BMan fl THE SWEDISH PRESS Torsdagen den 3 sept. CHECK ALCOHOL IN BLOOD Sweden attacks drunken driving STOCKHOLM Sweden’S|in very exceptional cases, for drunken ; hfe- The new law will apply to ’ legislation against ; .-• -. driving, dating from 1934, is a^ vehicle operators, in other expeeted to be stiffened by | words to bicyclists and motor-the middle of 1954 according cyelists, aårplane pilots, locomo-to recent proposals by a parlia- > tive engineers, and steamships mentary committee. Thus any captains, and to those who nav-driver having an aleoholic con- ig^te a motorboat. centration in his blood of .05 ( per cent or more will be punish-ed if detected. Whether involved in an acci-dent or not, drivers are now punished by fines or jail terms up to six months if the alcohol ratio in the blood is between 0.8 and .15 percent, and by jail up to one year if it is above that level. The proposed new law would raise the maximum jail terms to two years, and to six years if the driver contri-butes to another persons death. Present penalties fior the milder form of drunken driving, that is with an alcohol con-centration of .05 and .15 per cent, will not be increased. It, is suggested, however. that a! The proposal to lower the punjshable alcohol ratio in the blood from .08 to .05 per cent was based on extensive praetie-al tests in Sweden, which showed a deterioration in the traffic-j reaetions of most drivers even i at an alcohol concentration as low as .03-.04 per cent. These1 tests, originated by Dr. L. | Goldberg, of Stockholm, v.ere part of many years’ study of i alcohol problems leading up to| a revamping of Sweden’s wholei liqour legislation. Among other! things. the present system of liquor rationing for home and restaurant consumption. inaug-urated 40 years ago, is slated to go. The Swedish drunken driv- GOVERNOR WARREN AND FAMILY AT VISBY Än lever Hexan and many other new Swedisli books just arrived! Look in, get a fiiendly service. The Home of the European Book in Vancouver Continental Book Cehtre 914A., West Pender Street. — Phone PA. 4711 (Opposite Hotel Abbotsford) fattar 31 meter och djupet är 9 meter varför piren kan mottaga även stora, djupgående fartyg. Kostnaden är 30 miljoner mK. Mjölkleveranserna fran skärgården visar tendens att öka, säger disponent Ole Wikström vid Alands cen- trallags inejeri Deras mjölk sund. Kvävd bil hämtar i Mariehamn. 2.000 liter per dag fran Lumpar- i bastu. Arbetaren Veikko Karppinen från Vieremä kvävdes till döds, efter att i berusat tillstånd ha kopplat på elströmmen den eldade bastun antände trävirket. Ombyggnadsarbetena på den av Lovisa svenska samlyceum inköpta fastigheten vid Mariegatan har nu fortskridit så långt att taklagsöl hållits. Arkitekt har varit Anders-Olof Bengts. Byarna i södra Lemland erhöll nyligen det efterlängtade elljuset. Det är inalles ett femtiotal abonnenter i Flaka, Vesteränga och Vestingsboda som är med fnin liörjan. Men på goda grunder beräknas det i en att där kommer in många mer - VJO VI viuinvu * K- il