THURSDAY AUGUST 17,» 1967
PAGE 11
CENTRAL POINT TIMES
MOLLY A N ' MK
LIFE SAVING
BLOOD
Twenty years ago, as ann
iversary articles recall, a F r
ench ship exploded causing Am
erica’s greatest peacetime fire
dlsater at Texas City. Hospi
tals and community blood bank’s
in many states rushed blood and
Cont next Col
FAIRNESS PROPOSED.
At long last, a bill has been
introduced in Congress which
would
require
government
agencies to quit accusing ind
ustry
of misdeeds through
one-sided press releases. Sen
ators Long and Dlrksen have
proposed the legislation as a
result of their concern over the
practice of certain government
agencies of issuing 'damning
press releases - - prim arily
for the purpose of trying their
cases in the newspapers.* The
Dirksen - Long
bill would
require the agencies to give the
accused • an equal opportunity
to publicize his comments at
the same time and in the same
document in which the agency
publicity was issued.*
Writing in the Independent
Petroleum Monthly, Lloyd N.
Unsell declares that the bill is
a good idea, but it should go
further and provide and oppor
tunity for accused industry also
to sit in on secret government
"press briefings* called by un
identified government “spokes
men* to put accusations before
a few select newspapers. At
such briefings, reporters are
usually forbidden to Identify the
spokesmen or to use direct
quotations. M r. Unsell observed
that it was in one of these
secret briefings that the federal
government turned the spotlight
of publicity on the • . . . greedy
insensitive
oil Industry for
raising the price of gasoline
a penny.”
There was no opportunity for
oil Industry “spokesmen* to
accompany th e government
press release with an explana
tion that the price of gasoline
excluding taxes is the same in
1967 as it was in 1957 -1 0 years
ago - - while the rplce of nearly
every
other commodity and
service has risen in the same
period. Nor was there a chance
to explain that state and federal
taxes add about 50 per cent to
the price the consumer pays for
gasoline. At least the bill in
troduced by Senators Long and
Dlrksen is a step in the direct-
• ion of halting the unbridled
abuse of private citizens by
public servants.
SX,. ITCHING?
accreditation system. Most im
portant, it has organized a na
tional clearinghouse system for
the exchange of blood and blood
credits in which the Red Cross
cooperates. This permits blood
given locally to be credited to
a patient in a distant city and
enable thousands to save on
medical expenses.
But, before blood can be used
tains in Chicago a central file
of rate blood donors. This file
has saved the lives of many
Americans and ill patients in
other countries by finding rate
matching blood when needed.
It has a system of regional
laboratories
for identifying,
rare blood types. It has estab
lished standards for blood banks
and a voluntary inspection and
plasma to the 3000 injured. As
an example of how good can
sometimes result from ill, the
institutions Involved later or
ganized the American Associa
tion of Blood Banks with a
view toward being better pre
pared for any future disaster.
The Association, which now has
4,025 members in the 50 states
and 25 foreign countries, main
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