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Show 9 ' ; : Red Cross Fund Drive Underway Next Week The annual American Red . Cross fund drive will get un- derway in Moab next week from March 17 through Marcli 23rd, under direction of Grand County Chairman Rodney Phillips, and fund drive chairman, chair-man, George Collins. House-to-house calls for contributions will be made by a group of 25 volunteers; bus-iness bus-iness houses will be contacted under direction of Jack Payne and Ken McDougald. Mr. Phillips stressed the importance of generous donations do-nations this year, due to the added expenses of the Vietnam Viet-nam war obligations. He said Mrs. Ken McDougald, Service Ser-vice to Miljtary. Families k chairman, fills an average of two requests a week to contact con-tact servicemen in the Vietnam Viet-nam theater. Calls from Moab to Washington headquarters must be covered with local funds; National funds complete com-plete the contacts. Mrs. Betty Jacobs is co-chairman of the Service to Military Families division. Another . vital use for the , funds is for Red Cross Blood , at the local hospital, he said. While there is no charge for the -blood, there is a $1 per pint handling and processing . charge. Last year 225 pints were collected, and for the first time in history the hospital hos-pital used less than the county contribution. Extra blood is neded in Vietnam, too, Mr. Phillips pointed out. Another Mobile Blood Bank visit is scheduled for April 29th, under un-der direction of Mrs. Hal Johnson. Grand County chairman chair-man of this unit of the Red Cross. The fund drive this year is under direction of George Col lins, manager of the Desert Lodge. President Johnson has proclaimed pro-claimed March as National Red Cross Month, Mayor Win-ford Win-ford Bunce has activated th-.-; proclamation in Moab. Both have urged all Americans to heed the special SOS appeal to contribute what they can to the national goal of ?23 million in March. |