| Show ED 10 CHOSS EFFECTS H L ON api I 1 DAY EVENING towns from sigurd south comprise new south sevier chapter A jeorga reorganization niza tion of the local red cross chapter under the name of the south sevier chapter was effected at a meeting of representatives senta tives of civic ar ard and d church organizations town boards and the county commissioners held friday evening in the office of S IL boswell w ell county agent the chapter comprises all communities of sevier county from sigurd south moroni jensen who has acted as chairman of the chapter since V A malmsten tendered his resignation to go to california was elected chairman by acclamation by acclamation also G A staples of central was elected vice chairman S R boswell secretary and miss dorothy dark clark treasurer upon motion of W B pace town presidents or mayors of incorporated towns were made members of the board and representatives appointed from towns not incorporated po rated as follows W L warner ner richfield lucian winget monroe H J hotter elsinore eleinore Ela inore fred gauchat Ari annabella nabella william mills joseph isaac S hansen glenwood enwood GI soren sorensen koo sharem and burrville Burr ville claud sevy sigurd 1 I A cowley venice mrs parley christensen central J 11 1 1 levie levic sevier the following chairmen of permanent manen t committees comm I 1 tte es were appointed ap point production committee mrs E W poulson and mrs annetta christensen home service howard A roll call W B pace the organization was effected with the assistance of mrs mabel axline field representative of the red cross for utah and nevada who gave some explanations of the work of the red cross and the values derived from red cross membership I 1 in normal times as well as in times of emergency of special interest were a few facts reported by mrs axline at the request of persons attending the meeting in answer to the question about overhead expense in the red cross she stated that the average overhead expense is ia only 16 per cent that the national chairman and the chairman of permanent national committees have never received salaries and have never been remunerated for en e expenses N p anses although some of them have traveled extensively in the interest of the red cross practically the only salaries paid within the organization are to secretaries in places where it has been necessary to maintain regular offices last year the red cross operated with an overhead of 15 per cent or a cost of in handling funds to the amount of of the 1 membership fee 50 cents goes to the national organization and 50 cents stays with the chapter to which the member belongs the greater part of the 50 cents going to the national organization is used for disaster relief there were 62 disasters in the united states last yeah although the federal government bought the wheat distributed throughout the nation the red cross paid for the milling and assisted in the cost of distribution in the distribution of articles of clothing which is now underway the red cross is bearing the cost of all actual plant manufacturing fac turing and supervising the proper distribution of the cloth and articles of clothing through local relief organizations that utah may be expected to come to the front in red cross membership this year is a thought not to be overlooked when one considers that for every dollar that went out of utah last year came back through national rod red cross relief work including aid in three minor disasters in the state in the distribution of red cross flour utah with five per cent of the population of tho the pacific area received 19 per cent of the flour utah had one eighth of all the wheat given out in the united states for the annual roll call for memberships november 1124 11 24 special activities will be planned by the local chapter including proper observance of red cross sunday november 13 |
