Steps Being Taken
  Careless driving, the major cause of highway accidents, may someday be curbed. Effective steps are being taken in the direction of traffic control. But meanwhile thousands of victims will continue to suffer needlessly in smash-ups and over turns.
To do whatever it can for these sufferers, who frequently are the innocent ones, the American Red Cross is establishing a nation-wide chain of
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"Emergency Stations" along principal highways. In Nebraska there now are 25 stations, most of them in filling stations or cabin camps. Ninety-four more are to be established. At each Emergency Station two attendants are required to take a 15-hour first aid course given by a local physician on authorization of the Red Cross. When that course is satisfactorily completed, the local Red Cross chapter supplies the station with bandages, splints, antiseptics and a directory of local doctors and hospitals. Red Cross Emergency Station signs then are posted along the highway.
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