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Show DEFENSE SURVEY IN CITY IS BEING COMPILED Many Interesting Figures I Reported In Defense Survey Now Being Compiled Under the direction of Chairman Floss Phillips, with assistance of Relief " society . members, the defense de-fense survey in this city is practically prac-tically completed. There are, how- ever, a numoer oi lamuies m tne city which have not registered. Mrs. Phillips points out the importance im-portance of every family filling the defense blanks and this must be done immediately. The city will begin soon on the compilation of the blanks and a report must be filed with the county. Those who have not registered regis-tered are urged to do so. Blanks may be secured from Mrs. Phillips. Phil-lips. Reports from the blanks filled thus far have been compiled and (Continued on page eight) DEFENSE SURVEY IN CITY IS BEING COMPILED (Continued from page one) indicate a number of interesting facts. While a number of the re-ports re-ports do not tally due to some questions not being answered, the figures reported give a general idea of defense facilities filed in this city. Springville is estimated to have between fifteen and sixteen hundred hun-dred families. Of these, a total of approximately 1360 have registered, register-ed, including 4,705 persons. Homes owned in Springville are listed at approximately 996, with i 314 rented. There are approximately approxi-mately 113 spare rooms available j at present. Of the homes listed, 1275 are heated with coal, and 35 by gas. There are 1317 lighted by electricity, 18 by gas, one by candle, can-dle, and 2 with kerosene. Families in Springville own 947 automobiles, 846 of which are passenger pas-senger cars and 103 trucks. There are but 173 homes registered with the defense work, which is a very small number comparatively. All able-bodied persons should be registered reg-istered for some kind of civil defense de-fense work, it is stated. There were '246 homes offered to take refugees totaling 586 children child-ren 280 boys and 306 girls. Eleven Elev-en languages were reported spoken in Springville. They were listed as English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Austrian, Swedish, Danish, Dan-ish, Indian, Dutch, and Jewish. There were listed 18 foreign-born reseidents, 16 naturalized and two applied for naturalization. Under professional listings there were 5 doctors, 2 dentists, 2 attorneys, at-torneys, 2 bankers, and 29 high school teachers. There are also 288 chauffeurs, 44 carpenters, 38 mechanics, me-chanics, 22 clerks, 6 welders, 8 cement ce-ment and rock masons, 10 nurses, 102 housekeepers, 212 farmers, 5 engineers, 36 contractors and construction con-struction workers. The latter number num-ber was found to be small but many men working for contractors listed themselves in other trades. There are 50 people capable of helping with first aid and 21 have completed and graduated in home nursing. There have been 37 graduated gra-duated from special defense training train-ing and first aid and 42 are now enrolled in similar classes under direction of Lee Miner. Only three firefighters were listed list-ed in the reports, but these, as in other trades and industries, have registered in other vocations. |