Vernal Express | 1952-11-20 | Page 3 | Uintah County Raises 77% of Cancer Quota Section

uintah county raises 77 of uintah county donated to the american cancer society last spring during the fund drive drive according to the annual financial and statistical report of the Socie tys utah division just published the amount collected represented 85 95 per cent 0 of f the 1000 quota for the county cancer workers during the 1951 collected 50 per cent of the quota according to the report utah raised per cent of its quota combar compared ed w with ith per cent for th the e na nation U on two cancer prevention meetings were held in wetah county last year according to the report with a total attendance of do 60 persons and pieces of literature was distributed during the campaign and two meetings money collected during the cancer fund drives Is used locally and nationally nati orally not only to help cancer patients and to aid research for the prevention but Is used for a gigantic program of educating the public to the danger signals of the dreaded disease which takes the lives of one out of of every five americans every year