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The Red Cross bloodmobile will be at the Warrenton Fire House on Thursday, January 30, between the hours of noon and 6 p.m., and the Fauquier Chapter of the Red Cross hopes to get 90 units (pints) toward a continuing and worrisome shortage of blood donations.
As reported widely in all media, blood donations have fallen throughout the Washington Blood Service Region, which encompasses Fauquier and Rappahannock counties. Because of the prevalence of respiratory diseases in winter, this time of year always sees a decline in the number of donors, Red Gross officials say. But this year the shortage of donors also seems to be linked to a fear that donors can contract AIDS or other blood-transmitted diseases.
This fear is having a disastrous effect on the voluntary blood program, Red Cross officials say. As any one who has ever donated blood knows, the needle used to draw the blood is promptly discarded when withdrawn. There is no record, Red Cross people emphasize, of anyone ever contracting any disease from the act of giving blood.
Through the' first of this • month, the Fauquier Chapter had collected only about, three-fourths of thp amount of blood it had been scheduled^ collect for the period. Only once, since the beginning of the fiscal year last July 1, has a bloodmobile in this area met an assigned quota; that was at Fauquier High School last October when the students exceeded the quota by a large margin, contributing 103 units against a quota of 85.
George Borjes, blood service chairman of the Fauquier Chapter, says many more such performances will be necessary in this area if the chapter is to meet its annual goal of 1300 units.
Social Security
earnings up
For Rappahannock County residents the maximum amount of earnings that counts for Social Security purposes increased to $42,000 for 1986, up from $39,600 in 1985, Bruce A. Hundley, Social Security manager in Culpeper, said recently. The increase is based on the change in average earning levels from-1984 to 1985.
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