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Show Golf contest to raise j money for State Cancer fund All golfers, would-be golfers and those just generous at heart should mark June 15th on their .alendars as a day they can help wipe out cancer with just a swing the golf club. The event is the 6th annual Virginia Whitney Golf Contest that will be held at over 50 golf courses throughout the state under the sponsorship of the Utah Division of the American Cancer Society, Mrs. Barbara Prince, project founder, is co-chairman of the 1974 event. Locally, the contest will be held at the Painted Hills Golf Course under the direction of Maudel Smith. She and a committee of volunteers will supervise the contest at the designated par-three par-three hole. Golfers who donate at least one dollar to the Cancer Society are eligible. Any tee shot that lands within a ten-foot chalked circle around that hole wins three new golf balls for each dollar donated. Every hole-in-one on that shot will win a set of autographed irons. Every dollar collected during the contest will go toward financing more free Virginia Whitney cancer detection clinics in all areas of Utah. In recent years volunteer doctors, nurses and lay workers have organized 44 of these clinics in which more than 11,000 women have been examined for breast and uterine cancer. In this area alone, 146 women have been checked for cancer at Virginia Whitney clinics held in Cedar City just last March. The Virginia Whitney project is named in honor of a Salt Lake golfer and courageous cancer victim who lost a personal struggle to the disease. |