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Show S.L. Realtor Heads Heart Association Business Campaign Keith L. Knight, Salt Lake City real estate executive, will head the 1962 Heart Days for Business campaign in Salt Lake County, H. M. Calvert, County Heart Fund chairman, said this week. Heart Days for Business is a canvass of local commercial and professional offices which gives businessmen an opportunity to contribute to the annual Heart Fund collection. Heart Days for Business will be conducted here beginning on February 14. Mr. Calvert also listed several local business men and women who have offered to serve as volunteers to visit the downtown business offices, stores, professional profes-sional buildings and shopping centers to receive Heart Fund contributions during the period. "We are all well aware of the pain and suffering caused by heart disease, but the full impact of the disease becomes apparent only when we recognize serious effects they have on economic welfare." The heart and blood vessel diseases dis-eases are responsible for loss of more than 69 million man days of production each year, said Mr. Knight and are a constant threat to men and women in productive years of life people between the ages of 25 and 65 to whom local business looks for a main source of manpower. "As business people we cannot afford to look upon the Heart Fund as a charity or just another drive," Mr. Knight said. "Instead, we must recognize the Heart Fund as our foremost defense against one of the most serious economic threats to our business community. It makes possible the American Heart Association's fight against this health enemy by the expansion of research, education and community com-munity services. Since 1948, the Association has saved many thousands thou-sands of hearts and lives," the Heart Days for Business chairman chair-man continued. "Utah is one of the nation's leading Heart research centers, and last year over $80,000, representing rep-resenting more than 80 per cent of the money raised in the 1961 drive was awarded to Utah researchers re-searchers by the American and Utah Heart Association." The state association is also active in such community service projects in stroke rehabilitation, blood procurement for open surgery, sur-gery, rheumatic fever and prevention pre-vention and his initiated a pilot program in Box Elder County to discover the needs of the rural family with heart problems. Educational Edu-cational programs are conducted on a year round basis to speed the latest research finding to the physician and to acquaint the public with the hopeful side of heart disease. The Heart Fund drive will continue con-tinue through February and will reach its high point during Heart Sunday week end, Feb. 23-25. when some 6000 heart volunteers will conduct a house to house canvass in Salt Lake County. Mr. Knight is a past president of the Salt Lake Real Estate Board, the Utah Realty Assn., and the Southeast Lions Club. |