Show PROCLA PROCLAMATION MATION State of Utah Executive Chamber WHEREAS The tide of cancer continues to mount relentlessly throughout this state and the nation and WHEREAS Even the most pessimistic prior estimates of cancer deaths during recent years have fallen far short of the eventual number of cancer fatalities and Whereas At long last modern science has been mobilized mobilized mobilized mobil mobil- against this anci ancient nt disease in scores of the nations nation's finest laboratories employing the keenest minds and I Whereas Basic Science is providing an more ever-more- powerful array of weapons to beat this disease and WHEREAS Medicine l has demonstrated a vast improvement improvement improvement im im- im- im provement in the technique 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 has dedicated some of their time their talents and their money to the Ameri American an Cancer Society's program m of research education and service NOW THEREFORE I J. J Bracken Lee Governor of I Ithe the State of Utah do hereby proclaim the month of April I 1949 as CANCER CONTROL MONTH and I ask that hat 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 and the Privy Seal of of the State at the capitol capital in Salt Lake City this day dap of March in the Year Yem of Our Om Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty Nine J J. J Bracken Lee IV I fP 4 11 ft V 1 r I |