Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
ON THE FRONT
IN THE VALLEY
CENTERS CLOSED

Surgical dressings centerS III III
Centre, Holtville and Calexico have
closed for the summer months-not
because the women have been un-
willing to work but because 1t is
impossible to maintain the neces-
sary sanitary requirements except in
air conditioned work rooms which
are not available.
The centers have not closed either
due to decrease in the demand for
these dressings = in fact all the
centers in the Los Angeles area
have been given great increases in
quotas to meet the demands for
dressings as more and more United
States forces go into battle.
For this reason Red Cross Of
ficialS ask that women come out in
great forces next fall when the
centers are able to open again and
to do as much work as possible.
A complete report of the work
has been given az follows: For the
Ell Centre center. Nov. 3-June 2lst,
2O8,515 dressings were made, 733
WoIIleH IeBloJcIcu Iol WOlh, eiiN
devoted 17,547 hours.
All material has been made up.
but in Ell Centre the fact that the
quota was completed Is case Of so
many owing much to so few since
in the last two months, out OF the
735 who registered for this work,
less than 140 did any actual work,
and of those l40, Al worked more
than 100 hours each and 20 of them
worked from 200-600 hours. These
! faithful few made possible Ell
Centro's record.
Holtville opened it's center in
February and completed its quota
early in June making 52,l87 dress
ings. with $50 women registered,
devoting 1850 hours to the work.
Mrs. J. v. Yeargin is general chair
man in Holtville, and in the group
Of workers in that city, IL have
worked over 100 hours at the center
and four, from 100000 hours, which
is a lot of hours in that short time
of few months.
Calexico's center. under the
chairmanship of Mrs. p. P. Ander-
son. opened in April and closed
June 18. making 20,808 dressings
with onlv 81 women registered, and
with total of 1880 hours reported.
From these three centers, 281. .510
dressings we're contributed. with a
total registration of 970 and with a
total of 22,477 hours reported.
BUSY WEEKEND
Approximately 5000 servicemen
we're patrons of tile servicemen'S S
canteen this weekend according to
d check taken by workers. OF course
these figures include those who
came into the canteen several
times. but they mean that many
glasses of lemonade or cups OF
coffee we're served by the busy
workers, and hundreds of parcels
checked.
Every available seat. all the places
ut the writing tables were in use
i'm fact, so many wanted to write
letters that they used the ping pong
tables and the checking counter as
desks. Many who had stayed over
night in the city and had found no
place TO sleep. caught up on their
sleep in the canteen. resting OH
davenports and benches, and some
81 tired. even going sound asleep
sitting upright with the noise of
the piano and juke box going on
steadily.
Some 1000 men came to town
from the desert area and these men
plus the men stationed in the valley
made the canteen a busy place.
Lemonade was made all day long,
in fact during the morning rush
one serviceman spent two or three
hours doing nothing but squeeze
lemons for the busy women while
others helped unload supplies of
cantaloupes and lemons - lemons
ran out and an emergency call went
into wholesale house, which OBJ
ligingly opened up its storeroom to
help out. BY closing time Sunday
night every available supply Of food
was gone and weary hostesseS were
glad to call 1t day.