Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1951 — Page 2

' '--4 1 ‘ . i , — WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1961

Operation Blood Lift Takes Blood TojGl's

(American Junior Red Cross v ; ; Journal) ~ Three times & week. . small red _ Stinson plane takes off from Santa Clara airport for Travis air force base, California. The cargo—blood tor Americas fighting men. Dispatcher for this aktaxi is the Red Cros* regional Mood coatwr at Fan Jose. Calif., seven miles from Sant*= C.ara airport, where blood is collected from a four-cownty area, processed, and sent on its way by fastest transportation available—ajr freight. Forty-five minutes later the blood is stowed aw*ay safely in the refrigerators .-‘'at Travis, awaiting the. next trans- • port flight overseas. ■ Across the nation, other Red Cross Mood centers with their chapters that participate through mobile unit vi«it»-~«’’ 0 also sending shipments to Travis by ait. I. Motor uTUuks ana goe , valuable assistance ferryine blood . from collection centers to airports, but air transportation is the by which whole h ood can be delivered \la time. A dating period of only 3 weeks ts ! sgfe for whole blood. That’s 1 21 days from the time it is donated la Hartford, Wichita, or Savannah. - (or Fort’Wayne’s center which in- 1 ■ Decatur)’, until it is-admin-j=tered to a GI ilFJapan, Korea, or some other faraway place. - Travis air force base is the hub of this fast service. There the blood —already double-checked in the Red Cross laboratories —Is rechecked for bipod group and Rh, , repacked- re-iced, and shipped so I that it arrives at its destination i with at least 10 days left if its dating period. y . Only group "O" is Merit overseas. Any person, regardless of his inherited b:oo£ group, may be £iveu “O” ffiithout reaction. For this < tvver-d|pusefulne*s. it is called the *'univ«rXal” group. "The usual crossmatching itest, performed in ' the hospital by matching the donated blood with that of . the re- I cipient, is replaced by the super- • safety quadruple laboratory check-ing-before shipping overseas. This saves valuable time in surgery when seconds may meanli.>? to a man wounded ini combat Carrying blood to the battlefronts is one of the important, duties of the military air transport , service. Since ‘the Korean trouble started not a single pint has becpme outdated by delay in delivery. inside the giant bellies of the planes, the boxes are slacked PHONO RECORDS J The New Top Two “THE LITTLE WHITE CLOVD THAT CRIED” backed with “CRY” Johnnie Ray “THE LORD’S PRAYER" . Y Amos and Andy i . backed with T “LITTLE BITTY BABY" Get Them At H PUBLIX

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.top to bottom, side to sicle, and lashed down with heavy rope. Sd careful is the\handling that breakage is practically nil. 4 The first stop is Honolulu where the cases are opened and the blood re-iced. A temperature of 4 to 10 degrees centrigrade keeps blood fresh and medically sterile. At Wake lahmd there’s another stop andafter that. Tokyo. There the Mood is unloaded and-refrigerated awaiting transfer to the front, again by air. Less than 36 hours flying time have elapsed since the Oiane left Travis, more than 6.9 M miles away. ' . At the fighting perimeter, the blood is relayed in from medical uKpensarias, Jeep trailers carry it in field .refrigerator* to tent hos-pitals. Helicopters- rush it to mobile units close behind combat lines. 7 In Korea,»nl every 10Q patients raeching the ; most forward surgical -hospitals, only 2.6 have died subsequently. tn' World War 11, that figure was 4.5 per hundred. In World War L the figure was 8 to Id. This means that of every 109 wounded; in Korea, 6 more live today that would have during World War I. % Military Surgeons credit blood with a major role in this success story. ... Thanks to the blood lift, the <»ost personal gift from home gets to our fighting men in time. pleads Guilty Io Slaying Parents Railroader Admits 'Mercy Slayings' Laramie, Wyo., Dec. 26-—(UP>— A 28-y ear-old railroad worker was held without bond today after he pleaded guilty to the ChristaniH \ eve "mercy” slayings of lus parents "because my father had trouble .breathing and my mother was going blind.” ' Dean Henderson told officers here he shot and killed his mother Mrs. E:hel Henderson. 64, as she '.sit among gaily wrapped Christmas gifts bn a couch. / Then he shot and killed his 62-ysai-old father; John, and dragged his body into the bedroom. . h •The double-slaying was discovered by the stocky wife, Lucille, and his siven year-old daughter. as they returned home from a Christmas eve c! nrch service. Officers fixed the time of the two shootings atahout 7 or 8 p.m. "Dad was ill and had trouble breathing,” Henderson told sheriff fed Burnstad. ; “I wanted to help out, but I just couldn't stand the thnbght of Mom living alone without Dad)’’ he said. Henderson told the officers that his asthmatic father "was going to • die anyway.” \ I Officers, said Henderson showed little emotion as he described how He shot both his parents through the. head with a’ heavy caliber rifle. Burnstad said investigators found unopened Christmas packages heaped under a gaily decorated tree 4jjd a Christmas turkey in the refrigerator. Young Henderson was found asleep hi his cabin behind the modest Henderson home. . Motor Courts In W?. there were only 600 motor courts to the whole nation. Today there are 20,000 motor courts with an average 22 room* to each root \'

— —— Dies In Florida Thurman A. Gottschalk, former prominent Berne resident, a for* met state representative and state senator, ta’er president of the state weTare board, died Christmas eve at his winter home in Miami, Fla. ■ President Working On Budget Message Quiet Christmas By . Truman Arid Family ■-y • ■ Independence. Mo., Dec. 36. — (UP>—President Truman put a restful Christmas holiday behind him today and buckled down to the final details of (his budget message to congrees. The chief executive, rested and apparently cheerful after two quiet days at home with his family, was expected to put in most of the day on the knotty problem of the 1952national defense budget. Informed sources indicated that, it the final word on the size of the . whopping military spending for the ( coming fiscal year will not bede- . cided uhtil Mr. Truman’s confer* . ence with budget and defense oft fleials in Washington Friday afternoon. i Shortly after the traditional tur- . key dinner at home with his family - yesterday, the chief executive turn- : ed his.attention ,to tentative drafts of his state of the union and budget ■ message for the new congress next I.month.\ J . Both are due early in the session • which opens Jan. 8. j Otherwise it was a quiet whit® I Christmas for the nation’s fjrst ? famKy. \ 1 ‘ * Ley weather, produced \by alter--1 nating freeing mist and occasional" • sunshine, combined to. produce a “ glistening coat oh the frozen snow: The slippery sidewalks forced the president to forego bis customary ■ early morning walk yesterday. 1 He also slept a little beyond his • usual early ntorning rising hour. But after he was up. he breakfasted ’ with his family and then joined in the customajy opening of gifts 1 aigjund the big lighted Christmas tree. ’ Later, he stepped, outside to greet secret service men on duty around ! the house and walked Across the ' slippery street to exchange , and greetings with a cousin. Miss Ethel Noland. ? County Officials Planning Annual \ Year-End Party All Adams county officials and ( court \ house employes will hold their annual yepr-end party at the 1 court house Monday afternoon. As Is the usual custom tables will be ket up in the first floor corridor and refreshment? will be served. ' Two cbtmty officials win start second terms the following da”. . Edward J. JaJierg. clerk of Adams circuit \ court will commence a I second four-year term and Richari’ Lewton. county treasurer, will begin a second two-year term. y. All other county officials are, holdovers; With tie exception otf the annual January 1 meeting bi j the county commissioners, there . will be little other official activltv in the court house January 1. The clerk and treasurer will be sworn in for second terms, but none of the offices will be open for buate ness. ' . “ " | . . ! / _ Psi lota Xi; “Snow Ball” BARCE i Burton C. Schlie Orchestra FRIDAY DECEMBER 28 9;00 to j2:00 ■ i \ at the ' . MOOSE HOME ' ' V $2.00 per Couple

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