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Show RED CROSS DRIVE CHIEF NAMED Joseph E. Bernolfo, Jr., Wednesday Wed-nesday was named chairman of the 1951 Salt Lake County Chapter, Chap-ter, American Red Cross fund campaign. The announcement was made Wednesday by LeRoy D. Sim-i Sim-i mons, chapter chairman, t This years quota for the drive, ; ' which will open March 1, will be $135,377.00. I Mr. Bernolfo, well known Salt Lake City business man and sportsman, has been active in Red Cross drives for the last four years. His interest goes hack to I World War II where he served I in Italy and France with rank of I nxijor in the corps of engineers and was awarded the Bronze j Star Medal for extra meritorius 1 service. Salt Lake county quotas have been reached during the past two years with $112,000 collected , in 1949 and $110,022 subscribed in 1950. Mr. Bernolfo rolled up his sleeves and started immediately immedi-ately to organize an army of fund appeal volunteers. More than 2400 workers are expected to contribute more than 21,000 hours of solicitation effort in an attempt to reach the county quota. Faced with greatly expanding responsibilities growing out of deiense needs and with increased costs of supplies and services, chapter officials have in recent months been carefully studying ways and means of meeting the increased needs for Red Cross services without increasing the budget. i Establishment and operation for the first year of a sorely need ed regional blood procurement and processing center is estimated estimat-ed at nearly $15,000.00 which is a cost not previously faced by the chapter. Collection of whole blood derivatives de-rivatives for the armed forces and for civilian defense is a job given officially to the Red Cross. The warm-heared response of Utahns in giving blood through Red Cross channels for wounded G. I's on the Korean battlefields was so generous the facilities of the Mobile Blood Procurement car were oversubscribed during its visit in Utah last week. As the anticipated regional blood center opens, collections will provide additional whole blood for speedy air express to the fighting fronts as well as blood plasma and derivatives for stock piling against local civilian civil-ian defense needs. Utah was the first state in the Pacific area to "go over the top" in the 1950 Red Cross drive. The 34 chapters reported a combined total of $210,316.00 in contributions. contribu-tions. Salt Lake county chapter ranked rank-ed second among the principal metropolitan areas of the west in attaining its goal during the 1950 drive, being preceded only by Pasadena. "We are hopeful that the people peo-ple of Salt Lake county and Utah will also meet the 1951 quotas promptly," stated Mr. Simmons. In addition to the requirements for blood procurement there is increasing responsibility for service ser-vice to men of the armed forces and in home service to their families. fa-milies. There is greatly expanding expand-ing need in nurse's aid and first aid training and other volunteer services to meet local civilian defense demands. |