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Show WARREN JOHNSON TO DIRECT MARCH OF DIMES CAMPAIGN IN MILFORD i Max G. Abbott, Milford High school principal who was named Beaver County chairman of the 1932 March of Dimes campaign, completed his comity organization Monday and announced the following community chairmen: chair-men: For Milford City, Warren Johnson, manager of Sam's Furniture and member of the Milford City Council; Coun-cil; Minersville Carl Truman, feed store merchant; Greenville Mrs. Macel Tlorton, housewife; and Beaver City, Sherman Carter, manager of the Beaver Co-op Store. Mrs. Lillian Anderson of Milford is county treasurer treas-urer for the drive. The community chairmen will arrange the programs for their communities, based upon recom-i recom-i mendations of the national, ovranizatinn. "Dime cans" have made their appearance in the business houses of Milford, and Mr. Johnson John-son has announced a tentative program including the "passing of the sheets" at basketball games for collecting odd coins from sports fans, collection of coin folders in the schools, and a Birthday Ball to be staged the latter part of the month. i "We are planning other activities," activ-ities," Mr.' Johnson said, "and we expect to keep pace with the increase in polio canes with an over-the-quota collection in Milford. Mil-ford. We have been fortunate in having only one case of polio in our city in the past several years, and none at all during this epidemic that has swept the state, but we all realize that polio can strike in our community commun-ity today or tomorrow, and we want to do all we can to help combat this disease." At the Beaver-Milford basketball basket-ball game last Friday, more than I $28 was tossed into the sheet ! passed by the Tigerette girls, to I start the 1952 Milford campaign, i |