Congratulations
Echo Hill W. I.
An Alberta Women's Institute has taken
second place in a Canada- wide traffic
safety competition, Bill Perkins, farm
safety director for the Alberta Safety
Council announced recently.
The winning group is the Echo Hill
Women's Institute and the prize is the
Carol Lane Award worth ? 500. The annual
contest among Canadian women's
groups is administered by the Canadian
Highway Safety Council through a grant
from the Shell Oil Company, Limited.
The prize winning project of the Echo
Hill group involved mounting red reflective
tape on 396 pieces of district
farm machinery. Echo Hill is the Busby-
Picardville area northwest of Edmonton.
The campaign was undertaken when the
W. I. became concerned over frequent
reports of accidents and near- accidents
involving heavy farm machinery travelling
district roads at night. Fourteen
W. I. members and 11 4- H members attached
the tape to machinery on 73
farms. The material was purchased with
W. I. funds from the Alberta Safety
Council.
On the W. I's safety committee are
Mrs. Lloyd McMillan, Mrs. William Price
and Mrs. Sam Yeomans.
The Carol Lane Awards have been
established, Mr. Perkins said, " to recognize,
foster and reward women's
achievements toward the preservation
of lives through traffic safety pregrams
their community, province or nation."
They are named in honor of the worn-
' s travel director of Shell Oil and are!
given to the three women's groups
which " have developed and directed the"
most effective traffic safety programs
during the previous year."
Other winners for 1959 were the
Toronto Junior League, first prize; and
the Montreal West End Safety Council,
