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Show Citizens Urged to Give Generously Springville And Thistle To Raise Total Of $6,450 In Effort To Aid Red Cross With Huge War Time Service Citizens of this city are urged to give generously in recognition of the needs of military forces serving the cause of freedom in battlefields bat-tlefields abroad, when the annual Red Cross drive begins in this city on Monday, March b. Paul C. Miner has been appointed appoint-ed general chairman of the drive, assisted by C. E. Eggertsen, and a large corps of committee workers work-ers are assisting to ,put Springville Spring-ville over the top in the gigantic campaign. Springville and Thistle are to raise a total of $6,450, or a per capita contribution of $5, based on the population of the towns. Every house in the city is to be canvassed during the campaign and asked to assist with this worthy wor-thy war time cause. Committee members will also contact every business organization, industrial groups and enterprises, and civic organizations. To facilitate the work, the town has been divided into districts, with a chairman in each district and these chairmen will also appoint ap-point other helpers. Harlan Boyer will be in charge of the First ward district; Virgil Bird, the Second ward; Mrs. Alma Miner, the Third; Paul K. Walker, the Fifth; H. M. Weight, the Fourth; Jack Cherrington, the Sixth. Paul Thorn has been appointed to contact the industral groups and contractors; Kay Johnson, the Junior Chamber of Commerce; Dr. George Anderson, the professional groups; Mrs. Harold Christensen, ladies' clubs; M. W. Bird, civic clubs; Mrs. William S. Tull, Presbyterian Pres-byterian Community church groups. The general committee members mem-bers will work in conjunction with the chapter organization, of which Paul Haymond is president; C. G. Salisbury, vice-president, and D. R. Wightman, secretary. To stimulate interest in the drive, short talks will be given in each of the L. D. S. ward meetings Sunday evening, explaining the work of the Red Cross and the importance of its proper functioning function-ing at this time. The quota is set much higher during this drive because of the increased great demand of Red Cross service, and of the growing demand for funds which must be supplied. In pre-war times we had less than 1,000,000 men in the service, and now we have far in excess of 10,000,000 men, and will have more, very likely, before the war is over. Of all funds collected By the Red Cross, 87 per cent is devoted de-voted entirely to members of the armed forces. The remainder is for the civilian disaster services, which once were the greatest function of the organization. |