Car Is Nation's Most Dangerous Machine

By RILL NEIKIRK
A total of 37,000 people was killed
because of motor vehicle accidents
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The automobile U the most In 1958, the National Safety Coundangerous machine in America to- cil says.

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merely dangerous
because it to so hard to control or
maneuver. Admittedly, there are
machines in factories which require more skill and care to operate.
There are others which necessitate
more dexterity.
But an automobile Is dangerous
becaose there are not enoagh drivAnd it's

ers with the skill and carefulness
In operating It.
Look at the facts. They are
simple, but revealing.

read the above figures to know Just
That's why you should take safehow perilous driving can be. All ty precautions always in caring for
you have to do is get on the high- your car. It should be In tip-to- p
way, get overconfident at the shape. For example:
This total represents 21 percent wheel, and then
then youll
L Ascertain that your brake are
of the entire population death rate know.
In efficient working order. Slugof the entire population's death
It doesn't take much to cause an gish brake havo sent many drivers
rate due to all phases of accidents.
and pedestrians to the casket.
A turning of the
It was the second highest cause be- accidentchance. An Irritating head. 2. Be sure your tires. Including
A wild
horn
hind general accidents, as deaths behind you. Bright lights. Unnec- your spare, have adequate tread
from violence etc.
and are not In danger of blowing
essary speed.
There were only 33.000 people
out.
killed In battle during the Korean
But back to the automobile. It 3. A door can often be fatal.
War for the XJ3., so the accident Is a complicated machine. Internal Make certain yours has a safety
figure becomes more astronomical. combustion. Water system. Brakes. feature and lock it while driving.
It stands to rise higher with the Oil. Tires. Transmission. Doors. 4. Keep your windshield wipers
ever increasing number of auto- Seats. It Is much like a baby. It in good working order.
mobiles on the nation's highways. can't help Itself, but depends on
5. Always check any deviance in
But you really don't have to others.
your steering.

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8. Keep your speedometer accurate. There may be times when

your speed exceeds your estima-

tion.
These, of course, are only a beginning for supervision of your
litautomobile. State police and
tle common sense could provid
yon with many more.
There are many things at stake
when you are driving an automobile in poor condition. First, there's
your license; then, money, (in the
form of a fine); the safety of your
loved ones and others; damage of
someone's property; injury of
pride.

Then there's your life.

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LEXINGTON, KY.t WEDNESDAY, DEC 9,

No. 44

Platform Released
By Gampms Party

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Campus Party vice chairman Bill
Jones yesterday announced that
his party candidates will advocate the following platform in the
Student Congress election Dec. 16:
1. To work for the encouragement of school spirit and the creation of campus traditions.
2. To bring about lower cost of
textbooks through the opening of
it
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To keep the library and book
stacks open until 11 p.m. on Sunday night.
7. To aid the University in perfecting a preregistration plan that
wil
not ' unjustly discriminate
against any class of students.
8. To work for the improvement
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Fatal Step
srene from Act II of the Guignol production, "Our Town," shows
Penny Mason as Emily Webb and Lamar Ilerrin as George Gibbs
walking down the aisle after exchanging their wedding vows.
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book store.
3. To. work for the general improvement of the University phone
system and the placing ofconven-ientl- y
located phone booths on
campus where they can be readily
available to students at no charge.
4. To make available Alumni
Gymnasium until 10 p.m. for student use.
5. To extend automobile privileges to sophomores not on pro-

bation.

'Our Town Opens Tonight
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by the Guignol Theatre. This play
By WAYNE SMITH
Thornton Wilder's '"Our Town," was first produced during the 1939-4- 0
season just after the play bebeing produced by the Guignol
Players, opens tonight in the Ouig-n- came a hit on Broadway.
Wilder has said that "Our Town"
Theatre of the Fine Arts Building.
is an attempt to find a value above
The play will run tonight price for the smallest events in
through Saturday ' with curtain daily life. . . . The past cannot be
relived. Living people, humans, octime at 8:30 p.m.
"Our Town" is the second pro- cupied with their petty occupations
duction in this year's revival sea- and small thoughts, know little of
son of plays previously produced true joy and happiness.
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Hanging Of Greens
To Be Held Today
traditional "Hanging of
Greens" ceremonies will be
the
presented today at 4:15 and 7:15
p.m. in the Great Hall of the SUB.
The decorations in the SUB Include an 18 foot Christmas tree
which will be lit during the ceremonies. Poinsettias placed around
the hall' complete the decorations.
The actual hanging of the
greens is done by students who
will drape laurel ropes down the
bannister of the stairway and
hang wreaths in each of the 10
windows. These decorations will
remain In the SUB until the
Saturday beginning the Christmas
vacation.
The program will feature carolers who are members of the Baptist Student Union choir and the
Christian ..Students' .Fellowship.
Their eld English costumes are
UK's

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furnished by the wardrobe department of Guignol Theatre.
Student representatives of the
four organizations sponsoring the
program will read the story of
Chrlrfjias and explain the mean-

ing orthje holiday.
Christmas music will be presented by the men and women's
glee, clubs and a harp prelude
played by Miss Paula Choate. Mr.
David Bowman will provide organ
music throughout the day.
The program is sponsored jointly by the Student Union Board,
the YMCA, the YWCA, and Student Congress. The director of the

SUB Activities
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Increased Tuition Is
Not Financial Solution

In the first act of the play. Wilder outlines the history of Grover's
Corners, N. H., and something of
the character of its citizens. Then
he carries the audience Into the
"Gibbs and Webb households, arriving at breakfast time, and then
spending one entire day in the lives
of these people.
The second act concerns the love
affair between young George Gibbs
and Emily Webb. The love afair
culminates in a wedding scene and
the awakening of the young people to the adult world.
The third act shows the bride
after death, wishing to return to
the living. The other townspeople
buried in the cemetery on the hill,
show Emily how futile it would be
to return, because the past cannot

The answer to the financial problems of institutions such as the
University is not high cost or full
cost tuition, UK President Frank
G. Dickey said Monday night.
Speaking at a
dinner at the SUB, Dr. Dickey
said, "The land grant college was
fdiaded in order to provide low
cost education for all people who
might profit from it." He added
that a tuition increase would "take
us back to a condition we were
founded to change."
Dr. Dickey also dismissed highly
selective admission programs as a
solution. "Current talk about highly selective admission and the limitation of entrance and educational
opportunity to the gifted student,
if Implemented, would be In marked contrast to the aspiration of
the founding fathers for their
children," he said. .
Dr. Dickey's solution: "Seeking

be relived.
Members of the student cast are
Bush Hunter, stage manager; Penny Mason, Emily Webb; Lamar
Linda
Herrin, George Gibbs;
Brown Rue, Mrs. Gibbs; Larry
Strong, Dr. Gibbs; Lynn Smith,
Mrs. Webb; George T. Smith, Wal-l- y
Gibbs; Mary Warner Ford. Rebecca Giggs; Paul Richard Jones,
Mr. Webb.
Phil Cox, Constable Warren; 01-lMorgan, Mrs. Soatnes; Aivin
Polk, Simon Stimson; Bill Hower-toPhillip
Howie, Newsome;
Brooks, Sam Craig,; Sarah
1st dead woman; Linda
Crouch, 2nd dead woman; Tommy
Higgason and Don Galloway, dead
men; James Slone, Prof. Willard;
and Richard Meyers, SI CrowelL
Jo Barker, a senior in the Music

fice needs."
He added that these needs can be
met only if state funds are available.
"The shocking complacency
among our people frightens me,"
Dr. Dickey revealed. "There seems
(o be a subconscious notion that
merely ' because Kentucky has
managed to keep Its head above
water for 167 years, it is somehow preordained by the Creator
that, regardless of what we do in
the future, we shall manage to
compete successfully with our sis-

pageant is Fred Strache assisted
by Gay Good and Cliff Zeff.
The Student Unioa Board will
be represented by Judy Schrim.
YMCA by Tom Cherry, YWCA by
Henretta Johnson, and Student Department, will direct the
Congress by Taylor Jones.
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of dining facilities in Donovan and
Jewell Hall Cafeterias.
9. To restore Student Congress
to a high place in the University
community, and to free the congress of faculty control..
Jones said that in forming their
platform they had sent letters to
other colleges and universities with
effective and efficient student
government organizations. He said
the replies will be used in carrying out the platform and changes
in the present system.
Optimistic about the election's
outcome, Jones said, "We will win
at least six of the eight seats in
the coming election."

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an operating budget from the commonwealth which we believe is
realistic and necessary to care for
the needs of a growing and effective university and continuing to
strive to find ways and means to
construct urgently needed classroom, laboratory, library, and of-

years of the "tidal wave" to which
we are to be subjected to at certain dates," he stated.
"We have attempted to convince
the people of our states that these
figures are not imaginary nor are
the hypothetical predictions, but
are actual counting of actual young
people."
Dr. Dickey said that it appeared
to him that we ''are far short" for
the tidal wave which Is now upon
us.
"I think it is inevitable that before we shall be ready we shall see
widespread, denial of educational
oppotrunity to young people."
We are not competing successfully in the total field of education,
he said, noting that Kentucky
ranks 49 among 50 states in salaries
for public school teachers, 41st in
length of school term and 48th in
the number of eighth grade graduates who complete high school.
Dr. Dickey said those who would
respond to this complacency on the
crucial education front would Identify two basic questions:
"Will the people of Kentucky
understand the importance of the
issue to the extent that they will
provide all that is necesary in the
way of money, material, and moral
support to build the educational
system we need rather than the
one we think we can afford?"
"Will we have the curricular pat-

terns and the educational philoso-

phies geared to the realities ' of
today and tomorow rather than to
of a generation
the problems

past?"
In closing Dr. Dickey said that
only through the unremitting effort, courage, and determination of
Kentucky's people can the University earn a position of prominence
ter states."
among the leading universities of
"We have heard for a number of our nation.

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