They’ll Sell Mercy These posters were painted by Ogden city school students and will be placed in local store windows in connection with the current Red Cross drive. Checking them over are Richard Frongner, left, Mound fort, and John Turner, Central. March 25 1952 School Red Cross Posters to Be Shown Downtown Striking posters backing the cur¬rent American Red Cross fund drive have been made by members of the Ogden city junior and se¬nior high school and will be placed in local store windows. The project was undertaken in the various art departments as an educational program to acquaint students and the public with the humanitarian services given by the Red Cross. The posters were on display in the city school offices this week. Many commented on their vivid portrayal of the Red Cross mes¬sage, school officials said. "Many people fail to recognize the bigness of the Red Cross pro¬gram in giving aid to the helpless the world over," said Miss Sarah Wilson, supervisor of art for the city schools. "The posters were made as a vis¬ual way of impressing students and the public to contribute their share to the Red Cross drive," she added. The posters were prepared un¬der the direction of the following teachers: B. Y. Andelin, Florence Drake, Clara Smith, Alpheus Har¬vey, Earl Wixon and Miss Wilson. Awaits Blood Unit OGDEN (Special)—Third visit of the American Red Cross re¬gional mobile blood procurement unit will Y made to Ogden Thursday to collect 240 pints of blood for militarily purposes, an¬nounced Mrs. H. R. Merman, local blood procurement chair- man. First Aid Schedule Lorin Farr P.T.A. announces the schedule for the Red Cross first aid class opened last week. It will meet on Thursday, May 22, and Friday, May 28, and on alternating Thurs¬days and Fridays thereafter. Ses-sions start at 7:30 p. m. in the Lorin Farr gymnasium. Robert Palfrey- man is instructor. Block wardens are especially urged to attend. Below: Mrs. Douglas K. Fernelius gives a blood donation under supervision of a nurse from the Red Cross regional blood bank. Feb 24, 1952 Help for Tornado Victims After reading the news of the tornado destruction in Arkansas and its vicinity and seeing the photographs of the wreckage in the wake of the twisters we find ourselves ex¬pressing thanks for two things. One is that we live in a region which is fairly safe from tornado visitations. That kind of storm doesn't seem to be able to build up force and violence in the mountains. The other reason for thanksgiv¬ing is that there is such an organization as the Red Cross prepared to throw both money and trained relief workers into heart-break areas. Americans are naturally good neighbors. They are , swift to give aid and sympathy to those near them who suffer misfortune. The Red Cross enables all of us to be good neighbors to families who. live so far away we can't do good deeds on a person to person basis. Isn't it swell that we have the Red Cross able and willing to do the neighbor¬ly acts for us and that the organization right now is in the midst of giving aid and comfort to the tornado victims? March 24, 1952 Red Cross Helps 300,000 GI Problems Monthly April 8, 52 By MAYOR THOMAS M. NIAL The American Red Cross handles more than 300,000 problems a month brought to it by G. I.'s at camps and hospitals throughout the world. Recently I too took a problem to the Red Cross. A distressed New York mother wrote that her son — a sergeant at a camp in the west — hadn't written to her for some time. She couldn't understand it. Her son had always been good about writ¬ing. "What do you make of this, Major?" she asked. She explained that her husband had been to the Red Cross officer where he works. The officer called the local chapter, which sent a tele¬gram to the sergeant's camp. The Red Cross field director at the camp wired the mother: "Serviceman says he is well. Sorry he did not write. Letter fol¬lows." She waited. One — two weeks. Still no letter. She wrote to the field director. Then she wrote me: "Please let me know where a mom could get some news. He must have been seen by the Red Cross. He probably told them not to tell us he had been demoted or some¬thing like that, as he knows we would worry. We don't care a hang about these things. It is how he is feeling." I called the national Red Cross headquarters. In less than two hours, I had an answer. Everything was all right. The mother had received a letter — on Red Cross stationery. This is a simple story — like thousands the Red Cross has on file. It's just one of the human porblems among the 300,000 G. I. cases the Red Cross handles every month.