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tQ UICK-CL PUBLIC SERVICE!", I Nan emergency itis becoming afi rttogt 'Calilà doco ..the police . ..the Public Service Company." It happened again near Ottawa,-Ilnos a few weeks ago. The weather was siz Zlinghotý and a group of happy famnilles were splashing in the Fox Riverenjoying the cool relief of a midsumnmer dip. Children and grownups wère having a grand time. Suddeniy a cry of excited alarrn. A child was missing. The frantic scream of a woman. The quick terror that strikes its biow wth the realization of impending tragedy. It:was' twienty minutes before someone's foot in the water touched the hlte body. Was there a chance of saving her? No. one knew quite.. how to try. And everyone. wasfrightened. "Quick -càli Public Service!" Someone said it. John Scannèli, a. gas fitters' foreman,' arfd two other Public Service Comipany em-: ployes arrived before the police. With an experience that cornes from training, Scanneil inimediateiy appiied the prone pressure method ofresuscitation which the Company had taught him as a matter of routine for ail eip'loyesý. For five ... ten minutes he worked. Nothing happened. It seemed certain that life had left the littie body. wasn't* long afrer that the child was breathing reguiarly.i7oday.she is probably playing wîth her dolîs. Heir nm is Bernadine McConnaughey. in. a letter to the Company, Ottawa's Police Chief said: 'We know that hier lifewasae through the efficient mannerI in which John Scannelfand other m embers ofhis.squad of your Company a ppiied the Sichaefer method. We thank you in behaif -of the city, parents and friends of this littie girl and also the ,Police Departrnent." >It was chance that made a hero out ofJohn Scanneil, but it wasn't chance that made him an expert in the Schaefer method of resuscita- tion. The nature of the Company's business pointed out the value of that training years :ago. It was made a part of the Company's regulation's. Men, women, linemen, laborers, clerks, salesmen, managers - everyone is gïven the instruction. The Company has, no records of alrIthe cases whe-re people have been revived.through the' knowiedge its eniployes; have, of life-. saving and irst aid. In 1926, the President of, the Company estabiisbed the Britton 1. Budd Medai for the Saving of Hurnan Life. Twenty- if los TWO ECAES N TH SEVIC 0FNORTýHERN ILNI T , W . . DE ., ,D-