Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-18
70 STAR DRIVERS
RECEIVE AWARDS
Win Badges for 1,388,398
Miles Without Accident
During II Months.

Seventy automobile drivers for The
Star. who covered 1,388,398 miles
without an accident during the IL
months ended April 80, were awarded
silver badges and safe driving certif1-
Gates at meeting held today under
the auspices of The Star and the
National Safety Council in The Star
Building
Samuel H. Kaufman, assistant
business manager of The Star, pre-
sented the awards, congratulating the
drivers on their records. Newbold
Noyes, ssociate editor, presided at the
meeting in place of his father, Frank
B. Moves, president of The Evening
Star Newspaper Co.
Speaking on behalf OF the news
paper management, Mr.. Noyes said
he was proud" Of the drivers. Con-
gratulatory talks also were made by
Capt. Charles H. Ruth, superintend-
ent; H. S. Cole. assistant superin-
tendent, and Calf Burns, circulation
manager.
Eight-year awards were made to
James W. Thompson and Mrs. Melba
M. Fuchs, while gold watches were
given five men as winners Of the five-
year award.
303,249 Miles without Mishap.
Mr. Thompson has driven 300, 24s
miles without mihap over the eight
year period, 44,l55 miles Of which
were driven during the past safety
year.
Mrs. Fuchs, The Star Medical Clinic
nurse, has an unmarried record over
81 $50 miles, 5000 Of which she drove
during the past year. She is the only
woman driver in the United States
who has received the eight-year award
OF the National Safety Council.
The gold watch awards for five years
Of perfect driving were presented to
r. M. Pobst, c. L. Perrygo, Davie
Quarles, Irwin Pridgeon and Alfred
Lyons. These five have driven a total
of 579,360 miles without an accident,
Of which 1929 miles were covered
during the past year.
An improvement even over the good
record ending April 30, 1887, was noted
for the 1878 period, as 10 drivers re-
ceived awards this time. Last year 81
drivers had a perfect record. driving
1,2l4,474 miles as total. Seven Of
these, however, had not completed a
full years driving. Eight drivers were
included on the incomplete year" this
time having covered 1891 miles dur
ing a period of over six months driv.
ing each.
The added 1881 miles would boost
the total perfect driving mileage for
the 1878 period to 1.46l ,289 miles,
showing that 246,8l5 miles more than
during the 1867 period actually were
covered without an accident last year.
Since The Star joined the National
Safety Council, eight years ago, its
fleet has travelled over 1900, 900 miles.
Contest Ends in June.
Mr. Cole reported that In March
The Star feet ranked second in q safe
driving contest being sponsored by the
council between newspaper fleets. The
Star drivers were involved in no acct
dents in April, Mr.. Cole reported, and
only two SO far this month. The
contest will be ended in June.
Six-year awards were presented to
Robert F. Perkins, Harry r. Bort and
A. C. Chinn. There were no seven
year awards this time.
c. G. Thomas and Karl Krebs re-
ceived four-year awards.
Three-year awards went to ]. M.
Carey, c. A. Thompson, o. v. Stats.
j. A. Hawkins, r. L. Adams, p. w.
Briscoe, j. M. Richards, Francis Routt
and c. B. Apperson.
In the two-year-award class were
c. c. Oates, E. Hurst, L. H. Poland,
E. j. De Wore, L. L. Thompson, p.
Hermann, w. T. Roache, w. L. De
Loatch, l.. R. Hutchinson, w. ]. Furm-
age, L. B. Ford, J. Spriggs, A. A. Allen,
H. L. Patten. James Lucas, A. 8. Kin
sey and c. A. Mckinney.
Thirty-two persons were presented
their one-year awards. They are G..
Ogden, H. c. Merry, w. D. Grogan,
r. z. Phillips, F. v. Free, E. L. Fox,
John Beha, S. G. Anderson, L. E. Ross,
H. c. West, B. F. Lewis, Paul Chase,
]. P. Adams. J. B. Isles, G. w. Gosnell,
H. Goodman, B. H. Pearse, w. L.
Brockenborough, George Hurd, A.
Rush, ]. H. Crestwell, J. D. Lewis. j.
Warren, Carl Bean. J. H. Smith, H.
Penn, ]. Donohoe, A. r. Preston, Rob-
ert Henry, E. A. Baker, Randolph
Routt and S. A. Mace.
Record for Single Year.
The 10 drivers who qualified for
official awards during the past year
compose the largest number with per-
feet records in a single year since
Adjustment of the safety awards
system.
Having driven without an accident
for II months were c. Price, w. w.
Braxton, F. A. Bellenger and John
Stepp. r. D. Lawrence drove nine
months with no mishaps, ]. L. Baulsir
and A. W. Alexander, eight months and
James Mayhem, six months. All were
presented with special certificates.
New drivers, who have driven tour