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Show POLIO DRIUE TO GET UNDERWAY JANUARY 15 WITH MARCH OF DIMES Utah Experiences Second Polio Epidemic Year; Committees Named To Push Fund Campaign 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, will be held January 15 to 30, it was announced today by Howard M. Ivory, Duchesne county chairman of the March of Dimes campaign committee. The need for funds, Mr. Ivory said, has never been greater, since the nation has just emerged emerg-ed from the worst epidemic of polio in the history of the foundation foun-dation for Infantile Paralysis, which was founded in 1938 to spearhead and co-ordinate the battle against this disease. "United States Public Health figures show," said Mr. Ivory, "that the 1946 polio epidemic is second onlv in severity tn thi great epidemic of 1916, the worst in recorded history. In Utah 1946 was the second epidemic year, and necessitated a call for funds from' the National Foundation," Foun-dation," continued Mr. Ivory. COMMITTEES to handle the March of Dimes campaign in Duchesne county have been named, and will be prepared to start a concerted drive on January Jan-uary 15. Today Mr. Ivory announced an-nounced the names of the committee com-mittee members for each community com-munity in the county as follows: Altonah, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mohlman; Bluebell, Lyman Bur-dick; Bur-dick; Boneta, Miles Christensen; Duchesne, Leona Coler Fruit-land, Fruit-land, G. H. McNeill; Hanna, Albert Al-bert H. Moon; Montwell-Mon-arch, Ray Brown; Mt. Emmons, Willard Mecham; Mt. Home, Grant Stevenson; Ioka, Hugh Percival: Neola, Loren Mills; Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dillman, Bernice Palfreyman, Agnes Ferron and Beryl Mullins: Mul-lins: Talmage, Glen Sorenson; Upalco, Wayne Williams; Tab-iona, Tab-iona, Olas Johnson: Utahn, Len-wood Len-wood Kennison; Myton, Rose Englesbee, Mrs. Howard Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. Syrel Dennis. The community directors will hold their first meeting at the Myton ward hall, Saturday, Dec. 28 at 8 p. m. to complete plans for an all-out drive. "THE people of Duchesne county, in common with Americans Ameri-cans everywhere," concluded Mr. Ivory, "hove been most generous in the past in supporting the fight against infantile paralysis through the March of Dimes. This year it is absolutely essential essen-tial that the campaign be a success suc-cess for the March of Dimes is the best insurance against polio, and unless a concerned Duchesne county whole hear'tedly supports the 1947 campaign, another serious ser-ious outbreak of infantile paralysis paral-ysis may grip Utah next summer." |