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Show RED CROSS BLOOD DAY PROCLAIMED BY MILFORD MAYOR - The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Beaver County next week, on its regular tour of the state collecting whole blood for the organization's mercy program of saving lives and preventing disease. The mobile unit will be set up at the Milford L D S Church on Tuesday, Aug. 27, and accept blood from donors hetween the hours of 3 p. m. and 7 p. m. The following day, Wednesday, Aug. 28, the unit will be at the Minersville Min-ersville Church from 3 to 7. Previously, Minersville donors don-ors have made the trip to Milford Mil-ford for the blood drawings. This will be the first time the Bloodmobile has made a stop at Minersville. . Minersville's quota is 75 pints of whole blood. j In the five years the mobile , unit has been stopping at Milford, Mil-ford, the community has never reached the asisgned quota. With Minersville residents not giving blood in Milford next Tuesday, it is expected by some local Red Cross officials that the community may fall farther behind quota than has been the case previously. Mayor Ray Kizer today ig-sued ig-sued a proclamation designating designat-ing Tuesday, Aug. 27, as "Red Cross Blood Donor Day" in Milford, and urged all residents resi-dents to visit the unit between be-tween the hours of 3 p. m. and 7 p. m and give a pint of blood to the Red Cross. "Milford's quota is 100 pints," Mayor Kizer said, "and I am asking all able bodied adults in the city to turn out and help us meet this quota. I am convinced con-vinced that the people of Milford Mil-ford are as generous as any people in the nation, and I just don't think they realize that it is ,as important to make quota for the Red Cross Blood Bank as it is during any of the annual, charitable fund drives." The mayor pointed out that every two weeks a fresh supDly of whole blood is stocked at the Beaver County Hospital in Milford, Mil-ford, and the old blood is sent to Salt Lake to be made into plasma. He also emphasized that any needed amount of whole blood is available to the residents of Milford,' if it is needed because of disaster or for any other reason. Milford area residents who recently received gold pins in recognition of having contributed contribut-ed a gallon or more of blood include John Grimshaw, 11 pints; Dr. Eugene Davie, Lola Hollingshead, James Hollings-he.'-.d and Marjorie Harton, 9 pints; McCoy Williams, 10 pints; Jackie Williams, Obra Myers, Dorothy Grimshaw and Rex Marshall, 8 pints. |