Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-08
cs%s1s' s"hsa, OF Interest to Women ssss'' eas.
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ON THE FRONT
IN THE VALLEY
Churches
Schools
NEED HELP BADLY


needed at the Red Cross surgical
dressings center in the Ten Thou
sand club as have turned out this
week.
Twenty thousand dressings must
be completed this month and Red
Cross authorities have sent out an
urgent appeal to every woman in
which is of vital Importance. The
dressings are sent directly to the
front and the supply must be kept
constant.
In order TO accommodate women
the center next week will be open
every day, including Wednesday
which is a holiday, and every eve
ming so that teachers, business wo-
men-everone can find time to de-
vote a few hours to this work.
The center will be open each
day from 9:30 a. m. to $3.50 p. m.
and from ITO p. m. each evening.
A corps of instructors is on hand
headed by Mrs. r. C. Clemons as
chairman, who will show the women
how the bandages are made. These
instructors and assistant instruc-
tors are: MeSdames Emmitt Allen,
Allen P. Nuffer T. M. Gebbie, H. C.
Diller, w. E. Hartzog, M. r. Brents.
r. H. MadduX, Grace Meier and
Henry l.. Loud.
Women may come in for as much
time as they have free to give. no
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They must be American citizens, or
citizens of an Allied country, and
they must wear clean wash dresses,
having their hair covered, to meet
the sanitary requirements. Red
Cross headdresses will soon be
available.
To date, those women who have
worked at the center have averaged
300 bandages daily and just three
times that amount is necessary
if the 10000 dressings are to be
completed.
COOKIES, PLEASE
Those women who have small
children and are unable to leave
home could help lot by supplying
cookies at regular days for the
servicemens canteen. Every single
day this week, the supply has oeen
practically nil, a few coming IN
but not nearly enough to meet the
demand.
With the regiment of marines
at inland, the detachments which
20 through the valley, plus the
, men at Seeley and Camp Ell Cen
tro, supplies are needed. FRIDAY
night, Mrs. o. w. Keep, COOKIE
chairman, made seven dozen COOK
les herself and these plus several
dozen doughnuts were gone by
1920 with the canteen remaining
open until II 80 to meet the de-
mandS.
Women willing to help should
communicate with Mrs. Keep, tele-
pbone 1883, as to the days they Will
supply cookies as she is anxious to
organize the cooky supply on a
regular basis SO that urgent ap-
peals will not have to be made from
time to time. :,
The canteen has sugar on mana
and every woman who brings IN i've
dozen cookies will receive two cups
of sugar. Honey and dates are also
available for date cookies.
JUNIOR RED CROSS
Junior Red Cross annual roll call,
the membership campaign, mas
been conducted during this past
week. and will be next week. IN
all the schools in the district COM
prisinp the Ell Centro chapter OF
The American Red Cross, this be-
ing part of the Junior Red Cross
national drive.
Mrs. John r. Rice, Junior RIO
Cross chairman for the Ell Cen =
chapter, heads the drive, assisted
by Mrs. L. V. Upholt.
First aid was one of the primary
projects, the Ell Centre fire depart
ment assisting in teaching the fun
damental principles of first aid tc
the rural school children. In the
six city schools in Ell Centre, Junior
Red Cross first aid was established
and all children in the rural schools
with the assistance of the county
school nurse, were equipped WIN
first aid kits
Home nursing courses were also
established in several schools.
For Camp Sceley, Junior Red
Cross members carried on a num-
Der cf activities
Junior Red Cross members were
asked to take over as many nome
and farm duties as possible to free
| f1p OF
in the rural areas, they under
took a food project, raising such
supplies as vegetables, poultry, COWS,
pigs.
Other activities included raising
of funds for either the war chest or
the Junior Red Cross by means OF
benefit parties and by lectures on
| Central America, Morgan Rice CIV
ing the lectures, donating his SER
vices and all money earned going to
| .he Junior Red Cross.
| In addition, the Juniors aided
in: the victory book campaign, in
! he button collection project, in cCl-
Getting joke books and crossword
puzzles for convaleScent soldiers in
| hospitals, in collecting yarn to be
made into aghans for hospital use,
in making bootieS for babies under
the Red Cross production program
in making stretchers for ambu-
lances, completing 100 traction
Splints to be placed in the county
first aid emergency station under
the O.C.D.. in the various salvage
drives, such as metal and rubber
i'm the rodent eradication campaign
| and in various morale building