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Show Medical Self-Help Program Initiated In Iron County to Bolster Defense A large group of Iron County citizens representing church and civic organizations and the Iron County Civil Defense, were asked ask-ed Tuesday evening to initiate a program of Medical Self-Help Training, as a part of a pilot pro- , gram being undertaken in the state of Utah. Making the request was Wm. Manning of the Utah State Department De-partment of Health, who presented present-ed the fudamentls of the training train-ing program at the meeting held in the City and County building in Cedar City. An Iron County committee has been established to organize the program including Ilaldow E. t'hnstensen, chairman of the Iron County Civil Defense; Dr. James S. Prestwich and Dr. A. L. Graff, representing medical interests, and lanthus Wright, superintendent superintend-ent of Iron County schools. The program on a national basis, Mr. Manning told the group, is sponsored by the Department De-partment of Defense and came about following a study made by the American Medical Association Asso-ciation to consider possible place of professional medical assistance assist-ance in time of national emergency. emerg-ency. On a state basis the program is backed by the Civil Defense, the Utah Medical Association, the State Department of Health and Department of Education. The program offers training beyond that of first aid, Mr. Manning explained, and the ultimate ul-timate goal of the program is to have at least one person in every family in the staie participate partic-ipate in the training program during the next two years. On the basis of this goal It would mean that 2.r0,350 people would complete thie course in the state, he said. Each county has been asked to apply the program to each community within the county and classes to be set up on a geographical basis within each community untfl the goal is reached. Utah is the pilot state In the program of Medical Self Help Training. Mr. Manning gave a demonstration demon-stration of the training techniques tech-niques to be used in the program which Includes a precisely prepared pre-pared teachers manual, augmented aug-mented by color film strips. |