Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1962 Page: 2 of 8
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Smith savs barometer may be
traffic death forecaster
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traffic -cene
Mini; stations ovei Texa-
yet available for tht'
«i iiiuvt't n Ma\ Ml - June
However, he recall* tnat
th >i: iH-r>tor i8 were prevalent
over urh of the State at that
time, and Ai.-tii Weather Bu
reati ret nis -upport that re-
Austin '.v eat her -.words >now
the average June barometric
I> t-s .rt wa- J'.'.-S' inches t
nicrc.ry. Hut ai out 4 P. M..
'i'hur-day, May 51. the Austin
barometer dropped to _,;,.17.)
and varied from 2'.t.l >0 to 2M.
170 for four hour>. These 1 vv
readings continued, off and i>..
front 4 i'. M-. Ma\ 1 t" •">
P. M., June
*r§ of t
i- few other- havt in recent
years.
In that 72-hour period be
twe n 12 01 A. M. on Friday,
Juiu 1 and midnight on Sun-
day. June these tratredi -
look place on the highways in
i scon of 1< xas eountie.-:
One fatal i ra-h took place
every other hour.
One person was killed in a
fatal highway crash every one
hour and 2«> minutes.
Cars were wrecked on an av-
erage about one an hour.
Nine of the fatal crashes uverage. The high was 29.250.
resulted in from two to five j ()n June .>_ the ,ow vVa, 29.-
140 at 5 A. M., ami the high
of 21).26o wa- registered be-
tween 10 and 11 A. M.. < t
, June 3, a low of 29.195 was re
aough; then the day preceding t.orde(1 at fx)th , A M anU ,
P. M., and the hi^'h of 2i'.2fvi
From 7 A. M. to 7 P. M. on
June 1. the barometer in Aus-
tin varied from 29.130 to 29.
141. well below the month's
death.- per crash, and these
nine multiple-death collision.-
exacted a toll of 28 lives.
And if that wasn't bad e
this 72 hours of highway earn
age. Thuistlay, May 31, led off
with four more fatal crashes,
costing 10 more lives. One of
these blasted the life from .-ix
was registered between 9 ami
10 A. M.
"1 draw- no conclusions,"
many of my reporter-friends
>ver the State have followed
two leads in looking for news
stories: first, when the baro-
vict;ms, the worst of the week- Smith >aid, "but for many years
end drama of dtath. And
Thursday is normally a safe
day out on the highways, us
ually with ft wer crash' - and
deaths than any other day of : meter fall- and n mains low
the week except Tuesdays. for a few day.-, they watch for
Instantly and inevitably ros< unusual happening.-, and see-
that bellwether question of Tex- ond. w hen there is a fatal high-
as traffic: Why? way -rash in their area, they
Veteran observers and sta- watch police reports and hospi-
tisticians of the Texa- Depart- ial- very closely on the theory
ment of Public Safety, whosi that this kind of tragedy fre-
dealing and delving with the:quently run- in three.-: when |
fatal figures involved in the there is one major crash, tw
Texas traffic tragedy cover [ more frequently follow in short j
many years, say there is rei- j order.
ther rhyme nor reason for such "F have watched this pheno-
sudden, unexpected and unpre- menon fv>r -o many years that
dictable di.-asters in series. It 1 am convinced that oppres
happens every so often, once >ive weather ha- a decided ef- |
in a long while, a rather rare feet on some personalities.
thing, but when it does happen, low barometer is a type of op
it is deadly. pressive weather, frequently a i
Nothing took place on Thurs- weather accompanied by unu- ,
day. May 31, when that six- a! or extreme heat, and of j
death tragedy unrolled in Ha! course, usually forecasting a
County, near Memphis on the weather change. I don't pre I
Panhandle's High Plains, to in- tend to know how it works; I I
dicate that this wa- the first only know what I have seen I
act of the deadly drama soon for many years."
to be recorded. Governor Price Daniel, whose
Governor Price Daniel'.- traf- Statewide traffic -afet;. cru- i
fie safety assistant, Brad H sade for the past five year-
Smith of Austin, has been ha- dealt in detail with the I
watching Texas traffic unoffic causes of highway crashes, says
iaily for 32 years, both as a the June record .-how- that
newspaper - radio - TV repor "a normally afe day and a nor-
ter and as a Iocs! traffic safety inally -afe month car. pr .ve
chairman, and officially for the t< be deadly on the highways'
past four and one-half years unless each driver use- al. hi- •
a.- Director of the Governor's skill and obeys all the t.-affi
Highway Safety Commission, laws. The record- have long
Out of hi.- news-gathering snown that most traffic crashes
experience. Smith has a theory: involve violation, so o.-x-dience
when a period of low baromet- to the law is the first rule of
ric pressure continues for a traffic ,-afety. We regret the
few days, all kinds of unusua lo.-s of every life on Tex*
and rather sensational types of highway-, but th< real control
news develop, nearly always in- lie- in the hands and minds of
volving unexpected actions by , Texas' five million licensed
human being.-. Traffic cra-hes driver -, each of whom mu.-'
represent one type of unusual drive carefully, legally, sober 1
news developments involving . ly arid cautiously if he is to a-
human beings. void a collision."
"Some of my scientist-friends The traffic tragedy of the;
teil me," Smith says, "that the first week of June, J9 i2. i- on i
effect of the weather on people
is a study known as bio-clim-
atology, arid they hastily add
record books, never to be e-
rased. Since nobody know
what happened, there remain
that very little work has been only the trite but true remind-
done in this field. One such ers that reach out from Texa
phase has been the study of the newspapers, radio stations, tel-
effect of the weather on human evision screen.- and billboard-
suicides. From my ringside hundreds of thousands of times
seat a.- a newsman at the edge ; every yeaj in an almost fran-
of the teeming arena that has j tic attempt to seek out, among
become Texas in the past third those five million Texa- driver-, j
of a century. I am personally the -ix or seven who will die '
convinced that unusual weather today, the 362 who will be hurt j
conditions have some sort of today, on the average,
art upsetting effect on the feel-j Hut those safety message -
ings and resultant actions of are also frantically seeking
large numbers of persons. Some to attiact the attention of an-
of these drive automobiles." other 54 Texans who may die
Smith -ays U. S. Weather on some future disastrous, j
Bureau reports from arious ' heart breaking, death dealing i
~ ~ weekend, which should have
Ur. N©il R. Gurwit* been peaceful, quiet and happy i
OPTOMETRIST . _ --
office: 913 Main st. Time of Day Aids
phone ca 9-2106, Hastrop Tex Clean Wash Results
Office Hours — 9:00 to 5:30
Daily Except Tuesdays Do you look for a nice bright
(In Elgin on Tuesdays) unny day to do your wa h"
Closed on Thursday afternoon ()r d„ vou think it' „.ak, any j
difference as to when you do? j
Well, scienti ■ t have found dif-
ferent results are achieved at
different hours of the day arid j
nt different times of tin* year,
even if th" amount of -olar
radiation is the same
Research representative- at !
the Oklahoma State t'niverd-
ty'.- Agricultual Experiment j
Station have found the.e inter-I
esting facts:
More bleaching and more j
fading occurs during the mid
AMY S. STANDIFER ,mi- • month*.
There's better retention of j
whitene • in your clothes in
1 late summei.
It's not always the woman
who gets her wash out fir-t
who get the best results.
' lothes come out whit' t if you I
wait until 11 o'clock oi so to
I hang out the wash
ESTABLISHED 18o3
Published
EVERY THURSDAY
at BASTROP, TEXAS
Sabaeription, |3.00 Per Year
R. E. STANDIFER
PUBLISHER
EDITOR
Entered as Second Class Matter
at the Post Office at Bastrop,
Texas, Under Act of March 3,
1879.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1962, newspaper, August 23, 1962; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237910/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.