THE BATTALION Friday, December 16, I960 College Station, Texas Page 3 What Would YOU Think About? ■■ -—■ A Pictorial Description of Ignorance ... quick route to oblivion By RONNIE BOOKMAN Flames reach into the darkness. So do headlights and a red ro tating dome light. A veteren ac cident investigator watches the blazing vehicles and tries not to remember the five broken bodies lying in a neat row behind him. What does a man to whom trag edy is in a' day’s work think about at a time like that? He has the routine things. Get the cars out of the way. Fill out reports. Make an invistigation as to the cause and blame of the col lision. Make sure that survivors, if any, get first-aid. Lots of things. Yet, at the same time, he can’t take the weight of those five hu man beings off his soul. “Am I to blame?” he asks. He knows though, that people are the most unpredictable ani mals on the face of the earth. Read Battalion Classifieds HOW DOES IT FEEL TO PUN FOR A COFFIN? 40,000 heartbroken families will know— because of traffic cccidents this year, unless all of us do / •--ppp something about it! / INNOCENTS DIE Guilty Persons Sometimes Escape Here’s How You Can Help Stop Traffic Deaths Now 1. Drive safely and sensibly yourself. Keep alert. Watch traific and pedestrians. Observe speed limits and warn ing-signs. Where drivers are careful and obey the law, deaths go DOWN! 2. Insist on strict enforcement of all traffic laws in your community. Traffic regulations work for you, not against you. Wherever traffic laws are strictly enforced, deaths go DOWN! SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SAFETY ORGANIZATION Published in an effort to save lives The Battalion f§ In cooperation with The Advertising Council The National Safety Council © “I’ll be home about 10:30, dear.” These were the words of John Milas, 26-year-old highway patrol man as he left his home that night. It had been a hard day, with more to come. With the Christmas rush on, every available man had to do double-duty and John was no exception. He had only been a patrolman for two months now, and he was intensely proud of his job. “A two-year-old boy with an other on the way, a wonderful wife, a good job . . . what else could a man ask?” he thought. Thirty miles away, a ’48 model black sedan sped over the ground at 75 miles an hour. After all, the people in it were in a hurry. They were college students who had a "long way to go that night and after 5 months of studying, they thought they deserved a vaca tion. “C’mon, Joe, step on it,” one of them said. After the two six-packs of beer they had guzzled, the speed ometer seemed to fade away. The driver had never been in an acci dent, so why start worrying now? All of a sudden, an old beaten-up truck loomed ahead. The car skidded and swerved . .. and missed the truck. “Hurry up, Joe, we’ll never get home at this rate.” The car creaked with the extra speed. Now only ten miles away, John Milas, highway patrolman, finished his coffee and went out to his patrol car. The harsh voice of the radio greeted him; “Car seven, go to Highway 6 and Mill Road. Code eight.” That meant speeding and care less driving, thought John. At the corner of Mill and High way 6, he stopped. Nothing in sight. No, there they came from the south . . . about 80 miles an hour, he guessed. Jamming his car into low and flipping on the siren and blinker with one smooth movement, Pa trolman Milas began the pursuit. These guys were either crazy or drunk. After about three miles, the road detoured through a plowed field, John knew. The car was losing the race; John would be close enough to see the license plate. “May I speak to Mrs. Milas, please?” Mrs. Milas,. I don’t know how to say this, but your husband was killed a few minutes ago. I’m sorry it happened. He was after a car which stopped suddenly. Yes, he died instantly.” Downtown the streets were full of shoppers. “Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,” everyone was saying. If You Have These Traits, You May Be Accident-Prone By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES—Are you accident-prone driver ? Dr. Donald Schuster, psychol ogist at the University of South ern California, says a chronic vio lator has these characteristics: He is physically and psycholog ically active. hie “drives” himself to get | ahead. Despite aggressiveness, he prob-1 ably relies on others, ik He is unwilling to conform cul-1 turally. He lacks aesthetic appreciation. He is willing to take chances. Schuster has tested 2,000 drivers I since 1958, he said in a statement) Thursday. 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