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Show Geneva First Aid Team Places First at State Fair A seven-man first aid team from U.S. Steel's Geneva Works piled up a record-breaking point total Wednesday to win firstplace honors hon-ors in the Utah State Championship Champion-ship First Aid Contest. Held at the Utah State Fair Grounds, the contest con-test was a feature of the Thirtieth Annual Safety Convention which ended here yesterday. Competing against a field of nine other teams from various Utah Industries, the Columbia-Geneva group compiled 1497 points out of a possible 1500 tallies. Judging for the contest was for how effectively each team solved three major first aid problems which were unknown to the teams before competition began. A per- feet score for each problem was worth 500 points. Geneva's team wras handed problems prob-lems dealing with wounds and broken bro-ken bones, electrical burns and artificial ar-tificial respiration. Members of the record-setting team were: Joe Nelson, captain and trainer, Spanish Fork; Red Men-ell, Provo; Byron Carter, Pleasant Grove; T. J. Griffiths, American Fork; Duane J. .Jensen, Orem; Howard Lewis, Orem, and Clark Puddle, Provo. Direction of the team was under Blaine T. Cropper, safety supervisor at Geneva Works. U.S. Steel also entered thi-Ljrj other teams in the competition representing rep-resenting the Columbia and Geneva Gen-eva Coal Mines, near price, and Consolidated Western Steel's Utah Pipemill, near Pleasant Grove. |