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Show Dimes March On Polio Starts Jan. 2 The annual March of Dimes cam paign to collect funds to fight poliomyelitis will open Jan. 2 and continue through Jan. 31. The coming campaign will be directed di-rected here by W. J. Starley, and the public is urged to give generously gener-ously in the March of Dimes. Utah this year suffered the most severe polio epidemic of any state in the nation. Almost 600 Utahns have been stricken with polio to date, which is an incidence count of about four times that of the .nation as a whole. "Thousands of new polio victims with 45,000 patients from other years, still are in need of help", Mr. Starley stated. "Polio is the nation's only epidemic disease still on the increase." Your support of the March of Dimes is needed to help with patient care for polio victims." , |