virginia, nine of which were lost December 24. The all-time high was 41 in 1943 with 13 deaths Christmas Day.’
Holiday dangers listed by the safety official were the greater increase in the consumption of alcoholic beverages, the sharp curtailment of daylight which now places the 'Agoing home? hour in total darkness, possible adverse weather conditions, heavy holiday traffic converging on metropolitan areas, preoccupied pedestrians and drivers, and children with new toys as bicycles,
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