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The Ontario Argus
Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon
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Christmas Seal sale campaign against tuberculosis begins in Ontario and Nyssa, Oregon, with school children selling $100 worth on the first day, one-third of the quota. Woman's Club and American Legion involved; Saturday street sale planned. Funds support health efforts in Oregon.
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CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
ACTIVE LITTLE WORKERS MEET
WITH GENEROUS RESPONSE
FROM
ONTARIO
FOLKS
MORE WORK YET TO DO
SATURDAY
NYSSA UNDERTAKES CAMPAIGN
Business District Assigned to Women Workers for Saturday Drive
—Funds to Be Spent in Oregon for Health Campaign.
The Christmas Seal sale for the fight against tuberculosis has started with a winning stride. Superintendent of Schools H. P. Lewis accepted the work of organizing the school children for a house to house campaign and got them started on Wednesday.
During the first day of the campaign the children disposed of $100 worth of stamps or one-third of Ontario's quota and today Mr. Lewis called upon Mrs. G. K. Aiken, local chairman, for more stamps.
Nyssa Takes Quota.
The campaign in Nyssa and Ontario is being made one and from Ontario there was sent this week $100 worth of stamps to Mrs. W. S. Clore, president of the Nyssa Woman's club, which has undertaken to sell the little seals there.
This has necessitated sending for another $100 worth for Ontario so that the county quota will be raised.
Legion Men Help.
In many of the counties the sale is being undertaken by the men of the American Legion in recognition of the work being done by the nurses of the Tuberculosis association among the returned soldiers who contracted the disease in the service.
At a meeting of the executive committee of Ontario Post Sunday evening it was decided to put the matter before the members at the first meeting following the receipt of the charter, and undertake if the members so determined the sale among the young men of the city.
Street Sale Saturday.
On Saturday the members of the Woman's club which has charge of the sale in the city will canvas Oregon street and have a public booth in the postoffice or some down town building.
HELP TO SAVE
WASTED
LIVES
Tuberculosis
kills
producers
chiefly men
and
women be-
tween the ages
of 15 and 45.
It
claims
workers-active
men and
women in the homes,
the office and
the shop.
It
causes the
150,000 deaths
in the United States
every year.
It costs
the
United States in
economic
waste
alone
about
$500,000,000 annually.
More than
1,000,000 persons
in this
country
are suffering
from
active
tuberculosis right
now.
It menaces every community,
every
home and every individ-
ual.
And yet tuberculosis is cura-
ble and preventable.
It is spread largely by ignor-
ance.
carelessness
and neglect.
The
National
Tuberculosis
Association
and
its affiliated
state and
local
organizations
wage
a
continuous,
winning
war on tuberculosis.
The
work
of
these
organiza-
tions is
financed
chiefly by the
sale of
Red
Cross
Christmas
Seals.
Drive the
menace of tuber-
culosis from your door.
BUY AND USE RED CROSS
CHRISTMAS SEALS!
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Primary Location
Ontario And Nyssa, Oregon
Event Date
Started Wednesday, Saturday Drive
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Outcome
children sold $100 worth of stamps on first day, one-third of ontario's quota; additional stamps ordered; funds for oregon health campaign
Event Details
School children organized by Superintendent H. P. Lewis conducted house-to-house Christmas Seal sales against tuberculosis, starting Wednesday. Nyssa Woman's Club handles local sales. American Legion considers involvement. Woman's Club plans Saturday street canvass and booth in Ontario.