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WASHINGTON (UPI) — Desinating this week as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Week, President Reagan says the government will work with States and cities to combat the problem of impaired drivers. “Loved ones are not be ing killed in drunk drivin g accidents,”” Reagan sai during a White House cer emony Monday. ‘‘They’re dying because some of the nation’s motorists have chosen to turn their vehicles into weapons.” Reagan signed an an ti-drunken driving proc- Hymn Sing GARMANTOWN — The Cambria County Hymn Sing will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Church of God in Garmantown. The public is invited to attend and participate. Jamation after receiving the interim report of his Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, named in April to find ways of attacking a problem that causes some 25,000 traffic deaths a year, half the country’s auto fatalities. It is also blamed for 750,000 serious injuries and $5 billion in economic losses. On weekend nights, police officials estimate one of every 10 drivers are legally drunk. Just one in 2,000 are arrested. The president promised to “give careful consid eration” to the findings and recommendation and to ‘‘look hard at the federal government can do’ to combat alcohol and drug abuse by drivers. Before an audience that included commission members, members of Congress and his secretaries of trans portation and health and human services, Reagan said states and localities must develop an effective “deterrent” to drunken driving and “must make it clear they mean busi ness.” White House aides de scribed the anti-drunken driving campaign as a “major initiative’ of the administration. Reagan said he hopes his signing of the proclamation will be “the beginning of a na tional campaign’’ to combat the national pro blem. The commission’s rec ommendations include a uniform minimum drink ing age of 21, a system of “abusers fees’ that would use fines paid by drunk drivers to pay for local programs, as well as stif fer and more assured penalties. Reagan also said Ameri cans must not view drunk en driving ‘‘as an unavoid able disaster, like hurri canes or floods.” “We've learned we're not helpless,’’ Reagan said. “Action can be taken when the people are con cerned. And the people are not only concerned now, they’re mad. They want the slaughter on the high ways to stop and they want those who threaten their public safety to be held accountable for their ac tions.” Reagan received a special citation from Candy Lightner of Fair Oaks, Calif., who founded the organization Mothers Against Drunk Drivin after her 13-year-ol daughter was killed in an accident involving a drunken driver. She called Reagan ‘‘the first president to take an active role’ against drunken driving and pinned a button on his lapel earing her organization’s initials. CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS on the windows at Rush Consolidated Elementary School, Osceola Mills R.D., were done by students at the school. Looking over it all are, from left, Alice Bryan, Jennifer Johnson, Wade Croyle, Michele Yarger and Jimmy Eirich.
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Clearfield Progress
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Dec 14, 1982
Page 10
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