Kenai to Crack Down
On All Traffic Violators;
City Orders Mew Signs
An immediate crack-down on
careless and reckless driving
has gone into effect in the city
of Kenai, it was announced joint
ly this week by Chief of Police
Charles “Red" Peavley and Jess
Nicholas, magistrate for the city
of Kenai, who also is deputy
magistrate for the Third Judicial
District.
“We have had two deaths, eight
serious injuries and three minor
injuries resulting from accidents
between Wildwood Station and
the “Y" since the last week of
March,” Peavley said. “Eleven
cars were completely totaled out
iu excess of $1,000 each on the
Kenai Spur Road."
“That averages up to one wreck
per mile since the last day of
March, most of it directly con
tributable to high speed. We’re
going to have a killer’s road out
of this stretch if something isn’t
clone to curb it," he warned.
“All high speed apprehensions
will he treated as reckless driv
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:ng and will demand mandatory
suspension of driver’s license.
Something must be done to halt
this heedless and needless de
struction of lives, vehicles and
other property and to cut down
this slaughter on the high
ways. There is scarcely a week
end that some vehicle, sometimes
as many as three, is not found
wrecked by the side of city access
roads,”
Magistrate Nicholas said the
last session of the state leg: -
lature makes it mandatory that
a 30-day suspension of driver’s
license be given on the first of
fense for reckless driving or
driving while intoxicated.
"That suspension can be ex
tender! to one year if recommend
ed by the court to the Commis
sioner of Public Safety. The same
legislative session also gave lo
cal courts jurisdiction over local
juvenile offenders,” Nicholas
added.
Suspension of three driver's
licenses took place in the magis
trate’s court this month. A check
with local insurance companies
reveals that liability insurance
rates increase from 100 per cent
to 300 per cent for any person
who has had a driver’s license
suspended and that the insurance
companies really “crack-down”
in issuing such insurance to a
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Strengthening the claim that
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hunting and fishing, the sc-cond
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Feature of their second edi
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violator who is under 25 years
of age.
“Don’t get the impression that
we are out to ‘get’ the juvenile
driver. The majority of persons
involved in accidents to date and
brought to this court were not
juveniles,’’ Nicholas said, “al
though most of them have been
young.”
It has been recommended to
the City Council that all speed
limits within city boundaries be
reduced. Traffic signs, especially
parking signs, have been ordered
and will be enforced immediately.
There will be no more cross
parking or parking against the
flow of traffic. The “right hand
rule” or parking in line of traffic
will be enforced.
“It has been requested by the
city government that all drivers
abide by these rules for their
own protection as well as that
of others, both as to personal and
financial security. Faulty vehic
les, including those with one or
more lights out, poor brakes, bad
tires, or no tail lights are also
a menace and the driver of such
a vehicle will be stopped.”
Magistrate Nicholas advised
persons to check the city ordi
nances and said there are a lim
ited number of City of Kenai
ordinances for sale at the City
Clerk’s office at $1.50 per copy.
“These ordinances were made
to be put in effect and those
pertaining to traffic are espec
ially vital,” Chief of Police Peav
ley stated. “The fact you have a
driver’s license is not. a Clod
given right. It is a privilege
granted by the state giving you
rights of use of highways while
driving a car. These however,
can be taken away from those
who do not abide by the law or
have any respect for it."
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well as “how-to” articles on n.
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birds, and tying flies.
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this fall Miss Park develope t
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to Alaska from major w . i
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over the Soldatna housing i
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