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beads and sequins. A workshop on making these tree decorations will be held today, Thursday, October 10 at 1 p.m. at Amissville Baptist Church educational building.
Hostesses for the meeting were Mrs. Mason Hitt and Mrs. F. L. Bowey.
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Colonel H. W. Burgess, Superintendent of State Police, said this week that the 884 Virginia traffic deaths for the first three quarters of 1968, as compared to 873 for the same period last year, did not banish all hope of preventing the ninth consecutive year in which such deaths showed an increase.
Colonel Burgess said the fact that October, November and December are traditionally “high death” months, with 350 fatalities in them last year, gives all the more chance for a reduction. “Although late reports and deaths of persons now carried as injured with no doubt cause an increase of several, the lead is not insurmountable," he said.
Pedestrian deaths were up from 151 to 164 and traffic volumes rose about 12.2 percent. Monthly deaths for 1968 numbered 73* 81, 103, 109, 94, 98, 103, 124 and 99 respectively from January through September. The 1967 counterparts were 73, 87, 102, 105, 87,74,116, 120 and 109.
Virginia’s score of 1,223 deaths last year was the highest recorded and broke the long standing record of 1,110 set in 1941.
For the first seven months of the year, the National Safety Council gave Virginia a rate of 4.8 deaths per each 100 million miles of travel. Comparable national rate was 5.2.
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