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Show Eisenhower Urges Nation Support March of Dimes ify&j? ft ' ; v 1 , ui-Ty -.;. " i President-elect Elsenhower meets 1953 March of Dimes Poster Girls Pamela (left) and Patricia O'Neil, of Raleigh, N. C. 1 NEW YORK CITY Presidentelect President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower called on the American public to support the 1953 March of Dimes being conducted throughout the nation during all of January. He joined in the annual appeal after meeting the two Raleigh, N.C., sisters who are pictured on the 1953 March of Dimes poster. They are Patricia, 6, and five-year-old Pamela O'Neil, both of whom were stricken with polio but now are recovered completely. "It's hard to believe that these are the same little girls whose pictures are on the March of Dimes poster," he noted. "Now they're completely recovered from polio, thanks to the generosity of the American people." He urged all Americans "to help the Sthers like them by joining join-ing the March of Dimes." I Later, he joined the poster girls in making a short film which is being shown by television stations sta-tions throughout the nation. j This year's March of Dimes follows the all-time record polio epidemic of 1952 in which more than 55,000 were stricken. At the beginning of 1953, there were' 58,000 polio victims of former years still-undergoing treatment, with financial help from local March of Dimes chapters. |