i 23 someone who gets {s very safe because the Red Cross 16 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, July 27, 1994 Blood B22 , (continued from page 1) : (continued from page 10) which he found in a travel folder. Sharpe was surprised but pleased when Barney called and asked, “Where the heck is Frances Slocum?” ~The retired Shavertown resi- dent has also been a Red Cross volunteer for the past six years. Chadwick's first blood dona- “tion was a direct transfusion toan “aunt with cancer during the early 1940s. ~ “Inadirect transfusion, you lie ~onahighbed and the patient is on ‘alower one. They keep you hooked “up until you turn white and the patient turns red,” he joked. Chadwick said that giving blood Other crew members anx- ious to make the scene (and talk and talk) were Lt. John Byrne, navigator from the Jersey shore and an ex-VP of Lipton Tea; Capt. C.D. Adams, pilot from Houston; and Claude Smith, radio operator, Gunnersville, Alabama. Lamar Sharpe, then flight engineer and now a virile, white-haired 70, spent 15 years in sales for the Blue Ribbon Cake Company and then was district sales man- ager for Interstate Brands when they bought Blue Rib- bon. He retired early and ran his own service garage in Nanticoke. Then seven years ago he sold the business and retired again, but it's impos- sible to tell that because he has kept busy ever since, man- aging a number of properties. Sharpe was married 43 years ago to Mary Catherine McGuire of Edwardsville - she is called “Kate” - and they have one son, Chris, who at 38 just “Nancy must have good blood. Maybe -~ it will inherit a smile from her.” Sy Chadwick Red Cross volunteer has the latest tests and an excel- lent screening process for blood- borne diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis. “You have tobe careful, though, that if you have had a flu shot, that you wait a good two months to give blood. Sometimes the flu shot makes the AIDS test give a Chris is a Psychiatric Techni- cian for the Northeast Coun- seling Service and has twin daughters, Rachel and Beth, 3 1/72. Their grandma Kate has “had it up to here with this reunion.” One day recently when she was going out Lamar asked her when she would be back. “In about a week,” she replied. “When this thing is over!” There would have been no shortage of subjects to hash over at this momentous reun- ion. Sharpe, who was on 35 missions — equal to 250 combat hours — remembers a time when their plane was shot up so badly they had to crash land it. Fortunately there was a tiny emergency field on an equally tiny island. They barely made it, landing safely except for Lt. Byrne who was hit in the leg and had to be hospital- ized. Another time when they were based at Foggia, they were hit so badly they could tell the plane was about to go out of control. They couldn't bail out because although the damaged bomb bay doors hung open, undelivered bombs were in the false positive reading,” he said. “People get angry when we tell them this, but we have to. If you have a false positive AIDS test, youu can never give blood again.” The next community blood drive will be August 2, from 1-6 p.m. at the Fellowship Free Evangelical Church on Hildebrant Road near Dallas High School. “It's our first time there,” Chad- wick said. “We chose that site because it's air conditioned.” Local employers have also joined forces to help make sure that there's enough blood to go around, forming the Back Moun- tain Business/Industry Blood Services Council, which organ- izes blood drives every six weeks. . “Many large local employers - C-Tec, ENCON, Offset Paperback and American Asphalt - send people down,” said member JoAnn M. Eckrote. “We'd like to see more employers participate — there's always a need.” + Summer and holidays are times when blood supplies can run low, while demand remains the same or increases slightly, according to Nancy Carmon, director of com- munications for the Red Cross Blood Services center. “Nearly 20 percent of our blood collections come from high school and college students, who aren't in town during these times,” she said. ' Because blood products have a relatively short shelflife, they must be constantly replenished or re- placed, Carmon said. While frozen plasma can last up to a year, red cells are good for only 35 days and platelets for five days. ~The Red Cross presently has limited supplies of five of the eight blood types, because of the sum- mer slow season, Carmon said. Types O positive and O nega- tive are in greatest demand. O negative may be given to nearly anyone, while O positive can be given to anyone with a positive blood type. The Red Cross also stocks the rarer types of A negative, B nega- tive and AB negative. but there isn't a great demand for them. Carmon said. received his degree from LCCC way. “This was nothing,” where he was named “Out- Sharpe says. “Several crew standing Student of the Year." members lay down and kicked fussy an aireraft, the end that flying the bombs free. These were kids, reckless kids at that. But they made the best gunners because they didn't give a ‘hoot’ for anything.” (Sharpe does not say anything about him- self!) Everyone bailed out of that crisis okay, only to land in a plowed field in enemy-occu- pied Yugoslavia. However, they an entergency ror) jump from ertifivate ix begtowed to is mafety medium in the art be furthered. Aol fel arr CATERPILLAR CLUB were quickly rescued by parti- san women and hidden on a nearby farm. Then, because their opened chutes had been spotted by a passing C-47, and reported, they were rescued and back in action with an- other plane in only two days. Club.” Their certificates read, “whose life was spared because of an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft, it is bestowed to the end that this safety medium in the art of flying may be furthered.” Their certificates were signed by none other than the president of Switlik Parachute Company, Mr. Harold L. Fos- ter, and it goes without saying that all of Sharpe's crew members, without exception, agreed most fervently that Switlik made an excellent product. Another memento Sharpe prizes is from the place he and his crewmen spent a week, soaking up coveted “R&R.” All G.I.s pray for R&R but alldon't manage to get any. It means “Rest and Recuperation. And since the Air Force always did know how to do things right, their rest center just happened to be on the Isle of Capri. And so the 830th Bomb Squadron, of the 485th Bomber Group, of the 15th Air Force of the United States, Lt. General Ira C. Eaker, com- manding, graced the Back Mountain with their presence last week, and guys, we know you had a ball. Come back again. That bailout made Sharpe and the others honorary members of the “Caterpillar Nearly everyone can give blood Many people who want to donate blood mistakenly think that they can’t because of medication or health conditions. Generally anyone in good health - even those on medications - may give blood, as long as they're 17 years old and weigh at least 105 lbs. Even persons diagnosed with diabetes may give blood, as long as their sugar levels are stable, according to the Red Cross Re- gional Blood Services Center. The only basic restriction is that a person can give only one unit (pint) of blood every 8 weeks. The greatest myth is that blood donors can catch AIDS or other blood-borne diseases at a blood drive, according to Nancy Car- mon, director of communications at the blood services center. “Statistics show that 25 percent of the population still mistak- enly believes that you can catch AIDS by donating blood,” she said. “That's impossible. All of our needles, bags and tubes are dis- posed of after use. Nothing is recycled.”, Donating blood is easy, free and relatively painless; however certain people may not donate blood. Blood donations from people with the following conditions are refused: * Anyone who has had radiation or chemotherapy treatments for cancer within the past five years. * Anyone who has had hepatitis, which can be passed through the blood. e Anyone taking antibiotics. « Anyone who has donated blood within the past 8 weeks. * Anyone who has had a tattoo or blood transfusion within the past year. Also, wait at least two months after receiving a flu shot, which can sometimes give a false positive test for disease. Potential donors with questions may ask their family doctors or call the Red Cross Regional Blood Services Center at 823-7164 for more information. cancer, hemophilia and trauma “I'd recommend it to patients. anyone. It’s easy. And they give you goodies afterwards.” Nancy Gruver 5 gallon blood donor The center supplies blood to 41 hospitals in 19 northeastern Pennsylvania counties and two counties in New York's southern tier. “Thinking that just once you may have helped a sick baby or someone who needed blood by giving blood — maybe you did your The Red Cross Blood Services part,” Nancy said. 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