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Show United War Fund Drive Well Under Way The I'lnul cumpnlr.n of the United War t'liiul nf llfali 1;; In full .swlni',1. Until the ln:;t day oi the month, the l'uml workers will carry on until quotas are reached reach-ed or exceeded. In Call. Lake County, where the county war chest unit ol the United War Fund liep.ait ita drive JSeptemhor 21. Willi the closlnr; dale set lor October 17, notable progress toward that county's e.oal is reported by iStewart Cos-e.riif, Cos-e.riif, campaign chairman. Malt i.ake County's quota is slightly more than halt the stale's quota of $105,1100. "Exceptini; a few slates which hold their campaigns around the first of the year, the War Fund appeals arc now in progress throughout the United States," said Herbert M. Schiller, executive execu-tive director ol' the United War Fund of Utah. "After three years of appeals, most Ulahns are familiar with the purpose of the fund's campaign to raise money for the USO, USO Camp j Shows, United Seamen's Service, a score or more of refugee and foreign relief organizations sItv-. sItv-. ing the people of war-devastated areas, and other vitally important import-ant agencies rendering war-related war-related services. "The 1945 campaign will be the last one. The National War , Fund's goal of $115,000,000 will be used cither to carry on the work of the agencies until January, Jan-uary, 1947, or will finance them until liquidation. Utah has done a splendid job of meeting and ex- , cecding its quotas during the ; past two years and, from early , reports reaching our office from some counties and local districts, this campaign will repeat the success of preceding ones." Mr. Schiller said that the campaigns cam-paigns in Davis County and the 1 South Summit county district will start next week. The Ogden j and Weber county campaign is r scheduled to get under way October Oc-tober 25. Canvass of military installations in Weber and Davis 1 counties, however, has been in " progress since last Monday. ' Set for October 10, Wednesday! 3 of next week, is the national ob-b ob-b servance of China Friendship i Day, noting the thirty-fourth an-. an-. niversary of the founding of the s Chinese Republic. The cclebra-. cclebra-. tion will under auspices of the American Chinese committee and " United China Relief, one of the most important foreign relief agencies of the United War Fund y of Utah and the National War Fund. In Salt Lake City, the i event will be marked by a dinner to several hundred persons at which the Chinese American Society So-ciety of Utah will be hosts. Governor Gov-ernor Herbert B. Maw will attend as one of the guests of honor. The dinner also will be in cele-h cele-h bration of the United Nations' le victory. |