The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-16
Asia to Get g, 900 Xmas Church Gifts
 Protestanis Sending 5000 Each 10 Burma
 And Manila; I6,O0O Consigned to Shanghai

Church Christmas Packages--32,- = 900 of them--have left New York bound for Asia, the first of 160, 900 cartons which the American Protes- tant churches are sending to Europe and Asia.
 Rev. Vinton E. Ziegler. head of the Material aid committee of the church committee on Overseas Re- lief and Reconstruction, said here that 5000 of these Christmas pres ents are on their way to Burma, 5000 will reach Manila early next month and 16,000 have been con- signed to Shanghai.
 MT. Ziegler, who has been over seeing the shipment of Christmas packages as well as the material aid program, said that 1900 pairs of shoes were also sent to Shang- hai.
 Packaging of the gifts was done by Church people and other inter eSted persons all over the United States. One woman enclosed a money order in a letter from a Pennsylvania prison asking the committee to prepare her box be cause can't do any shopping
 Typical of American Church re- ception to the Christmas project has been the cooperation received from the Youth Department of the Greater New York Federation of Churches, MT. ziegler said. Young people of New York have prepared cartons under the direction of Mrs. Daniel G. Evans.
 Orders for cartons were 160000 when the November 18th deadl1ne was reached. These cartons bought by individuals and church groups were then filled and sent to the Brooklyn warehouse of CCORR.
 Distribution of the packages in Asia will be under the direction Of the Church Committee for Relief in Asia, headed by Fred Atkins Moore, and European delivery is in the hands of the World Council Service Commission under Dr. Robbins w. Barstow.
 Dr. Barstows committee has al- ready made allocations of the Christmas packages to various Eu- ropean countries. Several relief agencies are cooperating in bearing expenses and are providing neceS- sary contracts and transportation.
 Belgium. Holland, Norway, France, Italy and Greece will get their pack ages shortly and it is hoped that some of the cartons may be gotten into Finland, Denmark, Poland and CzechoSlovakia. Military control and shipping conditions may ham per delivery of the gifts. The gov- ernment has so far rejected pro- posals that some packages go to Germany, MT. ziegler said
 CCORR provided special pack ages for adults, babies and children and provided list of materials which might be included. For ex- ample, the package to be sent to adults included: dehydrated soup, bouillon cubes, canned soup, razor blades, comb, toothbrushes. towel, washcloth, needles, thread, alarming cotton, writing paper, envelopes, socks, gloves and hard candy.
 A package to baby contained baby food, cereal, baby towel. wash-cloth, baby comb. handmade sweater and toy.
 A child received powdered milk, a washcloth, paper. pencils, colored crayons, a toy, hapdkerchiefs, nit tens and socks.
 Tt is hard to imagine what this means to the people who will re- ceive these packages" Mir. ziegler said T think it was best summed mp in a statement made by w. A.. Visser ' Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, when he said that Christmas pack