Friendship Has a Long Arm Wrapping up a lot of international Christian fellowship are these students of Ogden high school who We helped prepare about 240 Red Cross boxes for needy children in foreign countries. Left to right they are Karen Child, Shirley Visser, Virginia Ferrin and Dora Lafon. 4/4/51 New Classes Set In Home Nursing A new schedule of American Red Cross home nursing classes will open Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, it was announced today by Mrs. O. C. Hammond, director of nursing services for the Weber county chapter. The course offers valuable train¬ing in home care of the sick as well as knowledge of war-time in¬juries. The first course will open Tuesday. It will be conducted be¬tween one-thirty and three-thirty p. m. by Mrs. Leslie West, reg¬istered nurse on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The second course will open Wednesday and will be conducted between nine-thirty and eleven- thirty a. m. Instructor will be Mrs. Virginia McNeur, registered nurse. This class will be conducted on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week. Those desiring to take the course may register by calling the chapter home, telephone 4601. All classes will be conducted at the home, Washington. Along with pupils throughout the county and city schools, these South Junior high school students ready boxes for shipment abroad. Leaders of the Girls' and Boys' associations spearheaded the project there. Left to right, Vernal Poulson, secretary; Connie Knox, secretary; DeVere Wolsey, president; Patsy Smith, president, and Rae Dunn, vice president. Ogden Red Cross Offers Course. In 'Baby Care and Family Health OGDEN — Simple nursing' skills for the uninitiated moth¬er will be taught in a Red Cross course on “Baby Care and Family Health" which begins Wednesday at the chapter home, 1961 Washington Blvd. Mrs. E. J. P. Rowse, chairman of the training said Saturday the six-week program will be headed by a registered nurse. The meeting hour has not been decided. It will treat such topics as safe guarding the health of mothers, preparing for the in¬fant's arrival, community health and its relationship to family life, plus a workable set of pro-cedures and rules for safe home nursing. FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24. 1950 Students Will Send Hundreds Of Boxes to Overseas Friends The hand of fellowship can reach even across oceans when fa-cilities of the American Red Cross and the good-will of youthful school students get together. This week scores of friendship boxes prepared by pupils through¬out Ogden city and Weber county schools were being packed and wrapped for mailing. Boxes contain health supplies such as toothpaste, washcloths and soap; school articles such as pen¬cils, crayon, writing pads, and some toys—a hair ribbon, whistle, string of beads, etc. At Ogden high school 240 boxes were filled and now are at the express office awaiting shipment abroad, according to Miss Fern Marquart, faculty member who su¬pervised the project. At South junior high school box¬es were prepared, also at Weber high school by the Pep club. Miss Marquart said the project has been carried on for many years and is a rare example of interna-tional good-will and helpfulness by those who will be tomorrow's citizens: The program has received the cooperation of the American Junior Red Cross council for this area. The packages will go to the San Francisco area office and from there to points all over the world. 1-14-51 OGDEN VALLEY—Communities in Ogden valley are setting an ex¬ample in disaster preparedness for other areas in Weber county, Red Cross officials said yesterday. A complete, operational organi¬zation, has been set up in Huntsville, Liberty and Eden which can go into immediate operation in the event of any type disaster, said A. T. Barrett, Weber county chapter disaster chairman. Heading the organization is D. D." McKay of Huntsville. He is as¬sisted in the general committee by Orville Graham of Eden and Wil¬liam E. Hill of Liberty. Committees have been estab¬lished to handle the various disas¬ter operations. Centers where food and shelter can be obtained are being set up. Transportation facil¬ities will be centralized in event of disaster of any type, it was stressed. A first aid class is being taught to 26 valley residents by Myles J. Watkins, chapter first aid director. Home nursing is being taught by Mrs. O. C. Hammond, director of home nursing for the chapter. Serving on committees are: Home service, Ella Allen, Myrtle Felt, Kathryn Stallings and Sophia Shaw; food, Elton Knapp, Helga Dooman, Vivian Lindsay and Mary R. Ward; clothing, Lottie Allen, Stella Eggl- rton, Ethell McKay and Irma B. Holmes; shelter, Leon Sorenson, Charles Webb, Earl Fielding and R. F. Holmes; nurses Genevieve Newey, Vernell Wangsgard, Mary . Christensen and Alice J. Shaw; [transportation, Clarence Smith, G. I C. Lantz, James R. Stallings and ! John S. Whitely; first aid, Roy Stoker, Ray Wangsgard, Claude Crow and John Cramer, radio com-munication, Gordon K. Madson and Elmer Winter, Jr. Chairman Barrett said the chap¬ter is desirous of having a similar organization set up in each rural community in the county. With this in mind, names are being se¬cured for consideration as chair¬men in various districts.