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Moms March Meets GoalOf $5,000The 1973 Mothers March on Birth Defects Monday night met their goal of S5,000 and still has money coming in, according to Mrs Ronnie Henry, publicity chairman for the Permian Basin Chapter of the March of Dimes Money from the march which is one of the largest projects of the local March of DinTes chapter, will be used for lochl patient aid, the state birth defect centers and a portion will be sent to the National Foundation for the March of Dimes In the Monday night march volunteer workers were to cover each neighborhood of the city and members of the Tri-Hi-Y and VIA teen groups went to apartment buildings “Most neighborhoods were pretty well covered, and the work done by the Inter faith group in the southside of town was outstanding,” said Mrs Henry.The Teen Walk-a-Thon. sponsored by junior high and senior high school students in April, is the next big project of. the local chapter of theoMardQ)T Dimes,Fifteen students from the three Odessa high schools met Wednesday in the March of Dimes office for an orgnizational meeting of the Teen Action Program of the March of Dimes Members of this group will have a balloon and tag sale at 12 local shopping centers from 9am to 1 pm Saturday Adult advisors for the TAP campaign are Sgt Dailey Brown, ROTC instructor at Odessa High School, Judy Morrison, art teacher at Permian High School, and Manuel Rodriquez, history teacher at Ector High School.TAP student advisors are Brenda Bolinger, Permian High School: Alicia Herrera, Ector High School, and Becky Robinson. Odessa High School.According to Mrs. Henry the high schools will not be competing against each other in the balloon and tag sale, but each student will be “doing his best for the March of Dimes. ”
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Odessa American
Odessa, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 01, 1973
Page 33
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