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Show Polio Fund Drive Opens With $2000 Set As Duchesne County Goal Cost Of Treatment And Need For Research Stressed As Annual March Of Dimes Gets Under Way THE campaign to raise funds for the 1947 polio drive shifted into high gear this week with the county objective set at $2000 and new procedures planned for raising the funds, according to Howard M. Ivory, county campaign cam-paign director. Contributions will be sought by using dime cards which are to be mailed to every family in Duchesne county, and distributed in the schools. Collections will also be made at public gatherings gather-ings during the campaign and several dances will be held throughout the county Community campaign directors direc-tors have been appointed to direct di-rect the polio fund drive in each community. They started the March of Dimes on January 15 with an appeal for full community commun-ity support. Directors for Duchesne county were named by Mr. Ivory as follows: fol-lows: Roosevelt, Earl Dillman; Duchesne, Leona Kohl; Hanna, Robert H. Moon; Mt. Home, Grant Stevenson; Ioka, Hugh Percival; Montwel-Monarch, Ray Brown: Bluebell, Lyman Bur- dick; Myton, Mrs. Howard Roberts; Rob-erts; Fruitland, G. H. McNeil; Mt. Emmons, Willard Mecham; Talmage, Glen Sorenson; Upalco, Wayne Williams; Boneta, Miles Christensen; Bridgeland, Mrs. Shelby Lisonbee; Neola, Loren Mills; Tabiona, Olaus Johnson; Altonah, Mrs. Glen Mohlman; Arcadia, Margaret Gledhill, and Utahn, Lenwood Kenison. - AN appeal to the community to double contributions to the 1947 March of Dimes annual fund-raising drive of the National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis so the $24,000,000 national goal will be met, was made today by Earl Dillman, chairman of the local campaign committee here. Mr', Dillman pledged the local committee to redoubled efforts following receipt of a letter from Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation, stressing the crucial importance of the 1947 March of Dimes. The need to replenish funds drained in fighting last summer's epidemic unusual in treating polio pat-tients, pat-tients, "DURING the 1946 epidemic," Mr. Dillman said, "the $4,000,-000 $4,000,-000 epidemic reserve fund of the National Foundation, previously considered adequate, was wiped out completely by November in aiding chapters. By the end of the year approximately an additional addi-tional $1,500,000 earmarked for research had to be diverted for emergency aid to fulfill the pledge that 'no one stricken by polio need go without care for lack of funds.' " Pointing out that this community com-munity as every other in the nation na-tion must be adequately prepared prepar-ed for any emergency the future may bring, Mr. Dillman concluded: conclud-ed: "We cannot afford to gamble with the safety of our children. Let it not be said that when next summer's epidemic strikes that we gave too little and too late." THE 1947 March of Dimes annual an-nual fund-raising drive of the National Foundation for Infantile Infan-tile Paralysis which sparkplugs the never-ceasing battle against polio, opened January 15 and will continue through January 30, it was announced today by Mr. Frank S. Emery, Utah State representative of the Foundation. The need for funds, Mr. Emery said, has never been greater since the nation has just emerged emerg-ed from the worst epidemic of polio in the history of the National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, founded in 1938 to spearnead ana coordinate tnc battle against the dread disease. "United States Public Health Service figures show," Mr. Emery Em-ery said, "that the 1946 polio epidemic is second only in severity sever-ity to the great epidemic of 1916, the worst in recorded history. "The National Foundation also al-so spent millions of dollars during dur-ing 1946 in medical scientific research to trace the cause of infantile in-fantile paralysis," Mr. Emery ex-, plained. "It will continue to do so until the cause is discovered and conquered," he said. "THE people of Utah, in common com-mon with Americans everywhere," every-where," Mr. Emery went on "have been most generous in the past in supporting the fight against polio through the March of Dimes. Indications are that they will be even more generous gener-ous this year because they know that this fight is their fight. They realize that the March of "Dimes is their best insurance against polio and that the battle wilt go on in the laboratory until final victory is won and infantile infan-tile paralysis joins the other great scourges of mankind unmasked un-masked and disarmed by knowledge. know-ledge. "The annual March of Dimes, Mr. Emery continued, "is the only means the National Foundation Foun-dation has for financing its battle against infantile paralysis." paraly-sis." IN opening the March of Dimes in Utah, Mr. Emery offered for consideration the cost of treating treat-ing a person striken with polio. Pointing to the expense invol-vec'. invol-vec'. Mr. Emery propounded: "Could you afford to pay $35 a day for four months if you were striken by polio? And the which affected more than 25,000 persons and was the worst in the Foundation's history, is more urgent than ever before, according accord-ing to Mr. O'Connor. To assure continuing care of patients and build up adequate chapter reserves for future epidemics, epi-demics, $12,000,000 is needed, Mr. O'Connor said. The other half of the $24,000,000 minimum is required on the national level as follows:epidemic aid reserve fund, $5,000,000; research and education, $5,000,000; general working fund, $2,000,000. "By reason of this nigh cost of treatment, the National Foundation Foun-dation for Infantile Paralysis needs the contributions of every citizen of the state in order to carry on its relentless battle against infantile paralysis." |
