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Show Good News Department tional menstrual problems: Stri-Dex Medicated Pads for the treatment of acne; Diaper-ene's Diaper-ene's Baby Wash Cloths which are cloth, not paper, towelettes; and Vanquish, an extra-strength pain formula with two buffers. Customers who send in proofs of purchase of these brands can receive up to $5.00 in refunds. The results of this year's National Easter Seals Society Telethon are now in. Thanks to many of the Americans who watched and contributed, it was an enormous success. To date, some $24,680,000 was raised for Easter Seals this year. That's $3.3 million more than was raised in last year's Easter Seals Telethon. The increase is believed to be a direct result of an Easter Seals Couponing Program, to which Glenbrook Laboratories, a consumer division of Sterling Drug Inc., was the major contributor. con-tributor. Consumer response to all of the brands surpassed expectations. When the final figures are in, Glenbroqk, along with other major companies, com-panies, expects to raise some $2 million towards the final total. Consumers and local supermarkets super-markets have also benefited from this Easter Seals campaign, cam-paign, which worked like this: - Beginning April 1, Glenbrook Glen-brook and other major U.S. corporations sponsored a promotional pro-motional campaign that involved in-volved more than 200 newspapers news-papers nationwide. The newspapers news-papers carried special inserts featuring store coupons that offered discounts to customers. cus-tomers. The Glenbrook coupons, for example, permitted consumers consum-ers to save up to $2.70 when they purchased Bayer Aspirin; Maximum Bayer Aspirin; Arthritis Ar-thritis Bayer Timed-Release Aspirin; Bayer Children's Chewable Aspirin; Phillips' Milk of Magnesia; Phillips' Lo-Sal Lo-Sal sodium-free antacid tablets; tab-lets; Midol capsules for func- i .. u Pat Boone and Donna Mills co-hosted the successful 1984 National Nation-al Easter Seals Telethon. Tele-thon. They are congratulated congrat-ulated by Gerard P. Mat-timore. Mat-timore. Vice President of Glenbrook Laboratories, Laborato-ries, one of the corpo-rate corpo-rate donors of the event. The spectacular 20-hour Telethon was shown on March 31 and April 1 and highlighted this year's fund-raising campaign. cam-paign. Pat Boone, who has hosted the Telethon for the past four years, was joined by CBS television star Donna Mills. It marked Ms. Mills' first appearance as co-host of the National Telethon. She co-hosted co-hosted the 1983 Los Angeles telethon-segment, and was a featured guest on the national show telecast from Hollywood. |