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Show APRIL SCHEDULED FOR BATTLE ON CANCERDISEASE By proclamation of President Harry S. Truman, and Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee, April has been set aside in the state and nation as Cancer Control month. It has been so designated also by an act of Congress, during dur-ing which funds are raised for the American Cancer Society, which spearheads the fight on the dread disease. Mrs. J. A. Theobald of Price, and Stephen J. Moloney, of Salt Lake City, have been named by Lane W. Adams, president of the Utah division of the society, as fund chairman, and state publicity pub-licity chairman respectively. Fund chairmen are named in each county, in addition to the county captain, who serves in educational work throughout the year. Funds raised in the campaign, according to Mrs. Emil deNeuf, state commander for the American Amer-ican Cancer Society, are used for care and assistance of needy cancer patients, for education a- gainst the disease and maintenance mainten-ance of free cancer detection clinics, and for research on a national na-tional scale to determine effective effec-tive methods of combatting the disease. In Utah the organization conducts con-ducts a continuing campaign of education on cancer symptoms since it has been proven that cancer is often curable when detected de-tected in the early stages, the percentage of fatality falling from 75 per cent to about 15 per j cent. To implement education on symptoms, detection centers are conducted for those showing the symptoms, states Dr. Orin A. : Ogilvie, medical service chair-i chair-i man of the Utah division of the American Cancer Society. Statistics show that through-I through-I out the nation, one in eight die 1 of cancer one person every four minutes. This national percentage per-centage is maintained in Utah as well as the nation, and in every ev-ery community of the state. O |