Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 7 · column 3 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
Highway Accidents Increase
The nation’s increasing grist of automobile deaths and crippling injuries, was pictured today as an endless "Operation Heartbreak” by a traffic safety authority who estimated in human terms “the uncounted! indirect toll” of highway accidents— their emotional impact upon the growing legion of bereaved close relatives of the victims.
Mr. Blaisdell buttressed his outline of “Operation Heartbreak” with the simple words of a bereaved Illinois mother who lost a son in an automobile accident in 1952. She wrote to him about her family’s tragedy with what he described as ~ “the typical mother’s heartbreak” which is seldom expressed in a letter,, offering her services as a volunteer in traffic safety work and seeking his advice on how to proceed in this field. Her letter to Mr. Blaisdell follows :
Although more than 20,000,000 persons have under goi^p “Operation Heartbreak” following the fatal and, serious highway accidents of the last ten years Mr. Blaisdell said, the average American is still quite un- x aware of this grim aspect of thej traffic safety problem. If they were, he added, millions of them would take more direct action in their owq communities to make the highway safer. - -..... .. ..___
“Recently an editorial appeared in| the “Chattanoogo Times,” Chattanooga, Tennessee, relative to your plan to reduce highway accidents. In view of the fact that I have a very deep personal interest in doing everything I can to help put this plan before our legislators and others in, authority, I obtained your address from the editor. “As a citizen, I feel that such a plan is most worthy of. everyone’s consideration. As the mother of a 15 year old boy who was: one of the 38,000 Americans who lost their lives in 1952 and whose life was entirely dependent upon a 15 year old| licensed driver who had control of the car with two guests at his mercy, I will wholeheartedly enlist to recruit others to get behind the powers that be to put such a plan intq effect as soon as possible. “Mr. Blaisdell, what can I do? I know there is something that I can do so that other families may not_ have such a tragedy. I will write to our Senators and Congressmen, of; course, but first I would like to lcnow» more about the plan. I will appreciate; it very much if you will send me any pamphlets or other information so: that I might be better ‘educated’ on the subject. I am really sincere wheni I say that I want to help put youri plan into effect and await your suggestions.”
Observe The Brush Burning Law
SINGER SEWING MACHINE — One demonstrator available at .. reduced ^.price. Singer Sewing Center. 105 E. Davis Street, Culpeper, Va. Phone 9042.—Adv.
79.1%