Evening star., 1948-04-20
$4,000 Allotted
To Drive 10 Cut
Child Traffic Toll.
Advisory Boord Votes
Fourth Of Budget to
Education Campaign

Traffic Advisory Board
to curtail the Districts rising child
accident toll was under way today,
backed with a 5000 appropriation.
The board last night unanimously
voted this sum, a fourth of its cur
rent budget, for two-month safety
education drive.
Meanwhile. reports Of traffic mis-
haps involving children continued
to reach police.
These children were injured in
accidents yesterday and last night
involving collisions with automobiles:
James B. Taltavull, g. 3619 Four
teenth street NV, who was ad-
mitted to Children's Hospital for
treatment of head injuries received
when he stepped from between
parked cars in the 1900 block Of
Spring road NV, according to
police.
Suffers Scalp Bruises.
Inez Patricia Jones, 5, colored,
3531a Georgia avenue NV, re-
leased after treatment at Garfield
Hospital for scalp bruises and brush
burns suffered near her home.
Verogene Wright. 6. colored, 1l20
Twenty-first street NE. treated at
Gallinger Hospital for brush burns
of her left hand, received near her
home.
Regina Sampsel, 4, 634 G street
Sc, treated at Providence Hospital
for brush, burns of the head suffered
in front of her home.
Kay Thelma Stephens, 2, 1923 l.
street Sc, treated at Providence
Hospital for brush burns of the
right thigh and leg received near
her home.
Allen Richman, Is. 1729 Thirty
fourth street NV, treated at the
scene for bruised right knee after
his bicycle was in collision with
car at Wisconsin avenue and Newark
streets NV.
Bicycle, Car Collide.
James Francis, 5, 4441 Quarles
street NE, treated at home for
brush burn suffered when the bicycle
on which he was riding was in
collision with a car at Quarles street
and Lily Ponds drive NE.
Edward Garter, IT, of % West--
moreland avenue, Takoma Park. Md.
admitted to Washington Sanitariun
for treatment of head injuries s,lf-
fered when motor bike he was
riding and an automobile collided
at Fifth and Aspen streets NV.
Fixing primary blame for child
traffic accidents on parents, the
board directed it's Education Com
mittee, headed by A. Julian Bry-
laWski, to prepare four-page
pamphlet warning parents of their
responsibility for their children's
safety.
In a related action suggested by
Police inspector Arthur E. Miller,
the board also urged the Commis-
sioners to open as many Of the citys
Fairgrounds as possible after school
hours and during summer vacation
to get children off the streets. Use
of volunteer supervisors was suggest
ed, If necessary.
343 Injured This Year.
These steps followed Inspector
Millers report of marked rise In
child accident casualties this year
as compared with last. AS of yes
terday, 343 children have been in
jured in accidents this year, police
records show. Twelve were involved
in accidents last week end alone,
bringing this months total to So.
Adult casualties also are running
we'll ahead of those last year, In
spector Miller told the board. with
ITO more injured and 644 more acci-
dents of all types than at the same
time in 1947.
Citing heavier traffic as an in
creasing danger to Washingto-
mans of all ages, Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp told the board
vehicle registrations now are more
than 1000 ahead of those listed
at this time last year and predicted
the biggest registration in the city's
history by the end of the year. Reg
istrations now total 135, ,227, he said,
and should climb higher than the
180, 900 reached in 1941, the record
year to date.
Parents to Be Warned.
Keynote of the traffic boards
$1,000 safety drive slated for May
and June, Mr.. Brylawski said, will
be a blunt warning to parents that
their childrens lives are in their
hands.
ut is time to stop lily-fingered
method of approach" Mr.. Bylaw
ski told the board. I'VE must take
drastic action. I propose to be
shocking. 1t is necessary to shock
the parents-the mothers-if we are
ito stop these accidents"
| Mr.. Brylawski. a Warner Bros.
official, said he has the promise OF
the motion picture exhibitors here
to cooperate in distributing the
pamphlets. Other methods Of dis
tributiion have yet to be worked
out, he added.
In another action, the board in
dorsed two-week course for driver
training instructors announced by
Prof. L. L. Homburger of American
University. to start June &c. Sup
port for the project was pledged
| by representatives Of the National
Education Association and the
Inter Industry Highway Safety
Committee.
Inspection Reflections Drop.
| Reporting on affairs in his de-
partment, Mr.. Keneipp told the
board that District motor vehicle
inspections for the year ended
March 81 totaled 310,164, the third
highest since the system started in
1888. Reflections dropped to 60.8
per cent from 67.7 per cent the
previous year, he said.y
Plans now are under way to elim-
mate four long time trouble spots
in the traffic control system by the
spring OF 1850, Mr.. Keneipp said.
These he listed as the intersections
of Fifteenth and Irving streets and
Sixteenth street and Columbia road
NV; Fourth street, Rhode Island
and Florida avenues NV; Consti-
tuition and Pennsylvania avenues
NV. and Union Station Plaza.