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Show Sugar House Red Cross Unit Sets State-Wide Service Record Local Red Cross Committee Is First in County To Exceed Quota; State L;gs Behind OVER THE TOP Chairman S. Morgan Sorensen's local Red Cross committee was first in county to exceed fund goal Deseret News. First group ,in Salt Lake County to go over the top in the annual Red Cross fund drive was Sugar House's hard-working committee, headed by S. Morgan Sorensen. Reports tabulated at Salt Lake Red Cross headquarters indicated indi-cated that the local group would surpass last year's total by at )st $40. Tuesday nearly .200 had been turned in. Original Orig-inal goal was set at $850. The rest of the county campaigns cam-paigns were lagging behind, according ac-cording to local officials. Last 10 Days If the Salt Lake County Chapter, American Red Cross, is . .to continue its 'seventeen services serv-ices to the veteran, the veteran's families, to the hospitals, to the public in time of disaster, then residents of the county must be generous in the last ten days of the annual Red Cross appeal, i- With two-thirds of the Red Cross month of March already passed, only about half of the chapter quota has been collected. In the Remaining few days of the campaign, the quota still can be reached if every citizen will give again this year what was given last year, and those who did not contribute in 1948 would enroll in 1949. "Utah Owes Much" "Utah owes much to the American Red Cross," it was pointed out by County Chairman Frank B. Creer. "Already this year the Red Cross has spent in disaster relief in this area more than $258,000, which is more than the people of the state have been asked to contribute It has assisted the Navajo Inians in the South, the Uintah Reservation Reser-vation Indians near Duchesne, Utoh, assisted in the Dell bus CJ-.ter, and in many individual unices throughout the disaster dis-aster conditions in the winter. When we give to the Red Cross we are giving to ourselves, for the Red Cross is chartered by Congress as an organization of the people, themselves. " The drive for funds will continue con-tinue throughout March, or until everyone has been contacted. Those who have not been reached may send their contributions contri-butions to the American Red Cross, Beason Building, Salt Lake City, and the contribution will be credited to the community com-munity from which it originates. Committee members in addition addi-tion to Chairman Sorensen are: Joseph Peery, John DeHaan. Walter Peterson, Mickey 1irt Paul Pehrson, John Walton and Ffyl Allen. Special club representatives include: Dr. Thomas Robinson, Rotary; Ray D. Free, Lions and Grant Midgley, Chamber of Commerce. |