Appointment of volunteer com munity leaders in Powhatan county

Appointment of volunteer com munity leaders in Powhatan county who have accepted chair manships. or committee posts, in t lie month-long *053 March of Dimes, which begins Jan. 2. “was announced today by Mrs. W. E. Davies, county campaign director. Facing the consequences .of the worst polio epidemic in the na tion's history, this year's volun ter force is tlie largest ever en listed. the director asserted. "What happened to the nation last summer and fall." she said. • was more than a violent upsurge of polio incidence. It was a na tional calamity that wiped out all . previous standards of comparison. "For months and years to come, ' thousands of men. women, and children will require all the skills that money and modern knowl edge can muster .0 help restore them to useful lives. Add to this tlie total of those stricken in ot her years, and it becomes ap parent what an enormous finan cial burden is now carried by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis." she explained. Mrs. Davies announced these committee chairmen: Mrs. E. Floyd Yates, speakers' committee: and VV. R. Parker, publicity. Com munity leaders are Mrs. R. E. I). Blanton. Ballsville: Mrs. John E. Booker. Belona and Macon: Mrs. V C. Winfere and Mrs. H. H. Steffenhagen. Clayville: Mrs. Herndon Layne and Mrs. M. B. McLane, Jr.. Beaumont: Mrs. Mar tin Michaux. Michaux: Mrs. bar ren Jerve.v, Fine Creek Mills: Miss Thelma Harris, Midlothian: Mrs. H. C Perkins. Jefferson: Mrs. C. I{ Jennings. Powhatan: Mrs. Thomas Timberlake, Tobacco-* ville: B VV. Wilburn. Trenholm: Alls, Guy Palmore, F.ock Castle: Mrs Thelma Blankenship. Mose ley Mr. Carter and Mr. Fire baugh. school, and Mrs. Rosa Lee Martin, colored school. Committee chairman for the March of Dimes Ball, to be held a' the end of January. wj£I be announced later.