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Show ,1 I PROOF TJAT QM&A 1 I I ( CAN BE ClftEDtfM 7 0 r; r 4. ill; PLAN FOR CRUSADE. Attending a special American Cancer Society Education Conference were Iron County workers shown here with state and national leaders. They are left to right: C. Patrick Bates, State Crusade Chairman; Nola Kupfer, Barbara Ronnow, Barbara Shakespeare and Dr. Benjamin J. Byrd, President of the American Cancer Society. Local Cancer Society Volunteer workers attend confab prior to fund drive moving personal history of his own battle with leukemia. Dr. Harry Gibbons, Director of the Salt Lake County Health Department, voiced his support of the Clean Air Act recently passed by the state of Utah. State Crusade Chairman Patrick Bates and Dr. Harry Hicks, M.D., Utah Division President, supervised the two-day two-day conference. Volunteer representatives from Iron County Chapter of the American Cancer Society attended at-tended the annual Education-Crusade Education-Crusade Conference in Salt Lake City this past week. , Representing the Iron County unit were:. Nola Kupfer, Iron County Crusade Co-chairman, Barbara Ronnow, Unit President and Barbara Shakespeare, Crusade Co-chairman. They participated in workshops and seminars to learn more about services and education program which their unit can sponsor. The conference was the kick-off activity for the fund-raising Cancer . Crusade to be held in April. American Cancer Sopiety President Benjamin F. Byrd, Jr., M.D., was a special guest at the conference. He traced progress in the area of breast cancer detection. Dr. Byrd is chairman of the Breast Cancer Control Force sponsored by the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute, and a professor of clinical surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College in Tennessee. Prominent Utahns also addressed ad-dressed the volunteer. erouD. Mrs. Carolyn Eyring Miner, newly-appointed Honorary Public Education Chairman for the Utah Division of the ACS, j noted English teacher and author, discussed "hope instead of fear" as the result of public education concerning cancer control. She presented the examples of two members of her ' family, her brother, Dr. Henry Eyring, and her brother-in-law, , President Spencer W. Kimball, who, due to early diagnosis and prompt treatment, were cured of cancer. ,, Patrick Roylance, assistant to Congressman Gunn McKay in Washington, D. C, shared the |