Trading Shoe Leather For Dollars - Muscular Dystrophy, against which Middletown postmen will march this Saturday, is a disease of mystery. It affects mostly children and is always fatal. About 200,000 Americans are afflicted with muscular dystrophy. Their muscles will weaken to uselessness and death is certain unless first a cause and then a cure is found. Local mailmen will walk a second round at 6 p.m. Saturday and ask for contributions to research agencies combatting the disease. Webster Newton, a member of Branch 188 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, has been named chairman of the drive. Everett Johnson and Chester Hollenbaugh are assisting him. The Middletown campaign with a quota of $3,300, will be conducted in conjunction with the national drive to raise five million dollars for the muscular dystrophy victims of the United States...

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