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chest compression are needed because a heart stops beating, Daugaard said.
• "It's a life and death situation that this responds to," the governor said.
• In rural South Dakota, an ambulance might travel 50 miles or more to get to a patient, Daugaard said.
• Emergency personnel in an ambulance can quickly tire after giving manual CPR, but the new equipment will deliver consistent chest compression over an extended time, the governor said. The new equipment also will help emergency personnel who deal only infrequently with sudden cardiac arrest.
• "So, in South Dakota it's a problem," Daugaard said.
• The grant will start delivering the equipment within about six months, with completion of the project within 2 ½ years, Panzirer said.
• The Helmsley Charitable Trust recently announced a grant of more than $1.4 million to pay for research into unmet health care services and needs in South Dakota. The trust was established by the late hotel and real estate baroness Leona Helmsley.
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SD code talkers being honored by Congress
BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press
• American Indians who sent coded messages to shield U.S. military communications from the enemy during World Wars I and II are being honored later this month at the nation's capital.
• Several South Dakota and North Dakota tribes are among 33 tribes to be recognized as part of the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, for the Native American code talkers, South Dakota's congressional delegation said in a statement.
• Code talkers used their native language to send communications that enemies could not decode.
• Toni Red Cloud, who lives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, said her late father, Melvin, and late uncle, William, were code talkers. She's still learning details of their service to the country because they never talked about it in front of her or her sisters.
• "It's an honor," she said Friday of her father and uncle being honored posthumously. "The whole family was patriotic. He (her father) kept us respectful of the flag and the country that he served. That was just the way he raised us."
• At least three other deceased Oglala Lakota code talkers from the reservation also will be recognized.
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