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Show RED GROSS WILL OPEN CANTEEN AT RAIL DEPOT Some Goods To Be Free To Soldiers; Others Will Be Sold Weber county Red Cross chapter will have a canteen service for army and navy men at Ogden Union depot within the next few weeks, announced Leah P. Green- well, chapter secretary, today. Mrs. R. B. Porter is chairman of the canteen service which will pro¬vide cigarets, candy, sandwiches, cookies, drinks and other items for soldiers traveling through Ogden by train, Mrs. Greenwell said. Details of the program were be¬ing worked out this afternoon by Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Greenwell in accordance with the plans of or¬ganization provided by the na¬tional Red Crosg. It is expected sandwiches, cakes, cookies and other items may be donated by Ogden women. Cigarets and other items at the canteen will have to be sold, but-probably will be sold at cost. Manning the can-teen, as in practically all Red Cross efforts, will be volunteer workers. An experienced and com¬petent nutritionist will be in charge of the volunteers. These tentative plans may be varied at the meeting today, but basically they will function as in¬dicated. Railroad and army, officials are under a censorship ruling when it comes to divulging the number of troops that are passing /through Ogden daily, but Mrs. Greenwell said she has spent hours at the depot and has determined that there is sufficient need for the 1 canteen to make its establishment j S effective. DIVISIONAL HEAD . . . F. C. Koziol, assistant in the U. S. forest service office of informa¬tion and education, today had been named to direct the united Bed Cross-community chest col¬lection among public employes. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1941 Director Appointed for Public Employe Canvass Organization of the public em-ployes group leadership for the united Red Cross-community chest fund campaign was completed to¬day. F. C. Koziol, assistant in in¬formation and education, regional office of the U. S. forest service, will serve as chairman, it was announced by Fred A. Kuhlmann, associate chairman of the cam¬paign. The group has been divided into six divisions, each of which will conduct its individual solicitation work under ts own chairman. Fol¬lowing are the divisions and their respective chairmen: City offices, Mark Critchlow, city auditor; city schools, Dave Wangsgaard, assistant superinten¬dent; federal offices, Leslie H. Miller, associate highway engineer, bureau of public roads; county of¬fices, Arthur P. Brown, county commissioner; state offices, Fran¬cis A. Child, superintendent of state industrial school; county schools, William P. Miller, superin¬tendent. Mr. Kuhlmann said it is the intention to give every elected of¬ficial and appointee in public of¬fices an opportunity to participate in the united campaign. "The Red Cross-community chest message will be carried to each group by assigned speakers in order that the need for larger subscriptions this year may be fully understood. We are happy to report that al¬ready some officials in this pub¬lic employe group have increased their quotas 60 per cent over those of last year," he declared. |