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Show Patrolman Porter Urges Women To Join WAC Hospital Units Women who have "time on their hands" have a real opportunity to serve their country, reports L. A. Porter, highway patrolman who is among those assigned to the duty of assisting in recruiting women for WAC hospital units. Increased activity in prosecuting prosecut-ing the war has naturally increased increas-ed the numbers of wounded servicemen, serv-icemen, it is explained, and for an extended period there has been a definite shortage of nurse help, not only overseas but in the hospitals., hos-pitals., of the United States. Recovery Re-covery of the wounded depends largely on the care they receive, and an effort is being made to provide this care. Because this extra help is not responding rapidly rap-idly enough, the assistance of the highway patrolmen has been called call-ed for in securing recruits. To enlist in this branch of the service a recruit must be between the ages of 20 and 49, a citizen of the Unrted States, without children child-ren under 14 years of age, of excellent ex-cellent character and must have had two years of high school or equivalent training such as business, busi-ness, trade or vocational schooling school-ing and must be in good health. Applicants may be either married or single. Those who cannot meet these requirements but have time to spare, are asked to take over war jobs at home so that other women who are eligible may join the Women's Army Corps. In Washington County, those who are interested in entering this service may obtain the necessary nec-essary information from Patrolman Patrol-man L. D. Squire at LaVerkin or L. A. Porter at St. George. |