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Show f : , ) i DRIVE CHAIRMEN Bonnie Card and Joyce Smith are drive chairmen of Mothers March set for January in P.G. Potliers March s Set for Jan. 21-22 Mrs. Louise Murdock has been appointed chairman of the Mothers March against birth defects in Pleasant Grove. As head of the annual January appeal, she will coordinate the volunteer drive for the Utah County Chapter of the March of Dimes. "Our slogan for 1976 is 'Happy Birthday, America,' " says Mrs. Murdock. With public support we can expand the pre-natal health care our nation needs to improve the well being of present and future children. In Utah, out of 30,600 infants born in 1974 over 2,000 were born with physcial or mental damage. With over 400 infant deaths, another 1700 were threatened by low bir-thweight bir-thweight which is strongly associated with increased risk of brain damage and death, she reports. Utah County March of Dimes has pledged $10,000 to the Utah Valley Hospital to improve the intensive Nursery Care Center. Experience has shown that the infant death rate can be greatly reduced if high quality prenatal care is readily available to mothers and babies. Also, some of the needed equipment has been purchased and presented to the Payson and American Fork Hospitals. Not even the wisest man can calculate the value of preventing one birth defect in a single child. Yet it requires little wisdom to realize that the cost of preventing even that single birth defect is high. The Mothers March leaders in the Pleasant Grove area nre: Mrs. Louise Murdock, 785-3473; Joyce Smith, 785-3711 and Bonnie Card, 785-4200. The dates for the Mothers March are set for Jan. 20 21, 22, 1976. When a marching mother knocks at your door please be generous with your gift, remembering that "birth defects are forever, unless you help." |