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Show Gene Fullmer Praises Response Of Utahns to TB Seal Campaign "It's wonderful that people have responded so well to our letter explaining the need for contributions to the Christmas Seal campaign. The educational programs that we have carried on and particularly tuberculin skin testing in the schools of Utah have reached many of the people in the state. Active cases x of tuberculosis have been found as a result of these activities. Next year we should have even fewer people contract the disease," dis-ease," Gene Fullmer said. Mr. Fullmer, world's middleweight middle-weight boxing champion, is also honorary Christmas Seal chairman chair-man for this state. He has spent many hours working in various ways to help educate the people of Utah to the fact that TB must be fought with all our knowledge and ability to eliminate the disease dis-ease from this area. "We must not relax our fight for a moment, or we will be caught off guard. With the increasing drug resistance resist-ance that is developing rapidly by the TB germ, at any time it could break out agairj among us and sweep through the state," he said. "On the other hand, Utah could win national fame by being the first state in the country to virtually eliminate the disease from our area." Charles O. Finley is owner of the Kansas City Athletics base ball team as well as National Honorary Christmas Seal chairman. chair-man. Recently he congratulated Gene on the fine job he is doing in Utah in this fight against TB. John Zenger, president of the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Assn., vhas asked that Utahns continue to support this cause and contribute to this year's seal campaign. Mr. Fullmer reminds us that there is still time to send in contributions to help meet this year's goal of $50,000 towards the funds needed to carry on these programs of education, research, re-search, and tuberculin skin testing test-ing as a part of the case finding activity. |