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Show GIVE YOUR DIMES ... A LIFE MAY BE SAVED The March of Dimes, which has fought for the lives of countless children, this weec begins a struggle strug-gle of its own. Townspeople who know well the ravages of polio will be asked to help replenish funds of an organization organiza-tion which gave all it had to combat the disease last year. For the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Par-alysis, as well as its Utah chapter, is broke. Through the annual "march," both hope to gain new life. Nationally, Na-tionally, $52,000,000 is needed. An army of volunteers, marshalled by Orvil Clark of the Lions club, drive chairman, will take the field this week in a brief but intense funds campaign. cam-paign. The hopes of hundreds of polio sufferers and countless other who will fall victim of the disease dis-ease go with them. . It takes a lot of money to treat a polio victim. Hospitalization for the average serious case costs about $3000. That does not include cost of continuing therapy treatment. 1 Iron lungs come to about $2500 each. With 283 cases in 1949, Utah's second worst polio year, it's not hard to see where the money went. The national foundation, founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, is financed solely by March of Dimes contributions. Half the money collected in Utah is sent to the foundation where it is pooled and is available to meet emergency demands, such as Utah's 1949 outbreak. Some of it is used for research and education. The other half stays in Utah to provide treatment treat-ment for local cases. |