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115 ).r*iDorans Lead Yule Seal Sale Drive In Countv(Photo on Page 5)Lake county citizens were being asked this week to join in one of humanity’s greatest battles—that of controlling and destroying the effects of tuberculosis.Joining Chairman Hoy Christopher as a guiding light in the Christmas Seal Sale this year is another Doran, Mrs. Slater Cox, who is executive secretary of the Lake County Tuberculosis and Health association. And still another near-Doran, Mrs. Charles J. Brown of Lake Jem rd., is secretary of the association’s board of directors.Letters that went out to Dorans, containing the bright green sealswith their cheerful picturization of Santa Claus and the double-barred cross, were signed by Attorney Christopher who is chairman of the Mount Dora drive.The seals are intended for gay and colorful touches to Christmas pack-- ages in their actual use. But their e real purpose is in bringing hope and cheer to the thousands who suffer• I from the ravages of tuberculosis inhospitals across the country.Lake county now has 15 TB pa-r I tients in state TB hospitals, with one g other on the waiting list. Mrs. Cox points out that TB is a costly diseasethat only a small number of thee people afflicted could afford to | d shoulder the cost involved. The county pays $1.25 per day for each patient in a state TB hospital, and the state pays $3.75.J Under the guidance of Mrs. Cox, the Lake county TB association has formed a Negro Tuberculosis committee to help in educating members of the race toward prevention of TB. The incidence of TB in Negroes is 4 to 1 nationally and 2 to 1 in Lake ^ county.The TB association is formed by1 ■ I Apublic-spirited citizens who give oftheir time to better the health of® their communities. In Mount Dora,' j several volunteered to help with the preparing of the seals for mailing, including members of Doris Camp’s office practice class, Carol Spang, Jean Pike, Martha Simpson, and Norman Anthony, who typed letters. Herbert Schneider and Paul Hopkins, members of the high school visual aid class, assisted Mrs. Cox in the showing of the * film, “Standing Behind the Double-Barred Cross,” and Ann Bowers told the story of the Christmas Seal to ther;itISisenensB.ied;r•dI — l-lgI Lions and Kiwanis clubs.
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Mount Dora Topic
Mount Dora, Florida, US
Thu, Nov 22, 1951
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