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Md. Woman Starts a Flood
of Aid to the Netherlands
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IT WASN'T ENOUGH
Mrs. Bowman said she thought
about it some more and came to
the conclusion that her little bundle
wasn't very much.
"So I called Ernie Tannen at
WGAY," she said. "And the station
started putting an appeal on the air
about every half hour.
"The response has been wonder
ful. People have come from all
over Southern Maryland. I didn't
realize what I'd gotten into. It's
wonderful."
The Bowmans' front porch was
almost completely filled with boxes
and bundles. Only a narrow path
way was cleared to the door.
Inside, the hall was jammed, too.
25 SUITS
"And it's all good stuff, too," Mrs.
Bowman said. "I got about 25
men's suits, a couple dozen good
warm blankets, all kinds of shoes
and a lot of baby clothes.
"None of it is anything like the
old worn-out stuff you might expect
people to give for something like
this."
Mrs. Bowman, whose husband is
the Silver Spring postmaster, said
the people have been wonderful.
"I was talking to one man about
ItI know him, he's a preacher's
sonand commented that nobody
had sent any baby blankets," she
said. "Do you know that he went
News Staff Photo
Mrs. Bowman, surrounded by other donations, accepts clothing from
Mrs. George C. Bernhardt, 7911 Lynnbrook Drive, Bethesda, to be sent
to the Netherlands.
out and bought two new ones and
brought them over."
TRUCKING WAS FREE
Suburban Moving Storage in
Chevy Chase also heard about Mrs.
Bowman's project. So they sent one
of their trucks over to haul the
stuff down to the Netherlands Em
bassy.
From there it was taken to Na
tional Airport and loaded onto a
Holland-bound airplane.
Tonight, maybe some of the*
Dutch won't be so cold or so wet.
There's a truckload of good,
warm clothing, shoes and blank
ets for flood victims in Holland
today, thanks to a Silver Spring
housewife who couldn't stand by
and watch and do nothing.
Mrs. Camilla O'Brien Bowman ef
804 Wayne-av said she got her idea
about noon yesterday.
"I called the Netherlands Em
bassy and asked them if I could
send down some clothes I had and
they said they'd be tickled to death
to get anything they could," she
said.
