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20 THE DAILY TIMES.-GAZETTE, Thursday, July 16, 1058 DEAD FOR 5 HOURS Said Dead, Continue Aid Revives Child In 5-Hr. Battle "Walter Vysholid" would be a name on a tombstone in Frank, Alberta, if his mother had believ- ed a doctor 25 years ago. The doctor pronounced him dead from drowning at 10 months of age. In- stead, Walter Vysholid is a fire- man on the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, a Wappily married man with two fine children. And he owes his life to an Itlaian ice cream ped- dler -- a man who had no medical knowledge but who "was possessed of a life-sustaining faith, Here is how 10-months-old Walter was "drowned", ii the words of his mother, Mrs. J. A. Vysholid, who still lives in Frank, Alta.: "In the month of June in 1928-- it was a Saturday afternoon --I had my boys (both babies them-- the older 22 months, the baby just 10 months) at home with me. There were a few napkins to be rinsed out as the next day was Sunday and I didn't want to have them around. So I filled a large boiler with cold water and stood it on the porch floor (the most foolish | thing to do when little Jdren are around): and meanwhile I went around the house to do some- thing else. The babies were play- ing inside the house on the floor-- I ught they were safe. "The baby was crawling and started to stand up wherever he got hold of something. I didn't notice that they pushed open the screen door and were playing in the porch. Being busy in the house 1 paid little attention to the boys, knowing they were safe (the hoil- er with the water in it didn't come into my mind). "About half an hour later the older boy came into the room tug- ging at my dress and saying, 'Ma- ma, baby is in the water'. At first 1 didn't notice him much, and he kept on that the baby was in the water and pulling my dress to show me. Then, horrors! I re- membered the boiler filled with water! Like lightning I was in the porch and the only thing I saw was the tip of his little shoes pro- truding from the water. "I sure pulled him out quick; but, to my horror, the baby was gone -- his face a blue color, his eyes open, mouth open, his body stiff. I ran out with the little body in my arms screaming and calling for help, Just in that moment a truck stopped in front of my house, th) driver shouting 'Ice cream for sale', There I] was screaming and the driver shouting his wares -- we were not helping the baby any, as I didn't know how to give first aid for drowining. "80 I ran to the truck, pleading to the man to take me to a doctor and showing him my baby drown- ed. No use 0 to a doctor. That would be ate. Never as long as I live will I forget these words. This good man quickly understood my situation. He jumped out of the truck, took the aby out of my arms and right outside by his truck started to give him aid. With him was his. 14-year-old son, ¢ 1 he too gave a hand when his fa- ther was tired. A doctor was call- ed from a nearby town. Mean- while people started to gather around. Father and son worked feverishly without stopping. and still with no success, on the drown- baby. "The doctor came, examined the body and proclaimed it dead. He turned to the people who were standing around and said that it was foolish to work and try to revive the baby when he was sure it was dead. He asked me how long I thought the baby was in the water and I told him about 25 minutes (I am sure he was in the water longer than that). The doc- tor said: 'Eight to 10 minutes is enough for a person to be drown- Sait ny, Detpls whe heard thi 0] or my baby, but not all of Ay This ice cream ddler and his son didn't give up Phis name is Tony Stella of Blair- more, Italian and the father of 12 children). : "They worked for hours, these | two, and later my neighbor, Mr. Garison, helped too. "As the tongue of the baby was | curled up in his throat, one of the | men got hold of it and had to pinch it until the blood came in order to hold it, "This all happened around four o'clock, and about eight o'clock in the evening the baby started { moaning, but gave no other sign of {life at all. His body was rigid, { his eyes fixed. Then the blue color lof his face began to disappear, and that was a good sign that there was still life in his body, so we took the baby into the house. The doctor came back again -- without being called this in the evening, the baby still moaning and his limbs still stiff like dead. Again the doctor said | "No use. He's as good as dead. |He had a great shock, poor fel- |low, and that was enough to kill | him.' Imagine these words from |a doctor when there was already that little body! Furthér, while the doctor was still in the house, baby's bowels started to move--an- other sign of life -- and he still was giving my baby up! (There are witnesses to this.) "The people were furious who witnessed such ignorance, Some ran out after the doctor as he went to his car, calling htm back to do something for that baby. 'What do you want me to do?' he said. 'That baby is gone, finished, there is nothing that I can do.' But the moaning, doctor, that shows the baby is alive 'That doesn't mat- ter. I've told you he is a goner!' "At 11 o'clock the same even- ing, the baby moved his toes on one foot, then a while later on the other foot, Then his eyes started to move. A woman neighbor (Mrs. Wislett, residing now in Blair- more) and I were rubbing the baby's body all over with mustard ointment. How we rejoinced when | bit by bit the baby showed more | life until instead of moaning he | changed in sound to crying! Some- | body brought a little whiskey, so | we gave the baby about two teas- | poonsful and a while later he fell asleep. "Next morning people came in to see how he was gett along, and to their surprise was standing in his crib calling 'Mama, Mama' and waiting for his bottle of milk. Of course he was hungry! ; "If it hadn't been for Mr. Steela coming along with his ice cream when this accident happened my baby would have been left unat- tended and died. 'I am only a humble housewife, but I think books should be writ- ten on this subject to save thou- sands and thousands of precious ves." In a letter dated April 26, 1952, Mrs. Vysholid wrote again in an- swer to a query from the Health League of Canada, and in part her reply was: "My son Walter did not suffer any permanent or serious effects from prolonged immersion. He grew up into a healthy and nor- mal young man, At the age of 15 he started to work as a watchman for the Canadian Pacific Railway and today he is a locomotive fire- man working himself up to an en- gineer. Walter also is married and is the father of a lovely and healthy boy two years old. An- other baby is expected to be born to his wife next July. "If we had listened to the at- YOUR OLD SUITE WR EUPHO VY, 7 YOU ARE NOT USING YOU SUITE DURING THE SUMMER While You Vacation ... Have The OSHAWA UPHOLSTERING CO. RE-COVER w RE-BUILD FURNITURE Free Summer Storage -- No Payment Till Fall! AT THE FACTORY! LST Padded ® Fringe if Desired, Here's What Our Craftsmen Do: ® Suite Stripped to the Bare Frame ® Frame Reblocked ©® Springs Replaced ® New Cotton ® New Filling ® All White Felt ® Cushion and Back Springs Replaced ® Sides % DAY OR NIGHT % MATTRESSES REBUILT % 5-YEAR GUARANTEE ON ALL WORK Most Elaborate Collection of Fabrics to Choose From SERVICE tending doctor who pronounced him dead, Walter would have been dead, People who witnessed this incident thought it a miracle when the boy revived, but I know that without working on him for so many hours this miracle would not have taken place. Instead it would have been just another drowning tragedy. "And yet we often hear on the radio or read in the newspaper about drownings where artificial respiration was applied for two hours without success and the vic- time given up for dead call ignorance of the worst kind! New Hope For Niagara In Fight For Survival WASHING The United States and Capadian governments plan new aid for Niagara Falls in ts fight for survival with nature, Increased diversion of water up- stream from the Falls and installa. tion of a control structure in the Niagara River a mile above the Canadian Horseshoe Falls are the latest engineering schemes devis- ed by the two nations to prevent the spectacle from gradually crum- bling away. In the last 100 years Niagara's twin cataracts have receded 300 feet and the retreat continues at the rate of one to four feet an. nually, says the National Geo- graphic Society. If the erosion continued uncheck- ed, American Falls would be bone-dry cliff in 2,000 years, and in another 20,000 years there would be nothing but 35-mile rapids from Buffalo to Fort Niagara. MORE ELECTRIC POWER With more water diverted to hy- droelectric use, the Falls will be slowed down at night and in the off-season to 50,000 cubic feet per second, only a fourth of their norm- al flow. During spring and sum- mer months, the daytime flow will be maintained at 100,000 cubic feet for the benefit of the 3,000,000 an- nual visitors. The lip over which the water tumbles is a hard limestone ledge 12 feet thick. Beneath it are lay- ers of shale, lamestone, red medina and sandstone. The churning wat- ers from the upper river wear away the soft strata and produce the overhanging ip of hard lime- stone, from which huge pieces break at intervals, On June 25, 1850; a slice of fam- ous Table Rock on the Canadian side brv:e away and tumbled into the gorge. There were breaks in 1853, 1877, 1889, and half a dozen since. Some 900 feet of the Can- adian Horseshoe Falls have worn away since a French missionary, Father Louis Hennepin, first came upon the Falls on the morning of December 6, 1678. DRAINS LARGE AREA The Niagara is remarkable among the world's rivers for the constancy of its volume, It collects the entire natural discharge of four of the five Great Lakes, all except Ontario. The watershed covers an area nearly as large as the state of Texas and holds captive half of the fresh water in the world, Niagara is not the world's hig- gest waterfall. Both Africa's Vie- toria Falls and Iguassu Falls in South America are wider and high- er and crest a much greater water volume in their local rainy sea- sons, but Niagara's year-round vol- ume is much greater. South Amer- ica's Guaira Falls and the Khon Cataracts of Indochina carry larg- er volumes than Niagara, measur- ed around the year, but neither | as high. 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