YOUNGSTERS TO OBTAIN BUTTONS Red Cross Awards to Be Made After Ability in Swimming Shown; Hundreds Take Free Instruction Seven hundred Ogden youngsters who are learning how to swim in six free lessons turned out for instruction in Weber’s gymnasium pool today, as the Red Cross swimming school reached its fourth day. Instruction will continue the rest of this week. The pool echoed with shouts all day as class after class of kids plunged into the cool water. The hot weather has made the attendance problem no problem at all. The school was in full swing today as the youngsters went through their training under the guidance of skilled instructors. Some who could not swim a stroke were today able to make it across the pool under their own power and in approved form. Observers predicted that the Red Cross campaign to lessen swimming accidents by teaching children how to swim would be an outstanding success. ABILITY GRADED Each class receives a half hour each day. The youngsters are divided into groups according to their ability. They will be given buttons showing their progress at the end of the school. To get a beginner’s button a youngster must learn to jump into water that is over his head in depth and swim 50 feet. A swimmer’s button goes to one who, already able to swim a little can swim 100 feet by the end of the school. Make a surface dive, swim 50 feet on the back without using arms, tread water 30 seconds and float motionless. Each must also witness a demonstration of artificial respiration. For advanced swimmers a junior life saving test is given to youngsters between 12 and 17 years, and a senior life saving test for those over 17. In addition to the 700 children, 25men and 75 women have enrolled for free instruction LARGE STAFF USED Instructors in charge of the school are Carl Belliston, Mrs. Lucille Clark and Oscar Deming. All attended the Red Cross first aid and life saving institute held recently at Como Springs. They are being assisted by Allan Stimpson, Duwayne Fredrick, Raymond Holmes, Donna Manning, Lila Wheelwright, Reed Laker, Cliff Furniss, Gertrude Wadley, Athleen MacGregor, Marian Poulter, Lois Smalley, Helen Chambers, Thomas Seppich, Mrs. Florence Wade and Mrs. Donaldson, all of Ogden and Mrs. Slyvia Durrant of Salt Lake City. SPLASH CLUB TO GIVE SWIMMING PROGRAMIN GYM Fancy diving, demonstration of backstroke, breast stroke, the American crawl, will be on the program of the swimming exhibition sponsored by the Splash club to be held May 6 at eight p.m. in the Weber gymnasium. Miss Kitty Ahrens, national mile junior champion, will swim with Miss Donna Manning, intermountain free style, backstroke and fancy diving champion. Miss Ahrens will also swim a relay with Miss Gertrude Wadley and Miss Lois Smalley, members of the Splash club. Miss Donna Manning will demonstrate fancy diving. Fnacy diving will also be given by entries from the Deseret gymnasium in Salt Lake City. A comic act will be given by Hugh Stewart and Parry Nelson entitled “Angles at Play.” The entries from Salt Lake City will do racing, using both the breast stroke and free style. The program promises to be very entertaining. The public is invited to attend. Members of the Splash club on the committee in charge are, Mrs. Lacille Clark, Miss Adelle Marie Violet, Miss Kathryn Seibold, Miss Donna Manning and Miss Thelma Terry. Plans Program Mrs. Lucille Clark, who is in charge of the program for the swimming exhibition being sponsored by the Splash club at the Weber gymnasium Monday, May 6. At eight o’clock. Will Cooperate In Starting Aid Stations on Roads ELMER G. HOLSTROM Elmer G. Holstrom, San Francisco, Red Cross first aid expert, wil be in Ogden, Nov. 30-Dec. 4 to establish highway first aid stations in cooperation with the local Red Cross chapter. More than 200 of these Red Cross stations are already projected in the Pacific coast territory in an effort to reduce the loss of life in road accidents. Stations have been opened at the Mexico and Canadian borders thereby completing one objective in the border to border campaign. Intermountain districts are now being equipped with emergency first aid stations. Reports Reveal Large Amount of Merchandise Distributed By Chapter San Francisco Executive Pleased by Weber Red Cross Unit’s Accomplishments; Officers Elected for New Year Merchandise valued at $25,578.21 was distributed during the seven month period ending January 1 by the Weber county chapter of the American Red Cross, according to annual reports. This included 22,108 finished articles of clothing which the national organization sent; 16,170 articles made here from 40,757 yards of material sent by the national organization; and 80,640 pounds of flour. The new articles were worth $13,522.98; the made articles were worth $8,275.23; and the flour was valued at $3,780. New articles were distributed for 5,305 “family assists” and the flour to 2,435 “family assists.” Between 50 and 75 women as volunteer supervisors devoted 7,103 hours of their time while volunteer women, sewing in their own homes, devoted 3,544 hours, making a total of 10,647 hours. Added to all this, were 10,647 volunteer hours spent by club women in making 720 layettes for babies, consisting of about 3,000 articles. ONLY TWO RETIRE All officers with the exception of two have been re-elected to again direct the Weber chapter of the Red Cross for 1934. Dr. L. R. Draper will continue as chairman; F. A. Child as vice president; and Dr. N. H Savage as treasurer. Mrs. H. C. Gwilliam resigned as secretary of the chapter and was elected executive secretary, and Mrs. Clyde Greenwell was named secretary to replace Mrs. Gwilliam. When Mrs. John T. Rushmer resigned as chairman of volunteer and production work, results of which are reflected in the above report, she was given a vote of thanks for her work during the past two years. Mrs. D. E. Rhivers was appointed chairman of volunteer and produced work in her stead. Mrs. Rushmer will remain a member of the Red Cross board. Directors for 1934 include Mrs. Rushmer, Miss Ida Fitzsimmons, Mrs. Thomas Feeny, W. W. Bowman, A .E. Wilfong, Dr. S. W. Wherry, Mrs. Ruth W. Mumford, Byron L. Blood, Carl Belliston, Mrs. Rhivers, Ora Budny, Mrs. Peter Anderson, Rms. D. R. Wheelwright, Mrs. J. A. Howell, Dr. E. R. Dumke, Mrs. Da Treseder, Mrs. Julia Parry, Mrs. E. Wright, George Thorstensen, E. A. Larkin, Dr. S. W. Badcon, A. A. Drummond, Robert M. Hoggan, C. H. B. Seybert, J. Howard Jenkins, H. E. Benning, Dr. W. E. Whalen, Mayor Harman W. Peery, Spencer S. Eccles and F. A. Kuhlmann. ON COMMITTEES Mr. Bowman is chairman of the publicity committee, Mrs. Bellison heads the life saving group and Mr. Blood again is in charge of first aid. The disaster relief committee is directed by Mr. Wilfong with Dr. Wherry in charge of home service, Miss Fitzsimmons directing Junior Red Cross activities; Mrs. Feeny the motor corps and Mrs. Mumford the nursing. The Weber chapter has voted to affiliate itself with the Community Chest group in Ogden, subject to approval by the national organization. The annual report of Mr. Seybert as roll call chairman revealed the most successful drive ever conducted in Weber county, with 1,400 members, a one-third increase, for 1934. Praise from the Pacific branch of the national organization on the drive came from Douglas H. Moore of San Francisco in a letter wherein he seeks a 1,500-word feature story on this and other accomplishments during the past year. “Your chapter has made a definite contribution to the success of the seventeenth roll call,” he wrote. FINANCIAL REVIEW As a treasurer, Dr. N. H. Savage set forth disbursements of $2,020.05 during the year form December 1, 1932 to December 1, 1933. The Disbursements were as follows: food, fuel, clothing and medical aid, $1,117.68; loans to ex-service men, $65; first aid, $15.95; office expense, $98.72; roll call expense, $4.62; miscellaneous, $14.16; Weber county’s portion of roll call dues to the national organization, $598.69; southern California earthquake disaster relief contribution, $105. Recepts for the year were: from roll call, $1,514.82; a gift from the national organization, $400; and special contributions for the Southern California earthquake disaster, $105.23 These figures were checked over the certified by M. L. Critchlow, a private auditor. The 1934 budget, also for the period of December 1, 1933, to December 1, 1934, shows that $2,090.88 was collected from the roll call. A loan of $130.50 immediately was repaid to the national organization as its portion of the membership fees. During the coming year expenditures are contemplated as follows: live saving, $100; first aid, $25; disaster relief in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, $50; office expense, $50; home service, direct relief and the like, $957.94. ADVANCE IN SCHOOLS Miss Ida Fitzsimmons, junior Red Cross chairman, reported there were 8,420 members in 13 schools of the city, double the past year’s enrollment. The children covered in Braille 32 books which the national organization donated to the Utah school ro the deaf and blind; made 850 battleship menu covers, collected 23 pounds of buttons. Byron L. Blood, as first aid chairman, reported one class, scout leaders, finished a course last year a that seven classes are started already this year. USED CLOTHING FOR THE RED CROSS Through Mrs. H. C. Gwilliam, secretary, the Weber County Red Cross chapter, is appealing for used clothing for distribution to the needy of Ogden during the winter. Boy Scouts will collect the clothing Friday and Saturday. The Red Cross is a well officered, thoroughly reliable, and its appeal should be responded to im a big way. Those who have discarded clothing should place tie same in the hands of the Red Cross workers who are in daily contact with the families in distress and who, with discriminating fairness, make a proper distribution.