Red Cross Activities BY DOROTHY PORTER 2/42 An important and practical func¬tion of the American Red Cross is the organization of classes in home nursing, under direction of Mrs. Lynn Overstreet. Women are given training in in¬dividual health, personal hygiene, healthy home environment, normal family life, home care of sick, care of chronic and aged, including minor ailments and emergencies. Stress is given on care of mothers, babies and small children, in health as well as in illness. The ideal all the way through is a preventative program. The women cooperate with the public health nurses in attempts to assist in preventing and controlling communicable dis¬eases. Interested persons are given a 24- hour course of instruction, upon the completion of Which they are awarded Red Cross certificates. They are not supposed to go out as practical nurses, but apply their knowledge in their own home and own particular group. The Red Cross organization has secured a room at Weber college where meetings are held and fur¬nish all equipment necessary for the training, including beds, linen, thermometers. Nine classes are now in progress. One class made up of Weber col¬lege girls is taught by Miss Lucy Taylor, an instructor at the Dee hospital. Miss Roy Thorstensen teaches a class of adults on Thurs¬days from seven-thirty to nine- thirty p. m., Mrs. Catherine Eckenbrecht classes on Thursdays from two to four p. m., and Miss Lil¬lian Albrect, also an instructor at the Dee hospital, classes on Wed¬nesdays from seven-thirty to nine- thirty p. m. These classes were or¬ganized in November and within two weeks the students will have completed the necessary 24 hours of instruction. In the middle of January, five new classes' were organized. They are as follows: Monday from three-thirty to five- thirty p. m., Mound Fort school girls under direction of Mrs. Min¬erva Hadley, public health nurse; Tuesday, seven-thirty to nine-thir¬ty, Mrs. Earl Rushmer; Wednes¬day from two to four p. m., Mrs. James DeVine; Friday, two p. m. to four p. m., Mrs. Jesse Cain; Fri¬day, seven-thirty to nine-thirty p. m„ Mrs. Leslie West. Beginning March 4, a new series of classes will be started. Anyone interested is invited to enroll. At the end of the week the Red Cross sewing rooms on Twenty-fourth will be closed, due to a definite shortage of wool and cotton, and will remain closed until a new shipment of material arrives. A letter from Mrs. Mabel E. Axline, director, volunteer service, Pacific area, stated that owing to the war and the importance of first providing the men of the armed forces with materials, the Red Cross I having difficulty in securing prompt delivery of materials. The office of production management has asked the Red Cross not to order any more material than is absolutely necessary-to make knitted garments for the armed forces only to fill the demands of commanding officers-to make only those garments for civilian relief either at home or abroad which are absolutely necessary In order that every chapter may have some work to do, it will be necessary to divide up among all the chapters who have requested materials the amount now on hand. Assurance was given that enough material would be provided to take care of actual needs. Huntsville first aid students, under direction of Armand Schade, gave demonstrations of the treatment for a broken back, artificial respiration and traction splinting at a smoker held Thursday in the Hunstville school gymnasium. Proceeds of the affair were to be used for the benefit of men in military service. The first aid detachment of the Utah Power & Light company completed the standard course of training Thursday evening and will immediately begin an advanced course. Instructor is Roy Lofgreen. Red Cross Activities BY DOROTHY PORTER The forces of General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippine is¬lands could be no busier than the hundreds of Ogden women who have combined talents' and energy to assist in the various phases of Red Cross activities. At present, one of the busiest groups in this splendid organization is that concerned with the emer-gency closet and local production, of which Mrs. Lee D. Turner is chairman. Among their projects now under way is the making of laprobes for wheel chair patients. Twenty of the robes, made out of all scraps of wool material, have been com¬pleted and 30 or 40 more are now in the process of being made. This work is being done under the di¬rection of Mrs. George Grill and Mrs. Ralph Green. A group headed by Mrs. Daniel B. Floyd of Hill field is preparing bedside utility bags for hospital patients. Women under Mrs. H. D. Richards have completed 110 ice bag covers and a local knitting mill has donated ten dozen knitted knee bands for arthritic patients. Fifty-five pillows, 17 inches by 17, with slips of bright colors, to go with the laprobes, and frac¬ture pillows, 11 inches by 16, with two slips for each, have been com¬pleted by women under direction of Mrs. Paul Hodson. Miss Ann Browning and women of the Second L. D. S. ward are preparing 50 white pneumonia bed jackets. They expect to complete 25 this week. The unit also expects to turn out 50 layettes by the end of the month. Mrs. Lloyd Hoover, Mrs. Trace Turner and Mrs. John A. Hen¬dricks are doing the cutting and distributing of the layettes. Mrs. Anna Astill has organized a group of Eastern Star members to work once a week on the project. Mrs. Harold Vaughn of West Warren is directing women in the making of 50 bed pan covers. Mrs. Claude Cave has been ap¬pointed recorder for the depart¬ment. All work is done in the home. Materials are distributed by the motor corps. Members of the Union Pacific Old Timers auxiliary to club No. 6 will meet at the Red Cross sew¬ing rooms Wednesday and Thurs¬day, from ten a. m. to four p. m. Mrs. C. L. Miller and Mrs. T. A. Potts will act as captains. Mrs. J. F. Gibbons is general chairman. Registration of women interest¬ed in the nurses' aides course is still underway at the Red Cross of¬fices in the city-county building. The course will start Feb. 16. Ap¬proximately 45 women have al¬ready been signed for the training. Red Cross Activities BY DOROTHY PORTER 2/42 In response to a request by mili¬tary authorities that a canteen service be set up in Ogden, Mrs. R. B. Porter, chairman, and other members of the canteen commit¬tee, met with railroad officials Tuesday and arranged for quarters for the canteen to be had in the station. Classes have been organized and those who will take part in the canteen work will be given the reg¬ular canteen course as prescribed by the Red Cross, which includes the setting up of equipment and the preparation and serving of light snacks. One of the main activities will be extending hospitality where required to troops in transit. It is expected the canteen will be in action within ten days after the installation of equipment is completed. An instructor has been secured for the nutrition classes which are an activity of the Red Cross under direction of the canteen committee. Time and place of meetings of the group will be reported as soon as authorization from headquarters is received to start the course. Women interested in the instruction are re¬quested to contact Mrs. R. B. Por¬ter, chairman; Mrs. H. F. Irwin, vice chairman, or the Red Cross office in the city-county building. Both the canteen and nutrition courses will stress preparation for action in case of disaster. Other members of the canteen commit¬tee are Wanda Mathews, canteen instructor, and Catherine Ebert. Volunteer workers at the Red Cross sewing rooms on Twenty- fourth today were working on warm, cheerful convalescent robes for the children of war-torn coun¬tries, and on women's skirts, sweat¬ers, stockings and children's suits. With the 20 machines in the rooms going continuously, the wom¬en were turning out between 80 and 100 skirts and about 40 robes daily. The robes are made out of multi-colored cotton material and the skirts out of blue wool. Assisting with the projects were members of the Girl Scout organi¬zation, Presbyterian and Methodist women, members of the Martha Junior society, Bnai Brith organi¬zation, the auxiliary to the Broth-erhood of Locomotive Engineers and several individuals. Evening Course Set Women who wish to take advan¬tage of an evening course to train as a nurses' aide may register at the American Red Cross office in the city-county building Friday from nine-thirty a. m. to six p. m. Only demand of qualifications is that the person be a high school graduate and between 18 and 50 years of age. The night course is given in an¬swer to many requests from women who are employed during the day. Classes will begin Feb. 16 at the Dee hospital. Hours will be from seven to ten p. m. for the first three weeks, five evenings a week. During the next three weeks hos¬pital training will be given for three hours a day, five days a week for three weeks. The three hours may be worked in any time during the day from nine a. m. to twelve noon or from three to seven p. m.