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Show SOLDIER PLAY AIMS OUTLINED Mrs. George L. Abbott today was in Salt Lake City, .represent¬ing Weber county chapter of the American Red Cross in a confer¬ence of 10 Utah chapters who are forming a council to provide recreational facilities at army posts in the state. The request for the service by Red Cross was transmitted from army officers themselves, it was pointed out locally. The Red Cross does not take any action on gov¬ernment reservations unless spe-cifically requested to do so. One of the important features of the service being planned is the providing of magazines, books, newspapers, tobacco and other leisure time articles for soldiers. Those in guardhouses under mili¬tary detention are also to get spe¬cial consideration from the Red Cross council when it is organized. Each post has a Red Cross field representative assigned to it, and in most cases the Red Cross man works with the post chaplain. The field man will be in charge of the work of the council being formed today. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1942 They’re Talking Over Plans for Dance Floor Show FOR RED CROSS... M-Men and Gleaners of North Weber stake are completing plans for the “Excursion Dance” which they are sponsoring on Jan. 16, at the Weber county high school. Shown above talking over plans for the floor show which will be presented are M-Men and Gleaners: Vera Lee, Donald Taylor, Charles Carver, Caroline Hobson, Elizabeth Farr and Wayne Carver. Y EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1942 Red Cross Swamped With Calls for First Aid Work Citizens Are Requested To Be Patient; Await Their Turn Robert F. Eaton, Red Cross field representative of the midwestern area, headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., was in Ogden today to as¬sist Weber county chapter in ar¬ranging its first aid instruction on a long-term basis. Weber county chapter, like others throughout the nation, is be¬ing swamped with requests for first aid training. Mr. Eaton said everyone is becoming "first aid conscious," and wants to learn "right away." “But we only have so many instructors and they can only give so many hours,” the field man said, “We have to work out some system to show the people we are preparing for a long-range war. If they cannot get into a class just being organized, there will be another class later, and their training at a later date will be as important as it is right now.” Mr. Eaton said the Red Cross has not changed its program one iota as a result of the war. It is merely being forced to expand it. “We’ve been offering this training for years, and we’ve had to beg for students. Now we are being forced to meet unprecedented demand for the classes. We can only do so much. We’ll give as many classes as it is possible for us to give, but we must ask people to be patient if a course cannot be arranged for them at once.” Mr. Eaton, one of 20 field representatives sent from the Midwest to the Pacific area by national Red Cross headquarters, to meet the sudden demand for Red Cross services, arrived here Thursday evening and will leave tonight. ADVOCATE… Robert F. Eaton, Red Cross field representative, today urged Ogden to consider first aid training as a long-term program. RED CROSS GETS AID TEXTBOOKS Three hundred Red Cross standard first aid course textbooks have arrived at the local chapter office and are on sale there, reported Kent S. Bramwell, director of first aid instruction. Keith Saxton will start a class next Wednesday at the L. D. S. Twentieth ward for residents of that neighborhood; Fisher Berry will instruct a class at Wesleyan community center for Negroes Tuesday evening. On Friday, Jan. 23, at four p.m., Ogden city school teachers will begin a class with Dr. O. Whitney Young of Weber college as instructor, and Armand Schade will start a class at Huntsville school. Presbyterian women will start on Thursday of next week. |