1953_01 The Daily Collegian January 1953

              THE
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FRESNO    STATE    COLLEGE
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FRESNO. CALIEORNIA. TUESDAY. JANUARY 6, 1958
FSC Hoopsters Find Home At Last;!
Play In New Gymnasium Jan. 16th
Scholarship Planned As
Memorial For Mueller;
Death Car Driver Held
Many years of playing "home" games on
will come to an end the night of January 1<
edition of the Freano State College basket
18th when the 1953
 __, ^_T. team takes to
pine floor of the' ?931,770 men's
BMTOMU COJtMHTK
Loud Stockings In
Order For KDR-SP
le Shuffle
The Drunk Driver... A Real Menace
Drunk driving,, in the eyes of the law of this state,
a high misdemeanor — punishable by fines of $100
to $250 and up or correspondingly severe jail terras.
Drunk driving with injury or death is a felony, good
for one to five years' imprisonment'
These penalties, stiff as they may seem,for unpremeditated offenses, are none too harsh for such
offenders.
Forlthe person who drives while inebriatefl had]
Such slight regard for the welfare of his fellows that|
he is a criminal, in every sense of the word. He is a
real menace, a constant threat to the life and property
ofalL
This fact has been indelibly stamped on us, speaking personally, by two recent incidents close enough I
to jolt us into some very serious thought on the subject. Charges against the individuals accused in both
cases now are before local courts. In both of these
cases it was clear the persons accused, if not actually
drunk, at least had been drinking.
In the first, relatives of an instructor we know at
a local high school were killed and injured when involved in an accident in which a young man allegedly
ran a,stop sign. Injured was an"FSC freshman girt
The second incident, of which everyone on campus '
aware, involved the death of an FSC freshman cai
pus cop during the holiday vacation. Figuring in the
mishap is a woman whose preliminary hearing on
manslaughter and felony drunk driving charges was
held yesterday. This accident took place at an intersection protected by numerous signs, lights, flares and
police blinkers.
Traffic deaths, both during the recent holiday
son and the entire past year, hit new highs in
state and nation. A grim reminder of this situation
is the FSC record. The 1052-53 academic year is not
yet half over, and already two deaths, one amputation
and several other injuries are chalked up
pus scoreboard.
Of these traffic tragedies, the percentage in which
liquor was involved is much too great to preclude
ranking the fluid itself as anything but a real man-
killer when combined with a consumer and an automobile. The public must take cognizance of this fact
a?%then take action — both as a group and individually — to battle this combination, prevent its formation whenever possible.
A person convicted of felony drunk driving should
.never be allowed to drive again. Nor, it seems to us,
ishould an individual with more than two drunk driving convictions.
This would be hard on some individuals. But it
would cut down the menace. And which is more important, a slight hardship on a few or a continuing
menace to the lives of many?
Another measure that would help to relieve the
.situation would be that of enforcing the payment of
(conviction debts, at least partially, with time in jail
More "respectable" citizens would think twice before taking chances on driving while "under the ii
fluence" if they knew they couldn't get off with
fine alone by pleading guilty — that time in jail wi
inevitable.
This is a technique that has been used with em
sidcrable success elsewhere — with speedei-s on tl
San Francisco Bay bridge, for instance — and or
that has rewarded citizenry with lower accident,
injury and death rates.
These are things the public as a whole can do about
the problem — pass prohibitive laws. What
Plans are being made U  _
lemory of Edwin Theodore It  __ .
.riminology student fatally injured in an automobile accident while on duty as a special officer on the Christmas Tree
Lane detail on the night of December 21st.
Tho Criminology Club wtU meet
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EDWIN T. MUELLER
MAY ORDtR MORI PKS
fSC 1RAHIC YOU.
WSSF Finishes
Clothing Drive,
Will Ship Raisins
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Rally Committee Meeting
Its Bret game January