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Show United Fund Needs Final Push - "Twenty five years ago in our own Salt Lake City, our Community Chest exceeded its goal. Salt Lake City was the only western community to make this accomplishment. And now in 1958 we are faced with the , problem of reaching a United Fund g;oal of $855,000. It can be done with your help." This was the expression of Horold J. Steele, general campaign cam-paign chairman for this years campaign. Have you given to this years campaign and if you have did you give enough. Your help is desperately needed to support 30 health, welfare and character building agencies who are a vital part of the United Fund; but who are also a vital part of our community. Today's tensions and uncertainties un-certainties have put new emphasis on the role that secure and wholesome family life plays in the life of the individual. Problems brought to Family Service Society, just one of the thirty agencies of the fund, concerned with family -living are marital troubles, personality difficulties with growing children, adolescent conflicts, illnesses and handicaps handi-caps that effect satisfactory family relationships, problems of employment, vocational placement, income management, housing and needs of older people. Each time such a case is completed in the files of Family Service Society, time and money are being saved. This year's goal of $855,000 is the amount estimated as adequate to take care of the budgets and encompass the needs Jbf the SO United Fund agencies. For the past three years the United Fund has been Set up as the machinery for accumulating the funds in the most economical way and to eliminate the cost of multiple campaigns within a community. It has been found that the generosity of the residents of the Salt Lake Area is such that should any one of the (Continued on page five) |