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SPEECH - MAKER FOR GIFTS—Mrs. Nicholas Kira Jr, directed PTA participation in the drive.

SHE'LL WEAR IT PROUDLY—Mrs. A. H. Kinz (left), Red Cross worker, fastens Mrs. Robert Bacon's donor pin,

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1951

. / . . : Minute Women's Drive Ends in Success:

Congratulations Offered to All Concerned

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©. Times Club Editor "JT"HERE are many kinds of thank you's—even many ways and languages in which it may be said. But sometimes there is 3 kind of thank you beyond expression. That's where we find ourselves today in relation to The Times’ Modern Minute Women. Since Oct. 3 hundreds of Indian-

have pledged to give gift pints of blood for GIs in Korea. They have devoted time, energy and talent for the blood drive.

THEIR OWN FEELING of having helped replenish precious life blood for fighting men in desperate need— of accomplishment in a project most. Agnes H. Ostrom worthwhile—probably far exceeds any outside manifestation,

But—to those women whose hard work has achieved an incomparable record The Indianapolis Times humbly offers its gratitude. And for wounded American boys to whom those blood gifts mean life itself—we add another thank you. They would want it that way we Know. For 30 days—Oct. 3 through Nov. 21—organized local women have shoved aside routine. Many completely revised tlieir daily chores. Between breakfast dishes and bedmaking they made innumerable telephone calls. Between their Susies’ and Johnnies’ quick lunches and homecoming from school they sandwiched door-to-door calls, meetings and automobile trips. One-dish dinners gained in popularity. » = » = » » AS DID RED CAB CO. they transported donors to and from Red Cross Blood Center and mobile unit operations in town. - And husbands—before they, too, caught the spirit— were tolerant of mother's constant conversation about “emergency need for blood,” “97 per cent of wounded men can be saved if blood and plasma is available on the front line,” “only a five-day supply in Korea.” Minute Women recruited the butcher, baker, banker and painter. They teamed with people whom they knew only

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TOP RECRUITERS—Mesdames Walter L. Eidson, Harold H. Shepherd and Merril E. Richison (left to right) led Wayne Township Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary, No. 9, to victory.

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JUNIOR LEAGUERS LEARN—Miss Gretchen Terrell RN, ‘Mrs. Robert Fortune and Mrs. William L. Schroeder (left to right).

slightly before.. And discovered a blood battle was a common denominator here as well as in Korea.

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THEY LABORED WITH dedicated purpose. They proved to an entire nation Indianapolis women are fivestar leaders. . Employing every resource they told and retold a storywof crucial need. They threw into high gear a response of an awakened citizenry that will travel far long after they are out of the driver's seat. To the presidents and chairmen of winning clubs goes special tribute. There is Mrs. Walter L. Eidson, chairman of the Wayne Township Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary No. 9, 1st Battalion group, which scored highest with 225 per cent in the drive; her cochairman, Mrs. Merril

‘E. Richison, and the auxiliary president, Mrs. Harold H.

Shepherd " » » Woe ~ =" THERE ARE THE leaders of other “battalion winners—Mrs. C. G. Weigand, Alpha Delta Latreian Club. 2d Battalion, president; Mrs. Walter L. Minger, School 33 PTA. 3d Battalion, president; Mrs. David Saxton. School 73 PTA, 4th Battalion, president: Mrs. Edward W. Harris Jr. and Mrs. Robert M. Smith, Indianapolis Junior League, 5th Battalion, president and drive chairman: Mrs. Logan Kinnett! School 54 PTA, 6th Battalion president, and Mrs.>John P. Montbrun, president, and Mrs. George Evard, drive chairman, Indianapolis Deanery, National Council of Catholic Women, 7th Battalion. There is Mrs. Nicholas Kira Jr., who headed the drive for the Indianapolis PTA Council, which scored three battalion winners There is Mrs. H. I. Hasbrook, president. and Mrs. C. B. LaDine, drive chairman, Indianapolis Council of Women. Some 70 council groups were enlisted in the drive.

» » » » ” » AND BY RESOLUTION the council has made “operation blood” one of its permanent projects as long as the need overseas and at home is crucial. There is Mrs. W. O. Cass, who charted the highly successful John Strange School mobile unit operations and her cochairmen, Mrs. Ralph Urbain and Mrs. A. H. Gardner. There is Mrs. Leonard E. Pearson, who is in charge

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"'OBILE UNIT EQUIPMENT —Mrs. E. K. Shreve RN, Mrs. Leonard E. Pearson and Mrs. Earl Pipher (left to right), J

NCCW BLOCK CANVASS—Mrs. Edward W. Schneider (left) and Mrs. Roscoe Perry covered South and West Indianapolis.

DRIVE MATERIAL—Mrs. W. Carleton Starkey supplied Mesdames W. O. Cass, Ralph Urbain ond : A. H. Gardner (left to right) for the John Strange School's operation.