Slow Movers Will

Slow Movers Will

Get New Emblem

The triapgular slow moving vehicle emblem Is beginning to appear more frequently on Virginia highways due largely to the determined efforts of a group of rural ladies. The Women’s Committee of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation has undertaken a campaign to make highway driving safer through the use of these emblems. “Slow moving vehicles are not just a rural problem,” said Miss Betty L. Walters, chairman of the VFBF Women’s Committee. “A slow moving vehicle, which is not properly identified, is a hazard to both the operator and the motorist on Virginia’s highways.” These women are urging each of the 87 county Farm Bureaus to start a campaign within each county to have a slow moving vehicle emblem on all farm equipment. Some government agencies throughout the state have adopted the fluorescent orange and red triangle for their slow moving vehicles. The Virginia Department of Highways is using the emblem on some of its equipment. Some counties in the state are using the emblem on all of their heavy vehicles. Traffic studies show that two out of three highway acci dents involving slow moving vehicles are rear end collisions.

It is for this reason that the Farm Bureau ladies are urging the widespread use of the SMV emblem. Already they have convinced 16 county Farm Bureau boards of directors to join the campaign. The use of this emblem is required by law in many states across the country. It is mandatory in those states that all vehicles designed to travel 25 mph on open highway use the 16 by 14 inch emblem on the rear of the vehicle. Nineteen state departments of highways have adopted the jse of this emblem for use on their maintenance equipment.

The first newspaper in Kansas

was the Shawnee Sun, printed

in the Shawnee Indian language

for members of that tribe in

1835. It wasn’t until 1854 that

Kansas got its first Englishlanguage

paper.