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Show Need for blood critical in Utah; drawing set Tuesday for Cedar The months of June, July and August have been proclaimed pro-claimed as "Loan Blood Months in Utah toy Governor Calvin Rampton and in Cedar City Mayor Loren Whetten has similarly asked residents of this community to cooperate and participate. "We encourage all the public pub-lic ; employees, who have reasonably good health, to 'loan' at least one pint of life-saving life-saving blood during the summer." sum-mer." Residents of this area will have an opportunity to join the "Loan" program when. the Red Cross brings their Blood-mobile Blood-mobile unit to Cedar City for a drawing to be held on Tuesday, Tues-day, July 18. The drawing will toe held in the basement of the BPOE Lodge No. 1556 between the hours of 3 to 7:30 p.m. and will be under the direction of the Iron County Blood Procurement Pro-curement unit.,. Authorities in the Red Cross program project that based on experience and the increasing in-creasing uses of blood that "we will have considerable trouble supplying the requests for life-saving blood during the summer months." It was this projection that convinced the Governor and Mayor to issue is-sue proclamations and injunc tions to the people to support this vital program that participates par-ticipates and cooperates with 41 hospitals within the state of Utah. We receive a lot of fine support sup-port but we do need more people involved. Thus all counties, cities and towns have asked their employees and encouraged en-couraged residents to participate partici-pate in the program. ATI who have good health, should be encouraged to 'lLoan" at least one pint of blood during the summer months and th,e easiest way to participate would be to participate in the blood drawing draw-ing here Tuesday. The term "Loan" is used because be-cause God and nature will repay re-pay the donor. A donor's "Loan" is good insurance that there will be blood immediately immedi-ately available on their need. The pint of blood contributed can be credited to any individual indiv-idual or organization. |