FIRST AID CiT/. TirrS
First Aid stations have been
set up at the following points
with su. lies furnished by the
Comnunity Christmas Fundi
The Experiment Farm (Fbert Rosidcnc o
Merle Anderson farm (Shooley)
Bill Curtis home
Matt Johansen Farm
Joe Lents farm '
iaimer Hospital,portable unit.
Many other ho ns in the Valley
have been offered for First Aid
Stations and it is suggested that
the community Lroues cooperate in
setting up auxiliary stations. The
following homes have been offered
for such stations: Clarence Quarn
stron, Bill Caslcr, Ivan "ilson,
Art Harsh, Leonard Berg an.
It is expected that at least
one person in each household where
there is a First Aid station will
taro the Standard First Aid Course
when it is offered the first of
to CO CO
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The following equipment
commonclcd for each station;
FIRST '.IF 1 ITS
fined, traction splints for leg
fixed traction splints for am
arm splints
3 leg splints
4 tourniquet sticks
10 triangular bandages
2 oz. Tr. of iodine
1 four oz. can of boric acid powder
12 roller bandages 2 inch wide
4 roller andngos 4 inch wide
12 sterile compresses
2 doz. band aides
1 aromatic spirits of ammonia
1 lb. coffee
1 pt. rubbin._ alcohol
1 mineral oil for eyes
1 lb. baking soda
cotton
First Aid Book
Station responsible for;
1 good flashlight
1 scissors
1 pencil and pad of paper
Heat - hot water bottles,stones,etc
2 blankets
1 imurovised stretcher
1 willow.
TEN THOUSAND SEAL PUPS BIL'N'DDP AND
TAGGED
Ten thousand fur seal pups,each
bearing a number on a stainless
steel tag fastened to a flapper and
a rectangular brand between the
^shoulder blades and the back of the
neck, soon will be swimminj south
ward from the Pribilof Islands of
Bering Sea on-.a long mign tion.
The pup fur seals were tagged
and branded on St.Paul Island of
the Pribilofs in October and have
been splashing their way toward
Southern California waters in in
creasing numbers. November is the
month of the heaviest exodus from
the Pribilofs and soon all ..f the
10,000 tagged and branded fur seal
pups will be en route south with
other mem'- ers of the Pribilof Is
land seal colony, on a vacation in
tho Pacific.
The 10,000 4-month-old fur
seals, tagged and branded by Alaska
natives on St. Paul Island under the
direction of representatives of the
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Service, will be followed. In South
ern California waters by a pc rty of
scientists of the service aboard
the schooner-yacht Slack Douglas,
purchased recently by the Ocv't.
ITo branding of fur seal pups
was done in the Pribilof Islands
from 1912 until 1940, when 0,000
were narked for scientific purposes.
This number was doubled, this year.
Those selected for brandin 'weigh
an average of 25 pounds ca el-.
Conservation of the Alaska fur
seal during the past 30 years is
an outstanding example of success
ful wildlife management, from an
estimated 130,000 seals In. 1911,
when the far seal conservation treat'
was signed,'the herd has grown to
more than 2,000,000. In addition
to protecting the herd, the govern
ment has derived an annual income,
amounting to about $200,000 last
year, from the sale of pelts.
. Plan your affairs to cnr
you to attend the mevnborship
in0 of the V. F. C. A., Si
January 31, 1:00 F.".
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