Iron County Record | 1965-05-27 | Page 2 | Quackery Conference Well Attended by Interested Citizens

Quackery Conference Well Attended by Interested Citizens The Utah Conference on Quackery Quack-ery conducted their Cedar City meeting the College of Southern Utah Library Lounge Thursday, May 20. A large crowd was on hand with the majority of the mum miH. un nf those over 60 -r years of age. The program In general was geared for those In this nge bracket who annually In Ameil.'a pay nearly one-half billon dollars dol-lars for Items not beneficial or helpful to their bodies. Dr. Reed W. Farnsworth, a member of the discussion panel, expressed a word of caution about advertisements which promise pro-mise shortcuts to health problems. prob-lems. He also urged people to I beware of buying drugs or patent ' medicines through testimonial advertising. Miss Geraldlne Irvine of the Cedar High School Home Economics Eco-nomics department gave a very informative talk entitled "Sense and NoTijense." She said present nutritional fads and dietry supplements sup-plements are being usurped by those who made a practice of misleading Information regarding regard-ing their products.