How You Helped With Your 1951 Dollars • YOU HELPED the helpless in the floods of 1951 by providing refugees with shelter, food, clothing and medical care. Sent trained disaster workers who learned the needs of the victims. When the emergency was over You rebuilt and repaired the homes—bought new furnishings and replaced cattle on small farms—all this was done with no strings attached. $13,768,459.89—You spent on this disaster alone—involving 24,033 families. You helped with over 340 disasters last year. You stand ready to assist when and if disaster should occur here. YOU ARE the blood in the veins of soldiers—and many Service Men live because of you. YOU MADE it possible to maintain 44 blood centers. $15,000,000 or over was expended to maintain these centers all over the U. S. last year. 4100 pints of blood were contributed in this vicinity. 50 volunteers gave assistance to the Weber County Chapter in Medical—Gray Lady—Canteen—Staff Aid—Nursing—and Nurse's Aid . Service. The Intermountain Blood Center will be opened in Salt Lake City on March 15th, and blood mobile units will visit Weber County periodically. YOU WORKED with service men in War areas through Red Cross Field Directors— You helped to obtain leave for the service men when there was an emergency at home. Before the service man can be granted a leave by the militarythe Red Cross must verify with doctors and others the need for his presence. You gave financial assistance to the service man's family when allotment checks were delayed or other emergencies occurred. You helped military doctors to better treat patients by procuring' social histories. You relieved the minds of soldiers by sending Health & "Welfare reports. You gave counsel and guidance to veterans in making claims for government benefits. You counselled the families of service men as to proper information to be contained in affidavits requested by the military. 3,535 cases were handled by you through our Home Service Department in this, the Weber County Chapter. $15,475.00 was spent in handling the above services ih your Chapter. YOU SAVED thousands of lives through the knowledge of First Aid and Water Safety. 52 persons in your community stand ready to give you training. 1103 persons received certificates in First Aid and Water Safety. YOU GAVE comfort and did to the sick and afflicted by your nursing skills. 13 nurses were trained to teach classes if) Care of the Sick, and Mother and Baby Care. 946 persons received certificates. YOU PROVIDED gifts, refreshments and entertainment for the sick and forgotten servicemen and veterans in government hospitals. YOU MADE Christmas holidays joyous for all servicemen wherever stationed by providing gifts, Christmas trees, and bright decorated balls. YOU HAVE trained Gray Ladies, Nurses Aides, Staff Aids, Motor corps, and Canteen Workers to assist in hospitals and blood centers. YOU HAVE knitted thousands of sweaters and sewed comfort articles for servicemen and veterans. YOU HAVE made millions of children in other countries happy by sending Christmas gifts and albums through your Junior Red Cross. 1400 Christmas boxes were sent by schools in your Chapter. YOU HAVE made all of these things possible because YOU ARE THE RED _ CROSS.___ By CHARLES KREHER - It's sort of like musical chairs, this giving blood for the fighting forces in Korea. At St. Joseph's Catholic church yesterday about 140 Og-denites were run through the smoothly operated mobile blood unit set up there by the American Red Cross. Sally Humphris, Weber county blood recruitment chairman, and spark plug of the unit's Ogden visit, said a return date has been set for sometime in August or September. "We hope to have about 200 people then," she said. First off, after Sally greeted him at the entrance to the church social hall, this donor went before a battery of typists. After the volunteer workers had typed out all the necessary in- formation they handed me a ■ card and the chair business started. Up one line of chairs to a couple of nurses aids who look temperatures and pulse. Across to another line of chairs where a couple of professional nurses took blood samples and a short medical interview. Then to another line of chairs (unless the doctor had a question or two. Then the giver went to a table in the center of the room for an interview with him.) where more info is typed on the card, the donor gets a bottle and a free shot of grapefruit juice. Back to the chairs again. First one, then the other up to the end of the line until the nurses and nurses aids were ready. To anyone who had been in the army and spent what seemed half his life in line, standing, that is, this chair business was fun. Rgstful, too. The actual blood-tapping, inside the curtain, was a pleasure. Lie down on a table, joke with the nurse, get a big smile from a cheerful nurses aid *(who knows when they jab your arm?) and by the time you've thought • up a clever remark, the bottle is full. A gracious gray lady is on hand to take the donor from the table to cot. Lie down again, rest ten minutes, up again for coffee or fruit juicet and cookies and the donor has it made. It was cool down there. No one got hurt, and some G I who stopped a commie slug in Korea will be eternally grateful. He can use that blood. / Most Precious Gift of 'All s they enter Affleck ball park, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Young are handed blood pledge cards by Nurses' id Mrs. Alyce Clark. Many donors were obtained this way for the next visit of the state's "blood-mobile" Monday at St. Joseph's Catholic churclu___ Givin' Blood's Sorta Like 'Musical Chairs'