| Show polio foundation drive for funds to start jan 14 the annual drive of the national foundation for infantile paralysis tu tj raise funds burds with which to fight polio riye litls Is rapidly drawing near tho drive begins on january 11 and closes on january 31 1945 frank S emery state director of fio drive states that utah was very verl fortunate this year and had only a few cases of poliomyelitis but a larr 1 amount of money has been spent helping those who were stricken durer the 1943 epidemic twelve of ou our patients were sent to the warm springs foundation whore where they received treatment which resulted in their bein being returned home very m materially t teri ally benefited by the treatment il they received most of them arre taken to the train on stretchers but were able to walk alone when ahry came back home and this years appeal is doubly important because ave e not only have to prepare for the fl ture but due to the wonderful strips made in the field of physical medi medicine circe and surgery urR cry many many victims of former years who tor for ye rs have been considered hopelessly hopeless Iv er cr T n pled now find that chev can b be helid and for all intents and firpi purposes become normal self supporting men nd women I 1 we have hopes this year that he 1 leeis lepis laure will provide funds tor for the erection of a crippled CriD pled childrens I 1 pis is anital where bolio sufferers can be taken care of and if 11 this hope becomes a fact and we feel quite milre that it will it will not aln be ile c essary or us to tn send our children ack to warm springs goof the money raised in utah so 50 ped cent of it stays in the county in which it is raised to heln take ciro of the physical needs of the suffer rs sl from poliomyelitis and if the chapters so desire a portion of their 50 ner cent could be used to help burcl purchase isel polio equipment for our contemplated hospital of the 50 per cent sent to bew I 1 ev e v york grants are made to our grei greatest test scientists universities for work in the field of virus research ep ider biolo physical medicine etc similar to the one made here to our dr gobhardt of the universia sit of utah to the end that a vaccine will be diac evered that wilt will immunize our adint paral sis thus placing that dreaded disease n a shelf alonz aloni with diphtheria small smallpox nox ind rd other kindred diseases no longer serious menace to future america |
