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Show ; I Dsichesne County Red Cross Drive Quota Set at $615 Gov. J. Bracken Lee has proclaimed pro-claimed March 1 to March 31 'as the 1949 National Red Cross campaign, setting into motion in the Beehive state the official drive for Red Cross funds. In the fund campaign, which is an annual nation-wide event, the Red Cross will" seek a minimum min-imum of $60,000,000 for carrying carry-ing on its work On the basis, of population, Duchesne county lias been assessed a quota of $G15 with the eastern section of the county scheduled to furnish $300 of this amount. Heading the drive in eastern Duchesne county will be Mrs. Leo Hancock. In Roosevelt she will be assisted by the American Legion Auxiliary; at Ioka by Mrs. Clifford Drolling'er. and by Mrs. Albert Blank at Neola. Drive chairmen for My ton and Montwel-Monarch are vet to be named. As the campaign gets underway, under-way, Red Cross leaders call attention at-tention to the essential services performed by the organization last year. Three hundred thousand thous-and disaster sufferers received Red Cross aid; free training courses in home nursing, first aid. water safety and nutrition were offered as an improvement to health and living standards. "In the year ahead," drive chaijmen observe, "there must be no curtailment to these essential es-sential services." |
