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Show R.C. CHAIRMAN READIES PLANS FOR 1947 DRIVE Blaine Thorpe Is Chairman and Will Be Assisted By Women's Clubs Blaine Thorpe has been appointed appoint-ed chairman of the Springville Red Cross drive and he announced today to-day that the Federated Women's club of the city have taken over the responsibility of assisting him. The club members will be assigned assign-ed to districts and a house-to-house canvass will be made within the next few days to raise the N"' city's quota of ?1861, Mr. Thorpe stated. The chairman will personally per-sonally contact each of the business busi-ness houses for contributions. Although the war is over, the work of the Red Cross goes on, it is pointed out, and it is the re- sponsibility of every patriotic citizen citi-zen to contribute to this worthy drive. The city's quota has been reduced re-duced this year and it is expected that the amount assigned Springville Spring-ville will be raised in a short time. On the home front, nearly two years removed from the battle-front, battle-front, the Red Cross still serves as the first listener, the first sympathizer sym-pathizer and the first counselor, and is the first to do something about the personal and universal problems of the men who faced the enemy, Mr. Thorpe explained. War-related services at home and overseas will get 60 of the local chapter's budget and 75 per cent of the American Red Cross budget, it is pointed out. Counsel, guidance and welfare work, as well as recreational activities, ac-tivities, comprise in the main, the services of the Red Cross on behalf be-half of the men and women still in the service. In hospitals at home and abroad, the Red Cross field directors provide not only the routine services for which the veteran vet-eran looks to the organization, but they also offer medical and psychiatric psy-chiatric service to assist medical officers and nurses, it is stated. |