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Show Red Cross Chapter Formed For East End Of Washington County; Dr. G. W. Gibson, Chairman j HURRICANE, Utah -Announee-i ment of the forming of an East I Washington County pd Cross chapter was made today by Dr. G. W. Gibson who has a crept ed the position of chapter chairman. I The organization was formed Fri-i Fri-i day evening, November 5, when II. j L. Reid. county chapter eh airman met with local people for that p'.r- poc. In forming the unit officers declare de-clare that for some time community com-munity leaders have felt the ne d for a local representation of t h national organization. Need for the . instruction in first ,'iid, life saving and swimming activities that are j sponsored under the Red CYoss, was brought forcibly to the at- ( Continue cn page three) Red Cross Chapter Formed For East End Of Washington County; Dr. G. W. Gibson, Chairman (Continued from first page) tention of this section when, with the aid of this knowledge Mrs. Amelia Wilson was able to save the life of Kent Mitchell, member of the Parowan High band recent- The near-drowning occured on the day that the Hurricane-La Ver-kin Ver-kin Bridge was celebrated when the lad went swimming in the LaVerkin Hot springs. One of his companions noticed that he was drowning and Mrs. Wilson was frantically summond. She plunged into the pool in her dress and shoes. Fighting her floating clothing, cloth-ing, she went under the water three times before she was able to bring the boy to the surface. One of the boys helped her drag the six foot youth onto the bank where she began at once to administer ad-minister first aid. In a short time his purple face showed signs of j life and by the time help arrived he seemed to be breathing. Although Mrs. Wilson only weighs about one hundred twenty pounds, she was able to rescue this fifteen year old boy who weighed nearly one hundred and forty pounds. Recognition for her heroic work is to be sought by the Red Cross. Because of the fact that part of the work carried on by the Red Cross is the teaching of first aid, and because of the great human-tarian human-tarian part that the organization-plays organization-plays in the catastrophies of the nation, local leaders are backing the establishment of the East Washington County chapter. Other Officers Other officers in the organization organiza-tion with Doctor Gibson are L. B. Bennett, vice-chairman ; George Grimshaw, roll call chairman; Mrs. Annie Hirschi, home nursing; Wayne Hinton, first aid and safety; safe-ty; Percy Wittwer, life saving and swimming; Mrs. Ora Hirschi, secretary and treasurer and Mrs. K. Larson, publicity. The group selected roll call chairmen for each town in their division as follows: fol-lows: LaVerkin, Mrs. Minnine Wilson; Toquerville, Mrs. Rowena Slack; Virgin, Nathenial Lemmon; Rock-ville, Rock-ville, Mrs. Annie Ballard; Spring- dale, John A. Allred; Hurricane South, Glen Williams; Hurricane, North, Keith Tobler. Mrs. Klein-mann Klein-mann and Mrs. Leah Wadsworth are roll call chairmen for the Hurricane business district. Of course, if John Bull gets into a war with Italy we will expect King Edward to issue a famous call to arms, some tiling like this: "England expects every American to do his duty." |
