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    aWJk x FREEMAN COMPANY publicists 5/3/5? | euJt ?Θ╝is?? Mr. Ward# Brand Western Waxlde Specialties 5-900 Sheila Street Box 2J4ij.l1.* Terminal Annex Los Angeles Sk California Dear Mr. Brand* Upon the advice of Mr. Joe Dubin of Snowflake Bakery* I am enclosing a very rough color art sketch of a proposed wrapper for "Angelbread?╟Ñ* about which Mr. Dubin spoke to you. X would like to give you a little background on this charity project so that you might better under- stand the situation and our needs. We have been trying to do something for two years for a wonderful hospital in Vegas called the Rose de Lima Hospital* manned by six Sisters of the Order of St. Dominic?╟≤ This hospital takes car?½ of 5000 people a year* of whom are Jewish* 30% Catholic and Protestant and other faiths. Rose de Lima is the only accredited hospital in Nevada and yet, because of its wonderful treatment of the sick and needy It is way behind In the money it needs to operate at full capacity, which it has maintained for years. I have even seen bills that are six years old still being paid off at the rate of $1 a month* but I have yet to see a bill that hasn?╟╓t been paid by any patient, no matter how long it takes ?╟÷ I Just point this out to show you that these wonderful Sisters are interested only in helping people get well* not in making them pay for it* I became Interested In this hospital about two years ago, partly.because my slater is one of the only three^^jerating room supervisors in a Catholic hospital in America* heading up St. Duke?╟╓s in Philadelphia. Dr. ReubehJkoeki teh, the head surgeon of Rose de Lima, asked me to try to use ay promotional know-how to raise some money for this wonderful hospital* and I had been wracking my brain without success. One day last summer, when I 9508 Wl LSHIREBLVD. ?╟≤ BEVERLY HILLS* CAL. ?╟≤ BRADSHAW 2-861 1