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Show January 9, 1951 THE JOURNAL Page Towns Vie for Record Per Capita Contributions To March of Dimes with Auctions and Socials The money to fight polio through the March of Dimes comes from all over the country from small towns and counties as well as the big cities. While several of the largest cities contribute over a million dollars each, it is the small communities that set the records for per capita contributions. With the national contribution averaging 34 cents a person, here are some outstanding achievements of the last March of Dimes. Melba, Idaho, with a population of less than 200, claimed the national record by raising almost $50 for every man, woman and child in the community. A daylong auction of contributed items ranging from cakes to calves enabled Melba to raise this high amount. Oregon Town Beat Melba The spur that aroused Melba to new heights also worked in Izee, Ore. population 43 when this village beat Melbas 1952 March of Dimes record of $27 per capita by raising $34 apiece at a basket social held Jan. 10, 1953. Basket socials used to be a way Of courting or raising funds to hire a teacher for a new rural school. Now they have joined the fight against polio. As small towns and villages set community records in the March of Dimes, sparsely populated counties also made per capita contribution records. Mineral County, Nev. won the national title with a per capita contribution rate of $2.53 a person. Over $14,000 was raised among her 5,560 inhabitants. Jeff Davis County, Texas came in second with contributions averaging $2.21 a person. Other Leaders Other counties in the population class that made outstanding records were: Kiowa, Colo, with $1.75 per person; Mono, Calif, with $1.61; Sioux, Neb. with $1.53; Cameron, 10,000-and-und- V -'- I j. .. , r, pi '4, v ' m 7 Remembers Lincoln iji ts: v' A; Wife .. j: The March of Dimes was $7,600 richer as a result of this Melba, Idaho auction featuring everything from sacks of corn to the kitchen sink. Pa. with $1.49, and Ida, Iowa with $1.48. These are just a few of the small counties that raised over a dollar per person to aid in the fight against polio. Whether small communities have bigger hearts or more intimate knowledge of the disaster of polio is not meas- urable. But their high per capita contributions are vital weapons in the battle to wipe out the disease. During the 1954 March of Dimes it is a sheer necessity for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to raise 50 per cent more than last year. This increase can come only from greater contributions from everyone, in small communities and big cities alike. New Prevention Program In stressing the need for a bigger March of Dimes than ever er before, Basil OConnor, president of the National Foundation said: The new polio prevention program will be the hardest blow against polio we have ever struck. Wide-scal- e validity tests of a trial polio vaccine this year and the expanded use of gamma globulin as a stopgap protective measure in 1954 mark a dramatic advance. Like all advances, it is expensive, but the fight dare not be weakened when victory seems almost in sight.- - Mr. OConnor added, No one knows just which community and county will wind up as 1954 March of Dimes champions in size of per capita contributions. But judging from past heartwarming performances, I predict it will be a town or village under a thousand and a county under ten thousand. s also said that few permit holders wintering in the small poor area of the hunt is ex- who were willing to get off the pected to help greatly in alleviating road and tramp the snow failed to an acute problem, according to find plenty of targets. game managements experts. They From an original plant of 48 had forecast a winter loss of at least the number of deer killed dur- elk made on the Mt. Nebo range in ing the special hunt unless im- 101.3. 0,829 animals have been legalmediate steps were taken to reduce ly harvested during hunting seaherd numbers in balance with this sons which began in 1925. fast depleting range. These and other interesting facts The figures show that seventeen concerning the Nebo elk herd come of the 300 two-depermit holders from a recently completed two year failed to check in for the hunt. study by Merle J. Rognrud, graduFinal figures covering the re- Total kill included 142 does, 90 ate student of the Utah State Agricultural College. Mr. Rognrud was cent post season conditional deer bucks, and S3 fawns. of Hunt at Beaver show 2N3 special Field men operating the checking employed by the Department permit holders harvested 81.1 ani- station noted that very few hunters Fish and Game for this study conand promals. returned after the opening week cerning population, range of the Nebo herd. This reduction of herd numbers end of the ten day shoot. They ductivity Annual herd productivity as shown by the report averaged .34 per cent. A relatively high survival of calves accounts for a large part of this high productivity rate. The summer elk herd on the Nebo 0 Employment 0 For averages 22.5 per cent bulls, 52 per cent cows, and 25.5 per cent calves. 0 For Rent or Lease Lost This herd has been cited nation0 ally many times as an outstanding example of big game management Issue under controlled hunting. Like all All 10c Per Line ether Utah elk herds, the Nebo 75c herd has been hunted on a controlled basis with a given number of for permits authorized by the Board WANT ADS ACCEPTED time up to noon Wednesday FISH AND GAME Boatwright celebrates her 107th birthday to Philadelphia with recollections of the day Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation She remembers a slave Jumping Into a field and singing praises to God when the news was heard Now partially crippled, Mrs Boatwright, born in Georgia in 1846, has a remarkably range-trespas- alert minrL (International ) Uses Her Head President of France er Wanted Sale and Found Services Offered Miscellaneous Per Want Ads Minimum Per Issue any insertion in Thursday issue. KEYED and BUND ads, such as leave name at Phone Reflex or Write in Care of Reflex. 2.c insertion additional to regular 10c per line. AKTICI.ES FOUND and turned in at Kefle office will advertised one issue only, without cost f Jin may identify and claim upon payment of .0c. 'n is taken in handling such lost and found items The Reflex, no responsibility is accepted for such a The publishers reserve the right to edit, revise or reject or all advertising. In case of error or omission in advertisment the publishers are liable only to the ex the ad. Errors should be reported imm . g ant ads will he taken over the phone, when person pa re-runni- ad is listed in telephone directory of Big Game Control each year. per be , any , !g J! COTY RENE (above), 71, Senate Vice President, was elected Pres- ident of the French Republic, ending the longest presidential voting deadlock In the history of the natioa Coty, a conservative independent unknown to most of his countrymen, was elected on the 13tb ballot by exhausted members of Parliament who had been meeting In the Palace of Versailles for a week to select a new chief of state. (International) Mountain postThe Manti-Hor- n season elk hunt for 100 either sex ers are reminded by game departanimals has been set to begin on ment spokesmen that the law reboth check in and out January 9 and run through January quires they at the established checking station 18. Successful applicants for this and all other elk hunts were chosen at the public drawings held last September. Boundaries for the Horn Mount-ia- n hunting unit will be set by the wardens in charge. All permit hold- - for the hunting unit. 19, a Hunter stacks up as a strong College of reprehonor contender for the senting New York State at the National College Queen contest. Convention Hall. Miami Beach. With the winner to be picked Jan. 10 from representing all on the and states territories the basis of beauty and scholastic ability, Kathleen seems to have her battle half won. (International) FEENEY. KATHLEEN co-e- d, co-e- ds and cold weather moving the aniTwo postseason elk hunts remain mals into problem areas of the to be set. They are for the Salt hunts. unit on the Mt. All permit holders for these Nebo Range and for the Cache special hunts are sent written noFace hunt in Northen Utah. Setting tice five days in advance of the of both is dependent upon snows opening dates. Creek-Santaqu- in |