The-Leader_1967-08-31

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42nd Year, No. 19 FRIEPORT, N. Y„ THURSDAY, AUQUST 31. 1967 PBICE: FIVE CENTS J»1B COPY
iNEWSSt VIEWS
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J» '— - - • fdatiotM Presi- Spiikate L Lbten-to fli*-"BDOIE VASIL SlIOW"
, V. (hi:WTOE,, IS20 on Ae Dial
Accident Rate Crows
• The record of young drivers worsened lii 1968, Drivers under
25 were involved in almost 32 percent of the fatal accidents com­pared"
with 30 J pereertt in 1965. • •
• This comentary is contained in The Travelers annual highway
safety booklet, which reports 52,300 deaths and more than 4,4(W,000
injuries on America's highways last year. Statistics in the Iwoklet
were compiled from reports by state motor vehicle department*.
The Bureau of Public Roads has reported that drivers linder 25-
TOhslilule about 19 pei«ent of all llncenaed drivees-^but telBW thljft
were l|jygl<^^MyiJnsi|,;^^^^^^
improvement in their, feying records as did the largest groui^:" pi
Hccnsed,arlvere-r4hose 25 to 64. However, drivers <>ver 6S continue'to
be- involved in poi'portion&lly more fatal accidents than noii-fatsl
accidents, '
Perhajt^i,it can be Mounted for by saying that the young ate
quick and Impatient and the old are stubborn. ^
• The, National Traffic Safety Agency has issued ^mi vehicle
safety standards. Some of the new features are Incliided in or can
be added Io present cars. All of them are art important part of the
nation's intensifled efforts to reduce the traffit; accident toli.
; Research is also' essential. At a Traffic Safety Conference In
JCartford, Conn., early this year there was wide agreement between
auto insurance ini^tistiy leaders and traffic safety research scientists
that we need to, tearn more about how the various elements in the
auto transportation system—the road; car, driven Jawrs, etc.-'—con-fribute
to'accident prevention.
! Parents of newly-licensed drivers sfiould insist that the youngr
iter should be driving a car that's mechanically sound. He should
^e soIo-drlvlng,- or driving with his. parents, not with a Jarful of
chums. He should tie driving on jittle traveled rOads. And, he should
be driving in daylight, only in fair weather at flrst.,
T GraduaUy, as handling a car^beglns to feel natural to him, he
Should—updersuperyision-r-beghij driving under a variety of 8ltua«.
flons; until aU concerned have confidence that the young driver
knows-What he/is cloiri^^aIld why he is doing it. - •
iliei^iflili RotfKry Guest
FREEPORT GOP
HEiUiOUARTERS
FR^POHT WEAI>QVKR'WKS OPENS . . . ' No rlh Hempstead Town 8up«r*ltor Bo) Woehller.
RepubUean candidate tor Nuiau CounlT Sxeeulive. itwKliM ribbon for Ralph Caw io cut, while
Francis Fwretll, (ibiid from r,K Mompttvad picstdtng BHpai^ser, and Senator Edward Speno,,
(third ttam 1.) loOfc on at opening ol Piftport littdiiwaMfn.
Counlr £xeeulive Eugene B. NIckenKm accdp^ certificate of
apprecialioa from Fresident NaUuut P, Zablew ioUowing Ux
talk b«for» recent meaiing of the Freeport Ilolaxy Club, Iiooking
, on are vice-pnHddenl Roceo.ChniileUa and sacretory Ken LTOSS.
Nlckenon'lwd dis«u*«s«d plaits tot tbo future growth and dO'
\ velopiiwnt of Nassau County.
fi««porfs Famous
Guy W<ailac8 Dies
Guy WaUaee, veteran an*
nounear of ialevlsloB and radio.
dia4 at 5 a,m. Tuesdar, Au«
(Pit 29.
A, big men in figure and
heart. He left a lagioit of
Iriands.
•: A Widower, he and his tNiaa
children r««i<led "^ MS Raa>
daU Ave.
Fimerai services al Hunger-ford
and Clark Funeral Hem*
iU'Fiaepart. ••
Harbor Civics Now
Conducting Drive
For New Members
The Freeport Harbor Civic
Ais'n. Is now conducting its A;i-
.nual MEmbcrshlp Drive,. Frank
G. R. Smith is president, .
The flrst meeting of the year
will be held Tuesday, Sept, 12,
at 8;30 p.m^ in the Faculty Room
of the Leo Giblyn School.
Plans will be made at the meet­ing
for participation the Freeport
Jubilee Parade on September 23.
A speaker will talk about the
forthcoming School Expansion
jprogram.
Come on In '^The Water's Graet" urge members of the March of
Dimes Swinuning Program for the Hssdicapped. at a session
held recently at the H&me of Mrs. Jolm Lehr, Freeport. Boy* in
the.pool are Itft to right: Alan i:.BCOir. Michael Mandate, and
Bobby Cackowsky, and pictured peol'Slda are lifeguard Michael
Greenberg of Ocaanslda, Mrs. Kufpliig of Ifatrlck. and Mr. fid-ward
H. Yamiri Ol Freeporl, Chaltmaa of m South Shore Chap­ter
of the Hawh of Dlmas, and staiidb» aia volttateera Bert
Blatt ol Oceanaida, and Mrs. John t«ir< ^