Carolina Motor Club Demands Uniformed Traffic Officers, Aug. 17, 1925

Want Uniform Suits for Traffic Cops

By the Associated Press

Greensboro, Aug. 17—County commissioners in convention at Blowing Rock were urged in a telegram from C.W. Roberts, vice president of the Carolina Motor Club, to insist on uniformed traffic officers and to remove speed signs that were erected prior to the passage of the Uniform state speed law and are now illegal.

The wire follows: Your convention is urged to recommend that all counties establish a uniformed constabulary system for the purpose of enforcing the motor laws of each county. Action of this kind is absolutely necessary if we are to reduce accidents and protect the lives of our people while on the highway. Only uniformed officers should be permitted to serve. We further would ask that all counties properly mark their roads as required by law and remove the hundreds of illegal speed signs that are now standing.

Mecklenburg, Guilford, Montgomery and Stanly are among the counties that have already inaugurated uniformed traffic officers.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Aug. 17, 1925

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