Show 5 i i Win Cancer Fight TO THE EDITOR The United States Senate will soon be considering Senate Bill 34 which would establish a National Cancer Authority whose purpose will be to intensify and ordinate co-ordinate all research on cancer and development of preventative measures possible cures clinics for early detection detection detec detec- tion and every step science and society can conceive to control the malevolent oppressor Senate Bill 34 will vitally effect the residents of Uintah Basin Its impact will wilt be specifically upon each family because who knows who will be next on cancers cancer's check list How many individual individual individual dual families have taken time to determine determine deter deter- mine how many of their dear ones have forfeited their lives to cancer eancer Each family should do this and only then will they realize the large toll of human lives this valley has sacrificed to the scourge of cancer I have been a resident of the Uintah Basin only 18 months The pages of your paper have revealed to me nearly every week the names of cancer vic vic- tims Only when we fully realize the hundreds who have been taken by this silent marauder and then compare its total to the lives of men and women lost in military combat will we comprehend comprehend compre compre- hend that cancers cancer's toll vastly exceeds the lives lost to wars We will then understand the vast waste of our finances and energies on military spending spend ing and begin to comprehend our virtually virtually virtually vir vir- complete neglect of sustaining a silent enemy who Is claiming lives by bythe bythe bythe the thousands without the fanfare of battle bat tle tic headlines Of our nations nation's more than million people more than 34 million are doomed doom doom- ed cd to die of cancer With the proper mobilization of our forces of knowledge finances and ingenuity this toll can be bo greatly diminished Yet right now weare we weare weare are spending per year for everyman every everyman everyman man woman and child In the nation on the Vietnam war another comparable comparable comparable able amount on other military spend ing We are spending 1900 l per er p IJ person ron annually on our space pace l program and io AA another 1900 per person on foreign aid a about bout per person to protect preserve and improve the total environment environment environ environ- ment and only 89 per person is spent to combat cancer the silent but life life- sapping marauder which shrivels millions mil mu- lions to pitiful shells of themselves before before before be be- fore their spirits depart this world Where should our priorities of spending spending spend spend- ing be Shouldn't we have a more beautiful beautiful beau beau- and healthful environment in which to live Then shouldn't we have healthy to move about in as we enjoy the good life I urge the citizens of Uintah Basin to check their family tree see how much of its fruit cancer has claimed and then in their good judgement judgement judgement judge judge- ment write or wire their Senators and Congressmen to get on the ball and give us the combative army of researchers and facilities to meet cancer in full battle Urge your Senators to support Senate Bill 34 Sincerely DAVID deL CONDON USAF GRADUATE Airman First Class Charles L L. L Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son son of Mr and Mrs 1 II II H. J J. J Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son of Vernal has graduated at Chanute Chanute Chan Chan- ute Illinois with ith honors from the technical training course for U U. S. S Air Force instrument systems equipment specialists y r Airman Johnson who studied the operation oper open and maintenance of flight instruments instruments instruments ments is being assigned to Nellis AI U Nevada for duty duly with a unit of the Tactical Air Mr Command THE AIRMAN a 1966 1906 graduate of Uintah High School attended the University University Uni Uni- of Utah His wife Christine is the daughter of Mr 1 and Mrs 1 W. W W F. F 1 F Morton 1 Jr Jr of Vernal i CORRECTION I Utah Russell Hussell M. M Vernon University of Utah honor student was incorrectly listed as Vernon M M. M Russell Hussell in last weeks week's Vernal Vernal Ver Vcr nal Express |