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D44335-2
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- 1949-08-08 (Creation)
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Tacoma Safety Commissioner Robert S. Temme carefully inspects the numbered arm band being worn by Sgt. William Cordell on August 9, 1949. Officer Cordell, and all the mounted patrolmen in Tacoma were wearing arm bands with numbers on them indicating the number of days Tacoma had gone without a traffic fatality. John Duras, of the Tacoma Junior Chamber of Commerce, stands to Sgt. Cordell's left. The Jaycees had come up with the idea of the arm bands to promote safe driving. The arm bands would be changed on a daily basis to reflect the number of days without fatal accidents; the next band, which they would receive the following day, would have "142" on it. (T.N.T., 8/10/49, p. 11). TPL-9816
Mounted police--Tacoma--1940-1950; Uniforms; Awards; Motorcycles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tacoma Police Department (Tacoma); Tacoma Junior Chamber of Commerce (Tacoma); Temme, Robert S.; Duras, John; Cordell, Bill;