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Clinton, S. G, Thursday, April 14,1955
Number 15
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■ About one out of every five
persons killed in traffic accidents
in South Carolina in 1954 was a
pedestrian, according to e report
issued by Chief Highway Com
missioner Claude R. McMillan.
The report showed that 116 pe
destrians were killed and 742 in
jured last year. Hie total num
ber of persons killed in all types
of traffic accidents was 564. An
additional 9,266 persons were in
jured.
Over three-fourths of all pe
destrian deaths resulted from
two traffic violations. About
two-thirds of the total occurred
when pedestrian was crossing
between intersections. The re
port listed 75 deaths and 372 in
juries under this heading. Walk
ing with traffic in the roadway,
another major traffic violation,
caused 13 pedestrian deaths and
22 injures. There were three pe
destrians killed and 14 injured
walking in the roadway against
traffic during 1954. Crossing at
intersections resulted in death
for 11 pedestrians and injury for
196 others. Two people were
killed and 11 were injured get
ting in or out of vehicles dur
ing 1954. Two children were kill
ed and 39 injured while playing
in the roadway.
Accidents Involving pedestri
ans appeared to be more serious
at night, according to the report
More than half the pedestrian fa
talities, 60, occurred at night
compared to 56 fatalities during
the day but 215 pedestrians were
injured at night compared to 525
injured during daylight hours.
The largest number of pedes
trian accident victims were chil
dren in the 5-14 year age group.
This group had 34 deaths and 303
injuries. The next largest num
ber occurred in the 50-69 age
group where there were 31
deaths and 87 injuries. Ten of
the fatalities and 107 of the in.
juries were children under four.
Persons over 70 years of age
made up 18 of the pedestrian fa
talities and 38 of the injuries.
The age group 15-29 had 10
deaths and 85 injured, while per
sons from 30-49 years accounted
for 9 deaths and 86 injuries.
The state’s trfafic law enforce
ment officers arrested 4,014 per
sons for walking along rural
highways while intoxicated.
Seventeen pedestrians were ar
rested, resulting in 16 convic-
Court Begins
Hearings In
Segregation Case
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dently will be used to help herald
die next presidential election.
Whatever the President of the
United States does, or wherever
he goes, is news. Photographers
are eager to train their cameras
on him every chance they get.
He is good newspaper copy. He
does not have to ask that his pic
ture be taken.
It is So his lasting credit that
President Eisenhower goes to
church regularly. He sets a good ledge that during these trying
example that all of us citizens times we have a leader who rec-
might well emulate. We find ognizes the need for the guid-
corifWent assurance in the know- ance of Almighty God.
Washington, Monday, April 11
—The Supreme Court opened
hearings today on how the South
should break its century-old tra
dition of segregating White and
Negro school children.
Attorneys general for the bor
der states of Kansas and Dela
ware led off the arguments with
optimistic reports on how inte
gration has progressed in their
states.
They will be followed Tuesday
and Wednesday by representa
tives of southern states where of
ficials, fear that immediate inte
gration might provoke violence.
Attorneys for Negro groups,
however, contend that an abrupt
shift is the best way to solve the
problem.
The Supreme Court first
scheduled the § arguments, ex
pected to last about three days,
when it struck down last May
the doctrine that “separate but
equal" school facilities for
Whites and Negroes are consti.
tutional. The court now must
determine how the historic, decis
ion should be carried out.
Kansas, first of 10 states to be,
heard, said that as far as it is-
concerned there is no need for
further Supreme Court action.
Almost all schools in the state
now admit children regardless
of race, Attorney General Harold
R. Fatzer told the court
Delaware reported that inte
gration has worked out smoothly
in the northern section of the
state. But it said that southern
counties, where there is strong
pro-segregation sentiment should
be allowed time for “ a gradual
transition program.”
The positions of the state were
set forth in briefs that are fol
lowed closely by attorneys argu
ing before the high tribunal.
The District of Columbia, Vir
ginia and South Carolina, the
other parties to the original seg
regation suits, will present their
recommendations Tuesday.
They will be followed by the
Justice Department, representing
the administration, and Florida,
North Carolina, Arkansas, Okla
homa, Maryland and Texas. Each
side is allowed one hour.
The District of Columbia,
where integration already is tak
ing place, reported in its brief
that no further court action is
needed in its case.
But all of the southern states
joined in asking for unlimited
time to lower school color bars.
Immediate integration would not
work, they assert, and might
wreck the existing public school
structure because of public op
position.
The administration asked the
justices to allow lower federal
courts to handle the integration
problem and to order that it be
accomplished as rapidly as pos
sible. However, the Justice De_
partment added that considera
tion should be given to the prob
lems of southern states in setting
any deadlines for compliance.
Lawyers representing Negro
parents take the position that
tolerance follows association be
tween the two races. They say
the Supreme Court has decided
that Negroes’ rights are being
violated and therefore should
take prompt action to remedy
the situation.
A ruling probably will be
forthcoming before the end of
the term in June.
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A Good Example
By JAMES C. KINARD
Sometimes there arises a sus
picion that there is no limit to
the depths of depradations to
which partisan politics may go.
A case in point is the caustic
criticism which reportedly a
prominent politician has made at
President Eisenhower’s regular
church attendance. The infer
ence is that the President goes to
church to have his picture made
This critic goes on to elab
orate that “any man who tries to
parade his religion that way be
fore the public is ungodly.”
It is to be hoped that this man
has been misquoted. Such un
warranted and unfair criticism
is to be resented by every fair-
minded American citizen. The
charge implied rests upon no
basis of fact One is inclined to
accept it as just a raucous echo
from the sonorous sounding
board of noxious noise that evi
rions, for walking along the right
hand side of the road (the law
requires a pedestrian to walk on
the left hand shoulder facing
traffic). There were 4,182 per
sons warned for this violation.
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