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Show PROCLAMATION State of Utah Executive Chamber (State Capitol) WHEREAS: The tide of cancer continues to mount relentlessly throughout this state and the nation, WHEREAS: Even the most pessimistic prior estimates of cancer deaths during recent years have fallen far short of the eventual number of cancer fatalities, WHEREAS: At long last, modern science has been mobilized against this ancient disease in scores of the nation's finest laboratories employing the keenest minds, WHEREAS: Basic Science is providing an ever-more-powerful array of weapons to beat this disease, WHEREAS: Medicine has demonstrated a vast improvement im-provement in the techniques of diagnosis and treatment of cancer; and WHEREAS: A beachhead has been established against this formidable enemy of all humans, because a considerable part of our citizenry have dedicated some of their time, their talents and their money to the American Cancer Society's program of research, . education and service; NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. Bracken Lee, Governor of the State of Utah do hereby proclaim the month of April 1949 as CANCER CONTROL MONTH and I ask that the people of Utah lend their full support to the mighty effort now being made by the American Cancer Society to defeat this disease. GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Pri-vy Seal of the State at the capitol in the City of Salt Lake City this 25th day of March in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-nine. (Signed) By the Governor J. BRACKEN LEE. |