Show March Is Red Cross Month ON THE JOB WHEN YOU NEED IT Each March we Americana ourselves to the This is Red Cross task of helping our neighbors in Month-a time when we join and serve with the organization that is on the job when we need it most In our the Red Cross will be canvassing from door to door for our contributions In Culture Club members will canvass the and in surrounding communities local fund-raising chairmen arc supervising house-to-house We may well ask does the Red Cross mean to me as well as my community and Almost all of us know part of the have observed or benefited from or taken part in Red Cross To get the whole we need only to look at the record In three special situations last the Red Cross was on the job when it meant the It was on hand to help U. S. Servicemen when they were rushed to Lebanon in the Near East and Formosa in the Western Pacific Of critical international By discussions with the East German Red It was able to break the deadlock between our government and that of East and effect the liberation of nine American soldiers forced down in their helicopter behind the Iron Every day last year it helped other servicemen and then-families solve personal and domestic in more than instances each month The Red Cross was on hand with shelters and hot food when people in the Carolinas had to flee from the threat of Hurricane last September Throughout the year and across the it was on the job to provide the blood thousands of ill or needed to speed our recovery and in many cases our lives The Red Cross trained over of us last year in first water and home nursing Through the Junior Red it helped guide young people to responsible maturity by teaching them the importance of service to The Red Cross has again and that it can be relied upon all the time and Now we must insure that this vital organization will continue its work during the coming that it is THE JOB WHEN YOU NEED IT You can help by joining and contributing in its membership and fund |