Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-22
ON THE FRONT
IN THE VALLEY
Schools
Churches

is the slogan the Imperial Desert
Corps has chosen, this group of
young women having just been or
ganized to serve as hosteSses for
troops in the desert area, with Mrs.
j. w. Donohue of El Centre as
colonel
1.-The Imperial Valley Desert
Corps has been organized TO pro-
vide a permanent group of young
hostesses to serve u. S. o., the Red
Cross, and the Ell Centre service
mems canteen whenever they may
be needed" said Mrs. Donohue." In
the case of an emergency as &C.
CURED last weekend when the In
dio U. S. O. needed dance hostesSes
for the troops which came into that
post, We will be organized and
ready to assist.
"Our group consists of young
ladies whose standards are of the
highest and who are willing to do
their part in this morale building
program.
I'VE are open for members and
our group includes young girls from
16 years of age, who must have the
permission of their parents, to the
young married women who have
husbands in the service and who
want to help by making the train
ing period of other service men a
little more pleasant.
I'm the immediate future we plan
to have a meeting to complete our
organization-our next project is
a trip to Indio this weekend to as
sist the u. S. o. there in enter
tanning the service men at their
headquarte4a. the Coachella Trad
ing pest. There will be a dance
Saturday night, swimming, ping
pong, and other events on Sun
day. The group will be chaperoned
adequately and transportation,
meals and lodging will be furnished.
Buses leave the Mayan hotel at 4,
and p m. We want young wo-
men to help in this work and if you
could have seen the pleasure which
our visit last weekend brought to
the men at Indio, you would have
felt that the trip was more than
worthwhile. We want girls who
dance and also those who do not
as there are many games and sports
in which they may participate"
Young women who would be in
terested in aiding in this work
should telephone Mrs. Donohue,
telephone 8707-W1 before Thursday
of this week.
The corps has its own insignia,
appropriately for desert group, a
cactus plant and will have pins,
knapsacks and stationery with this
insignia.
RED CROSS BOARD
New projects for the year, made
necessary by the anticipated in
crease in the number of service
men to be in the valley upon COM
pletion of Camp Ell Centro, were
discussed by the board of directors
of the Ell Centre chapter, American
Red Cross, at its meeting Monday
night at headquarters. H. r. An
derson, chairman, presided, R.
P. Moore, chairman, having been
given leave of absence until Oc-
tober.
Mrs. Fl. r. Anderson, chairman
of volunteer services announced
some of the new projects: the max
ing of surgical dressings under the
general craftsmanship of Mrs. A. R.
Tagg, production chairman; with
$4,000 dressings the chapters quota;
organization of hospital and rec
reation corps upon completion of
Camp FL Centre, this group being
known affectionately to service
men everywhere as the Gray Lad
les who bring comfort and cheer
to the men in hospitals; a staff
assistants course to start next Mon
day, and designed to train women
for Red Cross office work; the max
ing of 300 comfort kits in addition
to the 200 just completed recently.
designations of Mrs. Elton B.
Christian, chairman of the farm
and home accident prevention pro-
gram, sent in OUT TO i'll health, and
of Louis Slee, disaster preparedness
chairman who is soon to enter the
service. were accepted with regret.
r. p Moore, John Rhodes and
Mrs. Lottie Meagher we're appoint
ed members of budget committee.
Mrs. Meagher, executive secretary,
announced that the Red Cross arm
bands, whose use is now prohibited,
are chapter property, and should be
returned; that since the Red Cross
is the only agency which may go
behind the sentry lines in the var
iouS camps, all food brought in to
camps, as the various cookie pro-
jectS, must now be under the Su-
perviSion of the Red Cross canteen
corps who must know individually
each donor. This ruling was made
by the army since the unrestricted
sending of foods to camps by out
side sources offers an excellent op-
portunity for food contamination
by the enemy unless the source of
supply Is controlled
IMPERIAL BRANCH
Imperial now has it's own branch
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