$10 contribution buys 130 pounds of sugar for the friendship train

              Herald Clinton, Iowa



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NOV 6   1947



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$10 Contribution Buys 130 pounds Of Sugar For the Friendship Train



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 hpll  contributed  by  Clinton   area  citizens  adds  pounds of sugar to the Friendship Train,  which



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 vejoff starvation in hungry western Europe,  emphasized today by a special committee which  %avfcring to raise $4,610.52 in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois for the purchase of a 60,000-pound car of corn sugar to be coupled on to the famous train when it pauses here the morning of Nov.   14.-











While the  Friendship Train stops in Clinton,   the  financial j



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campaign   is   nonsense   of   the1----'--











word a local project, the help of all citizens in this vicinity being   needed.-











Reports available today show that about $100 (1,300 pounds of sugar) has been donated.   Contributions   can   be



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turned in to THE HERALD, KROS,-











Clinton National bank, City National   bank   or   Iowa   State   Saving bank.--











Robert Burns of the Clinton National, E. H. Jorgensen of the City National   and   Kurt   Booth   of   the Iowa State  have  been  named  co-! treasurers of the campaign. Not  Much  Time



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Because time does not permit personal solicitation, an appeal has been issued for citizens of this area to send in their donations without  delay.-











Checks should be made payable to the Clinton- Friendship Train committee.-











The public was reminded today that commodities selected for shipment are those which have been approved by the authorities as being most needed, those easiest to distribute in Europe and those easiest to ship.-











Food being loaded aboard the Friendship Train will be distributed through the two joint American relief committees in France and Italy. These committees are composed of the various American relief groups functioning in Europe - American Baptist relief, National Catholic Welfare council, American Friends Service committee, Lutherans, Men-nonites,   Brethren,   Congregational -











ist   Service    committee,    ujnitarian Service committee and mostkof the American church groups whicVi conduct relief work abroad.- Skilled Personnel --







Their skilled personnel will\un-dertake to make sure that Uhe French and Italian people whoVre-ceive this food will know thai, a great many American people t(k)k a lot of trouble to gather it from their fields-as the friendship lattel reads-"bringing it to your doo :-steps in the hope that it will tide you over until your own fiel is again are rich and abundant wi !h crops.-











H. A. Sino, chairman of the spfe-: cial central committee correlating Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois efforts on behalf of the train, *n-nounces that a meeting of his greup was called for 4 o'clock this aljer-noon.--







Boxes for donations also are being distributed to local buliness houses throughout the city.--



Because even the smaller* donations are welcome and Aeeded, school children will be jfiven an opportunity to make coambutions.-











Expressions of supportAo the financial campaign are Jrfing received from all over this section. Even the smallest communities appear anxious to assist, jf