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ca's armed forces, There are 34 regional centres and 46 BUSINESS goen on as usual in this Portland, Ore., bank as a Red Cross mobile unit in the lobby collects blood for Ameri- mobile units now in operation under the national programme,

BEFORE she is allowed to donate blood, Mrs Allen Sears' blood Johnson. Since inauguration of the collection programme in pressure is checked by the mobile unit's staff nurse, Patricia 1943, more than 900,000 pints have been distributed.

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LIFELINE TO KOREA

WOUNDED Marine recuperating in'? Japanese hospital is alive trday because some American donated blood to the Red Cross. It might even have been his own wife. Sgt. Allen Sears was fighting in Korea when a bullet chopped him down. Near the front he was given whole blood that had been rushed by plane from the U. S. and by helicopter to mobile hospitals.

Doris Sears is a civilian nurse in Port- land, Ore., who feels that answering the call for blood is the most vital way she can sup-

port her fighting husband. She is recruiting other servicemen's wives to give, then givo again, of their blood. They are among the many thousands responding to the urgent plea for donors caused by the entrance of Hed Chinese troops into the Korean fighting.

Speedy and massive transfusions of whole) blood have proven extremely effective in combating shock suffered by the wounded. Often, it is administered under enemy fire. Whole blood has a short life, but its use is giving longer life to America's soldiers.,

Squeezing a place of wood to facilitate the flow of blood from her arm, Mrs. Sears rests quisily as a pint of the life-giving fluld drains into battle by the bed.

WOUNDED in Korea, Sgt. Allen Sears convalesces In Yoka» suka, Japan, hospital Blood, plasma andother blood deriva

A FEW HOURS after visiting donor contre, Mrs Seara watches whole blood being loaded on a plane at airport for, shipment to San Francisco. From there it will be flown to Korea.

tives are credited with having been a major factor in low! | death rate among servicemen, more than 97% surviving.

RETURNING to work as a nurse In the maternity ward of. In spare time, she calls and visits other servicemen Emanuel hospital, Mrs. Seare shows a proud father his baby:

recruiting them in her personal campaign to securo donors: