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Show POLICE TRAINING STARTS TONIGHT Official Helpers Will Be Instructed for Use In Emergency Twenty-five hand-picked men will start training this evening un¬der Police Inspector Leo W. Pack as auxiliary policemen to serve un¬der sponsorship of the Weber coun¬ty civilian defense program. Following their training as auxil¬iaries and their completion of 20 hours of Red Gross first aid train¬ing, these men will receive OCD armbands and certificates designat¬ing them, as official police helpers in time of emergency. The instructor, a veteran of the police department, has taken a large amount of special training in recent weeks, Chief Rial C. Moore said. Inspector Pack has taken OCD training courses for police and air raid wardens, first aid and gas de¬fense training and special police courses offered by the federal bu¬reau of investigation. "When the inspector completes his lessons for these men, they will be well qualified to assist the regu¬lar police in all phases of special defense policing," the chief de¬clared. Twenty Complete Nurse Helper Training GRADUATES . . . Twenty nurses' aides received caps and insignia in ceremonies held Saturday aft-ernoon marking completion of an intensive training course. They are, front row, left to right, Hilda Son, Betty Scott, Evelyn Lucas, Valera Getz, Marie Farley, Leona Child; back row, Velma Cross, Dolly Ackerman, Dolly W. Dickens, Ermabelle Mathews, Tressa Johnson, B. Allen, Beatrice Dobbs, Genevieve Mortensen, Arline Johnson and Gonda DeBoer. Members of the class who were not pres¬ent for the picture are Ellen Price, May Eakins, Mrs. Woodbury and Mrs. Moncrief. NEW NURSE AIDE CLASS PLANNED So enthusiastic are women about the nurses’ aide work that a new class will be started May 3, it was announced Saturday after the second group of women to take such a class were graduated in a ceremony which saw them presented with caps and insignia. Women interested in evening or day classes are requested to fill out application blanks at the Red Cross offices in the city-county building, or to contact Mrs. C. J. Carroll, dial 2-5806, for detailed information. The program presented during the Saturday ceremony was under direction of Mrs. Thomas Farr and Mrs. Louis Vandeberg. Speakers were Dr. H. A. Dixon, Mrs. R. B. Porter, A. T. Barrett, L. Wesley Robins, Miles Jones, Mrs. Leah Greenwell and Mrs. Farr. CANTEEN CORPS AIDE TO SPEAK Red Cross Group Active In Aiding Nutrition Program Mrs. H. F. Irwin, vice chairman of Weber county Red Cross chap¬ter canteen corps, headed by Mrs. R. B. Porter, and member of the Weber county nutritional council, will speak before the audience of the Victory Cooking school Thurs¬day in Orpheum theatre on the aims and methods of the Red Cross nutritional work. The county Red Cross chapter keeps standard nutritional courses available at all times, but has been especially active in the field since the start of the war with the axis, believing that any movement which increases the health of the people is a definite step in the war effort. Mrs. Irwin said today that all material used in the Red Cross courses has been recently revised and is as authentic as experts can make it. The teachers who are giving the material are profession¬ally trained, with wide experience. Two types of nutrition courses are given. The first is a standard 20-hour course and the second is the canteen course. Anyone can take the standard course, and those completing it will receive a cer-tificate. The canteen course is open only to those who have taken the standard course or who have had professional training and ex¬perience. The canteen course is helpful at all times, but is particularly of value in case of emergency, when canteen-trained workers would take over supplying food to the homeless or to large numbers of persons being evacuated from dan¬ger areas. Mrs. Irwin expressed the hope that all city and county home- makers would avail themselves of one or more classes. Gaeth Urges Clubwomen to Give Service Arthur Gaeth, noted radio news commentator and lecturer, appeared before a large gathering Monday evening at Hotel Ben Lomond during the monthly dinner meeting of Ogden Business and Professional Women’s club. Seventy members and guests heard Mr. Gaeth explain the aspirations of the dictator nations and how these affect us economically and politically. “Nations must advance,” stated Mr. Gaeth, “unless they wish to commit suicide or become ‘second class nations’.” Starting with Ogden, as an example, and extending the same thought to the nations of the world, Mr. Gaeth pointed out that no country is self-supporting, that a stable world trade and cooperative effort is necessary, and must be maintained so that all have an equal opportunity to barter for those things which they do not produce themselves. “The successful prosecution of this war will mean an honest effort on the part of every man, woman and child in the United States. This is not a man’s war. It will be carried on in a manner as different from that of World war I as World war I differed from the Civil war,” said Mr. Gaeth. He explained that by 1943 probably all women who are not tied to home duties by small children will be drawn into direct war work. Those who are already trained will be assigned to work for which they are best fitted. Those who are not already trained will be given courses for which they are adapted. Mr. Gaeth cited the need for 700 nurses in this area and brought a message to the club from the Red Cross, stressing the dire situation that faces this part of the state in the nursing field. He urged women to sign up immediately for the nurse’s aide courses which require training of three hours per day for six weeks with 150 hours per year thereafter in hospital and nursing work. Women, he stated, would be given the opportunity to sign voluntarily up for such training but in line with President Roosevelt’s recent announcement he hinted at the probability of the draft for woman power in the all-out war effort. |