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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1956
Page
7
State Safety Commissioner Clinton Moyer criticizes public indifference to traffic safety in an annual accident report showing last year’s losses of 28.9 million dollars and over 54 000 crashes. The National Safety Council proposes a 10 year plan including tougher licenses and driver education to reduce the toll.
The column notes ordinary road rules apply to regular passenger buses with the exception that bus drivers must stop for rail crossings. It adds that trucks carrying explosives and inflammables must also stop at rail crossings, and warns the public may not actively support these rules.
Frank L. Magee executive vice president of Aluminum Company of America told the twentieth annual conference of the central states group of the Investment Bankers Association of America in Chicago that a growing aluminum stockpile and new facilities will allow thousands of fabricators to launch products once blocked by metal shortages. He noted direct military shipments fell to under 8 percent in 1955 from about 25 percent in 1953 as the supply situation eases.
Thieves looted a New Haven auto dealer and stole $2,500 from a safe. They forced open the safe using the dealer's own tools, adding insult to injury in the daylight burglary.
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