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Show District Units " ! Named For Cancer Control Responding to greater public recognition of the vital education and service work of the Utah field prmy in the fight against cancer, officials of the Utah division, American Cancer society today announced creation of district units throughout the state for improved correlation of the program. pro-gram. Mrs. Emil de Neuf, Utah commander, com-mander, said the state has been divided into nine districts, each to be led by a district commander comman-der serving as liaison between the state headquarters in Salt Lake City and the area's county organization. "Utahns' response to the field army program of education and service, as well as their responses to our annual April-long appeals for funds, entail a heavy responsibility respon-sibility upon the organization to provide the maximum of service possible in our volunteer army," said Mrs. de Neuf. "The creation of district units, we feel, will facilitate better correlation cor-relation of our program and by improved efficiency stimulate greater efforts by volunteers to reduce the state's needless losses to the cancer scourge," the state commander added. She emphasized that the year-round year-round program of the Utah division di-vision is purely a volunteer program, pro-gram, assuring Utahns that their donated monies are employed to the maximum in , the fight against cancer. Mrs. de Neuf also averred that the district set-up will result in a more efficient and productive channeling of the energies of the volunteer army. The state headquarters office i of the society, at 32 Exchange Place, Salt Lake City, will direct operations in the Salt Lake, Tooele, Summit and South Davis county areas comprised in district dis-trict number 1 of the new set-up, said Mrs. deNeuf. "Each week our volunteer army continues to grow," she said. "We expect that the district set-up will permit greater use of them." At present, the division is conducting con-ducting alternate monthly cancer can-cer detection centers at the Utah Valley hospital in Provo and is operating similarly at the Dee and St. Benedicts hospitals in Ogden. Monthly centers also are in operation in Salt Lake City. |
