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Show !;;"!"!":.;";"!";"""!";;;!! $ Youth Takes 11,000 J J Volts; Still Lives $ Tremonton, Utah. A ten-year- ; old boy here had something even better than an operation to tell !: J his playmates about when he :; emerged with his life after an ;: !jl encounter with 11.000 volts of J ! electricity. He was forced to re- : :J main In bed and receive treat- ! ment for severe burns, but he J was proud to know that he had ; ; been touched by four times the J amount of electricity used to ex- ; ecute criminals, and bad been y able to crawl to a house unaided. :; Dean i'oder was a hero to his : playmates after his experience. ! jjj The youth was playing on the J roof of a barn near his home. ! ;J: He slipped, threw his arms up J ;; to regain his balance, and His ; J arm hit a wire carrying 11,000 J ;) volts of electricity. The shock $ J hurled him ofT the barn, to the ; : roof of a slanting shed, and to J ; the ground. He Immediately !: started crawling to the back IJ door of a neighbor. J Physicians and officials fa- $ miliar with the effects of electric J shocks were of the opinion that y ;; the fall from the barn acted as i $ a counter shock. They could ; ; think of no other factor that en- S :J tered to save the boy's life. J : :: |