Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1951 — Page 2
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mace 2 ~The Drive
C44 py JAMES DANIEL iptv Beripps-Howard Stall Writer
: WASHINGTON, Sept. 25— The nation's biggest blbod-capable of donating blood—pain-
donor program is getting under way to meet a critical
of life-saving plasmal__ to donate more often than once|
needed by the Armed Services. TE EHer of plasm ho pi retained after VJMuch of 8 that a or appeared probable. » «Lately new blood donations from the public have fallen below the monthly rate at which blood or blood plasma Was in. Korea, 4
qf Unless more ‘blood is donated, be reached. That is less than oney Americans wounded half of one percent of the popula~ ‘Korea could die from lack of tion.
and quickly, this life-saving substance.
; | ; Cleye-~ _ Responsible military leadersiy,., nave to be increased. When- 4 n, Ci \ reistent rumors that| wb wm 01s decide that an 2nd and Columbus. In addition
there abe blood Cincinnat!, Indianapolis, Memphis, Ft. Worth and Pittsburgh, which will - receive blood dona-
here deny gome Wo! cause of nt. Bui from new Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett down, they all ‘consider as critical the absence of an adequate reserve. To meet the crisis, the Defonsg ent has set a goal ©o hly 75,000 pints of blood a 300,000 monthly—looking toward the collection of 2.8 million pints before next July 1. This is in addition to the collection of blood for civilian pur
« Without a major change in pubAle. attitudes, the Armed Services won't get anything like this amount. id December, when the Chihad just intervened in Korea ; {a feeling was running , the services obtained 110,000 fs of blood. March was ano th when the war seemed real
men had died be-
Was over, 40,000 pints.
1s On—
S. Blood B in Critical S
War has exhausted |g year. And each donation is only a which thela pint, This is far below the avDay. erage person’s capacity for manuwas diverted {facturing new blood. hospitals when worldimany donors say they feel better
being used donate blodd at the permitted freuency, the services’ goal would
ae Sn es Cross has 43
lack of blood at thei. ,irements for blood reserves
g thst he cease-fire talks
'sponse from the public’ although almost anybody who is not in noticeably poor health, or who has not had a blood disease, is
lessly and at the sacrifice of only an hour's time or less. Nobody is asked—or permitted|
every eight weeks, or five times
In fact,
after making a blood donation. Small ‘Percent Needed
plasma, the clear, yellowish fluid |
icells.
should be typed before it's given. But dried plasma. keeps virtually indefinitely. It takes 2.4 pints of whole blood to yield a pint of
which is thé vehicle for the blood |
Clark Demands
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On Welfare Issue
GOP mayoralty nominee, last night to take a public stand on the welfare issue. “The legislature was called into special session five days ago to handle one of the most important issues Indiana has had in years but not once has the Mayor let
Eight Laboratories ‘Bight big commercial labora- |
torfes in this country process blood ‘donations for plasma and other blood derivatives, a
the public know his feelings on the subject,” Judge Clark said at a meeting at 54234 Indiana Ave, “Pm a Republican and I'm with my party and I'm for home in public welfare,” Judge Clark
Itsis planned tha these lahora- said. “Federal aid means federal
tories shall Teceive 150,000 pints of blood a month from centersijgtyre exposed the dictation and |established at military camps and | .ontrols pase extravagant spendinstallations, collecting both from ing for welfare when it repealed
If only 560,000 persons would =ilitary peronnel and civilian em-
Later, the number of donors
atomic attack is imminent, the
will run into the several millions of pints.
ployees., : ~
banks in cities such as New York,
e 53 co-operating private banks in cities such ‘as
But right now the emphasis 18itions for the Defense Department.
{just on building up the Armed Services’ military reserves, serfously depleted by the war in Korea, to the level necessary for the present 3 million men under arms, Among the many valuable lessons that have come from the Korean War is the realization that the possibilities of saving the lives lot the wounded are greater than anybody had supposed. In World War I eight of 11 men, out of 100,
Also sorhe cities have “defense centers’ where blood is collected.
‘Wherever the blood is donated,
if it's intended to be converted to plasma, it will go to one of the big commercial processing laboratories, Two of these are. at Los Angeles. The others are at Berkeley, Cal, Ft Worth, Indianapolis, West Point, Pa., Kalamazoo, Mich, and New Brunswick,
who survived until they werell: J. Their monthly capacity is
taken to the most forward surgical station died anyway. : In World War II, four or five of those who ‘got that far still didn’t pull through. In Korea the ratio of such deaths has been only 2.6 out of every 100. In part this is due to the greater use of blood from civilian donors. For the first time,
the United States to a war front.| longs Whole blood must be refriger- age of ated. After 21 days it's thrown! away. And the person receiving it of
utoist Followed,
night he was beaten and robbed
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by ive young men, four of thems
about 300,000 pints.
The blood that is intended to
be used whole is shipped directly to Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Cal, and then to Korea.
During World War II the pub-
lic gave 13 million pints of blood. Many servicemen lived because of
those donations. After the war
1 8 liquor store at 611 MassaAve., Henry Carroll said ; A dirty’ white hat d a bottle of whisky, paid , then threatened him
- Joseph M 30, of 5149 W. fo ‘when LeGrande Ave. said a soldier|h led the cash register and iasked him for & ride as he left/demanhded: “Give me all the a tavern on Kentucky Ave. The money.”. He took $24. ay ‘other men followed 10 ‘as- er, i ote a and Ind or he = i [Ex=Valet for FDR Dies
WANT A JOB AS GOOD AS HARRY EAKIN'S?
Abc Fi a are openings for the right v don't need ex perienve. We'll train you . and PAY YOU WHILE YOU'RE LEARNING. You con earn a fine liv-
“The 500.”
retire from racing.
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 25 (UP)— George Henry Slee, 82, personal valet for the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt before and
tion and control. The legis-
the secrecy clause last winter.” i Fighting for Principle’ 5 “yd much Tather lose an election fighting for & principle of government than to win on a wishy-washy stand such as my opponent apparently has. ; “Several weeks ago when Mayor Bayt's fellow Democrat, Oscar Ewing, cut off Indiana's welfard funds, the Mayor acted incensed,” Judge Clark said. “The Mayor said he would call out the city's entire legal staff to help fight the battle. : “He said at that time Mr. Ewing’s action was ‘illegal and capricious.’” But now he has gone silent and the voters don’t know whether he's with Washington or Indiana on this showdown.”
‘Super Cow Special’
Due Here Oct. 7
Indianapolis will play host
Carrying into State Fair Grounds 1
Dairy tion,
the Waterloo Dairy Co
on the nation’s rails.
Confessed Slayer Called ‘Bad Name’
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stick last December.
a bad name.”
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. Meet Harry Eakin . . . a native Hoosier. Born in Spencer and raised "in the vicinity of Speedway City, Indianapolis, Harry got the racing bug early in life. All during his youth, he dreamed of winning
After his honorable discharge from the Army Air Force in 1945, he started driving on the local and midwestern tracks. Six months later he switched to midget cars and toured the AAA circuit in the midwest, Florida, and California. However, in 1949, he decided to
Because he is a friendly person, Harry thought he'd like to sell. After investigating many types of selling jobs, he finally went with Sun Life Insurance Company of America, because Sun Life pays a salary and commission (as well as paying trainees). Today Harry Eakin is earning a fine living, as one of the mainstays of Sun Life’s Indianapolis office. He is happily married to the former Dorothea (“Toni”) Stinson. : ri Harry still gets a tremendous thrill out of watching “The 500” each year, but he says he wouldn't trade places with the winner,
Impossible to Separate Twins Joined ter Vows 'Undying Care’
ver that either
again this year to the “Super Cow| Special.” :
1000 head of prized! cattle, the special train will roll/
docks Oct. 7 for the International
All the bovine beauties will be coming from Waterloo, Ia.; where 48 held the week before the Exposit- |tion. ‘This Waterloo train anmually carries more purebred dairy cattle than any other single trip
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 5 (UP)—A cross-eyed newspaper carrier whom police called “mentally unbalanced” was held! for murder here today after ad-! mitting that he beat 10-year-old: Roger Folwell to death with a!
{ Robert W. Nelson, 33, told oficers he beat the boy senseless and left his body covered with leaves in an overgrown, canalside lot last Dec. 6. He said he attacked young Folwell with a stick when: the child “called me
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At Heads, Mo
: By United Press i ROCK ISLAND, 111, Sept. 25-— Doctors decided today that jt would be impossible to separate Siamese twin boys, born joined at the top of their heads, and their
his opponent, Judge ‘Alex Clark’ guef-stricken mother vowed to
“love and care for them” as long as they live, j ® Dr. 8. P. Durr, who attended at the birth of the twins Sept. 186, said X-rays and other tests had shown it is “surgically impossible to operate” to separate them. “The tests proved that the infants have the same circulatory system and a common general
nervous system,” he said. “If an 0] were performed, it is
vive” . be oi Dr. Durr said the same blood apparently flows through the tiny brothers, their hearts pumping it through ‘their bodies through veins at the point where their heads join.
Take Babies Home "The twins’ mother, Mrs, Ray
would sur-
-{ Brodie, 29, East Moline, Ill, said
she would take the twins home rather than place them in an institution. : ; : “I'm. going to keep them with me always,” she said. “I'm going to love and care for them as well
Mrs. Brodie was a registered nurse before her marriage. She graduated from St. Anthony's Hospital, where the twins were born, in 1943 and worked as a nurse in several hospitals here for three years... . “I know it's going to be a hard job and a terrible responsibility but. I just can't give up my babies,” she said. The Brodies live in a 34-foot trajler with their three other ¢hildren, the oldest of whom is seven, ang. Mr, Brodie’'s sister, Maxine, 6.
‘we'll Make Out’ Mr. Brodie, 34, is a truck driver grasbumsher at a local packing-
use. : “For the present, we'll have to go on lying in the trailer,” Mrs. Brodie said. “It'll be crowded but we'll make out somehow. “We own a house at Burnside, Ill, 100 miles south of here but we have to stay here as long as this i& where Roy works.”
out their lives. “IN! be a 24-hour task, but I don’t mind.” she said. ;
as I can as long as I live.”
(UP)—Two tough prisoners were back in solitary confinement to-
by prying the bars off a cell door with iron pipes from their bunk.
ward McCallion,
Escape Foiled, 2 Put in Solitary.
ST. JOSEPH, -Mich., Sept. 25 rape of two small girls, one in Pass Those of Women
Mrs. Brodie said she would have sore help from- Maxine in caring for the twins who, doctors said, will be virtually helpless through-
Mrs. Brodie said her other children were still too small to help
much in the house chores but that as they grew they aiso could aid her In caring for the twins. . Dr. Durr said it appeared that the \twins had an “excellent chance” to survive. They have already left the hospital nursery and rest on a fullsize infants’ bed in another ward.
Plan Special Bed
can take them Home Friday or Saturday and we're getting ready for them as well as we can,” Mrs. Brodie said.
gnts have made plans for “a special bed” to hold the twins in th
make it easier to care for them. “They've gone so far as to plan how to make the babies comfort-
scribed good babies” whose bodies func. tion independently. One can sleep when moved.
causes pain or discomfort at the point where they are joined.
Men's ‘Beauty’ Costs
8 car and the other a baby sitter. g,yx 3 AKE CITY (UP)—The
day after attempting to escape Potter was urfier arrest for for-|
gery and passing bad checks.
{census bureau reports that men
Berrien County has a new $900, SPend more money annually in
Ill, and Archie Potter, 28, Van-|iff Kubath said he was alerting couver, Wash., were nabbed be-ihis deputies to take extra
pre-|
Sheriff Erwin Kubath said Ed-|{000 jail which will be ready for Utah barber shops than women 25, Centralia, occupancy in a few months. Sher-|
{do in beauty parlors. The aver-
TUESDAY, SEPT
“Phe doctor said we probably
Her sister-in-law said the par-|
trailer and are assembling i | “complete wardrobe of speciallymade baby clothes” ‘which will
the twins today as ‘very
while the other is awake and cry-| ing but they wince or cry out and those who will in public
Attendants ‘ believe movement
is pint
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25, LT
Lo Toi
For All
The Indianapolis Church, Fede eration will sponsqr. & luncheon meeting for all faiths to further integrity in government and among public,
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Brown Harris, chaplain of the United States Sen+
: Ha ate and minister of the Foundry, able LE 5 automobile,” Miss un FF ie Nn Washington, Nurses ‘at St. Anthony's de-|D-,.Cs Will speak on: YBeyond
Polities.” a Dr. Howard J. Baumpgurtel, executive secretary of the Church Federation, said: RAT 2 “We want {o impress the citizens
office of the value citizenship, righteousness, morality and justice in public affairs.’ We want them to know that public officials who take a. firm stand for the right will have the backing of the leadership of all religious faiths."
Errol Flynn to Appeal |
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (UP) |Dashing film star Errol Flynn \planned today to appeal to’ the
{State Supreme Court to modify {a property settlement with his
age annual barber shop receipts gst wife, Lili Damita, which y 9. fore they could leave the jail. |cautions’against escapes from the! amount to $1,705,000 compared says will cost him ne, in Sh Be McCallion was held for thelold building.
|with $1,142,000 fer beauty parlors. \miding taxes than he ‘earns,
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