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Show Christmas Seals To Go In Mails Tuberculosis fighting Christmas Christ-mas Seals make their annual debut November 14 in Utah and across the nation. Mailing of the 1958 Christmas Seals weighing more than two tons, to homes throughout Utah has begun, according to Rolfe Peterson, KSL radio personality who is the Utah Christmas Seal chairman. It marks the 52nd annual sale of the seals. The first were sold in 1907 to raise $3000 for an experimental ex-perimental project in Delaware. At that time, tuberculosis was the nation's number one killer. "We have dramatically reduced re-duced the death rate since then," as Peterson said, "but unfortunately unfortu-nately as many people are getting i TB today as they did 20 years ago." Peterson urged each family to continue the tuberculosis , fight by answering their Christmas Seal letter with a contribution and by using the esals on their yuletide mail. The Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association, with its 15 county affiliates, depends for its funds entirely on this traditional once a year distribution of holiday holi-day distribution of holiday seals. Of every Christmas Seal dollar contributed, 94 cents is spent to finance the association's local programs in Utah. The remaining remain-ing 6 cents goes to the National Tuberculosis Association to support sup-port 40 current medical research projects and other work on a national scale. "Money raised by the seal sale helps to promote good health for all by fighting and preventing the scourge of tuberculosis both by finding and helping persons per-sons afflicted with the contagious disease and by financing medical research on its prevenaion and cure," said Peterson. |