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Show Red Cross Drive Goes Forward Here This Week This is the week when members of the Springville Women's Organizations Organ-izations will knock at doors of the townspeople to collect Red Cross contributions, Chairman Harris Louhnan and Perry Goodliffe announced an-nounced today. Springville's quota is expected to be raised within the next few days. The American Red Cross will turn over to the office of Defence Mobilization 1,714,996 cubic centimeters cen-timeters of gamma globulin which will provide 245,000 average polio shots for national distribution by summer, to be used in the prevention preven-tion of paralysis from poliomyelitis. poliomye-litis. This was the first consignment of the blood fraction which the Red Cross will provide the ODM' under an agreement of last December when the program was inaugurated inaugur-ated in the national interest. The Red Cross is collecting the blood for production into gamma Globulin and is paying for the fractionation processing and packaging. pack-aging. The Red Cross said it will continue con-tinue to turn over to the office of Defense Mobilization all supplies of gamma globulin as they come from the laboratories. All allocations alloca-tions of gamma globulin will be made solely by ODM and all final . distribution of the product will be the responsibility of the statu health officers, the Red Cross emphasized. em-phasized. Gamma Globulin will be available avail-able to families in every part of the United States this summer, through the state health departments, depart-ments, under a plan proposed by a special committee of the National Nation-al Research Council. |