TESTS WILL BE TAKEN TONIGHT BY RAID STAFF Anti-Bomber Volunteers Winding up Special Training Course Approximately 150 area and precinct air raid wardens and some staff members will complete a 10 hour general course tonight in city county building and will take examinations on the subjects that have been discussed by war department trained leaders. Tonight’s instruction will be in the form of a practice control room exercise, with mock incidents which must be reported to the control room in proper form. Schramm in Charge Clem S. Schramm, state air raid warden, has been in charge of the school, assisted by experts provided by the state defense council, including A. E. Wilfong, R. C. Glasmann, A. T. Barrett and Darrel E. Shaw of Ogden. Mr. Barrett explained the operation of the Red Cross disaster committee, incorporated into the Weber county defense council, as the emergency medical group of the citizens’ defense council, as the emergency medical group of the citizens’ defense corps, at the Monday evening session of the school, and General Wilfong explained the functions of the warden service. Two motion pictures, one showing the importance of a complete blackout, and one showing the air raid warden in action, were presented. From Other Counties In addition to the Ogden and Weber county men who have been taking the instruction course, a delegation from Morgan county has attended each session and some Davis county men have been present. Those who have completed a Red Cross first aid training course will receive certificates and armbands for identification as air raid wardens if they pass tonight’s test satisfactorily. Those who have not taken the first aid training must do so before they are certificated. Older Women May Assist In Volunteer Activities “There are many volunteer activities in which older women can take part so that the younger women may be released for more strenuous duties,” said A. E. Wilfong, state defense council protection division representative, Wednesday evening at a meeting of volunteer Red Cross workers. “Older women are particularly needed in the Red Cross production division, in day nurseries and as assistants in maternity homes,” he continued. “This would relieve younger women for such activites as nurses’ aides, which is a particularly needed group of volunteers today.” Mr. Wilfong, a former brigadier general of the army, now retired, said six nurses’ aides per 1,000 of population are needed, according to national figures. That would place the need in Ogden at about 300 nurses’ aides. We have now, according to the Red Cross chapter, 15 graduates of the training course and 22 in training. Chaplain Speaks Capt. William M. Frost, army chaplain in this area, also addressed the group pointing out that the war situation today is a personal one. He showed pictures of some of the men whom he called “my boys, the ones who will be killed in this war,” to stress his point. He also said that all talk of military matters should be passed by, urging discretion in every statement. “And we must organize to save the lives of our boys,” he continued, explaining the functions that can be carried out by volunteer Red Cross workers. General Wilfong outlined the entire civilian defense setup, from the head down to the merest worker in the local organization, and Captain Frost told of the effective work of the Red Cross with soldier personnel. Mrs. Hazel McCarty, chairman of the nutrition department of the local defense council, was another speaker. For Prompt Action Red Cross officials, following General WIlfong’s talk, urged that women do not wait for a special period to register for nurses’ aide training. Women between 18 and 50 may register at any time in the Red Cross office in the city-county building. “Let Weber be the first Utah county to obtain its quota of aides,” said one official. “Let us adopt the slogan: ‘Don’t Wait for Him to Come Home, Do Your Bit Now,’” was the suggestion of another. GROUPS FORMED BY FOOD UNIT Committee Appointed By Weber Nutrition Council Executive board of the Weber county nutritional council, with Mrs. Hazel McCarty, chairman, met today in the Utah Power hall. The following committees were formed: Publicity, chairman, Mrs. Jean Welling; organization, chairman, Mrs. G. G. Moyes; classes and promotional, chairman, Mrs. C. F. Peacock; extension of accurate nutritional information in Weber county, chairman, Miss Deola Seegmiller. The following board members are: Mrs. H. F. Irwin, representing American Red Cross; Miss Deola Seegmiller, home extension service of Weber county; Mrs. C. F. Peaocock representing Civic clubs; Mrs. Jean Welling, representing farm security; Robert Clark, representing junior chamber of commerce; Mrs. H. W. Wayward, representing A. F. of L.; Vern Bullough, representing C. I. O. This executive committee is a coordinating council of all agencies interested in nutrition in Weber county. Any person interested in enrolling in a single nutrition class or a series of such classes of any type is invited to call Weber county nutritional council chairman, Mrs. Hazel McCarty, at 7771 or 2-1035. The executive council will call in the planning board for a meeting March 31. AIDES SOUGHT BY RED CROSS Appeal Made for More Ogden Women to Help Nurses "We are at war! Should bombs start to fall or should we have an epidemic of flu as in the last war —the situation might be desperate. Our civilian health would be en¬dangered and that would affect our boys in the fighting lines," said a statement from the Red Cross of¬fices. "We women have a definite part to play now. The women in Eng¬land showed that they could back their men to the limit. And so can we. Thirty-four Trained “The national Red Cross has issued an appeal for nurse’s aids. Thirty-four women in Ogden have answered that appeal and have trained to serve this community in time of emergency. “Ogden needs more nurse’s aids to be ready for what may be ahead. The duties are varied. There is no dirty work. Nurses aids make beds, take pulses and temperatures, keep records, sterilize dishes, help with applying casts, bandage small injuries, feed patients unable to feed themselves and attend many of the details which do not require a technical training.” Mrs. L. G. Diehl is chairman of the nurse’s aid committee. This six-week course is given by a registered nurse in the Dee hospital. The age limit is 18 to 50. Applicants are required to have a high school education. Women may register at the city-county building in the Red Cross office, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, any time between ten a.m. and four p.m. The telephone number is 7961. Handle Routine Work “By relieving graduate nurses of routine work, nurse’s aids enable the nurses to devote their time to cases of serious illness, where good nuring care may mean the difference between life and death.” Mrs. Diehl said. “The background gained in this training will be exceptionally valuable in homes. It will enable the women to give better care to their families’ health. “We would like to have every woman who possibly can register at the Red Cross office. “Nurse’s aids will not be called outside the county in case of a disaster unless they have signed an agreement to the effect that they are willing to go.” Red Cross Activities BY DOROTHY PORTER All practical nurses interested in assisting during a disaster or epidemic are requested to attend a Red Cross meeting under the direction of Dr. R. L. Draper, medical chairman, Weber county chapter, American Red Cross, tonight at seven-thirty o’clock in the Utah Power & Light auditorium. Smudged faces and clothing and dirty hands are all part of the day’s work for members of the American Red Cross ambulance and motor corps. The members are now diligently pursuing a mechanics class at Weber college, where they study the changing of tires and the patching of innertubes and minor mechanical adjustments-which, the women declare, have not turned out to be so minor after all. Between swipes at begrimed cheeks, they agree that they already know more about a car than the average husband. Upon the completion of the mechanics course, members will be instructed in military drill by a U. S. army officer. The women have all completed the standard course in Red Cross first aid, which is a requirement, and most of them have taken the advanced course. Duties of the motor corps includes the delivery of sewing and knitting and the collection of first aid supplies and supplies for the Red Cross headquarters. Four women are in service each day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Up to date the women have been using their own cars, but as the tire situation becomes more acute, members are hoping that in the immediate future they are provided with an ambulance or station wagon, which could be converted into an ambulance, for the delivery of supplies and care of the sick. Members of this extremely active unit are Mrs. Lou Bass, captain; Mrs. Arthur Woolley, adjutant; Mrs. J. B. Dirker and Miss Barbara Weeks, lieutenants; Mrs. Paul Hodgson, Miss Rosanne Peery, Mrs. A. W. Bartlett, Mrs. Kenneth Davidson, Mrs. Howard Christensen, Mrs. Phil Dix, Mrs. Margaret Feeny, Mrs. Harry Yeager, Mrs. Matt Browning, Miss Winona Hodgson, Miss Dena Dix, Mrs. D. R. Jensen, Mrs. N. Hoskot and Miss Lani Carr. Members of Golden Spike lodge No. 410 Ladies Society of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, will meet at the W. O. W. hall, 2425 Grant, tonight at seven-thirty o’clock to sew lap robes for wheel chair patients for the Red Cross. Each woman is requested to take pieces of wool material to be sewed together and lined. Mrs. Otto Roesler is chairman of the sewing.