The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 64

16 Sec.E-SUN'NOV-26'1961 l0flngrIrgQmrt shop every night till Christmas 9:30 to 9:30 downtown till 9:00 merritt special WITH HI-BROILER nH FUTOit i I 1 I I I I Hm Iff 111 1 I til I i 1 1. y)! I 2 1 i if i "CJHi xt" i I i f- 'i-i yT I CSPkv III; I DEFENSIVE DRIVING Instructor Joe Zisa of Pacific Telephone's defensive driving school questions his class. Students, from left, are Don Gerard, Al Gar cia and Alice England (back of head). Across the table is Charlotte Walker. Timet pftott Company Teaches Its Employees to Drive Defensively and Live Here's the new O'Kecfe Merritt 36" gai range with hi-broilcr plus totisscrie.

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Once every three in the period between Thanksgiving and New years the supervisors take a refresher course. Worth Proved Years an average of three people per day will die in Greater Los Angeles' wheel-to-wheel traffic pack. hood but aim and steer a distance ahead. 2 Look at the big picture, the overall view through! your windshield, not just the car ahead of you. 3 Keep your eyes moving.

See everything about you, the car ahead, the car behind, the car on your left, the steering wheels of the cars parked at right to see if anyone is about to move out. Check your rear and side vision mirrors every five seconds. 4 Be sure other vehicles and pedestrians see you. Sound your horn as a warning, give early turn signals, don't drive in blind spots. 5 Always leave yourself an out, an escape route in the event of emergency.

"Over half of all traffic accidents," Smith points out, "occur when drivers get intent on a route problem turning a corner, going in or out of a parking place, look The telephone company has proved conclusively that In 1960 there were 115 -s i the investment in driver training is worthwhile. The Los Angeles area office operates a fleet of 3,300 vehicles deaths here in this period. In 1959 another 114 died within the holiday season. Industry, with a huge dol over a 7,940 square mile territory. It covers almost 75 lar investment in both ve of Los Angeles County and 62 friigidaire wa new soer ing for a street or address tia color at no ex and fail to see that they are ciname crowding or blocking traf part of Ventura County.

"Since we began defensive driver training," said Stikeleather, "in 1949 we've reduced our accident rate about 65." In 1949, the firm had 30 accidents for every 100 vehicles in operation. Today the company has a rate of 11.6 accidents per 100 vehicles. "We haven't had a fatality in the Los Angeles area," added Stikeleather, "in my memory." hicles and employees, has found traffic accidents the second largest cause of absenteeism. It is exceeded only by the common cold. Funds for Prevention Vast sums are expended annually in an effort to combat the overall traffic accident picture.

Many industries have developed in -plant training programs to combat this never-ending problem. Unlike most primary driving courses, the concept of industry today is "defensive driving" or as one individual explains: "Driving to live." One of the first firms to institute a defensive driver training program is Pacific Telephone Co. The program began in 1949 and is a con fic. Two-Day Course The Pacific Telephone course takes two days. One and a half days are spent in the classroom in lecture, films, descriptive diagrams and model accident situations.

A half day is devoted to individual field tests actually driving in Los Angeles traffic and in a reaction test of Telescope Lecture The ninth in a series of 10 "everyday astronomy" lectures will feature the telescope at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Griffith Park Observatory's planetarium theater. controlled stops in Griffith Park. Classes are restricted to tinuous operation of train ing and re-training. A defensive driver is de It (' Discussion Set on Auto Smog Jay Hause, chief engineer for the California Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Board, fined as one "who is careful to commit no driving errors himself and who makes allowance for the lack of skill May Co.

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11, at! 6:30 p.m. in the Rodger Young Auditorium, 93G or judgment on the part of the other fellow." Early Exponent Defensive driving is not new. One of its early exponents was Amos E. Neyhart, now the professor in charge of the Institute of Public Safety at Penn State University. Neyhart's principles cen Washington Blvd.

Other speakers will be Sgt. A. B. McCormick of the Cali fornia Highway Patrol, on 1962 Motor Vehicle Code re ter around the three C's visions, and George jjaum, western director of the Cummins Engine on new en courtesy, control and concentration. Under each of the three C's is a list of factors which gine developments.

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