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Show t PlTBMSHrcn tTA ywork Is Laid iletvvork (r Air I. Home pop HII I urr irnnrr it i- -tt- n-- Battlefront Transfus ion wSFkw t sS& -- v. v and Air Communica-- L V Airways Detachment, and control of the 1906th at Hill Air Force j Squadron Service (AACS) the administrative op-vL- al Cis laying the groundwork for fairways network newly Jrated Mt. Home Force Base in at at jed from technicians jtenance U56th AACS Mobile Squadron Tinker Air Force Base, I) group of glioma, and a select AACS from various jaalists jj on the west coast, including ll6th AACS Squadron, are in process of setting up air Rational UTS) r"?f w: j. J - in It "Service the'final phase of rpreli- maintenance is completed, jfhra ai -- aids stations , at the Air Transport air base. v 3ary t-- . Detachment will operate a control tower, and Controlled Approach (GCA) iar" station, radio M, homing beacon, and . a CS maintain center. . KOJO, NORTH KOREA, November 1950 A wounded U. S. Marine reads a letter from home as he receives a transfusion of blood plasma near a battlefront south of VVonsan. The plasma was provided by volunteer donors through the American Red Cross. Next week, Hill AFB personnel will donate blood when a railroad blood procurement car visits the base. Three hundred donors will give blood at this time, and the remaining volunteers at a future date. the Mt. Home Smmanding khment is Captain Nelson P. ist of Detroit, Michigan, Captain at was formerly assigned to the Squadron at, Davis-Jtha- n Air Force Base, Tucson, as a communications of- - 3rd AACS jama, PrtninmAn4i CnAArle I In 1w rrting toother , "When consider that it is 5Hry for us to file over 5,000 wwrs every day, you can see thia new is sorting fH help Coie said.' equipment l Mrting mechanism is made T 01 ft tv on you tnHln iir3U each aid 4. onnhlinc turn Is Time ,,Multi-Sot- ,, xt 1 wl Blood Donations for Fighting Forces To Be Given by Hill Personnel NextVeeli Blood for Korean combat casaulties will be given by Hill AFB personnel when Western Pacific Railroad's blood procurement center visits. Hill on April 18, 19, and 20th, it was announced today by Charles W. Baer, Red Cross field director. Some 2,000 Hillf ielders have volunteered their blood. However, facilities in the railroad car are adequate to process only 100 blood donors each day and so only 300 donations will be taken at this time, Mr. Baer said. Later, additional Red Cross mobile blood collection units will arrive at Hill AFB to accept donations from the remaining 1700 Hill AFB personnel who volun already proven extremely valuable teered their blood in shock suffered by The railroad car. called the the combatting in Korea, Mr. Baer wounded O. Sweetwood" "Charles military said. Shock usually result from loss blood procurement car, was con- of fluid from the blood circulation. verted by Western Pacific Rail- It can also be caused by severe inroad Company from an official or continued juries business car. The car, named for Transfusions of whole hemorrhage. blood usual Pacific the first Western employee ly overcome shock, when given soon killed in the Korean conflict, has This healing medicine is been turned over to the American enough. in advance first aid given being Red Cross for use in collecting stations, often under enemy fire. comin Forces Armed the blood for 20 pints as Sometimes as many munities which do not have other of whole blood, or blood and facilities for this purpose. The car have been administered plasma, to one has been touring cities in Cali- man, Mr. Baer said. fornia, Nevada and Utah. The car will be parked on the Sites railroad track between the cafe List teria and the headquarters build stay at ing during its three-da- y Hill AFB. Blood collections will be taken from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., each Narrowed To Seven for The Air Force Academy selec- The Air Force Academy site day. Twenty donors will be proces tion board has selected seven sites sed each hour Complete schedules of blood don that will receive further considerors from each section on the base ation as the most suitable for the will be established and those who proposed Air Force Academy, Secretary of the Air Force Thomas are to give donations at this time K. Finletter announced today. will be notified by their supervi In accordance with previously sors as - to the time they should architectural visit the car. Donors will be ex announced plans, the of Holabird firm and engineering cused from their jobs for approxi Root and of Chicago, IlliBurgee one hour. blood, After giving mately will give six of these seven SIGN OVER donors will be given fruit juice and nois, detailed survey. a sites a rest in the car. information is availComplete four of consists car railroad The on able Air Force Base, Randolph UP FOX BONDS bedrooms, a lounge, a dining room one of the seven sites, and a deand kitchen. Four Red Cross nurses tailed survey of location will and a porter travel with the car, not be required. that Red Cross volunteers and a local The sites are: Continues doctor will augment the staff. near California Campaign Each day's blood collections will Marysville. . Camp Beale, d placed aboard the Colorado site near Colorado Drawing Postponed be California Zephyr for immediate Springs. Until April 25th Indiana site near Madison. shipment to the Pacific Coast, Mr. Baer said. From there the blood North Carolina site near Char-lett- e. will. . be immediatelyV flown to , . : v first week of the current nms. Texas (a) site near Grapevine. PamPai??t0 Uary Air Transport Service. Distrl !SLS ZXX (b) site in ' Grayson Donas lliruugu wc tajrj "vu"" Coun-ttion plan has resulted in over 500 (c) Randolph AFB. additional employees UJ quired in the combat areas will be Congressional, approval will be lor Donas, auturuiiis m m.wj x. utilized for stockpiling plasma and the final .authority for the estabman, civilian personnel. other derivatives for military use. lishment bf the Air Force Acade- However, greater participation in Speedy blood transfusions have my. bond buying must be reached, he Bond said, and so the campaign is being on continued with renewea enorc, Purchasing of saving bonds is a duty of every patriotic citizen, na Freeman said. The steppea-u- p tional defense program cans ior more financial aid, he reminded Purchasing of savings bonds also onmbats inflation, stabilizes na tional economy and is an easy and beneficial way of putting away sav 500 file clerks to work at one time. Each tray contains 100 numbered cards under wich documents can be sorted. The trays slide back and forth so that clerks have easy access to all numbers. is also a space-save- r, The multi-so- rt Cole said. Previously it was necessary for clerks to spread the vouchers over two or three desks for sorting. Now, one clerk cana do the work of three and in much smaller area. The voucher control unit has supply reresponsibility for filingreceived achave after they quests were vouchers tion. Over 116,000 filed last month, Cole said. time-sav- er in ", I Uftiirhr Process in Supply Division has been put the Supply division to Hremore efficient operation for to Wayne according J money, chief of voucher control unit. new addition is a multi-sortinvention that enohlno on r in or irouchers to be accomplished al- times as quickly as be- work " m- -i of : nd ,arity n Saver west-boun- : y. 8lin . Get the Wagon! ings. The drawing for six free savings to be held next civilian cafeteria the at Wednesday has been postponed until April a, Freeman said The bond selling campaign was extended another week to give more people an opportunity to join the payroll savings pian. "When vou sign up for bond de ductions, you automatically get a chance of winning one or me iree bonds being awarded Dy me civu ne saia. tn welfareof council," who-sigall persons Names this hnnria during campaign, as were who all participating as well innIv will De piacea in a lot tery box. On April 25th, during lunch period at the cafeteria, six names will be drawn irom vne box. The persons whose names are will be presented one ui me hnnds. which range in ki value from $100 to $25. tnHa scheduled y . 54,-- 3 J&he? .,,t, :yr '1 n ... ... wnicn enaoirs (nn..i iiui unit dm uohH. at tn new mit.BitFtn With this 4m to before. sort documents three times faster than nt the girls sort over 5,000 vouchers each day. W j-o- m Rath Ann Hunter, civilian personnel, puts finishing touches on a sign atop the clock house that urge participation in the payroll savings plan for buying U. S. bonds. Efforts are being made to increase the percentage of bond buyers in each section. During the past week, participation has been increased 10 in Maintenance, 6 in Supply, 2 in base executive, and 5 in headquarters and others. |