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Show PREPAREDNESS iy igi re AMERICAN RED CROSS Two million volunteer Red Cross workers a militant army of mercy. IVING a pint of blood for the army and navy is a new form of patriotism in which thousands of loyal Americans are now participating. par-ticipating. This blood, processed into life-saving life-saving plasma for emergency transfusions, is collected from volunteer vol-unteer blood donors at 18 Red Cross Blood Donor centers. The program was launched in February, 1941, following a request by the surgeons general gen-eral of the army and navy that the Red Cross provide 15,000 pints of blood to be processed into dried plasma. This program pro-gram has now been expanded at the request of the army and navy to the point where over one million donors will be required. re-quired. Eighteen centers have been opened, and donations are pouring in at the rate of .' approximately 60,000 a month. Giving blood is a simple process, proc-ess, requires but a few minutes time on the part of the donor, and has no after effects. The blood is shipped daily in refrigerated containers to the laboratories, where it is processed into dried plasma, a light, straw colored powder that can be kept indefinitely indefinite-ly and transported easily. Numerous cases have been reported where plasma saved the lives of American soldiers and sailors suffering from burns and traumatic shock, and Red Cross plasma has been distributed to our armed forces operating in the Atlantic and Pacific war theaters. However, How-ever, thousands of additional donors are needed to supply the full requirements for the army and navy, and to provide plasma for any civilian emergencies emer-gencies which may result from enemy action in this country. Red Cross Blood Donor centers delphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester, Roch-ester, N. Y., Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Boston, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, and Washington, D. C. (Prepared exclusively for WNU.) |