Milford chronicle., 1954-11-05
High School Youths
To Discuss Safety

conference On highway SAFETY Will
be held Saturday, November 6, in
the Dover High School Field
House, Dover. Extensive plans for
the conference, now nearing COM
pletiOn, have been in progress for
months. All senior high schools
have been requested to participate
including private, parochial and
public.
The featured speaker will be
Miss Patricia Priest, teen-age
daughter of the Treasurer Of the
United States. Miss Priest is rec
Ognized nationally for her out 1
standing contributions to safer /
driving among young Americans.
The teen-agers are an important I
part of our traffic problem. They |
constitute about 209o of Della
wares total fatalities each year. |
This is their chance to improve
this deplorable record and demon
strate their ability to solve their
traffic problems. The high school
representatives will conduct their
own conference free Of adult inter-
ference. It is hoped their answers
will show ways of improving the
overall picture.
M. r. Darlington, Jr., managing
| director of the Inter-Industry High
way Safety Committee, Washing
ton, d. c., has accepted an invita-
/ tiOn to act as moderator at the con-
ference. Mr.. Darlington has had
considerable experience in this ca
pacity throughout the country. His
organization, together with the Ma
tional Safety Council, have CO
sponsored a number of Youth Safe
fly Conferences throughout the
country
The Youth Conference has been
studied and the various program
recommendations made by the fol-
lowing committee: John d. Reeder,
director of Safety, Joseph Bancroft
& Sons Company, chairman; Reyn-
Olds dupont, area supervisor, Edge
Moor Plant of the DUPONT Company,
and president of the Delaware
Safety Council; DR.. Zenas R. Clark
administrative assistant, Whining
ton Board Of Education; George w.
AyaTs, supervisor Of Health and
Welfare and director Of Driver Ed
ucatiOn, State Department of Pub
lie Instruction; James H. Snow
den, president of the Delaware
State Parent Teacher Association; /;
J. Sharp Queener, manager of the
Safety and Fire Protection Divis-
ion, dupont Company; G. T. FOs-
ter, Jr., manager of the Delaware
Coach Company, and vice president
for Public Safety, Delaware Safety
Council; T. Warren McCafferty, OF
the DUPONT Company; c. e. Mag
. safety chairman for the Delaware
! State Parent-Teacher Association
} NJ. L. Vehslage, principal of the
; Dover High School; Rev. T. A
r Lawless, principal of Salesianun
: High School; Mrs. William N
j Cam, vice president for Home
} Safety, Delaware Safety Council
Hon. Thomas Herlihy, Jr., Viii
mingtOn City Judge; A. J. Kavan
augh, superintendent of the vii
mingtOn Department of Publ,
Safety; Harold Johnson, faculty
l representative, Conrad Higl
: School: Rev. w. Brooke Stable
d headmaster, Tower Hill School
: William U. Frank, staff represen
I tative of the NeWs-JOurnal Com
4 pany; Harvey Smith, manager, Ra
= dio Station WDEL; Thomas Dew
staff representative of the News
Journal Company; w. R. MARYLAND
= Jr., manager, Delaware Motor Clut
+ AAA; Charles w. Lawson, execu
tive secretary, Delaware AutOmO
bile Association; w. B. McWend
d rick, Jr., chairman of the Cover
y nOr's Highway Safety Committee
q Captain Preston POOre. in charg
!: of the Driver Licensing Bureau
! Motor Vehicle Department; Col
q Onel Harry S. Shew, cOmmandin
3 officer of the Delaware State Pc
lice; Thomas w. MulroOney, d
rector Of Child Development an
Guidance, Wilmington Board {
= Education; Harvey Spicer, Dels
ware Motor Vehicle Commission
er; J. James Ashton, manager {
the Delaware Safety Council; f.
JamisOn, assistant manager, Dels
ware Safety Council; and z.
p LeKites, field representative of th
Delaware Safety Council.
The program will include sue
items for discussion as: Cd I'll
Role of Youth in Traffic Safety {;
Driving Attitudes (3l Traffic Lei
islation (4) Driver Education q
Hot Rods and Traffic Safety q
Student Organization of Safe Dri
ing Groups Each of the subjec
has a selected chairman and sp
cial group of students have BET
assigned to each topic. The
56 groups will at the end of their di
cussiOn make recommendations
the conference as a whole regar
ing their particular phase of Il
18 street and highway safety pro
lem.
- John D. Reeder, immediate pa
president of the Delaware Safe
"a Council, will act as cOnferen
chairman. The general session
the conference is open for adu
and special shOWings of safety m
- ton pictures will be in progre
% during the entire day. The adul
however, will not be permitted
meet. with the student groups. T
student groups viii be entirely
80 their own and will make their Oy
recommendations.
Safety leaders throughout {
State Of Delaware sincerely no
rs that many concrete recommend
tiOns will emanate from the &C
- ference all Of which will tend
greatly enhance the street a
,08 highway safety program thrOug
out the State Of Delaware.
. Governor J. Caleb BOggs W
extend official state greetings. ]
,e, marks Of welcome will be extend
'OA by Mayor w. Edward Haman
Dover.
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