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Volume 8, No, 12 LARGEST CIRCULATION | ae Ee we i Cg ee on L\ The Ball of the Year ~ the St. Martin's | faster Ball. will be held on ene night, April = at the High School Auditorium. For the bes' nights fun of the season, the Aanotne. "will get underway at 10:00 p.m. to music of of Novety, Old Time and Modern dances will sontinue until 2:00 a.m, The highlight of the evening's programme, of course, will be the choosing of the Queen of the Ball, Fun galore for all for the very reasonable charge of $1.50 per couple, For tickets you! may contact Lionel Waghorn, Gert Bougie, Ed Cavanaugh, Jim Corrigan, Hughie Boudreau or any member of St,.. Martin's Men's Club, st Toe Cie O-O0--O ae SEAL CAMPATGN C {PRIL 578 Every Easter Seat you buy and use is a message of hope for Ontario's 10,000 crippled ehildren,' And in addition surgical and nursing car slorious weeks of sunshine one of the Ontario Society:.for Crippled Children's three recreational summer camps. Billy,a 7-year-old polio case from Hemiiton who has both legs paralysed, was discovered three years ago by an 0.5.C.C. nurse and spent his third summer at Merry--- wood camp last July and August, experienced the brighest spot in his life when he was taken on one of their overnight hikes,..in the camp station wagon. He cooked his own meals over a fire he built himself and slept: out under the stars with his pals, The Ontario Society for Crippled Child- ren operates these three camps which are recognized by the Provincial Board of Health : as "convalescent hospitals." The equipment ata wad to proper medical: it may mean three : and happiness at (con't on page 6) the Vagabonds and a sombination | ' ment, | Cruickshank, | fellow, / A similar conmittee will be set up in i Sohreiber by the Kinsments Club, | absolutely free of charge. i matter who they are, i he said, ' available day or night, : at top speed, from the labs at Manitoba Red : Cross Centre, And it's ready, in the blood | bank, : country, turn out to clinics." : region got free transfusions, ' of 28 per cent over the corresponding i figure for 1951. Cross anticipates an increase owing to the Stewart pointed out, i eitts of plood, . two weeks; ca oa gee and facilities at each one are maintained and % hospital within that time, IN TERRACE BAY ee eee RED CROSS BLOOD DONER CLINIC Within a period of a jittle more than three years, the Red Cross blood transfusion ervice has become a vital part of the life of Northwestern Ontario, Douglas Stewart, Red Cross director of blood doner enlist- Said on a recent visit to Terrace Bay. Mr, Stewart was here to assist with plans for the first blood doner clinic to be ' held in the High School Auditorium, Tuesday May 12th, Members of the local committee arranging for the clinic are Mesdames Maitland, Hale ,Cavahiwigh,' Good- and Messrs, Borsum, Brady and Dalzell Mr. Stewart emphasized the fact that all hospital patients in this district will : get needed transfusions of blood and plasma "It doesnt % or where they come from, "if they need blood, that blood is seven days a week, because men and women, in town and Last year, 18,878 persons in this and increase This year, again, Red i fact that a number of large hospitals are | planning, or actually building, extensions, tend no matter how many doners we get," Mr, t we can use their Whole blood is kept for if it hasntt been called for by it is processed page 6) (cont. on