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Show EASTER SEAL - DRIVEJOWON Counting on the luck of the Irish to help them accomplish their goal, 187.000 sheets of I960 Easter Seals went into the mails on St. Patrick's day carrying a "Please Help Us" pica from crippled children to homes throughout Utah. The mailing was the first step in the month-long appeal conducted by the Utah Society for Crippled Children and Adults to raise funds for continuing and expanding services ser-vices to the handicapped in Utah. It will cont nue through Easter Sunday, Sun-day, April t 7. Ted Cannon, well known newspaper news-paper columnist and general chairman chair-man for the drive, is urging all Utahns to watch for their Easter Seals and to respond generously to the appeal. Easter Seal contributions provide the main financial support to the state's three treatment centers in Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo. A vocational rehabilitation workshop, opened in Salt Lake last July, is also supported by Easter Seal donations. do-nations. Goal for the I960 campaign is $40,000.00. The I960 letter includes a message mes-sage from David Kelley, age 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Kelley of Ogden. David is Utah's I960 Easter Seal child. He is at this time a patient pa-tient undergoing corrective surgery at one of the state's children's hospitals. hos-pitals. The Easter Seal appeal is being conducted simultaneously by 1,655 state and local effiiliates of the National Na-tional Society for Crippled Children Child-ren and Adults in the 50 states. District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. In Utah last year, 1,009 handicapped handi-capped people received help from Easter Seal Funds. O |