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Show Heart Committee Places Coin Collectors More heart-shaped coin boxes than in any previous Heart Fund drive have been distributed throughout the Cedar City area this week, as the Utah Heart Association As-sociation begins its month-long campaign to meet a record goal. The plastic coin boxes, mounted mount-ed on colorful display cards bearing the slogan "Help Fight Heart Disease," have been distributed dis-tributed by Claude Edwards and Haldow Chrlstensen to all com. merclal establishments In Cedar City. Plastic-Heart proceeds will augment a door-to-door collection collec-tion to be conducted on Heart Sunday, Feb. 24, by a large group of Heart Volunteers; contributions con-tributions from Industries, businesses, busi-nesses, civic and fraternal organizations, organ-izations, school children and the city's leading citizens. The greater portion of the funds collected col-lected remains In Utah, according accord-ing to Carl Wasmuth, chairman of the campaign, to support research, re-search, education and communi-ty communi-ty services conducted throughout the year by the Utah Association. Associa-tion. A small portion of the collections collec-tions are sent to the American Heart Association with which the local association is affiliated affiliat-ed where more than half is automatically au-tomatically channeled into re-search re-search development and eventually even-tually returned to the community communi-ty in the form of heart knowledge. knowl-edge. "An expanded program of research, education and commu-nity commu-nity service can be carried out only If we are willing, through our contributions, to support the Heart Fund," Wasmuth said. |