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Show Red Cross News "Home Checkers" Is New Idea In Safety Campaign Lag::na Beach, California, reports a new idea for home safety campaigns cam-paigns which is stimulating accident acci-dent prevention in that cirlmunity. A special trained group known as 'Home Checkers", on invitation of any .householder, calls at the home at a specified hour and day to check and eliminate hazards which i.r.ight cause fatal accidents. Check lists for the purpose are obtained at dctontown stores and from school c ildren. Four contests E.xiong elementary and high school students produced drawings, cartoons and photographs photo-graphs and created discussions. The text rr.aterial dealt with, two themes, "Wi.'at My .Family 'has Learned about Heme Accidents" and "How Can I Prevent Accidents at Home." Red Cross Nurses Enter Rural Service New itinerant nursing services in Utali and Orogon are announced by the Rod Cross. Mrs. Ann Fields Anderson of Berkeley, California, h;s tegun work in San Juan County, Coun-ty, Utah. T.his county, 180 miles from a railrc:d, now has a cooperative cooper-ative medical plan in which 250 faorilies join. They have a co.tl1-munity co.tl1-munity doctor full time. Miss Ruth E. Lathard, loaned by the Visiting iNurse Association, San Francisco, enters toe field at Madras, Jefferson Jeffer-son County, Oregon. Bot'.i nurses will conduct a general public health progran. including classes in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. 52 Grcups Jcin To Prevtn. Forest Fires Forest Fjre Prevention in the Inland In-land Empire of Washington, is en-g-ging the attention of a special corr.i.T.Lttee formed under the leadership lead-ership of Robert P. Wallis, of the Spokane County Red Cross Chapter Chap-ter Fifty-two groups, joined by Government Gov-ernment departments, such as Forestry For-estry and Soil Erosion, are lending support. Loggers, timber owners and mill men are backing the project. proj-ect. Window displays, essay . and slogan slo-gan contests, interesting to students and parents are a part of the educational edu-cational campaign. At the organization meeting ha Spokane recently it was brought out that 94 per cent of the fires in tioe great Colville National forest ore caused by mlan. The fire prevention movement is an outgrowth of a study made by the Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Prepared-ness Committee. Water Safety Is Subject For Aquatic Schools Water Safety and ways of disseminating dissem-inating knowledge cn how to conserve con-serve human lives, will be taught at 16 National Aquatic Schools to be conducted by the American Nat-onal Nat-onal Red Cross this sumimer. Three of the schools will be held in the West. Courses in life saving, boat ing, canoeing, waterfront supervision, supervis-ion, will be held at C.omu Springs, Morgan County Utah, June 7-17, Four Seasons Camp, Issaquaih, Washington, June 18-28; Blue Lakes near Ukiah, California, June 18-29. Hood River Youth Saves Baby From Death Hood River, Oregon citizens credit cred-it Harold Vosberg, a youth of that c:tmimunity with saving the life of baby LeRoy Fullington, who had fanen into an irrigation ditch. After Af-ter six years, Vcsberg made use of his Red Cross First Aid' training he had received in the eighth grade at school. He quickly resorted to artificial respiration, after the child's mlother pulled the baby from tho canal. Nurses Invited To Teacher-Training School The University cf California at Los Angeles will be the scene of a special Teacher Trailing Course for Red Cross Instructors in Home Hy- nurtel'are especially invited to .take up tie study, equipping themselves specialists f:r the tea chmg of v-ealUi. Miss Birdie Adair of Los An-cles -s'T-o directed tho course a aVat Colorado Stats College, Foro Collins, Colorado, will be the instructor this year at UCLA. |