The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-29
152 PASS SWIMMER
RANK, 81 JUNIOR AND
174 ARE BEGINNERS
Majority Of So Life Savers Are
Bismarck Boys and Girls
or Scouts
TRAINED At CHAN OWAPI
Municipal Pool Also Used to Give
Instruction; Steady Gain
for Three Years
TRAINED At CHAN 0WAPI

Miss Mary Cashel, executive secre-
tary Of the Burleigh county chapter
of the American Red Cross, reports
an exceptionally fine summer of
swimming and life saving advance
ment for the chapter. Tests given at
Camp Chan Owapi during both the
boys and the girls camping periods
including also tests given at the Bis
marck municipal pool show an add
ed interest in swimming and life saw
ing.
A summary of the records shows
that A boys and girls were taught
to swim and reported as passing the
beginners rank of the Red Cross
tests. Including these AZ beginners
tests were passed by 174, but these
failed to reach the next highest rank,
that of American Red Cross swimmer.
The beginners test requires that q
person be able to swim so feet in wa
ter over their WI depth, while the
swimmers test requires a 100-yard
swim, q 50-foot swim on the back,
proper surface diving with recovery
Of objects from six or eight feet OF
water, proper plain dives and racing
start dives, proper floating position
and witnessing of a demonstration Of
artificial respiration. This swimmers
rank was passed by 152. A. r. @.
buttons were presented to these boys
and girls as they completed their
tests.
Fifty-two boys and girls passed
their American Red Cross junior Red
Cross life saving test. Although a few
of this number are not Bismarck resi-
dents, the big majority are. This test
requires not only excellent swim.
ming ability, but ability to swim UNI
der unusual conditions, to think
quickly, and to know not only how to
save life but to teach others to swim
and to practice water safety at all
times. The test requires undressing
in the water followed by q 100-yard
swim. surface diving into deep water
to recover an apparently drowned
person, approaching and carrying OF
either struggling or unconscious
drowning victims, breaking Of three
standard holds that q drowning per-
on may grasp them In and demon
strating ability to administer artifi-
cial respiration in the correct manner.
Scouts Who Passed
Scouts who passed their test, In jun
ior life saving this summer include:
Delain Ward. Clinton Bailey, Garvin
Croonquist. Carroll Baker, Charles
'6hearn. Robert Edick, Melvin Mum
ger. Paul Gussner. Richard Schmidt,
John Cameron, Joe Wright, Emmett
McCusker, Hazelton, Dan Cook, Rich
ard Griffin. Huston Galyen, Robert
Murphy, John Wallace, Robert
Schmidt, Robert Griffin, Donald
Lund. Myron Benser, Kenneth Joslin,
Bernard Toman, Raymond Friez,
Mandan, Thomas Dohn, Neil Beylund,
Edward Toman and Sidney Bjornson,
Mandan, Woodrow Shepard, Howard
Reuter- and Wade Robinson, aarri-
son, Steve Ward, Minnewaukan,
Robert 6pangler and Billy Broderick,
Mandan, Robert Penner, James Nc
Conkey and Russell Saxvik at Camp
Chan Owapi.
Phyllis Carroll, Mary Russell,
Jayne Broderick. all Of Mandan,
Ethelwyn Shafer, Neva Vettel,
Francis Dunn, Freda Tolchinsky,
Ruth Callahan, Nina Lewis, Doreen
Church. Of Bismarck, Laverne Shaw,
Gloria Lutz, and Katherine Gallagh-
or, Of Mandan, and Loretta Siberian,
Of Underwood, also passed at Camp
Chan Owapi.
Instruction In these tests were civ
en- during the boys periods by w. G..
fulton, examiner, Melvin Munger.
Robert Edick, Myron Benser and
Donald Fulton. During the girls
camp instruction was given by Mrs.
Frances Porter.
There were several young men and
women who passed their senior life
saving tests this summer also. They
r Donald Fulton, Jamestown, N. D.:
Frances Porter. Madison, 8. D.: Mrs.
". @. Fulton. Bismarck; Lorraine
Corder, Burlington, Iowa; Evaline
George. Bismarck; Lester Dohn. Bis
marck, and Woodrow Shepard, Bis
marck. The senior life saving tests
are much lore difficult than the fun
Tor and include many additional
swimming and water feats that q good
life saver should know.
A comparison Of the Red Cross
records for the last three years shows
that there has been a steady increase
In all tests: Beginners, 43, 90, l74:
swimmers, %. 30. 152; Junior life saw
ing, 10, Is. So; and senior life saw
ing, 8. ~.
Scouts who passed their scout life
guard tests, which includes boat
handling, life buoy throwing and In
struction Of beginners, in addition to
holding a Junior Red Cross certifi-
cate were: John Cameron, Woodrow
Shepard. Robert Griffin, Richard
Griffin. Charles Shearn, Carroll Bak-
er. Richard Schmidt, Paul Gussner.
Robert Edick. Kenneth Joslin, Dom
aid Fulton and Melvin Munger.
Scouts advancing to the Chan
Owapi Fish patrol, the highest SWIM
ming rank OF Chan Qwapi are: Wood
row Shepard, Richard Schmidt. Car
roll Baker, Charles Shearn, Melvin
Munger. and Robert Edick.
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