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Show Legion Auxiliary Cake Sale At Keith O'Brien's A gigantic cake sale will be held all day Saturday by the American Region Auxiliary Sugar House Unit number 65 at Keith O'Brien's Sugar House store announced Mrs. Francis Ruebellet president who lives at 1258 Crandell. The cake sale will be under the direct supervision super-vision of Mrs. Max Young( chairman, chair-man, 968 Elgin and Mrs. Ted Lovett, assistant chairman, 560 East 5600 South. Proceeds from the sale will go to the purchase of a second nebulizer to be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. At a Foundation meeting, Tuesday Tues-day night at the city commission chambers, the auxiliary presented their first nebulizer which was accepted ac-cepted by Mrs. Zenda Hull, president. pres-ident. At that time reports of officers and board members of the new foundation were made and far reaching plans presented for the furtherance of acquiring knowledge concerning this latest modern disease. "Nobody knows what causes cystic fibrosis," said Dr. Rasmus-sen Rasmus-sen who addressed the meeting. We do know that it is a disease of the exocrine glands: pancreas, salivary glands, glands in the lungs, liver, intestine and sweat glands. That it seems to be hereditary and is present at birth. Its final result i3 death. It appears to be mostly a disease of children. One in 600 children are born with it. Up to now several Utah children have succumbed to the disease and a few more are kept going by such means as doctors have developed to help them one way being the use of nebulizers which make it possible for antibiotics and other medication to be breathed deeply into the affected parts of the lungs. The aim of the cystic fibrosis foundation is to help families and children afflicted with the disease, socially and financially, and to educate the public concerning it, concluded Mrs. Rubelle. |
