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COURIER
POST, Camden N. J. Thursday, September 6th, 1951
George
Jefferis, Police Veteran, Is Dead at 54
Patrolman George F.
Jefferis, 54, veteran motorcycle officer, of 114 Terrace Avenue, died
Wednesday in Cooper Hospital, where he was under treatment for injuries
suffered last week in a collision of his cycle and an automobile.
Coroner Blake said in an autopsy would be conducted today
Jefferis, a patrolman for 25
years, was admitted to the hospital August 29 with a fractured left
ankle and a possible fracture of the left hip, suffered when his
motorcycle and an automobile collided at Third and Penn streets.
The car was driven by Robert
Collins, 20, of 6041 Clayton Avenue, Pennsauken Township.
Active
U.S. Bond Seller
Jefferis was widely known throughout the city for his work during World
War II with Patrolman Earl
Stopfer, in the sale of $4,000,000 in war
bonds, and for the past 16 years in guiding and instructing public and
parochial school safety patrols. During that period the two men
organized safety patrols in 38 schools with a membership of 1058.
The two patrolmen three years
ago completed a colored, sound motion picture, "A Plan For
Safety", financed by the Atlantic Refining Co. Since then the film
has been shown throughout the United States, Canada, Hawaiian Islands,
and is now in England. The picture was filmed in Camden, with the two
policemen and Camden schoolchildren as characters.
Veteran
of World War I
Among the cities which have announced they have organized safety
patrols along the lines shown in the picture are Vineland, Millville,
Akron OH, Cincinnati OH, Springfield MA, Memphis TN, Washington DC,
Bloomington IN, Salt Lake City UT, Topeka KS, Richland WA, Boston MA,
Lancaster PA, Honolulu HI, and Toronto, Canada.
The film has been shown
before hundreds of civic, social, and service groups, and parent-teacher
associations. It relates various duties and requirements for school
safety patrol members and shows them in correct activities in the event
of fire alarms and drills, operation of children's courts, holding of
safety meetings, care of children on streets, and holding of program
planning meetings.
Jefferis was a Navy veteran
of World War I and a member of Camden Local 35, Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association, for 25 years. He completed 25 years in the police
department in July.
On September 7, 1948 Jefferis
also suffered injuries when his cycle was struck in the rear by an auto
as he was cruising on Admiral Wilson Boulevard.
Jefferis is survived by his
widow, Ida; a daughter, Barbara Ann, 15; his father Joseph, of 1152 Baring
Street, a retired employee of the Delaware River Joint
Commission, and a sister, Mrs. Gerard Tiedeken, wife of the city's chief
school attendance officer.
Services will be held
Monday at 11:00 a.m. in the Murray funeral home, 406 Cooper Street,
where friends may call Sunday night. Burial will be in Locustwood
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