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Show Dig up Those Dimes Sugar House Must Do Its Part in War Against Polio that again in this most worthy , cau.se, as in every project Jor the public wi'liare, the southeast south-east section show its loyalty and leadership. Mr. lirain points out that half of all the money raised in this drive is retained for local use for the welfare of polio victims, and that the other half is devoted to combatting the disease dis-ease on a national scale for research, training, for emergency emergen-cy aid in epidemic areas (in-chiding (in-chiding Ttah) and for treating those who otherwise would not get treatment Nearly every one knows of some individual or family which has been stricken of the anguish an-guish and suffering, not to mention men-tion the expense, which results, and of course these need no persuasion or conversion to the Cause- Right in Sugar House there have been several cases. One with which many are familiar is that of Miss Carmond Cole. 18-yoar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armond Coles, proprietors of thp Sugar House Floral. Miss Coles was stricken in 1910, was It can happen to your or yourn today, tomorrow anytime. any-time. Infantile paralysis, the great trippler, is one of the most feared and insidious diseases hat constantly threatens every-"ine. every-"ine. It is no respector of persons per-sons it strikes rich and poor alike, white and black, Catholic, I'rotestant and .lew. And its very universality is the Uiing that makes it the individual in-dividual 'ligation of every one of us to contribute and liberally liberal-ly to the current March of Dimes, the annual drive for funds to combat and cure this dread menace. Throughout the nation Americans Amer-icans of all ages and of creed and color are dropping their dimes into the contribution boyes to support the ational Foundation for Infantile I'araly-3;is, I'araly-3;is, an agency founded by the late President Roosevelt himself him-self a polio victim dedicated to the conquest of the disease. In Sugar House the campaign is under the chairmanship of M. I. (Bud! lirain who urges I bedfast for a full year and is just now in the midst of her first full year in school in six years. Carmond was sent in 1944 to the great Warm Spring Foundation Founda-tion in Georgia where after three operations and eight months of ' psinstaning treatment treat-ment one of her legs was restored re-stored to partial use, and she was able to "graduate" from wheel chair to crutches. Now a senior student at South High with a high scholastic average, she is gradually gaining in her long fight, and working after school in floral design at her parents' business. She plans on entering the II. of U- next year. Carmond is but one of thousands thou-sands who have benefited from past Marches of Dime. In addition addi-tion to the aid given the cause nationally, this drive is a local issue. The past week's state beard of health report shows four new cases reported all children under eight years ot age Utahns may well be proud of j their records in past Marches of Dimes, for their dimes have fi- j nanceil at Salt Lake, a polio' treatment center which specialists special-ists proclaim as the pattern for centers in other epidemic areas. Here in Salt Lake, techniques have been evolved which give promise of assuring that 85 per cent of the victims currently under un-der treatment will return to their pre-sickness puruits without with-out visible traces of crippling effects of the dreaded disease. Look for the little blue boxes on the counters of business houses throughout Sugar House then dig down and GIVE! J 1 M; -f" I I ' ;I C t - f i ' ' s I . a ' r I s ? ; C X, f v - lit "1 "t I 'I ' ' 1 KNOWS WHAT IT MEAN'S Miss Carmond Coles, herself a polio sufferer, appreciates the importance of those March of Dimes donations, as she makes her contribution to M. L. (Bud) lirain, chairman of the drive in the Sugar House area. |