Show huggins re appointed drive chairman former state senator ira A of ogden has been appointed utah state chairman of the 1860 1950 march of dimes basil oconnor QC onnor president of the national foundation for infantile paralysis announced today it to la senator hurgins ninth consecutive year as head of the fund raising appeal in utah As chairman senator huggins will be in overall over all charge of plan senator ira A huggins icing anil and organizing the annual polio drive and will coordinate activities of hit all city rind and county cani campaign piga directors in the state the marclin marcec of blines dimes Is conducted each january by tile the national foundation and its 2800 county chapters to finance the nationwide fight against polio in ili the fields of batione care scientific research and professional education the 1950 appeal will ile be held january 1631 16 31 senator huggins a native of utah and a prominent attorney has been active in ili civic affairs for many years he served in the state senate continuously from 1930 to 1947 and was president of that nody body during tile the 1939 40 term he has been a national labor commissioner in ili utah was elected one of the states presidential electors in the last national election and Is a member of the utah commission which recently completed writing rewriting re tho the rules of civil procedure in ili the state slate courts A past president of the weber county bar association lie he is now lieutenant governor of the utah idaho DI of Kiwa ilis international commenting on senator huggins re io appointment to to top p march of dimes post mr oconnor derc lared that the national foundation la Is now facing the most cru cleal period in its twelve year history ile he described the 1949 polio opi epidemic domic as the worst on record with cuore than cases expected by the end of the year ny by Deed december niber lie said bald tile the national foundation and its chapters will have spent assisting polio victims throughout the nation mr air oconnor also pointed out that by midsummer mid summer the national epidemic nid aid fund had run dan dangerously gerou sly low and the he organization was vas forced to conduct i the ille recent polio epidemic emergency drive as a bip stopgap stop 0 ga gap P measure to carry it over until the re regular giLlar march of dimes nes campaign in january from january 1 through sep 30 lie he said the national foundation spent more than 7 to liard hard litt hit chapters whose own arch of dimes treasuries were exhausted caring for local polio patients |