10-28-51 India Appreciates Packages From Junior Red Cross SALT LAKE CITY Oct. 27 (AP)_India is grateful to th American Junior Red Cross for its "generous supplies of gm narkaees and other relief mater- Fal for the displaced children of InThis was the word from K. Shainkar Nigam New Delhi, na¬tional director of the Junior Red Cross of India Nigam today„ad- dressed delegates from 17 Utah J.R.C. chapters. 10/28/51 SALT LAKE CITY, Oct, 26 (AP) K. Shanker Nigam, national di¬rector of the Junior Red Cross in India, will speak here Saturday. He will address a meeting of the 17 Junior Red Cross chapters of Utah. About 400 are expected for the session which will be supervised by Mrs. Patricia Handford of San Francisco, J.R.C. Pacific area con¬sultant. Other visitors will include Wil¬liam Flynn, New York City, assist¬ant national director of the J.R.C.- program, and Don Lagg of San Francisco, assistant area director. 10/10/51 Nursing Trainees Of Red Cross Graduate Tonight Miss Irene Thompson, director of nursing services in the Pacific area for the American Red Cross, will address graduates of the local Red Cross nurses training program Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Holy Cross Hospital Nurses' Home. Between 75 and 10 laymen will be presented certificates showing they have completed the special training course, Miss Thompson Will speak on "How the Red Cross Nursing Services Are Meeting the Chal¬lenge of Civil Defense." The public is invited to attend. 10-28-51 Fifth Polio Nurse Assigned Here nother experienced polio nurse is serving at. the Dee hospital after being recruited from San Francisco by the American Red Cross. She is Mrs. Gladys Bodmer who took over her duties this week. She is the fifth nurse experienced in polio who has been recruited through efforts of the Weber coun¬ty chapter. Four arrived in Ogden earlier this summer. THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1951 S. E. 10/16/51 Red Cross Starts Course Tomorrow in Care of Sick A fall course in home care of the sick will be conducted by the Weber county chapter, American Red Cross starting tomorrow, it was announced today by Mrs. O. C. Hammond, director of nursing serv¬ices. The two and a half week course will be conducted at the chapter home, 1961 Washington, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday -of each week from seven-thirty to nine- thirty p. m. Instructor for the course will be Mrs. Bert Stockham, Red Cross nurse instructor. Val Campbell, disaster chairman for the chapter, urged the, public to take advantage of the class which, he said, would prove of vital aid in times of disaster or epidemic. The course is designed to give practical knowledge of basic as well as technical nursing skills and is helpful to all who may be called upon to assist and to care for ill persons. Those desiring to take the course may register by calling the chapter home, 4601. Following the course, two hours of special instruction in care of polio patients will be given. This two-hour course will be open to all, said Mrs. Hammond. State Nursing Group to Meet On October 3 District No. 2, of the Utah State Nursing association will hold a meeting Oct. 3, at seven-thirty p.m. at the nurses' "lounge at the St. Benedict's hospital School of Nurs¬ing. Miss Irene Thompson, of San Francisco, Red Cross director of the nursing service, in the Pacific area will be the guest speaker. She has served "in disaster nursing programs in various areas of the nation and currently is in charge of the Red Cross nursing services which include recruitment, disaster, home nursing, and similar activities. The nominating committee will present names of eligible nurses for district officers for the coming year. At this meeting the membership is asked to assist the nominating committee in drawing up the bal¬lot. Voice and piano selections by student nurses will be given. 14A THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1951 Importance of Blood Typing Explained by Hospital Aid If this area is bombed, the local "walking blood bank" program can result in the saving of those min¬utes on which lives often hang, Rotarians were told yesterday. People who have been typed can be given transfusions even before they are extricated from the rub-ble, said Dr. E. D. Zeman, path¬ologist at Dee hospital. The value of blood transfusion on the battlefield was shown by Dr Zeman. He said that in World war I, mortality in the field hospital was 20 per cent. In World war II the mortality was reduced to four per cent and in the present emer¬gency it is only one per cent. Dr. Zeman gave credit to the American Red Cross which he said is doing a "marvelous" job. Of the 5000 persons who have been typed in Weber county, 1000 are in the South Ogden district he said. Club President Lawrence T. Dee announced that Ray Stratford of Pocatello, district governor of Ro¬tary International will attend - a conference for committee chairmen on the evening of Nov. 6. He will make his official visit to the club at the Nov. 7 noon meeting. Visiting Rotarians from Nova Scotia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Montana and Salt Lake City, were introduced by Ford Creer, vice president. They were making up their attendance while visiting in Ogden, it was explained. Jesse Anderson, a blind vocal¬ist, was featured on the musical program, with Lester Hinchcliff as piano accompanist. Polio Nurse Needs Stressed Nurse recruitment in connection with this area's present polio epidemic stole the spotlight at a con-ference of Red Gross nursing rep¬resentatives from 11 northern Utah counties held here yesterday. Headed by Miss Irene Thompson, director of nursing services, Pa¬cific area, 40 persons associated with nurse recruitment, held polio nursing services as "most vital." They pointed to the recruitment by the Pacific area of four nurses with polio experience to assist in the polio ward at St. Benedict's hospital. "Such cooperative efforts on t part of the Red Cross nursing ser¬vices has made possible the re-cruitment of such vitally needed polio aid from over a wide area," a spokesman said. All business sessions of the con¬ference were conducted at the We-ber county chapter home, 1961 Washington. In attendance were representatives from Salt Lake, Wasatch. Davis. Tooele, Summit, Box Elder, Rich, Utah, Morgan, Cache and Weber counties. 11-8-57 Two More Nurses Join Polio Fight Two more nurses, trained in polio treatment, have been recruit¬ed for local polio service by' the Weber county chapter American Red Cross. Serving at the Dee hospital, they are Juanita Schram, a graduate of the St. Louis, Mo., general hos¬pital, and Miss Sylvia Simon, a graduate of St. Ann's hospital in Chicago, 111. They both recently completed a tour of polio duty in Oklahoma City, Okla. 10/25/51 Blood Car Gets 160 Pints on First Two Days UTAH GENERAL DEPOT—The Charles O. Sweetwood blood pro¬curement car, operated by the Western Pacific railroad and the American Red Cross, collected about 160 pints of precious blood for the fighting forces of Koreo during its first two days here. Spotted prominently on a side track at this large quartermaster base, the famous railroad coach was the target for both civilian and military personnel on its return visit here which will end tomor¬row. Miss Joan Metzlaff, head nurse on the car, said the turnout at the army base was about average. It might have been even smaller had it not been for the presence of a once-wounded soldier back from Korean battlefields. The wounded soldier is Pfc. Theodore Wrayf assigned to the 53rd quartermaster base depot unit. Unable to give blood himself, be¬cause of a malaria condition, he urged others who could, to share the life-giving fluid. His life had been saved by trans¬fusion after wounds and so had the lives of his buddies. He knew first hand, the bogl it would do.