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Show Dec. 14, 1941 SPECIAL MEET OF FIRST AID GROUP CALLED Emergency Session In War program Scheduled for Today An emergency meeting has been called for two p. m. Sunday in the civilian defense headquarters, 2514 Washington, for all first aid in¬structors, announced Kent S. Bramwell, Red Cross first aid di¬rector for Weber county. The most comprehensive first aid program ever conducted in the county will begin Monday night with classes to be held in various parts of the county during the night. "These classes have been de¬manded by the citizens of Weber county and every effort is being made to care for all requests," Mr. Bramwell said. "Special training and new problems related to the local defense program are to be discussed at the Monday after¬noon session." Place Orders Orders have been placed for first aid equipment for all police, fire department and sheriffs cars. The entire student body and faculty of Weber college have asked for first aid training and Ferron Losee in conducting classes there. Ralph Sanford, principal of Ogden high school, has approved first aid in connection with physical education classes. Other institu¬tions asking classes are the state deaf and blind school and the state industrial school where faculty members will be instructed. The American Legion has also asked for first aid instruction. Present plans include placing of first aid classes in six strategically located areas in the city and an¬other six in the county. As new requests come in, Mr. Bramwell said instructors will assume more classes and an intensive instructor training program will be carried on simultaneously. Several members of Weber County Medical association have volunteered their services as in¬structors, and there are now three men giving instruction to the state guard company here. Other groups now receiving in¬struction are: Mound Fort junior class; U. S. forest service women; Soroptimist club; Beehive girls; police and fire departments; Van¬guards; Utah Power & Light em¬ployes; Sperry Mills employes; Pre-Medics club at Weber college; an adult class at Lewis high school. "All first-aiders are requested to take refresher courses and to advance to the next highest grade in this work," Mr. Bramwell said Saturday. "We need every first- aider on his toes for any emerg¬ency that might arise." First aid cards and qualifications are good for two years only, then refresher courses must be taken to renew the cards. There are four grades of first aid work—junior, standard, ad¬vanced and lay instructor. The junior course is given all boys and girls under 17 years of age or in grades lower than second year high school; the standard course may be taken by anyone over 17 or in the last two years of high school; advanced calls for students who have completed the standard, and instructors course calls for those with special attributes of teaching, 20 years old and holding both standard and advanced train¬ing cards. Teacher assignments for the various districts, announced Sat¬urday by Mr. Bramwell, are: District 1—South Ogden, Eden Beutler. District 2 — Washington to Wan, Twenty-fifth to Thirty-sixth, Johanna Griffith. District 3 — Washington to Wall, Twenty-fifth to Ogden river, Ruth Hall. District 4 — All north of Ogden river, Wall to the mountains, Ernest Wall. District 5 — Ogden river to Twenty-third, Washington to Har¬rison, Keith Saxton. District 6 — Twenty-third to Twenty-seventh, Washington to Quincy, Kent S. Bramwell, Roy Lofgreen. District 7 — Twenty-third to Twenty-seventh, Quincy to moun¬tains, Morris Swing. District 8 — Twenty-seventh to Thirty-sixth, Quincy to moun¬tains, Victor Hancock. District 9 — Twenty-seventh to Thirty-sixth, Washington to Quincy, Carl Per District 10 — Ogden valley, Armond Schade, West Lindsay. District 11 — North Ogden, Vern Frandsen, Mary Baliff. District 12 — County, west of city limits, Wheatly Taylor. Special group assignments: Police and fire departments, Ernest Wall. Ski club, Vern Frandsen. State guard, Carl Blakely, Keith Saxton, Eden Beutler, Roy Lof- ' green. Weber college, Ferron Losee. Ogden high school, Helena B. Case, Gilbert Moesinger, Victor Hancock, Soroptimist and Beehive girls, Mrs. Dix Jones. Sperry Mills, Wilford DeHaan. Utah Power & Light Co., Roy Lofgreen. The times and places of meetings of the district groups will be an¬nounced Monday, Mr. Bramwell said. The meeting places have not yet been officially verified, he de¬clared, and would not be until Monday. Registration of students will be with the instructors at the class meetings. |