Show Burned victim j on road to full recovery i A telephone call from Salt Lake for George Conn Monday greatly relieved the anxiety she has experienced since her Melvin was critically burned in a truck accident in Montana July The call from Conn's Lillian Indicated that with the change of bandages Monday morning the Doctors in charge found that the third degree burns which covered of his body i were not so bad as at first and he would The only problem confronting them now would occur when the time for skin grafting as the only skin left on his body was an area across the injured man's The accident happened during an aviation gas according to the account given by was sleeping in the when the truck he felt the movement of the vehicle as it Clad only in his shorts lie grabbed the sheet from his threw it about his jumped to the cab and broke out the windshield freeing himself and the driver from the They then ran through the burning gas to safe sat by the roadside for about a half hour while the other burned man started walking toward the nearest town to obtain some A tourist from California pick-ad up Injured men and took them into from there they were flown to Butte where they were hos Following treatment there was flown to the Salt Lake hospital on July Here the doctors in charge reported that the had suffered third degree burns over of his body and that he could not possibly It was not until the bandages were removed as reported on Monday of this week that more favorable condition Melvin is the son of Leonard Salt Lake City and William and has a wife and three little Case has been with son since his arrival at the Salt Lake |