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Show An elderly couple get a pulse and temperature checkup from a Red Cross nurse's aide at a shelter near Louisville, Ky. These refugees from the flood waters of the rampaging Ohio river were given a temporary home during the emergency period. They also were driven from their farmhouse In 1937. tributing factors have been the adequate ade-quate staffing of nurses in the Red Cross chapters; special nutrition supervision su-pervision in the feeding centers; constant vigilance of the county and state health officials and generally mild temperatures throughout the areas. As the flood waters rolled southward south-ward in the Mississippi and its tributaries, trib-utaries, Red Cross workers met ever-changing problems. In many cases prompt action saved lives and property. At Memphis and New Orleans coast guard and navy officers put helicopters and assault boats at the disposal of local chapters when the Red Cross called for quick assistance assist-ance in evacuating families and livestock live-stock in the path of rising waters in the Mississippi, St Francis, White and Black rivers. Housewives Pile Sandbags. At Little Rock, when the flood crested there April 20, housewives helped whip the flood in a manpower shortage by joining prisoners and volunteers in sandbagging levees. None broke at that point as a result of this work. At Fort Smith, Ark., gasoline shortages developed when bulk gasoline gaso-line plants of major oil companies bordering the Arkansas river were flooded, but the Red Cross chapter managed to keep its power boat and workers at the task of evacuating families in nearby Moffett, Okla., and the . Paw Paw bottoms, several miles from the city itself. At nearby Van Buren, a crew of disaster workers had to stand by on April 17 when a levee crumbled, despite de-spite their intense efforts, and 12 . houses floated down the river as they watched helplessly. At Talco, Texas, the army turned over assault boats to disaster workers work-ers to evacuate families when White Oak creek went out of its banks during dur-ing the heaviest spring rains that section of Texas had experienced in years. |