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OPA Rent Office Is Surveying Hotels in Area In accordance with rent regula tions, the Rent Area office of the Office of Price Administration, is surveying all hotels in the rent areas of the Inland Empire district to determine whether or not the individual rooms are posted with the rent ceiling, Harvey or district director of the OPA, nounced today. All rooms must be posted with the price and rent ceilings so that occupants can determine at a glance, the price they should pay, Guertin explained, and those Rotate found in violation will be issued notices of hearings. Read the Courier Classified Ads! Third annual dinner meeting of Benton County Chapter, American Red Cross was held recently. . Aft er dinner there was a short busi ness meeting. Sommers presided. Reports on the year’s work were given by chairmen of the Corps and Ser vices. The following officers for 1946 were elected: Chairman, W. C. Sommers; vice chairman, Geo. A. Purdy; secretary, Mrs. Murray Ackers, and tresurer, W. S. Roe, Jr. Vocals were rendered by Mrs. R. M. Sommers and Larry German. Miss Tass, guest speaker of the evening, related her experiences in Egypt, the near East and Central Europe. Miss Tarr has in her possession the original photograph that is now being used nationally on Red Cross posters in connection with the current Victory Clothing col lection. Miss Tarr took the picture last spring at Camp Al Shott, near Mt. Sinae in Egypt, when she was stationed there as a Red Cross field worker. The poster picture portrays a little girl wrapped in a British army blanket amid ruins of war. ae ene 30,000 Yugoslav among a group 0u v= ion evacuees who arrived at the camp after having been rescued from pillaging German armies by means of a British blockade. at and South Africans and the cloth ing for the entire group came from the American Red Cross. The speaker explained the first time she knew that the picture was made public was when she was still overseas and received a copy of the New York Times which contained several photo graphs she had taken and sent back to the American Red Cross headquarters. Her first Saree lodge that it was being used na tionally came when she saw the poster in the Memorial building on the Whitman campus. Miss Tarr said she snapped the picture after the child had been through the washing and delousing pro cess, which was carried out by the Red Cross to prevent typhus. Other interesting stories were told by Miss Tarr. The committee in charge of ar rangements were: ji Cleon Brewer, assisted by. H. Hopkins, Mrs. Dixie Shortress, Mrs. E. F. Smith and Mrs. F. N. Wildish, who did the programs. “Jingles” for American Red — cone and Services by Mrs. Mrs. G. R. McKinny, Mrs. G. R. faake a and Mrs. Earl Crosse, Publicity, Mrs. John Mae Flowers were contributed by Kennewick Greenhouse and Ken newick Flower Shop. Posters announcing the dinner meeting were made by D. A. Haus er and W. F. Polk. Tickets by the Columbia high vol. Sunday, February 24th is desig nated as “American Red Cross Day” in all entirches throughout the nation. Volunteer workers are requested to wear their uniforms to any religious services attended on this day. President Truman has proclaim ed March as American Red Cross month and called upon the Ameri can public to aid it as an “indis pra humanitarian cause.” The anal organization will seek a saunas fund of 100 million dol lars this year.
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The Kennewick Courier Reporter
Kennewick, Washington, US
Thu, Feb 21, 1946
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