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Show Irving Students Add Efforts to March of Dimes Hou.se for display in the plaza Friday afternoon. Take a look at the car, then dream up the winning win-ning slogan, buy your ticket from one of the girls Saturday, and then you're all set. The girls volunteered their efforts in support of the drive and arrangements for their par-See par-See POLIO on Page S The March of Dimes the nation's na-tion's answer to the dread scourge of poliomeylitis moves into its final week today, to-day, and Sugar House is urged to give and give again to put this area over the top in this most worthy campaign. Collections in the contribution contribu-tion boxes in business houses throughout the area are progressing prog-ressing well, and an added spurt was given the drive last Saturday Satur-day when a group of ten gins from Irving high covered the district with a person-to-person canvass. These girls will be out again tomorrow, and in addition addi-tion to collecting dimes, they will sell tickets to the big March of Dimes ball to be held Thursday, Thurs-day, Jan. 31, at the Coconut Grove ball room. And therein lies a bargain. All purchasers of tickets to the ball the price is 75 cents will get a contest blank upon which they can submit entries in the prize slogan contest the winner win-ner of which will be awarded the 1946 Tudor Oldsmobile sedan. se-dan. This grand prize, donated donat-ed by the Auerbach company, through cooperation of Ken Oarff. dealer, will go to the author of the winning entry completing in 25 words or less the sentence: "I am supporting the Polio Drive because " Daily winners are being selected select-ed in this contest, and from these the grand prize winner" will be chosen. The contest is open to every purchaser of a ticket to the March of Dimes ball. M. L. Brain, prominent Sugar House businessman", is chairman chair-man of the polio drive for this area, and through his efforts it. has been arranged that the prize car will be brought to Sugar fight to curb the ravages of the crippling disease. How well the cooperative efforts ef-forts of Utahns has worked is shown in the remarkable record the polio center has attained. Complete recovery the absence of visible after-effects of the disease dis-ease is predicted for 85 per cent of those who entered the hospital hos-pital during last year's epidemic. Polio - - (Continued from Page One) ticipation were made through W. F. Arbogast, principal, and E. M. lironson, student coun- selor. at Irving high. Any person school child, business man, farmer, financier or housewife need only step into the spotless, white corridors corri-dors of the "polio ward" in Salt Lake General hospital to realize the tremendous power for good in the tiny dimes and pennies and the dollars dropped into contribution boxes during the annual March of Dimes. More than 60 of the patients still receiving treatment in the polio war are children struck down in the epidemic in 1945. Scores of others have been completely com-pletely cured. Only a few months ago these same children were brought in, stricken with the fever and the dreaded twisting twist-ing of limbs characteristic of the disease. All of the $105,000 contributed contribut-ed in the 1945 March of Dimees campaign, plus $100,000 allocated allo-cated to Utah from the nation, al foundation's epidemic-aid program pro-gram went into the courageous |