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Show Cancer Leader Conference Scheduled A look at fake Cancer Cures and a renewed effort in the fight against the ciganette habit will be among the themes featured Sept. 18-19 at the leadership training conference of the Utah Division, American Cancer Society. The two-day meeting will feature reports on the division's divi-sion's crusade, this past spring and summer the most successful fund raising campaign in its history. Sessions will be held in the Ramada Inn, 1000 South State and at the University Club, 136 East South Temple. A featured guest at the meetings will be Mrs. William Wil-liam Talman, widow of the late television actor who died of lung cancer and whose final professional performance per-formance was in an anti-cigarette anti-cigarette film which told a tale of the ultimate cost of smoking. Talman was best known as the always unsuccessful district dis-trict attorney in the Perry Mason television series. His widow, Peggy, will be a speaker at an awards luncheon lunch-eon September 19 at th;i University Club. Efforts of the Cancer Society So-ciety to get people to give up smcknig will be described September 18 by Dr. Cyril D. Fullmer and Warren Barnes, Directors of the I. Q. (,I Quit) program. Mrs. Talman also will be on thi3 program. Meetings will begin at 9:30 a m. with a welcome from Clark N. Stohl, executive vice president of the Utah Division, and Dr. Wallace L. Chambers, president. A highlight of the first day's session will be a 30 minute film, "Journey Into Darkness," a dramatic look at cancer quackery and the cost in human lives, narrated narrat-ed by noted hollywood actor Robert Ryan. The film has an all-star cast and has received re-ceived wide critical acclaim. Dr. Adolph M. Nielsen, a Salt Lake physician, will talk about the problems of cancer quackery after the showing of the movie. The need for regular medical med-ical checkups and an outline of the Virginia Whitney Memorial project to heip provide cancer checkups in sparsely populated areas of the State, will be presented. Special training sessions for volunteer workers will be held during the two-day meet. New officers for the coming year will be elected. |