You recorded more than 26,000 applications from flood sufferers for emergency aid and long-time help in repair, refurnishing, or rebuilding their homes after the destructive waters receded across four states. Handcraft and games made time pass quickly for the children in shelters. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Junior Red Cross members, and teachers pitched in to help keep young people busy and contented You helped bring You assisted the Coast Guard, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and city and state governments in rescuing the stranded, the aged and handi¬capped. You brought them to shelters in schools, auditoriums, and tent cities in four states. Chapter workers rushed hot food to tent shelters. In large shelters, kitchens were set up to feed thousands. Children looked forward to mealtime as a picnic. Parents talked of their losses and what they needed. At the peak of the flood you fed 17,916 refugees three nourishing meals daily in Red Cross shelters. Volunteers served coffee and sandwiches to thousands of rescue crews and levee workers in flooded areas. them to safety... Rain, almost enough for a year, fell during May, June, and early July over the plains of Kansas and the rolling fields of Missouri. Farmers eyed their bending grain and city folks grumbled at the weatherman. Then dozens of Kansas rivers and creeks surged over their banks and started the flood that gathered force like a hurricane. From Man¬hattan, Kans., to Cairo, 111., 750 miles south¬east, raging waters swept farms, homes, and industries to destruction. Damage was es¬timated at two billion dollars, some 34,382 homes had been destroyed or damaged, more than 3,250,000 crop acres inundated, and heartbreak pursued the people. This had been the worst flood of the Kaw and Missouri valleys since 1844. The rich heart of the Mid- you fed them... west was a wasteland, more reminiscent of war than water damage. From the first warning of flood along the Saline and the Solomon, you were there to help the sufferers through your Red Cross. Chapters mobilized their disaster committees and called their canteen workers, nurses, motor service and other volunteers into action. Red Cross assisted city and state governments, Coast Guard, Navy, Army, and Air Force in rescuing families stranded by the rising water and in bringing pets, livestock, and cherished possessions to dry land. Thousands of volunteers worked day and night in warning, rescue, and evacuation.