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Show Blood Donation Quota Set at 200 Pints Whitney Jensen, state blood procurement director, announced today that the Bloodmobile will be in Cedar City at Hotel El Escalante Es-calante Wednesday, Dec. 16, between be-tween the hours of 2 and 8 p. m. A quota of 2(H) pints of blood has been set for the Cedar City visit and a host of women workers work-ers have been busy canvassing the town for donation pledges. Jaycee-Et tes. Kiwani-Anns and ot tier workers have been going from house to house on the canvass. can-vass. However, Mr. Jensen stated, some have not been contacted and he urged that anyone interested inter-ested in contributing during the drive contact the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce office, telephone 1179 prior to Wednesday. Wednes-day. The mobile unit visit in Cedar City has been set for the late evening hours so that working people may donate without missing miss-ing valuable working time, Mr. Jensen pointed out. An interesting sideline to the campaign for blood in Southern Utah is a challenge made by the Dixie Junior College at St. George to the College of Southern Utah student body In Cedar City. Dixie challenged the local school to contribute as many pints of blood as the St. George institution. institu-tion. As a result of this contest pledges for the bloodmobile visit have been made at the college which should help the city go over the top. Mr. Jensen stated that anyone between the ages of 18 and 59 will be accepted at the Bloodmobile, Bloodmo-bile, however youths between 18 and 21 must have written consent con-sent before contributions can be made. |