The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-02
R d Cross
Drive Opens
With Parade
Organization For
Drive Completed
Through County

A colorful parade in which cam
paign workers, Coast G~uardsmen,
sailors, soldiers, scouts and vol
unteers in special services for
the county chapter will march
to music played by high school
bands will mark the formal open
ing of the annual Red Cross War
Fund drive in Pascagoula and
Moss Point Friday, today. The pa
rade will be held in Pascagoula
at 1890 am. and in Moss Point
at 2:30 pm.
Meetings which tied together
loose ends of com mittee or
ganization were held throughout
the county in the last days pre-
ceding the actual beginning of
the drive and chairmen an
nounced Thursday that they are
ready to go-and go over the
top"
The county quota has been set
at $26, 800 which county workers
increased by adopting a volun-
tary goal of $4,000. This has
been broken down into $21, 500
for Pascagoula with E. r. Ham
NETT as city chairman, $4,000
for Moss Point where Cyril Sly
field is chairman and $500 for
Ocean Springs to be raised I'M
der the direction of Oscar Heff-
ner. Miss Ruth Cain and A. j.
Franklin, county home demon
stration and farm agents, will be
in charge of the rural areas. K.
w. Burnham, Moss Point, is
chairman of the drive in the
whole county.
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The parade will be the same
in both Pascagoula and Moss
Point. A motorcycle escort will
serve as vanguard and will be
followed by the band. Immedi-
ately behind the musicians will
march the color guard after which
will come a jeep bearing the per-
sonification of "The Greatest
est Mother on Earth" Mrs. Mar
tin Shepard and Miss Nina
O'Donohoe, both of whom have
given rs years of service to the
Red Cross, will take part in the
parade. Members of the Junior
Red Cross will be among those
marching.
Ocean Springs got off to an
early start in soliciting funds
when the women who will carry
on the house-to-house canvass
ware called in meeting by their
chairman, Mrs. Charles Carr, and
shortly after the morning session
spread out through the town in
their assigned sections in the first
steps of the "go to every front
door" movement. The special
gifts committee under George
Young has been working for
several days, according to Mr.
Heffner, but no report has been
made at this time.
Moss Point chairmen were APP
pointed at a meeting called by
Mr.. Slyfield, and are as follows.
Miss Ina Bell Cox, secretary; Miss
Pearl Rabby, treasurer; c. A.
Blanchard, chairman of special
gifts; Mrs John Cirlot and Mrs.
l.. A. Watts. house to house; Ed
Mayes, store employees; Mrs. w.
c. Ravens, East Moss Point; W.
w. Barber, Dantzler Lumber Co.,
Junior Pierce, Combustion En-
cheering Co; E. A. Khayat,
Jackson County Mills; W. H. Har-
ris, international Paper Mill;
A. L. Bresemann, Mississippi Ex-
port Railroad; A. l.. Monroe,
schools; w. c. Loomis, JOY Thea
ter; and James Waller, Rev. J.
w, Campbell and Fl. c. Heidel-
berg, colored division.
City organization for Pasea-
goula was completed at a meet
ing held Tuesday at the court
house at which time County
Chairman Burnham opened the
session and turned the meeting
over to Mr.. Hammett. Reports of
preliminary work we're heard
from various chairmen.
Quotas Assigned Committees
T. r. Wells, school chairman
formally accepted a quota of
$1,000 for the white and SIS for
the colored schools. He stated
that in order to create additional
enthusiasm large thermometers
will be placed in front of each
school showing the standing OF
that particular quota.
J. w. Brumfield, co-chairman
with Roy Owens of the business
district, announced his quota as
$4,000, adding that he believed
this sum can be readily obtained
if the merchants cooperate as
they did last year. Each mer-
chant will be contacted by letter