Iron County Record | 1964-04-16 | Page 1 | 1964 Cancer Crusade Launched Today Volunteers Distribute Information

1964 Cancer Crusade Launched Today Volunteers Distribute Information More than 60 volunteer workers work-ers launched the 1964 Cancer Crusade today in Cedar City. Mrs. Paul Lunt, crusade chairman, chair-man, said she was confident that "all the people of the community communi-ty will respond to the Crusade, and will give a neighborly reception recep-tion to the ASC volunteers who will call with life-saving literature." litera-ture." She said that knowledge of the facts contained in the Crusade Cru-sade literature "may help save a life in your family. A generous contribution would help save other lives now as well as in the future. Once cancer patient In three Is saved today," she said, "but we have the medical know-how to save one in two today without with-out making a single new research re-search discovery. The difference in needless cancer deaths amounting to more than 9O.000 persons each year can be made up if we persuade people to get to their doctors in time for prompt and proper treatment This is why the life-saving education edu-cation phase of the Crusade is so important." The fund-raising aspect of the crusade provides more physicians with the latest facts about detection de-tection and treatment; supports more scientists in the growing cancer research field, and supplies sup-plies more service to cancer patients. pa-tients. "I hope that each family in this community will open its door and its heart and make the kind of donation required by the urgency of the cancer problem when a Crusade volunteer rings the bell," said Mrs. Lunt