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Show : SCHOOLS HOLD MARCH J OF DIMES ASSEMBLIES j i The Beaver County chapter of the National Foundation for . Infant' le Paralysis presented i two assemblies in Milford Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Jan. 5. Approximately the same program was present-i present-i ed for the high school and the t elementary pupils, i In the high school assembly i Jesse Long made an effective : talk urging pupils to support . the March of Dimes, stressing the importance of the work the ! National Foundat;on is doing, i This was followed by showing i of the film "They Shall Not Want," in which Helen Hayes was the narrator. The picture ', showed what is being done to help polio patients throughout the country and what needs to be done to further the work. Max Mecham, Beaver County Coun-ty chairman, talked on the importance im-portance of the drive. He told the students that much of the progress of the Foundation has been due to the loyal support of the boys and girls in the schools of America. At the grade school assembly, I in addit:on to showing of the film, ' jlks were made by Mr. Mecham and Mrs. LaRue Varley, Var-ley, Milford city chairman. Bo h congratulated the Milford Elementary school on being the 'fiist in Utah, and as far as could be learned first in the na-ticn, na-ticn, reporting 1200 partici-pat partici-pat on in the drive. ' Because of you," Mr. Mecham Me-cham said, "everyone in the country will hear of Milford. |