The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-25
Contest Adds
impetus To The
Clothing Drive
Free Movie For Boys And
Girls Bringing In Most Ar
ticles Of Clothing Within
Specified Time. Mrs. Kent
And Mrs. Truitt To Aid In
Drive

New impetus was added to the
Victory Clothing Collection in Coo
lidge this week with the beginning
/ OF a recent collection contest be-
tween the young people and chill
dren Of Coolidge and community.
I according TO Joseph Kamphuis.
county chairman OF the drive.
: All boys and girls in Coolidge
and Kenilworth grade schools and
I Coolidge high school. who bring at
least seven articles TO the clothing
/ collection stations at their schools.
I VIII receive a written authorization
from their teachers good for one
I free moving picture show at the
San Carlos theater. The date and
name of the picture will be an
nounced later.
The free movie is being sponsor
/ ed By the Rotary and Lions clubs
in cooperation with the theater as
an incentive toward the collection
OF more clothing for the drive.
Mrs George Truitt and Mrs. Ted
Kent were appointed last week to
assist Mrs. ]. ]. Jones. Coolidge
chairman Of the drive Mrs. Truitt
viii be in charge OF pick ups from
the various clothing collection sta
tions Mrs. Kent win be in charge
+ of packing.
Chairmen of the drive through
out the county win be assisted by
their nearest Safeway store in
transporting the various collections
20 the main depot in Phoenix.
where the clothing will be stored
+ in an army ware house until the
drive Is over and collections are
ready for shipment overseas. II
there is no Safeway store in the
town where a drive Is being con
Quoted the nearest Safeway viii
/, handle the job Of transportation TO
Phoenix. according TO Mr. KAN
phuis.
I Footwear Is desperately needed
In an the liberated and looted coun-
tries. relief workers report.
In Norway alone there will be
nearly three million pairs OF wet
/ feet this winter. a recent survey
indicates Many children will have
10 be kept indoors all through the
bad weather. The thousands of
pairs OF reconditioned army shoes
shoes sent to Norway do not begin
/ to meet the total need.
In Greece. Poland and Yugosla-
via. farmers whose feet are wrap
ped In burlap or paper drag their
carts over the rough. rubble-
strewn roads.
In France a pair OF rationed
/ shoes costs several thousa d
francs. In the Philippines $50 can
not buy a pair of the cheapest
quality shoes. In one Czechoslovak
town there was not a single pair Of
shoes among the population of 300.-
600 people. From Holland came re-
ports of children wearing women's
/ high-heeled sandals, or mismated
shoes. There is no leather for
mending old shoes. The Dutch
children have not even the ira
ditional wooden sabots for the Ger
mans carried these away with
/ them in retreat.
This lack of shoes. galoshes, rub
bers is not only an immediate
threat to health but a source of
future malformations and illnesses.
In contributing shoes, overshoes,
boots. rubbers. bedslippers. play
shoes. infants booties. or any type
of footwear TO the Victory Clothing
/ Collection for overseas relief, we
are asked TO tie them securely to-
gether in pairs. This will help get
the shoes overseas with a minimum
of delay TO those who need them
so desperately.