Pere vere ono a a ee ne ee es - ee ne . ” are Se SR TAR Re SETAC uN OWT NTIS REN ee eRe oe SR RES PITTS Reem se te ARNE ELS a . cere 2. 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 ee en rs 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. i “fy. Ss "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. PeaeSist 6©6TRCUellCO Me HE OM 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.