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Show o o VOL. XXIV JANUARY 13, 1951. NO. 10 News and Features oi Interest to Residents oi Davis County. LAYTON. DAVIS COUNTY. UTAH 4 The March of Dimes Your March of Dimes money at work. 16NT -- C. Tend Me A Hand. That is the slogan of the 1951 March of itm oifieu ux MIMCAI OlfT. IMVICI1 1.1 1I1VICI1 TO CHAfTH1 AOMIMItUNVI PUBLIC INTOBMAHON HIALTH nriNUI 1.1 Dimes which will open here and throughout the nation on January 15. The four words are expressed eloquently by the poster-portra- it of a bright-face- d American boy whose arms have been crippled by polio. He is Larry McKenzie, 12 years old, one of some 54,000 men, women and children to whom a helping hand was extended by the March of Dimes last year. In three successive years, polio has struck more than 100,000 people in the United States. In that time it has cost the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis $58,000,000 to help them, as well as earlier victims still needing care. Since 1938, the patient-car- e outlay alone has been $94,000,000 in March of Dimes funds. But these are only inanimate figures the real story of the March of Dimes is people. That story is unfolded in hospitals, rehabilitation centers and clinics throughout the country where real people not "cases are fighting their way back to useful lives. It is told in homes, factories and offices by men and women who have made comebacks over great odds and at great cost. The knowledge that the individual battle can be and often is won should stimulate everyone to back the fight against polio. Tragically enough, the ranks of polio sufferers will be increased this year. We cannot control that yet. But we can all lend a hand through the 1951 March of Dimes, January Cm! f Itft U AND IOUCATION O.t NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS Tht chart above ahowe what happens to each dime you contribute nation. to the annual March of Dimes now under way throughout the Almost eight cents of the dime Is used to help pay for patient care A for all those who need assistance four out of every five stricken. sciand education f&r professional little over one cent of the dime goes entific research aimed at finding a cure or preventive for polio. A the little less than a cent Is spent on all other services. In 1950 $20,000,-00- 0 an estimated Infantile National Foundation for Paralysis paid for patient cace, with many millions still swing at years end. Chart Is based on 1949 records. o o . |