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Show RECORD SET BY IDAHO IN 1948 DIME DRIVE Piling up evidence of their mounting faith in the .program of the National Foundation and its chapters, the American people contributed a record total of $18,-669,299.75 $18,-669,299.75 net to the March Of Dimes. This sum tops the previous 5-00,000, and represents a national nation-al per capita contribution of 14 18 cents, compared with 13.66 cents last year. Most striking increase in state totals was in Idaho, which experienced expe-rienced in 1947 the worst polio epi- toilo113 history- s total of ib,yi7.28 was more than three times that for the previous campaign. |