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Show Easter Seals Go Into the Mails To Aid Handicapped Counting on the luck of the Irish to help them accomplish their goal, 187,000 sheets of 1960 Easter Seals went into the mails on St. Patrick's Day carrying a "Please Help Us" plea from crip- pled children to homes in Utah. The mailing was the first step in the month-long appeal conducted con-ducted by the Utah Society for Crippled Children and Adults to raise funds for continuing and expanding services to the handicapped handi-capped in Utah. It will continue through Easter Sunday, Apr. 17. Ted Cannon, general chairman for the drive is urging all Utahns to watch for their Easter Seals and to respond to the appeal. Easter Seal contributions provide pro-vide the main financial support to the state's three treatment centers cen-ters in Salt Lake, Ogden, and Provo. A vocational rehabilitation rehabilita-tion workshop, opened in Salt Lake last July, is also supported by Easter Seal donations. Goal for the 1960 campaign is $40,000.00. The 1960 letter includes a message mes-sage from David Kelley, age 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Kelley Kel-ley of Ogden. David is Utah's 1960 Easter Seal child. He is at this time a patient undergoing corrective surgery at one of the state's children's hospitals. The Easter Seal appeal is being conducted simultaneously by the 1,655 state and local affiliates of the National Society for Crippled Crip-pled Children and Adults in the 50 states. In Utah last year 1,009 handicapped handi-capped children received help from Easter Seal Funds. |