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SAFETY NCTES : | Death at 36 after 15 years of dying !

I wish to thank Mr. C. Bronson for the
material supplied for this colwm in the
last. issue of tn Asbestos Sheet.

Within that period of time a man usually
marries, has a family, climbs upward in
the world, travels, plays, begins to
mature, enjoys a million sights, sounds,
Safe working in winter conditions is of sensations. Over these same 15 years
special interest and will remain so for i this man was a castaway on a lonely bed-
some months. The hazards of driving are {| island. He absorbed tasteless food,

also increased in winter time and in this slept a desperate sleep, suffered, cursed,
connection it is noted that one resol- | eried, felt the bitterness kink his

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ution passed at the recent Provincial inside into knots at such ordinary

Safety Conference requests the B.C .Govt. sounds as laughter, free footsteps and
to investigate the value of legislation | hearty talk.

requiring cars to be equipped with safety

belts. So many traffic accidents occur = For every person who dies in traffic
that we often overlook the tragic con-~ smashups, many others spend agonizing
sequences that follow. Hence is repro- weeks, months, life~times of disability.
duced an article for which I am indebted
to Gordon Edwards for passing on to me.
I am sure that we have all committed, at |
some time or another, some of the llittle'
drovomg errors listed. let us think of
our own driving habits and resolve to
make them faultless.

You risk this as well as a quick ending
when you c ommit those ‘little’ driving
errors. Do you realize this ? Do you
know what errors are yours, and what you
mst do to correct them ?"

Southome Furniture Industries
Inc., Texas.

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"It was an obituary that really set you
thinking : ‘Local man, age 36, dies after
15 years in hospital, following auto —
accident Cree he was totally —
disabled." ie a

TEATHER - sae mild

31° on. the 25th,
2° was the highest on ‘ie ‘ayn,

Sash was the igure scam low « on ra uth.

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15 years of siren at the same cotling.
180 months of complete dependence upon —
others, 780 weeks of hope-erosion, with
expenses towering to crowd everything —
else off the skyline. 5475 days of —
waiting for the night, 5475 nights of
waiting for the day, 131,400 hours of 4
walls, fading flowers, msdicinal smells, |
useless sympathy. 7,844,000 minutes of
vegetation with roots withering in hope=- {|
soared spirit shrinking in stagnation.
473,040,000 seconds of death Pigs
burial. | sd agape 74a “<

And probably. because of some beaeendy
fault that you might be committing every
day of your driving life. Such as fail-
ure to glance left and right, or for-
getting to check your rear-view mirror. —
Squeezing one more trip out of baid tires.
Crowding the car ahead. leaning on luck |PHOWE = apy
in a blind spot. Trying to average 60 3'7 / | ie ———
bg: ar

on a 50 mph road, or in 50 mph conditions. 3 =
f | ae “DG :

halle "27.8" for the period, rae
46.0" this season.

And if you want, to get any from ait this
snow, con Bult

Or just plain, blind assumption that the |
other driver will do the right thing.