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Show Registration of All Children 18 and Under Now Underway Registration of all children up to and including age 18, is well under way in St. George, under the local P.-T. A. direction in connection with the national defense program, pro-gram, reports Mrs. Byron H. Taylor, Tay-lor, P.-T. A. president. The business busi-ness of visiting the homes and making the necessary registrations will be completed by the end of this week, says Mrs. Taylor. The city has been organized by wards, with two supervisors for each ward who will direct the work of the registration by ,the large corps of block mothers. These supervisors include Mrs. Lee Adams and Mrs. Jesse Gibbons Gib-bons for the West ward; Mrs. Val McArthur and Mrs. David Foremaster for the East ward; Mrs. Anthony Foremaster and Mrs. Emereald Cox of the Center ward, and Mrs. Bessie Johnson and Mrs. Neida Lightner, of the South ward. Registrations include the names, birth date, house address, all marks of identification, scars, birthmarks, etc., and name of person giving the information concerning con-cerning all children from birth to age 18; names of others residing resid-ing at the home, names and addresses ad-dresses of next of kin within the city, and names of close relatives in ' other states. Block mothers also instruct the mothers regarding regard-ing the marking of all items of wearing apparel of all children under 18. Living quietly as St. George and other small community people have been able to do even with the havoc war is making on our coastlines and elsewhere, many-people many-people are inclined to ridicule this idea of strict registration, name tagging, and clothing marking, mark-ing, says Mrs. Taylor. But the things people have thought could never happen are happening everyday, every-day, and St. George or any other town in the United States can no longer be considered immune from the danger of bombing, gas raids or other destruction, and none should hesitate to give heed to these warnings and to cooperate in every way possible to be prepared pre-pared should anything unexpected happen. If nothing serious happens, hap-pens, which is infinitely hoped will be the case, "this ounce of precaution" will still be worth while, just in case. |