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Dorothy Goffe, Traffic Bureau Clerk, Quizzes Lauren Jedele On White Canes As He Applies For A Driver's License, May 1945

Dorothy Goffe, Traffic Bureau Clerk, Quizzes Lauren Jedele On White Canes As He Applies For A Driver's License, May 1945 image
Year:
1945
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 14, 1945
Caption:
Mrs. Dorothy Goffe (left) of 810 Dewey Ave., a clerk in the traffic bureau, asks Lauren Jedele of 702 Hutchins Ave., who is applying for a driver's license, if he knows the meaning of the white cane, as part of the program for "White Cane Week." Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Lions Club in co-operation with the city police department, "White Cane Week," scheduled from May 13 to 20, is part of a state-wide program designed to call attention to the white cane as the "traffic symbol of the blind." As Mrs. Goffe subsequently explained, a blind person carrying a white cane always has the right-of-way, according to a state statute passed in 1936, and in Ann Arbor, a city ordinance prohibits the use of white canes except by persons wholly or partially blind to help provide protection for them against accidents on streets.

Donald J. Jedele

Donald J. Jedele image
Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
May
Year
1963
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