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irsday. February 12, 1948 Austrians and is spending almost you about will take care of the but here is the wray we work the all of her time on relief work. packages you send. If you write, welfare room. A group under mation. Any of you scouts who know any fellows who should be Headed by Mrs. Keyes and di please address your letters to Mrs. Kelly’s direction opens the rected by Mrs. Hurl ess, wife of Mrs. H. B. Hurless, c/o Col. Hur boxes, lists the articles and place in the scouts had better keep Colonel H. B. Hurless, who is as less. Provost Marshal Section. them on the shelves according to your eyes on them and tell your Il XWm« -v Robert», HD1 leader about it because interested as I am in bringing Hq. USFA APO 777, New York, age and use. Another group vis patrol we’re going to have a member help to these hopeless people jN. Y. She will see that someone its the home to see the need and ship contest soon. Ho There: lost of you had a part in sand ever here, a committee of Ameri on her committee answers your sizes, they then fill the box and The Eagle patrol is putting on boxes of used clothing to can women has been organized to letter at once. Things like let take it to the family. Many times a demonstration of lashings a t try to coordinate the work done aria in response to the letter ters or cards can safely be sent several families will be supplied this meeting, so all scouts going ich I read to the Home Ex- by individuals. They will take directly to the Austrians you something from a number of after the pioneering merit badge won Units in November. This over myindividual effort. .In that are interested in. boxes we receive. But you may can get some pointers. Better be er was from Mrs. Hubert Mil- way you can be absolutely cer "If there are any of you who rest assurred that we are doing at the meeting to get this.. wife of Col. Miller, Com tain that everything «you send have sent boxes and never teceiv- our utmost to give only to the Brad in g General of the United will go where it is most needed ,ed an acknowledgement, it is be the needy and they are so grate [tes forces in Austria, station- and get there more quickly than cause a few boxes have been re- ful for the smallest article. Keroaen« w a te r beater, w ith in Vienna, and told of the it would if I continued working cenved with the return address connections and a 30-galkxi tan k Thank you so much for your ¡ds over there. Yesterday I alone. Miss Opal Hall, an out so badly rubbed off or tom in the generous response and we shall Inquire at P ilo t Office lor par pived a letter of thanks, and standingly fine and capable wo mails that it was not possible to let you know’ when your other ticulars and price. man who heads the American make them out. rant to share it with you. boxes arrive. Red Cross in Austria, is doing "I would like to thank every par Mrs. Roberts: Sincerely, a herois job with limited means. COSTS LESS Mollie May Rogers" tiere has been such an over- The committee of women who one of you, personally, and tell you how much it means over here THAN GAS! elming generous response to Man t o w - O m n i Mata. letter sent my sister in Van- will handle the things you send for these people to get the things Sai OM SI? SI OCU M i l iver. Washington, I am forced will work closely with Miss Hall. you are sending. I am sorry to Wita awetat Cartarita M resort to a form letter, be- In this way you can be sure that have to do it with this form let- Hi Fellow Scouts: ¡se mv correspondence is more j the things you send will be un {ter. Call or » By now all of you fellows have Gratefully, n I can handle. Letters and touched from the time you put Write been given tickets to sell for the them in the box, yourself, until Mrs. Hubert L. Miller” •kages and requests for indi- • • • • Scout Benefit. Hit the ball with lual names and pictures and they are taken out over here by these now and we* 11 have some women whom you can complete This personal postscript was histories are arriving in added referring to the box sent money in the treasury’ to use for 4 Mi. South on Old Ry. Right »ry mail from many cities and l y trust. those over night hikes and camp of Way “My husband’s tour of duty from Gold Beach. Harbor, Oregon. the length of the Pacific ing trips you want. Another “Mrs. Miller has requested that here will end about the middle 1st. It is my earnest desire to thing you might remember, the iwer every letter and ac- of February, 1948. Any packages I let you know that we have re patrol selling the most tickets ceived your letter and one box. addressed to us perconallv. after iledge every package immed- goes to a movie in Crescent City. ely but no one individual can about December 15th, will run The box arrived in good condi The Eagle patrol says they’ve Bibly handle this amount of the risk of being sent back to tion and the many useful and spondence. I must spend my us in the States, wherever we warm clothing, .sweaters, under about got their leanto finished wear, shirts, house-shoes, socks, at the camp grounds, not had p going about the city, inter are stationed. So please do not ring and choosing the most send any more packages to me. ladies suits, etc. In each box we looking either. You Bears should prving families and institu- General Keyes has come to our pack for a family, always we take a look, and then see if you is and also find time to un- rescue by giving us a mailing put in the essentials such as can get a better one built. If the weather permits it we’ll ik and sort the great quanti- address for you that will be per needles, tape, crayons for the have the next meeting at the of wonderful things that manent and always safe. Mail small children, candles, etc. “You know these people have camp grounds, if its raining we'll ,e already arrived from you your packages to: so little and are artists when it have it at the church basement, Sandbo Auto Court lerous people in the States. The United States High Com most im portant thing, of missioner, Hq.. U. S. Forces in comes tp patching and combing you fellows who aren’t sure of Harobr, Oregon irse. is to get the things that Austria, APO 777, c o Postmas worn clothing. I would like to where to go see your patrol tell you where each article goes. leader, he’ll have all the infor e come into the hands of ter, New York, N. Y. who need them so badly "General Keyes is the present I'.dgkly as possible. But it is High Commissioner and will >st as im portant to let those probably remain for several sent the packages know’ at years. If he should be sent to a 1 that their gifts have been different command, a man of Jeived I I ive already acknowl- his same high calibre will re jri a 1 . number but, at place him. So the above address pent I am thirty-four boxes will always be good. ind and today’s mail will I know that those of you wrho ng many more. However, the and address of the sender have received pictures and ad |t : : \ s w i itten down, as dresses of certain children or would like to mail boxes opened, together with a list families to them directly. I am sorry to Around the house or shopping. Jewry uticle contained in it, have to tell you that boxes mail B an acknowledgement will be ed directly to those addresses —E x tra full, e x tra long gored f D M possible, stand little chance of arriving p ’ Will take an organ izatio n , without first having been looted skirt. Back buttons down to the ' ’ handle this situ- of the best articles. Things taken | n - " • ntly Mrs. Geoffrey out are usually sold to the black! waist. |tes, wife of the Commanding market. Only packages mailed neral of the United States through the United States mail [<'■' in Austria, is intensely in service, handled all the way by vested in bringing aid to the American post offices, are sure i • • • • • • X A j L • • • • • to arrive safely and unopened. “Fortunately, we have been j able to arrange it so that your packages can reachc those for whom they are intended, unopen ed. If you will w’rite clearly in one comer, in a way that cannot be rubbed off in such long and rough shipment, the name and In an 80-square percale. address of the person or institu tion for which it is intended, your box will be taken by a member —COLORS— of this committee directly to that person or institution. Aqua. Royal, Red “Those of you who have asked for certain numbers of individ Sizes 14 to 20 uals of various ages and their addresses and pictures, and have not yet received them, will per haps forgive me when I tell you that for the last month I have worked as hard as I can every day, all day long and late into the night trying to get the in formation you ask for and try ing not to let you wait for an acknowledgement of your let ters and packages, but it is more than one person can handle. I am about at the point of collapse. This tremendous response has THE been the most surprising and heart warming experience of my life. I hope that your interest in C10TWIN6 - N O T IO N S the orphans and the destitutes —Yes, We Give Savings Stamps on Every Purchase M u t t w S P O R T IN G G O O D S over here will continue and I am sure that it will when you know BROOKINGS. ORE. that suchc women as I have told 55! imemakers Jumn BURN • Boy Scout News WATER IN YOUR CAR R. B. MeGugin Katherine’s Beauty Shop For That youthful FEELING SPOKTOOVS ey Atr&f&v ____ N A N C Y _____ . . . FROCK. . . . $4.95 Moore's Variety ANI) APPAREL SHOP ,.OWH i / H O P 4^,
