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Show Contributions Now Coming In After Mailing Christmas Seals A fun-filkd scene soon will be everywhere. F e r k y, bright colors against sparkling sparkl-ing snow, cheerful tots and a tall fir tree. .The scene is the design of this year's Christmas Seal. Christmas Seals have been mailed to over 136.C00 homes in Utah, reports 1969 state campaign chairman Roy-den Roy-den G. Derrick, and contributions contri-butions are beginning to come in daily to the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association As-sociation offices. As the holiday season creeps ever closer, the seals will add color and charm to millions of cards and packages pack-ages to bundles of gifts bringing warmth and chee-. Christmas Seals fit the holiday holi-day mood well. But charm and cheer are only part of the Christmas Seal story. "The seals outlast out-last holiday moods," states Derrick. "They support a struggle which takes 12 months every year. It is a ;battle against tuberculosis, emphysema, other respiratory respira-tory diseases, smoking and air pollution. It is a fight which demands constant tremendous tre-mendous effort. "The chance for everyone to participate in the con tinuing battle of detecing and eradicating these problems prob-lems comes at Christmastime. Christmas-time. Using Christmas Seals is part of the fun and festivities fes-tivities and also part of the serious struggle," The Utah campaign chairman said. The Christmas Seal campaign cam-paign is a direct mail solicitation soli-citation for funds. There is no door-to-door appeal. Anyone who has not received seals is asked to call the Utah TB Association at 484-4456 and seals will be sent out immediately. im-mediately. Of the funds raised, 93 per cent stay in the state to support sup-port local programs while the remaining seven per cent goes to nationally directed educational and research projects. |