Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-11-12
RED CROSS FIRST
AID STATIONS IN
COUNTY PLANNED
Annual County Red Cross
Roll Call Is Being
Made

The Sheridan County chapter Of the
American Red Cross today revealed
plans to establish first aid stations in
Sheridan county as part of the nation
wide Emergency First Aid program in
augurated by the Red Cross recently.
AT the relief office in Plentywood
Monday, Nov. 16 at 5 o'clock the first
of a series of classes in first aid will be
given by Plentywood physicians to
Sheridan county citizens who Will be
cooperating with the Red Cross in es-
tablishing the stations in the county.
Judge Paul said that eperyone inter
ested are welcome to attend the series
of classes.
The curse will be Is hours. Follow
ing its completion, providing regula-
tons are met, certificates are issued.
Representatives from various Sheridan
county WPA projects are particularly
urged to be present.
The stations will be located in vari-
Gus parts of the county and will be
announced later.
The local chapter will equip each
station with a half-ring splint for leg
fractures, a 24-unit first aid kit and a
telephone directory of nearby medical
and hospital service. First aid signs
will be erected along the road APP
preaching stations. These signs, which
are made of metal, will display the
Red Cross emblem, and 1t is believed
their presence along highways will
have a salutary effect on motorists.
Mr.. Paul explained that medical at
administrators and nurses will not
be employed at stations. The regular
personnel will be trained i'll first aid by
the chapter, and they, when accidents
occur, will give emergency treatment
until the arrival of a physician or un-
til the injured persons are properly
transported to the nearest hospital. No
fee will be charged or accepted for
this service or for supplies used in
treating injuries.
At least two employees Of the station
must complete the Standard Red Cross
First Aid course before the station may
be accredited, he said, and their work
ing hours will have to he arranged SO
TIA. n of them is on dNt, at ali times
during the hours the station is G
Throughout the country, 237 of these
stations are already in operation, the
chapter chairman said. and arrange
ments are being made for the estab-
lishment of 1900 others within the next
three months. The Red Cross is throw
ing the support of all its 800 chapters
behind this determined effort to reduce
the tremendous toll of highway deaths
and injuries, Mr.. Paul added.
within the next year or so we
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principal highways in every state in
the Union" he continued. This will
mean that in many cases accident vic
Tins will be care for on the spot in
stead Of being 'jack-knifed' into the
back seat Of an automobile and rushed
off to a hospital by some well-meaning
but unframed passerby.
Many times prompt first aid care
means the difference between life and
death to a seriously injured person,
particularly in cases of profuse bleed
ing where fast work is necessary If the
patient is to recover. Oftentimes, too,
in cases Of fractures, careful treat
ment of the boken limb is vital to COM
plete and normal recovery.
Every day on highways all over
the country ana IN nOileS anu S~CllooiS,
too, acridents, many of them prevent
able, are killing and manning peo-
pie who might have been spared had
their companions known how to adj
minister the proper first aid treatment.
1T is for the purpose of saving
these lives through simple first aid
treatment that the American Red Cross
is offering this new service to the
American people. The stations we are
establishing here in Sheridan are made
possible through your support of u
annual Roll Call, and who knows but
what one of the first aiders we train to
operate these stations NAV some day
save YOUR life or mine"