Rural Red Cross Emphasizes Four Key Services for 1947
Rural America plays a major role in the 1947 Red Cross campaign with a goal of 60 million dollars. The fourfold duties focus on veterans and families, armed forces personnel, community disaster relief, and safety and home nursing outreach across small towns and rural chapters nationwide.
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America
Red Cross
IPIMU
American Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Navy
Veterans’ Administration
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
American Junior Red Cross
McGuire Veterans’ Hospital
Richmond
Farm Leaders Urge Red Cross Support in Campaign
Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson urged rural America to back the 1347 fund drive praising the Red Cross as a good neighbor. National Grange leader A S Goss and American Farm Bureau Federation President Edward A O Neal joined in endorsing the campaign and lauding the Red Cross service as indispensable.
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Red Cross
Clinton P. Anderson
Rural America
Anderson
America
A. 5. Goss
National Grange
Edward A. O’neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Goss
Red Cross Service
American Red Cross
O'Neal
Merc
Amercan
Churches Use Chartered Buses to Boost Attendance
In Philadelphia, 15 churches hire 1 to 4 buses each Sunday to shuttle parishioners from pre arranged corners to services and back. Holmesburg Methodist reports a 30 to 40 percent attendance rise since using chartered buses. Old Swedes and Gloria Dei also embrace transit to reach members in shifting neighborhoods. Some riders pay small fares while others tip drivers generously.
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Philadelphia
Holmesburg
Big Piney Wyoming Known as Nations Ice Box
In Big Piney Wyoming a town of 241 residents is often cited as the coldest spot in the country with 20 degrees below zero. The weather bureau attributes the chill to cold air drainage from nearby mountains and a valley enclosure. Frigid conditions persist most of the year, with a 61 day growing season versus Cheyenne's 148 days.
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Big Piney, Wyo
Wyoming Mountains
Big Piney
Wyo
Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Street Stray in Santa Fe Tracked by City Council
In Santa Fe Camino de las Vacas known as Street of the Cows has been lost or shifted. The street now sits 40 feet south of its original location set sixty years ago. The city council ordered the street committee to corral the straying street.
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Santa FE
N. M
Camino de Las Vacas
Ric
Dave
Dooley
Julia
Richard McFarlane
Woman builds seven room house by herself in Jackson
Mrs Myrtle Ann Dibble, a divorcee and dressmaker, plans a seven room house to be completed largely by her own work. She dug the basement last May with her two daughters helping, laid over 1000 blocks, cut green oak, did electrical work, and intends to do plumbing. She returned to dressmaking to cover rising costs.
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Jackson, Mich
Myrtle Ann Dibble
Dibble
Sleep Deprivation Labeled Harmful as Excessive Drinking
Chicago reports J P Farming of the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers links sleeplessness to intoxication signs. He claims staying awake four days makes men as irresponsible as drunks and cites Hitler and Napoleon as examples of sleep neglect leading to ruin.
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Chicago
J. P. Farming
National Association of Bedding Manufacturers
Fanning
Hitler
Napoleon
Last Lover and the Return of Richard McFarlane
Julia McFarlane confronts the shock of her husband Richard returning alive under a false name. She wrestles with divorce, family honor, and the ache of past sacrifices as son Ric and daughter Jill face a possible public scandal and war wounds of pride.
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Si McFarlane
Mehard
Spang Gordon
Ric
Tn See
Sandra Calvert
Spang
Dave Patterson
Richard
Julia
Captain Mackey
Jil
Tve
Dave
Jit
Dooley McFarlane
Dooley
John J. McFarlane
Richard McFarlane
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John W. Johnson
Bay Pines Veterans’ Hospital
St. Petersburg
Fis
Jill
Mrs. Calvert
Ridley
McFarlane
John I
Cuddy
Air Corps
Paris
Roger Mackey
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