Organization Will Give Assistance to Those Who Have Lost Heavily and Are In No Position to Re-establish Themselves, Without Grants From Red Cross A survey of the tidal wave stricken areas has been made by a Red Cross disaster expert
Organization Will Give Assistance to Those Who Have Lost Heavily and Are In No Position to Re-establish Themselves, Without Grants From Red Cross
A survey of the tidal wave stricken areas has been made by a Red Cross disaster expert and dire need cases will be presented this week to the local Red Cross Advisory Committee. The Committee, headed by William Moragne of Lihue, consists of Miss Mabel Wilcox, Walter Sanborn, James Corstorphine, and Paul Townsley, will meet hereafter as often as the necessity warrants for quick action in individual cases.
Conference Is Held
The official, J. P. Shaw, Assistant Director of Disaster Relief for the North Atlantic Area of the American Red Cross, and in charge of disaster rehabilitation for Oahu and Kauai, arrived by plane Friday morning and visited and conferred with Nawiliwili, Kalihiwai, and Haena district residents. Mr. Shaw also discussed plans with Charles Harker, chairman of the local Red Cross; William Mahikoa and Henry Gomes, members of the Tidal Wave Relief Committee; William Moragne, chairman of the Red Cross Advisory Committee; William D. Rinehart, director of Red Cross home service for the Territory; Miss Ruth Lockman, home service secretary of the Kauai Red Cross; and Neil Webster, assistant manager of the Kilauea Plantation Co.
Public Welfare Assists
The Department of Public Welfare case workers are assisting by reviewing cases and presenting their findings to the committee.
The standard procedure for disaster rehabilitation on Kauai will be:
(1) A Red Cross worker interviews each case individually;
(2) When background information is complete, a plan is presented by the worker to the director, and subsequently to the Red Cross Advisory Committee;
(3) Persons qualifying for assistance are advised of the amount they will receive and their plans for buying goods and services are reviewed with the worker;
(4) After visiting merchants and contractors of their own choice, the dispossessed submit lists of selected articles and prices to the Red Cross agent;
(5) The Agency issues “disbursing orders” which the applicant gives the merchant for goods listed thereon;
(6) One copy of the order, signed by the purchaser, and the merchants itemized bill are forwarded to the Red Cross which pays the merchant directly by check.
Accounts Are Audited
All receipts and expenditures are audited by accountants trained in disaster relief. In addition, under an act of congress, all receipts and disbursements of the Red Cross are audited by the U. S. War Department.
Loans are not made by the Red Cross to disaster sufferers, according to Kauai Red Cross Chairman Harker. When relief is given, he says, there is no obligation to repay. A person who has lost heavily in the disaster but who is able to stand the loss financially without unreasonable hardship, however, should not ask for disaster relief, he adds.
Relief funds, contributed by the American public, will be used “to meet minimum needs which the sufferers themselves can not meet from their own resources, cash, credit, insurance or earnings.”
Needs not caused or aggravated by the disaster can not be met with relief funds, Mr. Harker stated.
JOINT HOSTS
Jane Duvel, Darrow Watt, and Boyden Townsley, Kauai students attending Punahou and now home for Easter vacation, were hostess and hosts at a buffet supper-dance Saturday night at the Townsley grounds in Lihue A huge tent was erected in the backyard of the home, and dancing was enjoyed to Joe Rapoza’s orchestra. Approximately seventy island Punahou students and their guests were present.
