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Show i Cedar City Marching Mothers plan campaign V':. '"ife;1. Y " M;"'C.'W 4f H - 'b : w H Hf J W ' 1 k&'yv, '1 h bi disseminated during the Mothers March describing the conditions under which this vaccine should he used. According Ac-cording to Mr. Froyd, many of those needing the vaccine are not even aware of its exist ence. The community has been organized into districts by ward boundaries with a captain cap-tain over each area. Mothers' March Chairman for Cedar City is Mrs. Dorthella Smith. Working under her direction are district captains Sheral Condie, Vivan Spilsbury, Jackie Jack-ie Matheson, Nancie Dennett, Bette Slack, Lareen Webb, Nancy Kimball, Georgia Jones, Eleanor Pectol, Susan Bonzo, Claudette Matheson, and Mary Chamberlain. Royce Chamberlain is Iron County March of Dimes chairman. The annual March of Dimes Mother's March to collect funds to fight birth defects will begin in Cedau City-Thursday, City-Thursday, Jan. 21, it was announced an-nounced by John Froyd, Iron County campaign chairman for the March of Dimes Foundation. Foun-dation. During the week of Jan. 21-27, 21-27, each family in the city will be contacted to receive educational literature and make a contribution to the increasingly in-creasingly effective program to prevent and treat congenital congeni-tal defects which maim and kill thousands of infants and children every year. Of special concern is the educational aspect of the fight against Rubella and the Rh incompataibility disease. Vaccines Vac-cines are now available in plentiful supply for the prevention pre-vention of both conditions, two of the most dangerous enemies ene-mies of the unborn. Extensive campaigns have been waged to vaccinate young children and those in pre-childibearing years against the dread Rubella Ru-bella virus which has proved so devastating to the fetus in early stages of development. Concerning the new RH factor fac-tor vaccine, information will MARCHING MOTHERS. March of Dimes Marching Mothers for Cedar City are preparing for door-to-door fund drive late in January. Ward chairmen this past week met to organize organ-ize for drive. They are, front row, left to right: Claudette Matheson, 11th Ward; John Froyd, campaign chairman; chair-man; Dorothella Smith, marching mo thers chairman; Jackie Matheson, 3rd Ward, and Sheral Condie, 1st Ward. Back row, 1 to r: Bette Slack, 5th; . Nancie Dennett, 4th; Vivian Spilsbury, 2nd; Georgia Jones, 9th; Eleanor Pec-tol, Pec-tol, 10th; Susan Bonzo, 7th; Not present pres-ent for picture were Lovene Webb, 6th and Mary Chamberlain, 12th. |