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Show Polio Fund Drive Runs Thru Week The polio fund drive is continuing con-tinuing through this week. Boy Scouts will be busy in Roosevelt Roos-evelt throughout Saturday ringing ring-ing doorbells and soliciting funds, according to Howard M. Ivory, chairman of the Duchesne County Coun-ty Chapter of the National Foundation Foun-dation for Infantile Paralysis. Ivory said that funds delivsred to the post office last week were disappointing, and he emphasized again the critical need of money to fight a spreading polio epidemic. epidem-ic. Frank S. Emery, Foundation state representative for Utah and Nevada, revealed in a letter to Mr. Ivory that the entire 1949 March of Dimes funds have been wiped out by the epidemic. "We are spending better than $100,000 per day now caring for those who have been stricken so far this year, which totals over ov-er 23,000 cases as of September 3," Emery continues. "Cases are coming in in alarming numbers each day, and the estimated 40.-000 40.-000 cases for the year 1949 may well be reached and even passed. "Additional funds are needed desperately." |