OCR Text |
Show A La TV-JANUARY TV-JANUARY IS MARCH OF DIMES MONTH Governor George D. Clyde officially designated January, 1964, as March of Dimes Month in Utah. Full details of the Governor's important action will follow this important import-ant announcement: At Culver's Tomorrow: 36-inch 36-inch Outing Flannel, reg. 39c yd.; NOW only 25c yd. Assisting Gov. Clyde were some of the little patients at LDS Primary Children's Hospital Hos-pital in Salt Lake City. About six months ago the 70th Special Spe-cial Treatment Center in the nation was established here, specializing in Birth Defects Treatment and care. Garth G. Myers, M.D., director of the center, expressed satisfaction at the work now progressing at the newly-established center, which is concentrating on birth defects of the central nervous system. . . Approximately 1900 babies born in Utah in 1964 will have serious birth defects. Those defects will claim as many as 130 lives before the year is over. These figures "educated estimates es-timates based on official reports re-ports of live births in the state Continued On Page Two HERE'S MORE ABOUT DIMES MONTH Continued from Page One were revealed today by Dr. Royal L. Garff, Utah State March of Dimes chairman. Latest Lat-est studies indicate that about 7 of the infants born in the United States each year have serious birth defects and about 27,000 infants will be born in Utah next year. Have you lost your nerve? Does it frighten you when Mary points a needle at you? FEEL SECURE ... See J. C. against polio," Dr. Garff said. "The National Foundation, its volunteers and the scientists supported by March of Dimes grants hope that, not too many years hence, equally encouraging encourag-ing progress reports can be issued is-sued about birth defects and arthritis." (Remnants Reduced at Culver's. Cul-ver's. Special Large Table filled with scores of remnant pieces of lovely fabrics . . . ALL AT HALF PRICE.) for complete hospitalization and medical insurance. You ' will laugh at Jackie's anaesthetic anaes-thetic when you KNOW that JOE is paying for the operation. opera-tion. Now, back to our story: "Imagine the sense of disaster disas-ter the people of Utah would feel if these deaths and disabilities disa-bilities were to result from some epidemic disaster or other ' catastrophe," Dr. Garff said. "Even polio in its peak year attacked only 585 residents in Utah. Yet the people of this state and the nation were so outraged by the pain and the waste of human lives caused by polio that, thru the March of Dimes they helped speed the development of vaccines to prevent polio. "Only the same kind of public pub-lic action and support can bring about an effective attack on birth defects," he said. Now, another brief word from Mr. Culver: Men's Thermal 2-Piece Underwear Un-derwear . . . for those cold days and nights ahead . . . don't shiver and shake, get Culver's National Make thermal ther-mal underwear. Size S, M, L, REDUCED from $2.98 to ONLY $1.88 if you act now! And now for the conclusion of our story: . "The faith and generosity of the American people have paid off handsomely in the fight |