Tabor City Tribune

Governor Sanford Endorses
Annual Heart Fund Drive

Governor Sanford has designated February "Heart Fund Month in North Carolina," according to Mrs. Grace Norris, Chairman of the Columbus County Heart Council. In a statement released today, the Governor referred to the fact that heart disease annually causes more than half of all deaths in the state.

"the cost is stupendous to families and economic loss to the state is incalculable."

Because the American Heart Association and its North Carolina affiliates support research, including patient care, professional and public education, and community programs "which have contributed significantly to the accelerated fight against heart disease,"

"the Governor urged that all our citizens give this Campaign their enthusiastic support and cooperation."

The Heart Fund Drive will place the

Mrs. Norris said culminates in a solicitation during February Basketball season.

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more than 10 million people including but a million children. It's responsible for more than half of all deaths annually in this country. In North Carolina, nearly 50 people die every day of heart disease—more than from all other causes of death combined.

The cost in suffering to families and economic loss to the state is incalculable. The picture would be much darker if it were not for the progress that has been made on the fight against heart disease in just the last twenty years. In that time, deaths from heart attacks have been cut in half.

Today, three out of four who have suffered a heart attack go back to work, and many patients can be returned to near normal.

Today, drugs and surgery can control many heart ailments, and faulty heart diets can be corrected, nurses cited. As for younger children, rheumatic fever which was a major threat to children, is now preventable.

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