Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22
Seven Churches Make
Clothing Drive

Ten million pounds of clothing
will be needed by Church World
Service during 1860, according to
office from workers overseas. This
does not in any way indicate the
extent of human need and does
not include emergency calls for
help. More than thirty protestant
denominations working under the
National Council of Churches have
been distributing clothing and other
needed supplies in ever increasing
amounts since World War III.
Recently the Councils committee
on Church World Service issued a
call to all it's member churches
for new and more vigorous sup
port of the United Clothing Appeal.
Every church was encouraged to
make a spring and fall clothing
drive this year and every succeed
ing year and to forward eight cents
per pound for processing costs.
At recent meeting of the Sus-
sex Council of Presbyterian Chur-
ches held at Midway near Reho-
both Beach, a report on the cloth
ing drive was given by the chair
man of that committee the Rev.
John Hays. He stated that all chur-
ches had participated in the drive
for a total of 1000 pounds and that
approximately $4,000 had been for
warded to cover cost of processing.
One of the five centers is located
at New Windsor, in Carroll County
near Westminster. Pickup trucks
from these centers cover the en-
tire country four times a year. A
permanent collecting depot for this
area is Christ Episcopal Church,
State and Water Streets, Cover,
Delaware. Gifts may be sent direct
to the center nearest you or they
may be left at the Dover location
for pick up.
The Sussex Council is arranging
for group of volunteer workers
to go to New Windsor on Monday
August l to work for day sorting
and preparing articles for shipment
Church World Service reports
that in Jan. Feb. of this year twice
as many pounds of clothing were
given as compared with Jan. Feb
of the previous year. In the two
month period the United Presby-
terian Church led the denomination
receipts with 113,O59 pounds, close
ly followed by the Methodists with
90,312 pounds.
At present the most urgent needs
are: Mems clothing, especially
trousers, suits, and work clothing.
Blankets, to keep over one million
refugees warm. Teen ayers cloth
ing, for both boys and girls Chill
dren's garments, of all kinds. In
fant wear, including layettes. Wo-
mems clothing. Above the work
tables at the New Windsor Center
is sign which says: IF ours are
to be gifts of love- they cannot
appear to be crumbs from the table
of the rich" All gifts of clothing
should be clean and serviceable if
we are to help refugees maintain
their selfrespect and dignity.
The Centers also maintain cut
garment departments, Increasing
numbers of women's groups in local
churches are taking advantage of
the opportunity which the Cut Gar
ment project offers to sew new
clothes for shipment overseas. Gar
ments, cut and ready for sewing,
are purchased from the centers,
are returned to the Centers after
sewing. Materials are sold at act
ual cost; this is not fund raising
project.
Other processing centers operat-
ing under the National Council of
Churches committee on Church
World Service are located at New
York City, Napanee, Indiana. st.
Louis, Mo. and Modesto, California.