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Red Cross Notes on Committee Work and Health Programs
The sewing department reports three months totals of 760 girls dresses 835 boys shirts 460 baby mittens 60 baby bands and 70 pairs of convalescent slippers with 5 000 slippers shipped in two and a half years. A call is issued for clean wool for quilt blocks for foreign relief while knitting groups work on 35 pairs toward the 100 pair quota. Nurse's Aide and Motor Corps expands Vaughan hospital support with Wil County aides four on Wednesdays 9 to 3 30 two on Wednesdays nights six to nine thirty and Sundays two or three all day. Home nursing classes planned across Joliet area and county high schools may adopt the program. Home Service seeks volunteers and training for fall to reduce costs. International Red Cross news from Oxford outlines worldwide issues and the League’s expanded role with Bass O Connor as international chairman. The piece notes heart blood flow and venom use in toxin production as ancillary science facts.