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Show Contributions In War Fund Drive Short of Halfway With a large number of local residents seemingly under the impression im-pression that the present Red Cross War Fund drive is little mere than a membership drive, the response locally is on a nowhere no-where near large enough scale to insure raising the Milford chapter's chap-ter's quota of $1G50. Less than half of the quota ($801, to -be exact) ex-act) had been reported to O. C-Kock, C-Kock, war fund drive chairman, as The News went to press, and this amount covers virtually all of the expected large donors in the husiness section and almost all of the residence areas. In order to realize Milford's full quota, it is going to be necessary for local residents to double or triple their usual contributions, and all those who, for one reason or another, have made only small contributions, are urged to communicate com-municate with their respective drive captains or with Chairman Koch, and increase their contributions contribu-tions in accordance with this sug. gestion. Milford never has made a bad showing in drives -cf this nature and we must not fail now! "Red Cross services to our armed arm-ed forces and to the needs of distressed dis-tressed civilians on the battle and Tf&me fronts can be supplied only by great expenditures and sacrifices", sacri-fices", American Red Cross Chairman Chair-man Norman H. Davis has said. "We are exerting our utmost efforts ef-forts to accomplish these tasks with the least possible drain upon the resources of the people in funds, time and energy. We must never falter in our determination to meet these definite obligations. The Red Cross is' confident that all people will he generous in their support of the 1943 War Fund." More than 65 per cent of the fund received by national headquarters head-quarters will be devoted to meeting meet-ing Red Cross responsibilities to the armed forces. . These include the Red Cross overseas club pro. gram, recreation and hospital pro gram, the stationing of field directors di-rectors at all foreign and domestic domes-tic military camps and bases, the huge surgical dressing production program, and the blood plasma project which recently was ex-ipanded ex-ipanded to a total of 4,000,000 I pints at request of army and navy. Somewhere, on some distant i hattlefield, an American soldier will be wounded in action today. He may be your son, or the laugh- ing tow-headed kid that only ' yesterday lived in a house down ; the street. Remember ? j Strong but tender hands will ' carry him back to an army dress. ing station. A blood transfusion I may be required to save his life blood contributed to the American ; Red Cross by thousands of Ameri-! Ameri-! cans back home. He will be brought to a base hospital where ' army nurses, recruited by the American Red Cross workers, will advise his family of his progress; and, as he convalesces, other Red ; Cross workers will help speed his J recovery. j Somewhere, every minute of the j hour, every hour of the day, every day of the year, the Red Cross is helping some one. j Won't you help, too ? |