AIDING CRIPPLES.
U.S.A. STAGES BIG DRIVE. I nited Press Assn.—By Electric Te leg ra ph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January 30. The nation honoured Mr Roosevelt s 54th birthday to-ijiglit by giving 6000 birthday balls, which 5,000,OOb attended. More than 1.000.000 dollars were raised for the fund to rehabilitate children crippled with infantile paralysis and to continue research work to find a cure. The functions varied from barn dances in the backwoods, where the admission was 2-5 cents, to ultrafashionable parties in large social centres of the country. At the Wal-dorf-Astoria in New York boxes were sold for 200 dollars upwards. Seventy per cent. the proceeds will be spent in the localities where the money was raised, and the remainder yvill go to the Warm Springs foundation. Georgia, established bv the President several years ago.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 1 February 1936, Page 5
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