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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
12
AP report by Ben Funk analyzes how nonuniform traffic rules across states contribute to 32,000 annual deaths and 1,100,000 injuries. It cites examples from signals to lane meanings, license tests, and right of way rules, urging standardization to curb the toll. Iowa farm labor topics close the piece with notes on efficiency and competition.
Seven teen year old Melvin Acker Jr will have six inches of his right leg removed to equalize leg length after rheumatic fever left his left leg stunted. Surgeons removed three inches previously and will remove another three. bone ends are spliced with screws. They expect him to walk normally at high school graduation next June.
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