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Show I THE READER'S DATE BOOK 1! American Diabetes Society Plans Ambitious Campaign In one of the most ambitious medical campaigns of recent years, the American Diabetes Association has announced plans to test 5,000,000 people for diabetes in an effort to find as many as possible of the estimated 1,000,000 people who have the disease without knowing it. The association, a non-profit organization whose 1,500 members mem-bers are mostly doctors with a special interest in that disease, said testing will begin in most areas throughout the country the week of November 11-17, which has been designated as Diabetes Week. Costs of the program, which in- : -volves no public fund raising, is fcelng met by the doctors themselves them-selves and by voluntary contributions. contribu-tions. More than 500 county medical medi-cal societies and nearly 30 state medical societies are cooperating in the campaign A .MAM STfiSST FEATURE with the association and its affiliates. Dr. John A. Reed, association secretary, secre-tary, reports diabetes dia-betes now ranks eighth among causes of death by Corps began making shipments of non-perishable items on the Army's Thanksgiving Day menu in mid-September. In the first week of October, the turkeys, fresh fruits, and fresh vegetables vegeta-bles began moving out of San Francisco in the refrigerated holds of cargo ships. For the home town folks who have been wondering just what the soldiers in Korea will have on the Thanksgiving menu, it is the traditional tradi-tional American feast: roast turkey tur-key stuffed with old-fashioned dressing, dress-ing, snow-flake potatoes smothered In giblet giavy, cranberry sauce, candied yams, fresh peas, corn, hearts of lettuce, celery stuffed with cheese, french dressing, pickles, pick-les, olives, nuts, apples, oranges, fruit cake, hot mince pie, pumpkin pie, hot rolls, butter, fruit punch, coffee, and hard candy. And while the ingredients for the Thanksgiving dinners are already on the way to Americans Ameri-cans in Korea, preparation for shipment of the foods for Christmas Christ-mas and New Tear's Day dinners din-ners are also under way, disease in the United States, yet is the only chronic disease for "which there is a known control. A person in whom diabetes is discovered discov-ered and brought under control sufficiently early usually can expect to live a full, active and useful life. Efforts will be made during 'Diabetes Week to make the general public as aware of diabetes as it now is of cancer, heart disease, polio, tuberculosis and some of the other widely-publicized ail-.ments. ail-.ments. Schools and colleges, industrial in-dustrial plants, unions, service clubs, veterans organizations, women's wom-en's clubs and religious groups will participate in the campaign. It isn't generally known that both Bill Talbot and Hamilton -Richardson, Davis Cup tennis champions, both have diabetes. ' Whatever your profession, trade or business, yon can carry on a normal life like Talbot and Richardson Rich-ardson if and this is a big if you discover it in time and ' hring it under control. Diabetes can often be recognized recog-nized by its common symptoms loss of weight accompanied by constant con-stant hunger and intense thirst, as well as itching, changing vision and pains in the extremities. In many instances, however, the disease dis-ease is present without any of the symptoms making themselves Iknown. Diabetes Week offers the home towns of the country an opportunity opportu-nity to participate in a promotion -week that can have as far reaching Tesults as cancer, heart, polio or tuberculosis drives. Arthritis Foundation Holds Annual Campaign The Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation is conducting its annual an-nual campaign during the months of November and December. The illustration above is the official campaign insigna. www. I National Cage Bird Week Nov. 18-24 Not many people know that raising rais-ing cage birds is a big business across the country, especially for many handicapped persons, pensioners pen-sioners and veterans. During the week of November " 18-24 people interested in the industry will celebrate National Cage Bird Week and attempt to tell people In the home towns the importance of the industry and something of its history. Raising cage birds is one of the biggest hobbies in the country. Turkey and Trimmings Time Is Nearly Here That turkey 'n' trimmin's time is almost here. In fact, it's not too arly for Main Street merchants to begin their Thanksgiving promotions, pro-motions, especially food markets and poultry dealers. Turkeys and all the trimmings for Thanksgiving dinners are already al-ready on their way to soldiers in Xorea. The Army's Transportation |