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Show . ! fa , I I '"if ! i i i vX. i ', v ; i : j.- j ; i I I r - i is-' n ' n I I -. i 5 v !i , j I - a 'O f I I ' ' J Mayor Paul M. Haymond lends his support to the forthcoming forth-coming March of Dimes drive with Jerry Smith, Springville Spring-ville drive chairman. March of Dimes drive opens in city during month of January treatment centers are planned for Utah, Mr. Smith pointed out. There is one of every 16 babies born with a significant birth defect. In addition, thousands thou-sands of children are disabled by arthritis or rheumatic disease. dis-ease. In addition to providing medical med-ical care, contribution in this community to the 25th anniversary anni-versary March of Dimes will also support the National Foundation Research program to find the causes and preventives pre-ventives for birth defects and arthritis. To assist in raising these funds, chairman Smith said that tickets are being sold on a Lark car by members of the Active 20-30 and other groups. The car will be given away Jan. 31, and the car will be displayed in Springville throughout the month of January. Every citizen is being urged to help expand the vital program pro-gram of the March of Dimes by contributing throughout the month of January. Jerry Smith, newly appointed city chairman of the fund campaign in Springville, will direct the drive, assisted by members of the Active 20-30 club, with Russell Martin as president, along with other civic organizations. organ-izations. The March of Dimes program pro-gram encompasses the new program of fighting birth defects de-fects in infants and children. Headquarters and local chapters chap-ters are now supporting more than 50 treatment centers for birth defects, arthritis, and polio in various sections of the country. At least two of these Postal Kates Blamed The Ocala Star-Banner has announced an increase in subscription sub-scription prices beginning Jan. 1. The announcement attributed attribu-ted the increase to a 32 percent per-cent increase in second class postage rates for newspapers effective nationally in January. Federal, state, and local governments gov-ernments in Utah employed 68,102 persons during June, 1962. Of these, 30,822 were working for the Federal Government, Gov-ernment, 13,214 for the State Government, and 24,066 for local units, including the schools. |
