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L a s V e g a s ,N e v a d a REVIEW - JOURNAL June 1 6 , 1 9 4 7 ?Vegas Baby Delivered |jfn Ambulance An untimely 20-minute blockade by a freight train at the Charle&aa railroad cross- f I ing, as an ambulance rushed a I prospective mother to Clark ! ! County General Hospital, to- j day resulted in the dramatic [ delivery of the baby in the j ; ambulance. Hero in the birth to Mrs. Margaret King, of Las Vegas, ? was Ambulance Driver Lee •. Taylor, who clambered from j his driver’s seat to deliver a ' baby son at 1:30 p. m., when i the stork refused to wait longer for the, slow-moving freight to clear the tracks. Mrs. King Was later reported j “doing nicely” following her lated arrival at the hospital, 1 Dr. C. Cherry, hospital superintendent, said. Driver Taylor, with the new mother’s husband, John, stayed I on in the.back of the ambulance "J after the tracks were cleared, ? while a'deputy sheriff—hailed [ as he passed—drove mama, and the newborn Son, on to the hospital. An underpass at the. Crossing ! which -would have prevented ! the untimely ambulance births > , is scheduled to be constructed j : by the state highway depart- j ment.
