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Show Boy Scoots Praised for First Hid Wsrk With Woman Injured on Hike "Scouting is practical." That was the sentiment in Pro-vo Pro-vo today as plans were being made by local scout officials to cite nationally the first aid work given Saturday by eight scouts and their scoutmaster who found time to "be prepared" while hiking hik-ing to the top of Timp. The boys took prominent parts in applying first aid and carrying Mrs. Leslie McPhie of Heber City from the glacier where she had been seriously injured. Included in the group at the scene of the accident were Theo Haws, Bernell Boswell, Wayne Haws and Scoutmaster Joseph Holt of Troop 43, Third ward. Standing by at Aspen Grove were Reed Davis, J. Max Hair, Lynn Powell, Mack Swain and Glen Brown. Theo Haws ran the six miles down the trail -to Aspen Grove, then motored to Vivian park where he telephoned the Willard Ambulance Ambu-lance service of Provo. Scoutmaster Holt, Boswell and the other Haws boy made a stretcher from shoestrings and hiking sticks and carried the victim to Aspen Grove camp, 4200 feet below the scene of the accident. acci-dent. "The precaution of applying first aid before the woman was moved from the glacier undoubtedly undoubt-edly saved her life," a Heber doctor, doc-tor, under whose care the victim j was placed, said late Saturday. Injuries included a pelvis Irac-turo Irac-turo and a badly strained back. Miss Ruth Card, a registered nurse, aided the scouts in lirst aid work before the descent down the trail was made. The scouts received their first aid instruction from Guy F. Clins-tensen. Clins-tensen. WASHINGTON, July 8 (I'.H) The national labor relations board's decision to order an election elec-tion of Denver Packing company employes, although the board had found that a Congress of Industrial Indus-trial Organizations union had a majority, was regarded in some quarters today as a step toward placating employers' criticism of the board's administration of the labor relations law. Contesting the CIO union was the independent Packing House Workers of Denver. |