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focusing its attention on the prenatal period-the interval from conception to one month of age," Mr. Drayer said. "This new aspect of the MOD program was fully discussed at the meeting." Mrs. Dayer pointed out that every year about 250,000 American babies are born damaged in some way. National foundation volunteers are important cogs in the wheels that move toward prevention of birth defects, she said. Monitoring life before birth, prenatal care, genetic counseling, intensive care of the high risk fetus and newborn, emphasis on rubella immunization, and research into basic causes of birth disorders are all part of the efforts to assure each newborn of his right to a healthy start in life. At some 100 March of Dimes medical service programs across the country, they noted, physicians and other health professionals are working to improve the delivery of preventive and treatment Services in prenatal and infant care. The voluntary health organization also offers professional and public health education and community services. Paula Pfeifer, 1973 March of Dimes National potter child, site on the lap of Phyllis Drayer at a regional meeting of the voluntary health organization in Chicago. Paula, 5, was born with open spine, partially paralyzing her legs, and club feet. Mr. and Mrs. Drayer, of Crystal Lake, if hatted with her mother, Mrs. Roger Pfeifer, of Tulsa, Okla. Just two days before she was greeted at the White House by Pat Nixon. The National Foundation-March of Dimes is the largest source of private support for research, medical ser­ vices and health education aimed at preventing birth defects. March Of Dimes Places Emphasis On Pre-Natal Care Prenatal care, including special attention for the high risk pregnancy, plus regional intensive care nurseries, can have a major impact on infant death and disease rates, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Drayer told the McHenry Plaindealer this week. The Drayers have just returned from a two-day regional conference of the National Foundation-March of Dimes in Chicago. Mr. Drayer is McHenry county campaign director, and his wife is secretary treasurer for the voluntary health organization.' "The March of Dimes is EASTERSEAL CONFERENCE New developments in teaching methods for children with learning disabilities will be presented in a full-day conference Friday, Nov. 10, during the annual convention of the National Easter Seal society at the Palmer House. Also receiving major emphasis at the society's convention are Economist Urges Halting Of Big Government While the Township Officials of Illinois were convening in Springfield last week to reaf­ firm their dedication to "keeping government close to the people," a leading U.S. economist was saying in Chicago that "the growth of big government must be halted before it crushes us." Said Troy A. Kost, executive director of the Township Of­ ficials association, "We in local township government reaf­ firmed in our 1972 convention What we have been saying for many years: that there are great dangers in the continuing trend toward federal and big government control. At the same time, we have been demonstrating that township government, at local levels, can perform many of the functions which big govern­ ment has assumed - and can do these jobs efficiently and at lower cost to the taxpayers." Kost added that township government is "government of the people, functioning close to home, whereas big govern­ ment is not only remote and aloof, but always has been increasingly top-heavy, bureaucratic and expensive. It is costing the people much more money than it is worth," he concluded, a special symposium on spina bifida (cleft spine), a birth defect which afflicts more than 11,000 babies annually, and a full-day conference on the rehabilitation of stroke victims. Economist Milton Friedman, addressing the Economic club of Chicago at the same time as sessions of the Township Of­ ficials convention were being held in Springfield, denounced the growth of federal govern­ ment as a "solver of all problems." "There are two basic reasons why I deplore the growth in the size of government," Friedman said. "First, I think it is a threat to our freedom, and, second, we are simply not getting our money's worth." In support 6f township government, Governor Richard B. Ogilvie told the con­ ventioneers that "you have PAGE acted responsibly and in­ telligently" to fulfill the needs of government at state and local levels. "In order to make state government more effective, we need to make local government more effective," said the governor. State Treasurer Allen Dixon, who also appeared at the Township Officials convention, said that "The strength of our institutions is at the local level. We must keep sound local government and effective township government, because these governments are most important to the people. We must stem the movement 21-PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1972 PRICE FIXING William J. Scott has an­ nounced that the Harvard Community Memorial hospital will receive a $8,619.61 set­ tlement from a price-fixing scheme in which the hospital was overcharged for purchases of the much-used "wonder d r u g " T e t r a c y c l i n e . Tetracycline is a broad- spectrum drug that fights many kinds of infection. Scott's suit charged that as a result of price collusion many state institutions, public hospitals and individual consumers were toward centralized government and federal control " forced to pay artificially high prices for the drug from 1953 to 1966. As a result of the lawsuit, Illinois will recover more than $4.5 million from vfive major manufacturers and distributors of the drug. 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