Excerpt from Naugatuck Daily News – Saturday, August 31, 1946
World War II - History Edition

Salvation Army Rules Red Tape Out; Services Listed
Norman Wood, Mrs. Fenniman Supply Aid Considered Justifiable

An agency always concerned with conditions among the poor in rural and suburban communities is the Salvation Army, which fashioned a program for the immediate need and conducted that service to the full extent of its opportunity and the availability of funds, for the improvement of the needy.

During the war, as in peacetime, the Salvation Army served on the home front as well as in the war areas. In Naugatuck a Welfare Committee cooperates with local, state and national organizations, in addition to considering and administering aid to local people who make direct application to them for assistance.

The emergency funds, under the control of the Welfare Committee, have resulted from the drives held in Naugatuck once a year, by the Salvation Army field officers.

These funds have proven to be of vital importance particularly to organizations and agencies, as well as individuals who find themselves in embarrassing circumstances and real need.

The fund is a democratic one without any “red tape” and the committee composed of Norman Wood, chairman, and Mrs. Clarence E. Fenniman, welfare, is free to rule on all applications using their own discretion in giving any aid they decide justifiable.

Services
Following is a list of services the Salvation Army has provided and will provide for the people of Naugatuck: Welfare, clothing, food, shoes, fuel, Christmas comfort, medical aid; health, dental work, glasses, operations for tonsils, summer camps for boys and girls; special assistance to veterans by providing carfare, back to school aid, loaning money to veterans who are temporarily without funds because of some government delay in sending allotments.