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Show Child Is Injured By Fall From Speeding Car Judy, six-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Callister, of Delta, was painfully hurt Sunday afternoon when she fell from the family car as they were driving to Fillmore. The accident occurred on the highway about half way between Delta and Fillmore, and the child received no broken bones but was gashed on the face and head, and skinned and bruised on her right side. Judy was in the back seat of the car, with two aunts and two cousins. She asked her mother if she could throw a piece of paper out of the car, and was told yes. Either by accident, or not thinking, opened the car door, and was whipped out of the car in a flash. Mr. Callister was driving fairly fast, but stopped almost at once, and ran back to the child. She had slid and rolled across the highway, and was on her hands and knees trying to get up. She h'Sd a gash from her hairline to her right eye, and another cut that went around her head past her right ear. The palms of both hands were skinned off, both knees, and great skinned places down her right side. Her coat was tattered and her dress torn. A hole in the coat collar and on the dress, a piece of flesh torn from the child's shoulder. ' Another car was close behind them, driven by Blaine Cropper. They provided baby diapers they had along to help staunch the bleeding. Mr. Callister knocked down a telephone pole, and broke the line to attach his field phone he had in his car. He phoned Fillmore Fill-more from there, and arranged to have a doctor and ambulance come at once to the accident. Forty-five minutes later they1 were in the Fillmore hospital where the necessary stitches were taken in the wounds. Judy will be at the hospital all this week, and later X rays will be taken to see if there are any cracked bones or internal in-ternal injuries. It was surprising the child was not hurt more seriously seri-ously than she was, as such a fall would have broken bones in an older person. But Judy was not even unconscious from the fall, and her first reaction was to cry because she had torn the new dress she was wearing. |