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The Weber County Chapter of the Red Cross began in December 1915 when a small group of individuals gathered to begin organizing a chapter of the Red Cross. In 1962, the name was changed to the Bonneville chapter, and in 1969, the chapter merged with other chapters in Northern Utah to become the Northern Utah Chapter, with its headquarters located in Ogden, Utah. The scrapbooks range from 1940 to 2003 and highlight some of the important work of the Red Cross. The books include photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials. |
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Show SAFETY SERVICES IN DENVER a 14-year-old girl saved her baby sister's life by artificial respiration learned in a Red Cross first aid class. A Spokane school teacher who had recently learned first aid used it to keep a severely cut pupil from bleeding to death. Such incidents, multiplied a thousandfold across the nation, are the payoff of the rapidly expanded Red Cross Safety Services program. Under the impetus of national civil defense requirements, the biggest increase in any of the Safety Services activities has been in first aid. Already training millions in first aid, and with an ultimate goal of a trained first aider in every family, the Red Cross issued 1,093,100 first aid certificates last year, more than in any other year since World War II. The number of instructors available, key to any expansion in first aid, reached 78,000 last June 30. This represented an increase of 47,000 over the year previous. The mushrooming first aid program was the direct result of a federal government request that 14 SAFETY SERVICES the Red Cross train millions in this vital form of self-preservation for civil defense. As a result the program was quickly expanded through all possible channels—industrial workers, students, police, firemen, civil defense workers, and others. In nearly every state some first aid training was begun in the schools. In many cities and towns first aid was made a requirement for high school graduation. Industries, large and small, increased first aid training for employees as a means of reducing absenteeism due to injuries and of providing trained first aiders for use in case of accidents or enemy attack. Survival swimming, a newly developed combat course for the armed forces, is the most recent development in Red Cross water safety. An out¬growth of World War II, it has been adopted as the standard aquatics course by the Navy. Plans are to extend it soon to other branches of the armed forces and to civilian men approaching service age. ANSWER THEIR CALL Life ebbs away as blood spurts from the severed artery of an auto accident victim. A tiny child shrieks in pain and terror as fire sears her arm. A swimmer cries out and thrashes helplessly in the water as a sudden cramp seizes him. Each year the Red Cross trains hundreds of thousands in first aid and water safety to assist the victims of such emergencies. Through your help— the Red Cross can answer their call. 15 |
