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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1961)
Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, May 25, 1961 THE BATTALION BRY AN’S WYNN WILLIAMS “Marriage” Matrimony would never be enter ed into without a full recognition of its enduring obligations on both sides.—Mary Baker Eddy BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS AT SHAFFER’S BOOKS WE BUY BOOKS BOOKS WE SELL BOOKS WE TRADE BOOKS Shaffer’s BOOKS HOOK STORE S3 o O CRAM FOR FINALS O with GQ £3 COLLEGE STUDY AIDS Data Guides S3 Schaum Outlines e Coliege Outlines O Littlefield Outlines w C pa * * * for ALL subjects INSTANT CASH FOR YOUR BOOKS S3 ill & AT O O o SHAFFER’S R W- pa SHOOK SHOOK Active Highway Patrol Chops Chances Of Traffic Tragedy 32 Ve wp mt^ By RONNIE BOOKMAN Battalion News Editor He is a tall man with a wide grin, a brown uniform and a badge. For six days a week High way Patrolman Wynn Williams spends over 12 grueling hours a day at the wheel of his car. His car, white with two whip aerials, an outline of the State of Texas painted on the doors and sporting a red spotlight, is as im pressive as his work record. Wil liams made over 830 arrests and gave more than 2,400 warnings to erring motorists during the past year. He motioned me to get in and I began seeing firsthand how the Highway Patrol performed its mission in Brazos County. The mission? Simple, to keep people from killing themselves, or others, while they are driving. Wynn Williams In Unit 6240 . checks speed of oncoming car with radar “The trouble is, most people fig ure they are never going to be in volved in an accident,” Williams said as we began to head east from Bryan on State Highway 21. “They think traffic safety is fine for everyone else. It’s hard to make them realize that one little bit of U. S. No. 1 23 To 27 Lb. Avg. ea :h Smaller—18 to 22 Lb. Average Watermelons 28 to 32 Lb. Average Watermelons Honey Dew Melons Each 49c Each 69c . . 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I asked him what his genei’al plan of operation was for the day. “We patrol the roads where we have the most accidents,” he said. “First we’ll go east and then later on we’ll work west of town.” I now turned my attention to the box on the seat between us. It had a meter and several knobs and switches on its face. The radar sets used by the Pa trol are responsible for 30 to 50 per cent of all their speeding ar rests, I had learned earlier. “Radar has done more to slow people down than just about any thing else,” Sgt. O. L. Luther of the Bryan office had told me be fore I left with Williams. There are two radar sets op erated by Sgt. Luther’s men. One is the familiar type, usually mounted on a tripod, that utilizes a “radar” car and a “catch” car. The other kind is contained in one car and can pick up vehicles go ing in either direction. All the driver of the patrol car has to do is turn around and catch the speed er. Williams’ car was equipped with the new, compact type of unit. The main part fit on the front seat, with the antenna attached to the driver’s side window and the cig arette lighter socket supplying the power. It wasn’t long before we had our first customer. The patrolman whipped his automobile to the side of the road and as the on coming vehicle broke the radar beam the needle on the speed indicator reg istered 80. Although by the time Williams turned the car around to give chase the speeder had slowed to the legal limit, he had been clocked. Unfair ? “When you realize that speed is the number one killer on the high- ways, it doesn’t seem quite so un fair,” the lanky patrolman said. Day turned to night and then morning. It was past 3 a.m. when Williams let me out of the car. He had shown me how he and others like him help prevent what the Department of Public Safety terms motorcide: the killing of another human being or of one’s self through the operation of a motor vehicle—usually the result of neg ligence or wanton carelessness. 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