FROM OUR ARCHIVES - The Beattyville Enterprise - Thursday, January 13, 1955

Beattyville Attorney Heads Dime Drive

The 1955 March of Dimes campaign directed by Edward Jackson got under way in Lee County last week with the placing of posters and coin collectors on local store counters.

Vaccine is the big question in 1955, while the stricken fight for new lives, 1,800,000 children undergoing intensive scientific study in the hope that they hold the key to polio prevention. These are the children in 44 states who took part in last summer’s historic tests of the Salk Polio Vaccine, developed thru March of Dimes research. 

Mr. Jackson asks that all shoppers and visitors to the city of Beattyville and other communities be ready for the polio girls Saturday, January 15

 The Polio girls are Janice Begley, Janice Kincaid, Donna Booth, Sally George Blakey, Barbara Sue Phillips, Betty Zane Newnam, Elizabeth Jean Updyke, and Linda Edins.

 These girls will have blue crutches for sale symbolizing the polio emblem for this year’s drive. These crutches can be work on your coat.

 In order to make all conscious of the importance of the fundraising drive, it is requested that these crutches be displayed throughout this campaign, which ends January 31.