Show 1 I I I Western States Floods Of 1955 Yuba City California hit hardest community In the western flood areas was emerging painfully and slowly today from the mud mud covered covered debris of Us its homes Authorities have opened the town to Its people again and today for the first time many of them were learning the full extent of their losses The preliminary tally of the Red Cross survey team reveals so far a total of nearly homes affected Of these were destroyed and 1000 suffered major damage The survey showed with minor damage chiefly to floors and windows A total of 2541 2641 families have applied for Red Cross range long assistance and of that number 1741 have received emergency grants for food clothing and other Immediate necessities UP CLEAN-UP TIME rI Spring cleaning time has come three months early to Yuba City Flood victims are moving water-soaked water and suet mud caked furniture into front yards and are scraping as much as IB 18 inches of mud from their floors and andI walls I The Red Cross Crass has provided great quantities of cleansing supplies to help residents whose homes are Intact make I them livable again Augmented by 1000 up clean-up kits of eleven items donated by Stanley Home Products Inc of Emeryville Emeryville Emery Emery- ville California these Red pur Cross chased supplies include hoses boxes of laundry soap Jugs of clorox brooms a brooms a Yuba City house housewife housewife housewife wife can wear out a broom a day day mops buckets squeegees I shovels 2500 2600 pairs of boots and 1600 pairs of work gloves The Stanley kits include disinfectant detergent crystals to retard mildew on upholstery and mop sponge and several several several sev sev- eral brushes I The Immediate needs of the houses housel house- house l s c are being met too A mobile i canteen operation has been started to take them food and hot coffee enabling to work through the day daylight hours without taking time out to go to too toa a stationary Red Cross feeding station for tor meals And Red Cross workers are providing free cigarettes for these hardworking hardworking hard hard- 1 working householders too HUMAN INTEREST STORIES FROM FRo YUBA CITY Capt and Mrs W. W L. L Williams and their two children Damon 6 5 5 and Carmine Carmine Carmine Car Car- mine 4 4 were asleep when the rushing water from a broken levee suddenly poured into their small rented home InI In Yuba City on Christmas Eve By quick action and hard work he was able to carry the children to safety on the roof root but a solid wall of water prevented him from reaching his wife She was drown drown- ed Now Capt Williams Is faced with the problem of finding a new home for forthe forthe forthe the children and trying to get a new start In n life Ufe Red Cross provided clothIng clothing cloth cloth- Ing for the children is helping pay funeral expenses and transportation for forthe forthe forthe the bereaved family back to Mrs Williams Williams Wil Wil- liams IIams former home In ln Baltimore Md where the children will live temporarily with their uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs John A A. A Smith at Harlem Avenue Later they will live with their grandmother grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother Mrs Ophelia Williams N. N Walnut Street Tallulah LaI LaI LaI La I am eternally grateful to the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross for all It has done to help us and andI I want everybody in America to know about it he said Capt Williams Is stationed with the Engineer Aviation Avia Avla- tion Battalion at Beale Air Force Base Bass near Marysville California |