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Support of the February Heart Fund campaign by Vigo County residents is urged by Vigo County Commissioners in a proclamation issued this week designating February as Heart Month in Vigo County. Commissioners Harry P. Brentlinger Jr., Michael Sweeney and Joseph Silcock signed the document calling for monetary contributions as well as contributions of volun tary services from local citizens to aid the campaign which helps finance research into the causes and control of heart disease, the nation’s deadliest killer. The campaign will continue throughout the month with various special events climaxed by the residential solicitation on Heart Sunday, Feb. 24. Joe Lowe heads this year’s campaign. The Heart Fund, this procla mation observed, makes pos sible a crusade against all of the heart and blood vessel: diseases which “are responsible for widespread suffering and often serious economic hard ship in our homes and busi nesses.” Heart Fund dollars, if pointed out, are used to fight heart at tack, stroke, rheumatic fever, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, inborn heart de fects and many other types of heart and blood vessel diseases. These diseases, the commis sioners stated, account for more deaths each year in the United States than all other causes of death combined. The Heart Fund drive will reach a high point on Heart Sunday, Feb. 24, when hun dreds of volunteers will call ‘door-to-door in the residential areas of county for contribu tions from their neighbors. The American Heart Associa tion, with its affiliates and chap ter, is the nation’s only inde pendent voluntary health agency dedicated to combating all of
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 05, 1963
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