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Show Plans Laid to Raise Nat. Foundation Funds i ; National Foundation, Foun-dation, formerly the Natlonall Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Paraly-sis, will conduct its annual March of Dimes throughout the j nation during the month of January. i In Iron County the fund raising compalgn will be directed by Lou Sayre, mon-ager mon-ager of radio station KSUB. Mr. Sayre Indicated that tTie prognm this year will Include the Marching Mothers with Mrs. Carma Lunt as chairman of the group in Cedar City. Named as chairman of the Marching Moth-ers Moth-ers In Parowan will be Mrs. Shir-ley Shir-ley Mercer. In addition the National Guard will again participate In the program under the direction of Gaylord Whitney, Sayres stated. This year the National Foundation, Foun-dation, which was responsible for developing the Salk Vaccine has expanded Its horizons and will continue research and development devel-opment In other directions. Included In the foundation, In addition to polio, will be virus diseases, arthritis and birth defects. de-fects. Officials of the national organ, ization feeling that the Polio problem had been licked also felt that the organization could continue to serve a useful purpose pur-pose with facilities and organizations organi-zations already established. With this In mind the expansion of the foundation went into these additional addi-tional fields. I Although a cure, in the form of the Salk vaccine, has been brought about by the foundation, nevertheless the disease has not yet been fully conquered, Sayre pointed out i Many of the people people In our own area must be sold on the idea that the Salk vaccine vac-cine does work and that they should revive the complete series ser-ies of vaccinations. Millions of people still have not taken the time to have polio shots and the foundation will continue to encourage en-courage everyone to have these shots. In addition the foundation is continually working to rehabilitate rehab-ilitate the thousands of patients who were not fortunate enough to have polio shots and who are j striving to overcome the disease. |