The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-09-25
OFFICERS START
SAFETY DRIVE
OVER COUNTY
Mounting Death Toll Calls For
Drastic Action, Officer
Says
Program Is Given
To Enforce Rigid Schedule Of
Rules; 40 And 8
To Aid

Striking at the combination OF
drunken and reckless driving which
has spread death along the high
ways Of North Central Washington
during recent weeks, law enforce
ment officers are this week launch
ing a drive to take in all violators
Of the states safe driving laws
State Patrolman James Wells de-
clared Monday.
Three fronts have been lined up
in the active warfare declared on
drunken and reckless driving, he
said. The state patrolmen will tight
en- their efforts to enforce the driv-
ing laws; county sheriffs and their
officers of Okanogan, Chelan, Doug
las and Grant counties will cooper
ate and the members of the 40 and
g." affiliated with the American LIE
gion will assist.
Not Short Drive
"The campaign will last indefin-
itely in this county," Mr.. Wells de-
clared. 1--WE believe that the coop
GRAFTON being given the state patrol
by the sheriffs officers and the 40
and 8 will be effective in reducing
reckless and drunken driving, and
in making highways and streets safe
for careful motorists and pedes-
trians."
In a meeting Friday at Wenat-
chez, attended by Sheriff Boyd
Hilderbrand and law officers OF
other neighboring counties, four
point program was mapped out:
THAT every man driving a car
with liquor on his breath be arrested
2-That an unsealed bottle of
liquor in a car be cause for arrest
3-That all drinking in public
places be stopped.
4-That every car with four in
the front seat be stopped.
Mr.. Wells pointed out yesterday
that conviction for drunken driving
makes suspension of the violator's
driving permit for one year manda-
tory, and that jail sentences and
fines may also be assessed. Reckless
driving is punishable by a fine and
imprisonment of from six months
to a year.
State Wide Campaign
State patrolmen over the state
also started a campaign yesterday
to check on all cars for lights, brakes
and proper licenses. The drive will
last throughout the week, ending
September 20, and an effort will be
made to check every car on the road
Mr.. Wells said he would check cars
in various parts of the county dur
ing the week.
Sheriff's officers and local police
are cooperating in the weeks safety
campaign.
The Okanogan county voiture OF
the 40 and 8" is preparing to put
into effect program which Is hop
ed will develop into a statewide
campaign of citizen cooperation to
obtain highway law enforcement and
the reduction of the ever-increaslng
accident and automobile death rate.
Members will be supplied with
cards on which are listed the COM
mon traffic and driving violations
When violations are witnessed, the
member checks the offense, writes
down the car license number, and
mails the card to the state highway
patrol office, who investigates.
The 40 and 81 also is sponsoring
the school boy patrol in this coun'
ty, supplying equipment and jack
cts. Seven patrols are now operat-
ing in the county, their chief pur-
pose being to take the license num-
bers of all cars violating traffic
rules near schoolhouses and schoo
buses. The law prescribes that
cars limit their speed to Is miles
an hour while going past a school,
building between the hours OF 8 ?
m. and p. m.