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Show Final Appeal Made Here For Heart Fund Money It is no wonder, that when charitable appeals and social problems seem to multiply daily, that you should ask: Who should I give to? What causes are most worthy of my dollars? Many of the causes are worthwhile. To make your dollars most meaningful, you must know which causes and appeals merit your sup- port. Select those where your help can continue the qualities of life you cherish and those which reach out to more people peo-ple and touch lives in a meaningful way. Nothing is more precious pre-cious than life. Life should be lived to the fullest. And the complex of diseases which rob man of his most productive pro-ductive years, more than all others, deserves deserv-es your attention, and your dollars. We refer, of course, to heart and blood vessel ves-sel diseases which af-" af-" flict more than 27 million mil-lion Americans and will thi s year take the lives of more than one million. mil-lion. The mission of the American Heart Association, Asso-ciation, since its founding foun-ding in 1948, has been to reduce premature death and disability due to cardiovascular diseases. di-seases. Elimination of all death and disability from these major killers kill-ers would be an unrealistic unreal-istic goal. Disease, like death and taxes, will always al-ways be with us. But by-finding by-finding persons at high risk and by providing some modern preventive prevent-ive measures and treatment treat-ment for those afflicted afflict-ed by heart and blood vessel diseases, we can help people live longer, healthier lives. The Grand County-Heart County-Heart Association, along al-ong with others across the nation, is helping carry out this mission. It is engaged in its annual an-nual Heart Fund campaign cam-paign to support the work that must be done on behalf of all of us. More than S195 million mil-lion has been channeled by the Heart Association Associa-tion into research since the first Heart Fund campaign in 1949. On a national basis, 33 percent per-cent of all money collected col-lected in 1970 went to support heart research. Fortunately, research advances know no boundaries. boun-daries. A new or improved im-proved way of finding and treating heart diseases dis-eases developed in California Cal-ifornia or New York is quickly initiated by physicians phy-sicians and hospitals aero. e land. In this sense, ur Heart Fund dollars a-e equally ef- fective in our community commun-ity and throughout the country. Certainly, the Heart Association is not the only organization deserving de-serving of your support. But you must determine where your interests lie. what causes you will support. The Heart Fund merits most serious consideration. Heart and blood vessel ves-sel diseases are an epidemic epi-demic problem. Something Some-thing can be done about it. and the Heart Association As-sociation is doing it. You can help by giving generously to the local Heart Fund. Grand County's Heart Fund drive is in the closing stages. If you were not called on during dur-ing the drive and would like to make a donation, dona-tion, call Mrs. Danette AVinfield, 259-6675. I |
