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Show County Polio Fund Drive Chairman Reports on Meeting A. E. Whatcott, Iron County chairman of the March of Dimes, returned from a March of Dimes planning meeting in Reno recently recent-ly and said that the future of the continuing fight against polio po-lio will depend in large degree on the success of next January's drive. At the Reno meeting Basil O' Connor was the featured speaker. speak-er. Ho is president of the Nation-e.1 Nation-e.1 Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Para-lysis. Over 2f)0 volunteer workers work-ers from five western states were in attendance, Whatcott said. Since his returrf from Hie plan-Inirig plan-Inirig session at Reno Whatcott has indicated that preparations are now b'Mtig made fur the 1950 March of Dimes. At the present time various community chairmen chair-men ancl necessary workers are being lined up to insure an early ear-ly start in tho campaign in 195G. "The Salk polio vaccine marks i magnificent victory over a virus," vi-rus," he said, "but the disease caused by the virus is not licked vet. It won't be until polio crippling crip-pling is a thing of the past. That t -ii i i ii can happen only when everybody every-body who is susceptible has been given the protection vaccine af fords, and when we have rebuilt the lives of tens of thousands of persons for whom vaccine has come too late." Whatcott pointed out that the foundation's school vaccine program pro-gram is providing a ,'arge meas-i meas-i tire of polio protection for about 2,000,000 children this year. How-ever, How-ever, new cases are still occur ring among the 53,000,000 wh 1 have not received the vaccine j and who are still under 20 year j of age. Announcement of community? chairmen and other workers in I the county and city program will I be made in the near future, Mr. , Whatcott said. |