Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-22
Churches
Schools
OF Interest to Women
Edited By Anne Hardy Davis
ON THE FRONT
IN THE VALLEY
NEW CHAIRMEN

. IOcu CIOSS dCJlNlJleS.
Mrs. Warren Curier is the new
home service chairman ad is doing
grand job in organizing the work,
planning to work with other agen-
cies who viii lalso have a program
of securing employment for return
ing Servicemen so that the project
will be coordinated one, and one
which will better meet the needs of
returning men.
Warren Nice will succeed Leo
CeCelles as the new first aid chair
man and is an excellent successor
as he has had considerable expert
ence in teaching first aid classes,
knowing the work in every detail.
VOLUNTEER WORK
At the Red Cross board meeting
Monday night, splendid reports were
made by the various chairmen who
told something of the work vol
unteers have accomplished.
Nurses aides have done a great
deal of volunteer work in connection
with the well baby clinics conduct
ed under the auspices of the county
health department, and they have
also worked with the department in
its immunization program, and have
heled in other projects.
This past month, for the first
time, nurses aides were called in
for hospital work, assisting at the
Griffin hospital, CaleXico. in an
emergency call Nurses aides are
are trained. as their name indicates,
to assist the registered nurses, per-
forming those routine duties so
taat the nurses may be free for
the nursing work which requires
more training and skill. These
nurses aides, eight of them, gave
155 hours of service during Febru-
airy.
Those faithful fe wwho work at
the Red Cross surgical dressings
center in the Ten Thousand club
house made 5l,768 dressings in Feb
ruary, and those other faithful
few who work at production head
quarters, completed 1856 garments.
Not to be forgotten either are
the staff assistants who work at
headquarters doing office work of
various kinds, and right now as
sisting with the Red Cross war fund
campaign.
HOME SERVICE
Home service, the program for
servicemen and their families is the
biggest activity of the Ell Centro
Red Cross chapter, requiring the
greatest amount of time from vol
unteers and paid personnel.
Every case of a servicemen OF
his family which comes in must be
investigated carefully before action
is taken. Many of these cases re-
quire financial assistance and dur
in gFebruary, the Red Cross in Ell
Centro handled 232 cases and made
l3 loans totalling S590.15. During
that month, $329.30 was paid back
on current loans, and $361.45 on
loans made in previous years.
If sudden illness or other emer-
gencies develop families CT service
men apply to the Red Cross for
help, the Red Cross seeing that
they receive adequate help, both
medical, and if necessary financial.
MOTOR CORPS
Red Cross motor corps members
continue to be active, working at
the canteen, devoting their weekly
evening meetings to making surgi-
cal dressings, and using their sta
ton wagon whenever called upon
to aid in Red Cross work or service
to the armed forces.
Once a week they take patients
unable TO travel on the cattle
wagon to the clinic at the Ell
Centre Marine air station, the ply
sicians listing the names of those
patients who require transportation.
HOME NURSING
One of the finest jobs in hom.
nursing is that being conducted in
rural school, Mrs. Eva Paysor
reporting this activity to the direc-
tors This class for older girls is
conducted TO teach them the rudi-
mentary principles involved in care
of the sick and is especially i'm
portant in this region where many
of the families are foreign born
and not familiar with modern hy-
eiene and health practices.
Moreover, only in acute emergen-
cies can a physician come to the
area with the present shortage O.
doctors, and the information the
girls receive is of great value. Mrs
Payson already reported that al
ready signs are evident that this
information is being carried into the
homes to advantage.
The class is planning, as its part
in the public school week observ-
ance to conduct home nursing
demonstration on care of the baby
showing the proper methods to bt
used, and also how the proper equip
ment may be improvised from arti-
cles which will be found at home o.
which are easily obtainable.
NEED MONEY
To carry one these activities a
home, and also those for the Amer
ican men and women at the front
the Red Cross needs money, being
dependent upon voluntary contri-
buttons to carry on its work.
Every one must contribute If i
is to do its work Of mercy and those
who have not made their gifts are
asked to make them at once, send
ing donations to 100 North Fifth
street, Ell Centro, Red Cross head
quarters,