GOOD NEIGHBORS From 48 states aided the stricken of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Illinois If you had lived next door to families who lost everything in this disaster, you would have gone to their aid as soon as possible, But many of you lived thousands of miles from the Kaw and Missouri valleys. Most of you were busy with your work, your homemaking and businesses. But you came to these valley states through your Red Cross — the American way to be a good neighbor. You gave $4,974,380 voluntarily through the special relief fund. To this amount the Red Cross added a $7,000,000 disaster reserve maintained for great emergen¬cies and threw in more than $1,000,000 from its current disaster budget to cover the $13,768,475.89 relief cost. The National Red Cross sent in 764 trained dis¬aster workers from 46 states to assist the thousands of volunteers in the 81 affected chapters. Agencies, clubs, church groups, schools, and individuals too numerous to esti¬mate gave know-how, labor, materials, and service. Food, clothing, and offers to help in the cleanup arrived daily. Such neighborliness gave many a new chance. This was a paved street in Manhat¬tan before the rampaging Kansas River cut across 70 city blocks. Downtown Manhattan was isolated; much surrounding farm land was buried under several feet of sand. A Red Cross building adviser estimated the damage and the amount required to repair or rebuild this home in Ottawa, Kans. Flood waters damaged 32,057 homes in the four-state area; 2,325 homes were destroyed. Some homes, at first repairable, later collapsed. This wreckage of a home in Armour- dale, Kans., was one of 2,325 de¬stroyed in Kansas, Missouri, Okla-homa, and Illinois by floods. Young Mike searched for hours for his lost fishing tackle and his rifle.