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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943
Eleven Women Donate to Blood Bank
University Students May Give Blood For Civilian Transfusions
If a great fire of Boston-proportions or a shattering explosion in a defense plant would disrupt the peaceful Kansas City area this weekend, the victims and injured persons would be rushed to Bell Memorial hospital for treatment and blood transfusions. And 11 pints of the blood the doctors would use to put new life into the suffering patients would have come from the 11 University coeds who donated their blood last Wednesday in Watkins Memorial hospital.
Eleven large hospitals are getting their own blood banks to use in civilian emergencies, and to that end Bell Memorial hospital in Kansas City has asked University students to donate one pint of their blood. Only 100 pints are needed from University students for civilian use, but steps are being taken by Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the Wattkins Memorial hospital, to get the Red Cross mobile blood-collecting unit to come to the campus within the next two months. The blood collected then will be used for military transfusions.
Denor Must Take Wassermann
Blood will be taken every Wednesday afternoon at Watkins Memorial hospital by Dr. C. J. Weber and Mrs. Pauline McPheeters, R.N. of the Bell Memorial hospital. Previous to giving the pint of blood, the donors must be given a Wassermann test to determine the purity of the blood. For this test a few ounces of blood are taken from a vein in the arm and studied under the microscope for the presence of aggregates of blood cells, which denote a positive test.
Virginia Detlor and Phyllis Boyle are the laboratory technicians
If the student has passed the Wassermann test, he may then give his blood to the bank. Last Wednesday only 11 girls were accommodated, but Dr. Weber said that next week the process would be speeded up because of increased efficiency on the part of those taking the blood. Plasma Kept For Six Months
The process for giving blood is simple. The donor is stretched out on a bed with one arm over his head and the other at his side. The arm extended above his head has a rubber blood pressure on it. After a short time that arm is brought down and the doctor draws out the blood from a vein in the bend of the elbow into a glass jar which has an anticoagulin in the bottom. When a pint of blood has been drawn from the vein, the process ends and the donor drinks orange juice and rests for a few moments. The time taken for the drawing of the blood and the rest period never exceeds 20 minutes.
The blood is taken to the Kansas City hospital where it is kept whole for five days and then the cells are separated and the plasma stored for six months. Whole blood will not keep for more than five days. Dr. Weber explained, but plasma lasts indefinitely. The future transfusions will be made from the plasma.
The blood will be typed, not to aid in transfusions because matching is not necessary with plasma, but to gather a list of persons who are group 4 or group zero, as the international type is commonly known,
who would sign up as prospective donors for emergencies and could be called on without making cross-matching necessary. In this way the blood could be taken from the donor and given to recipient in 20 minutes, often saving lives. Anyone giving their blood in Watkins Memorial hospital may find out the type of their blood by inquiring there about a week after the donation. Eleven Women Give Blood
Blood should not be given by the same person more than four times a year, Dr. Weber said, and not oftener than every three months. The loss of one-third of one's blood at a time will result in shock, and from one-half to two-thirds is fatal.
For last Wednesday's blood collection the hospital called 10 women's and 10 men's organized houses for donors. The 11 women who were taken last Wednesday were from these houses, and include; Kathleen Schmidt, business junior; Efie Lou Kelly, College freshman; Justine Peterson, fine arts junior; Mimi Nettles, College freshman; Mary Margaret Reynolds, College sophomore; Margaret Kreider, College sophomore; Mary Taylor, College junior; Marilyn Sweeney, fine arts freshman; Ruth Anna Bovaird, College junior; Alice Louise Brown, College sophomore, and Margaret Isabelle Benson, College senior.
Several of the women were interviewed after giving their blood and all expressed their surprise at the lack of pain and dizziness which accompanied the process.
Nurses Urgently Needed For War, McNutt Says
During the next year, one of America's most urgent needs will be for nurses. Paul V. McNutt, Mampower director, pointed out the other day that 65,000 young women must enter nursing schools between June 30, 1943, and July 1, 1944, "if even minimum civilian and military needs of the nation are to be met." This number exceeds the 1942-43 group by 10,000. Where state nursing laws permit, schools are being urged to reduce the usual period of training from three years to 30 months, or less.
Wisconsin senators and assemblymen will take over University of Wisconsin fraternity houses to combat the war housing shortage.
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One Pint --- In Two Steps
Ruth Anna Bovaird, College junior, is given her Wassermann test by Nurse Virginia Detlor at Watkins Memorial Hospital in preparation for giving blood for the civilian blood bank.
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Dr. J. J. Weber, assisted by Mrs. Pauline McPheeters, R. N., takes blood from donor Marilyn Sweeney, Fine Arts freshman, for the blood bank.
Students Used As Guinea Pigs Show Value of Movies
University students are used as guinea pigs for several Hollywood productions. When film companies have a show on their hands and are not sure what kind of a reception it will get, they often try it out in a small college city before releasing it in the large cities. Experience has taught the movie men that the taste in a city such as Lawrence is unfailingly good; that is, the shows which go over here are almost a cinch to draw big crowds throughout the country. there is a larger percentage of show go
Students at the University of Kansas buy approximately 5,000 theater tickets per week. This represents an average of more than a ticket a week for every student enrolled.
According to theater managers, a college campus offers an unlimited field for motion picture promotion, and movie men go all-out to establish good will and attract student patronage. In a city the size of Lawrence, the student attendance represents approximately 50 per cent of the total theater business.
Campus Offers Good Field
Students are a little more sophisticated than the average citizen, and it is usually very difficult to put anything over on them by use of the pre-show propaganda. This is one reason for the use of a college city as a test tube for movie drawing power, but another reason is the fact that theater managers know that
there is a larger percentage of show goers among students than can be found in any other class of people. Shows Tie In With Campus
Opportunities for movie production are multiplied tremendously on a college campus. The big thing about this kind of promotion is the immense number of campus activities which can be tied up with a current show. An excellent example of this in Lawrence was the show, "One Foot in Heaven," which was obtained to play here at the same time as a minister's conference on the campus had Norman Vincent Peale in town as principal speaker. This same Dr. Peale had been technical adviser for the production of the show.
The local theater management says that students prefer action pictures, with light musicals and comedies running a close second.
Briefs Submitted In Intercollegiate Radio Debate Contest
Dick Royer, College sophomore, and Arthur Nelson, College senior, selected by the College to represent the University in the Intercollegiate Radio Debates sponsored by the American Economic Foundation, have submitted briefs of their arguments to the judges and are now awaiting the results.
Judges will select the best 32 from the 261 students entered to speak on local radio stations of the Blue Network. Prizes offered in the contest range from a $1000 War Savings Bond and $250 cash to a $25 cash award.
Royer and Nelson were selected from the College on the basis of their previous experience, forensic ability, and general interest in the contest.
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