Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-14
RED CROSS WORK
EXPLAINED TO
LOCAL CHAMBER
Plans For Permanent Re-
preventative Here Meet
Approval.

Plans for n permanent Red Cross
welfare worker in Imperial Valley,
as outlined at Yesterdays chamber
of commerce luncheon by Miss
Naomi Stutzman, were enthusiast
cally received by those attending
the meeting. Miss Stutzman, field
director for the Red Cross from the
national office at San Francisco,
who is here to organize the annual
Red Cross drive, told first of the
national work of the organization,
which assists in the care of 2a,30O
disabled veterans, still in hospitals
and of their families. The second
national duty OF the organization
is the disaster work, which includes
helping communities which are un
able to take care OF their own peo-
ple ut the time of disaster. One
of the best known instances of this
relief was in the recent Mississippi
flood, but many less known disas.
ters call for Red Cross help, as did
the typhoid epidemic which swept
Calexico few Years ago.
Miss StutzmaE told of the first
aid and life saving work of this
organization which is trying to edu.
| cate the general public how to avoid
loss of life, ana 10 help the doctors
, reduce the economic loss of the
United States through sickness
which amounts to over five billion
dollars annually.
The plan for lccal relief work, as
outlined by the speaker, is to have
representative CT the Red Cross
permanently located in Imperial
! Valley to investigate all transient
eases of persons needing financial
help. After thorough investiga-
tion, according to Miss Stutzman,
those needing assistance would be
/ placed in positions here, or if not
| deserving, steps would be taken to
send them to the locality in which
, they belong. This would definitely
take care of the hundreds of tran
sients coming to Imperial Valley
every winter, would relieve this
community CT the demands of the
destitute tourist, and make goo ]
citizens of the deserving who could
find work if al organized, valley
wide cmrioymeG, -gcncy were
functioning. In order to establish
such Il worker, il has been arranged
/, that only 30 ceats of each member
ship in Imperial Valley will go to
tue national fund this year, the re-
manning amount, whether 80 cents
or $24.50 would be used to defray
expenses of the welfare worker and
TO give relief in the valley to per
sons not residents of this county.
Relate Experiences
Following Miss Stutzman's talk,
the chamber members attending the
| luncheon told OF personal expert
cnces with needy families who come
here and are unable to leave the
valley and all agreed that such IA
Red Cross representative at the head
. f relief work, and assisted by the
various service clubs and public or
the transient problem so serious
here and throughout California.
At last nights meeting of the
, board of directors President Hetzel
was asked TO appoint "A committee
to wait upon the County Board OF
Trade and request of that body that
the county be represented at the
/ postmaster generals conference to
be held in Washington, ID. c., on
November 26, for the purpose of con
sidering the establishment of the
! southern Air Mail, which service
! should include the Imperial county
as q port of caii.
1t was agreed that the chamber
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