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The Barsch family of San Antonio were traveling along the highway near Grandview when their young son apparently went to sleep and could not be aroused. Another motorist, a Good Samaritan but otherwise unidentifiable at this time, came upon the scene of trouble and took the young, stricken boy and his father into the clinic in Grandview. In the absence of Dr. Thomas, his nurse, Mrs. Vera Carter, took charge. Mrs. Carter said she could feel no pulse on the boy and that his body was extremely hot. She immediately started applying cold towels but only after calling for the Rescue Unit who responded promptly. Belinda Baker, Glen Russell, John Hale, and John Pringle, together with the boy’s father, rushed the young boy to Johnson County Memorial Hospital in Cleburne, ad ministering first aid to him on the way. Meanwhile, the young boy’s mother had been brought to the doctor’s office. Mrs. Carter said the mother was nearly in hysterics, think ing that her young son might possibly have been beyond the help of medical aid. When told that her son had started to breathe again after the cold towels were administered, the mother fainted but recovered quickly with help from Mrs. Carter. She was then taken to the hospital to be near her son. Mrs. Carter said that, in the rush of trying to save the boy’s life, she did not learn the name of the family, the stricken young boy, or the Good Samaritan who was kind enough to stop when he saw the Barsch family was having trouble. In an interview Monday afternoon with Mrs. Barsch in San Antonio, Dale Turner has this to report: The Barsch family had spent two days at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington and were on their way home to San Antonio. This was July 21 a bout 9:30 a.m. when the Barsch family was passing through on I-35 south of here. Gary Richard, their six year old son was in the back seat of the car asleep and could not be aroused. Mrs. Barsch got on the C.B., and called for help. They stopped their car and begin to give the boy mouth to mouth resuscitation when a young man in a blue car stopped and answered their call for help. Mrs. Barsch said she thought the young man was from Grandview because he knew where the doctors office was located. Gary was taken on to Memorial from the clinic here, tests were run and he was dis charged. The family went on home that day, and the boy was put in a hospital in San Antonio and more test were made. Mrs. Barsch reports that Gary is doing fine and in a few days will enter first grade at Mont gomery Elementary School in San Antonio. The father, Gary, Sr., is an employee of Southern Pacific Railroad. STRICKEN BOY - Mrs. Vera Carter and the Grandview Rescue Unit were busy for a short while lately when a young tourist of San An tonio was brought into Dr. Vernon Thomas’ office for emergency treatment. Pictured from left to right are John Hale, John Pringle, Vera Carter, Glen Russell and Belinda Baker. (Photo By E.E. Basham)
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Grandview Tribune
Grandview, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 25, 1978
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