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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1954
Page
12
A donor appeal highlights Ikey Joe, polio survivor born in 1948, who received multiple surgeries at the hospital. The piece emphasizes how Texans’ gifts support treatment and therapy, offering children renewed hope for normal life and independence. Joe thanks benefactors for fixing his legs and aims to walk unaided someday.
A brick and stone hospital set among trees on a quiet street. for 31 years it has been run by gifts from Texans individuals firms organizations and bequests. It stands as a living monument to Texas generosity and the miracles achieved for disabled children.
A promotional message outlines three impacts of a donation. It pledges to mend broken bodies ease a mother's sorrow and reflect the donor as an enduring act of love. It frames generosity as lasting human service remembered by men.
The hospital asks Texas donors to fund continued surgical and medical care for children. It emphasizes gifts from individuals and organizations, not from parents, and frames donations as an investment in childhood rather than a sale of services.
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