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Show NEW FIRST AID STUDY PLANNED Standard and Advanced Training Offered This Week A group of new first aid classes will start this week in various centers. Tonight in room 213 of the Cen¬tral building, Weber college, the Sempre Musical society will com¬mence the standard class. Mrs. S. P. Dobbs will be the instructor. On Tuesday night, at Mound Fort school, commencing at seven- thirty, an advanced class will start. The nucleus of this class will be air wardens who desired additional training. The class will be for 10 hours, and anyone is invited to attend who is interested in advanced credit. They must have passed the standard first aid course. Vernon Elliott will be the instructor. For Railroaders On Tuesday and Thursday after¬noons, three-thirty to five-thirty p. m., a standard course will start for all those interested. Workers of the U. P. roundhouse will be members of this class. The second lesson of advanced first aid may be obtained at the L D. S. Nineteenth ward chapel Thursday evening at seven-thirty. Johanna Griffith is instructor. Classes will begin Thursday and Friday for more civilian defense volunteers, including air wardens, volunteer firemen, etc. Two classes will be organized in the Weber college West Central building (red building) for Thursday evening at seven-thirty and another one for Friday evening in the same build¬ing, same time. Instruction, is being given to the personnel of two first aid highway stations, one at the Kendall store in Uintah, and the other at the Lloyd Berrett service station in Roy. One other highway station in operating, at the C. L. Johns¬ton store in Hooper. Seven other highway stations are being planned at strategic positions. Special Session A special meeting of all first aid instructors has been called, by Kent S. Bramwell, first aid director, for next Saturday eve¬ning from six-thirty to eight- thirty in the Utah Power audi¬torium. Dr. R. L. Draper, medical advisor of the first aid commit¬tee, will be in attendance. Fracture Received In Ski Accident Lowell P. Smith, 20, son of Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Smith, 2523 Polk, was reported in satisfactory condition in St. Benedict's hospital today following a double fracture of the right leg in a skiing accident Thursday afternoon at Snow Basin. Skiing companions reported the injury was suffered when Smith fell while coming down Wild Cat run. Members of the ski patrol gave first aid. They Learn What to Do Before the Doctor Comes PREPARED . . . Practicing emergency aid taught through the showing of a motion picture, "What to Do Before the Doctor Comes," are members of the Wilson L. D. S. ward Relief society. The patients are Yvonne Archibald and Geneva Stanger, and class, members, reading from left, Irene Geilman, Eva Halliday, Mrs. H. F. Elliott, Caroline Nash, Melva G. Platt, Minnie Stratford and Jessene Pack. In the background, visitors are watching the practice. WILSON, May 29-The motion picture, "What to Do Before the Doctor Comes," got results at the Red Cross first aid class of the Wilson Relief society. Members of the class and visitors crowded around to practice the emergency aids taught by the screen method under direction of Kent S. Bramwell. Mr. Bramwell, Red Cross direc¬tor for first aid, water safety and accident prevention, is assisting groups who wish to prepare for family and community health pro¬tection. He announced that the motion picture projecting machine and equipment are available at the Red Cross headquarters in the city; and county building in Ogden and that he will assist such groups any time and at any place free of charge, upon two days' notice. Mrs. H. F. Ellis, who was in¬structor for the Wilson groups since January, has given certifi¬cates of completion to 17 members of the class in home nursing and is now conducting a course in first aid. The classes are held at two- thirty p. m. every Tuesday in the ward chapel. Wilson people are also planning an evening class to accommodate those unable to attend in the after-noon. |