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Safety Experts Admit Defeat In Stopping Millionth Death
Chicago—(U.P.)—Safety experts today admitted defeat in their fight to postpone the nation's 1,000,000th traffic death since the invention of the automobile.
The total soared "well past 900,000" by Oct.1 and the 1,000,000th death probably will occur during the third week of December as predicted earlier by the National Safety council.
The council had hoped that widespread publicity would slow the traffic death rate and possibly shove the 1,000,000th death back into 1952.
However, the toll of dead during September soared to 3,650 persons, the largest number in any month since September, 1941, and 14 per cent higher than the same month a year ago. An all-time record total of deaths during the Labor Day holiday boosted the month's toll.
"The millionth death is approaching right on schedule," Council President Ned H. Dearborn said, "despite the most intensive educational campaign by the Nationalety council and others ever conducted."
"Eight months ago, when we first announced the probable date, there was time to do something about it. Now the time for effective action has passed.
"All that remains is the shame of a civilized nation which can accept this terrible blight of death, injury, and suffering without any widespread effort to prevent it."
Dearborn said the death total for the first nine months of this year
was 26,630, an eight per cent increase over the same period last year.
During the first eight months of the year, he said, about 6.9 persons were killed for every 100,000,000 miles driven. This rate, he said, was about the same as last year.
The death rate for the first eight months of 1941 was 11 for each 100,000,000 miles driven.
Donald Pearson, College sophomore, was elected president of the Central League of Campus Co-ops at their annual convention in Lincoln, Nebr. Nov. 4 and 5.
Pearson Elected Co-Op President
The CLCC is a central clearing organization for co-op matters from schools in this area. It also sponsors a loan fund to which each resident of member houses contributes. The fund is used to provide money for expansion and permanent improvements on co-op houses.
The University of Nebraska, the University of Missouri, National College for Christian Workers, Baker university as well as KU are represented in the organization.
Civil Defense Council To Meet Here Wednesday
Others attending the convention from KU were Lowell Smith, Aaron Seldstein, Dick Murray and Gene Bennett, College seniors.
The first meeting this year of the State Civil Defense council and the KU radiological monitoring teams will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday in the lecture room of Blake hall.
The state council will meet from 3 to 5 p.m. and the monitoring teams from 5 to 6 p.m. Anyone interested in the state civilian defense program should attend the meeting, said Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, professor of physics, who is in charge of the KU monitoring unit.
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1951
At the meeting, instruction will be given in the use of walkie-talkies, geiger counters, and other equipment used in the defense program.
Identification cards approved by Kansas Attorney General Harold R. Fatzer will be given to members authorizing them as special patrol officers.
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Panhellenic To Hear Chancellor Murphy
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor, will speak to the Panhellenic Workshop on "New Outlook on Sororities at KU" at a dinner meeting Friday, Nov. 16.
Th Workshop is an annual event sponsored by the Panhellenic council. Representatives of Panhellenic groups from other schools in this
Area are invited to attend.
There will be small group discussions on public relations counseling, standards of conduct and scholarship and pledge training on Saturday. Nov. 17.
Junior Panhellenic will sponsor a coke party and a display of sorority projects Saturday afternoon, Nov. 17.
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Raymond Borden
James Thorn
Jack Byrd
Richard Heeny
Orrie Snook
Justin Coplee
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Cloyse Wiley
Max Smith
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Keneth Groggs
John Wilkinson
Curtis Terflinger
Dick Verbrugge
Albert Park
Jack Pickering
Ray Voskamp
Lyle Jenkins
Lewis Leonard
George Lund
Charles Junod
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Donald Trent
Donald Humphreys
Don Rieder
Marvin Pool
John Olson
Rusty Corwin
Donald Tice
Edward Taylor
Bill Foster
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