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Show ' .... w '.:J-iv6 fa - ' ' -tr ,A ,r . 30 a mouse )l,Sir. nice will be "going V thanks to the , school students in L"id of Davis County. S ,iSE thousands of .needed by scientists nip "ave lives from the . '.'mi of cancer, a fc" i- us been initiated by , tan Cancer Society Mrs. Nancy Ludwig and Mrs. Jan Thornton, co-chairmen of the American Cancer Society's "Send a Mouse to College" campaign in the south end of Davis County, begin counting the money contributed by students at the Muir elementary school while Brenda Hess, a student at the school, displays the poster used in the campaign. to provide the needed mice for experiment purposes. This program is called "Send a Mouse to College." Since it costs only 51 cents per mouse for a cancer research lab, most elementary elemen-tary school students are happy to use the money they'd usually spend on treats, to pay for a research mouse. THIS YEAR, the students in the 17 elementary schools from Farmington, south, have contributed more than $1600 in the two-week "Send a Mouse to College" campaign, which has just been completed complet-ed this week, according to Mrs. Nancy Ludwig, chairman chair-man of the program. Each student who made a contribution con-tribution received a special "Send a Mouse to College" button to wear. Some 30 percent of all income in-come given to the American Cancer Society supports a wide variety of research programs. Cancer research scientists have thrown important im-portant light on the role of viruses in cancer in recent years. At this time many more ACS-supported scientists scien-tists are digging for the why of uncontrolled cell growth called cancer. JOINING THE basic scientists scien-tists in a many-sided research effort are medical clinicians who work to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human cancer. Then there are the epidemiologists who study the incidence and distribution of diseases in populations for clues to their origin and for ways and means of controlling con-trolling them. THE ACS research support began in 1946 with a million dollars and today, nearly $400 million later, there are more than 1,500,000 people cured of cancer many because of improved diagnosis and treatment procedures, manv pioneered by ACS-supported research efforts. Research will provide the final answer. The ACS research program taps the best minds and the best ideas in the scientific field across the nation. Already numerous lives have been saved through their efforts. THE DAVIS County students who are wearing a "Send a Mouse to College" button this week are contributing con-tributing to this important phase of the cancer program, bf |