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Show Mayor Calls IFoir Support Of March Of Bimes Campaign 'Duchesne County Names Leaders, Sets Plans For Annual Polio Fund Raising Drive "HELP fight polio," forms the central plea of a proclamation signed by Mayor Homer P. Edwards, Ed-wards, of Roosevelt, January 12, signalizing the opening of the 1949 March of Dimes Campaign, January 14 to 31. "Polio cases cripple the pocketbook, too," Mayor Edwards said. "Average treatment cost amounts to $2500 a case. To escap the crippling effects of this disease, highly skilled treatment by a corps of I specialists and nurses is frequently frequent-ly necessary for months and years." "By contributing to the March of Dimes," Mayor Edwards explained, ex-plained, "citizens maintain a valuable form of community health insurance, that cares for any polio sufferer, no matter what his age, race, creed, color, or financial status." "In the history his-tory of the Utah Chapter," he added, "aid has never been denied de-nied to any sufferer from polio." Need for funds to fight the disease di-sease is imperative, according to information received by the Mayor, Ma-yor, from Frank S. Emery, state representative for Utah and Nevada. Ne-vada. Funds of local chapters, as well as the National Epedemic Aid fund, have been totally exhausted ex-hausted by the near-record number num-ber of cases treated during 1948. "Ten times as, many cases were treated by the chapters in Utah during 1948, as during 1947. and if it had not been for grants from the national fund, Utah patients pa-tients could not have been cared for," Mr. Emery said. "Because of the high incidence of the disease di-sease in Utah, the. Utah chapter has received more from the national na-tional fund during the last four years, than it contributed." "If the fight against polio is to continue," Mayor Edwards said, "Citizens of Roosevelt must assist as-sist wholeheartedly in the 1949 March of Dimes campaign and contribute generously." IN Duchesne county plans for the 1949 March of Dimes campaign cam-paign were formulated in a meeting meet-ing called for all community campaign workers. Miss Lois Lusty was named county campaign director with Miss Evelyn Gilbert as secretary. LaJune Dillman was retained as treasurer and Howard M. Ivory as county chairman. During the two weeks campaign cam-paign period, opening Jan. 14, everyone will be given an opportunity op-portunity to contribute to this fund. In a closed broadcast last week to Infantile Paralysis workers, work-ers, Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation, pointed out the need for more funds to care for the 30,000 persons stricken with polio last year, which was one of the worst epidemic epi-demic years in history. "If we are to have funds to care for 1949 epidemics, to care for the stricken, strick-en, to rehabilitate convalescents and to carry on our research for immunization, against the di- . sease, we must raise $30,000,000 during the campaign opening Jan. 14 and closing Jan. 31," he said. y ACTIVITIES slated to assist in raising the Duchesne county funds include dances, queen contests con-tests at the four high schools, use of individual contribution cards, collection boxes to be placed in business houses; and during motion mo-tion picture film week a short entitled "No Home is Safe," staring star-ing Margaret O'Brien, will be shown. f Community campaign workers who are being asked to assist with this year's drive are: Miles Christensen, Boneta; Lyman Bur-dick, Bur-dick, Bluebell; Ray Brown, Mont-wel-Monarch; Grant Jacobs, My-ton; My-ton; Willard Mecham, Mt. Emmons; Em-mons; Grant Stevenson, Mtn. Home: Lorin Mills. Neola; Grant Peel, Roosevelt; Olaus Johnson. Tabiona; Glen Sorenson, Tal-mage; Tal-mage; Wayne Williams, Upalco. Community directors for Al-tonah, Al-tonah, Arcadia, Bridgeland. Duchesne, Du-chesne, Fruitland, Hanna, Ioka and Utahn will be named this week. |