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SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1952
PFomen s Activities
The Fight Against Cancer
By Olive Starcher
Tliis month many women of the valley are devoting time
to the annual fund drive of the American Cancer society.
Since cancer is one of the most dreaded of all diseases, and
since annually many persons of all ages die of cancer, the
forces of the entire nation are marshalled under the sword
of the American Cancer society to combat this major
disease.
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The Jackson county committee of the Ameri
can Cancer society, which manages the annual
local drive for funds, is headed by Mrs. John S.
Day, Medtord. Among the women assisting Mrs.
Day are (upper left) Mrs. Earl Lawson, (at left,
and Mrs. Russell G. barnes, members of the Med
ford committee. Mrs. Raymond Fish is also c
member of this committee.
As a means of adding to the fund, a tea will
be given Wednesday, April 23, at Hillcresl
orchard, Hillcreit road, from three to five o'clock.
A feature of the event will be exhibits of hobby
Coi.ections, with several collectors of the city co
operating. One of the collections to be exhibited will be
fans owned by Mrs. Day, and pictured (upper
right) are Mrs. B. Branat Bartels (at left) Mrs.
Lawrence Ellis and Mrs. Day, with a few of the
beautiful fans. Both Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Bartels
are members of the county committee. -r
amjO exnioiting collections will be Mrs. Shelby
M. Tuttie, Georgian silver; John M. Lynch, minia
. ture automobiles; Mrs. Charles W. Lemery, minia
ture rooms; Mrs. Paul Meyers, souvenir spoons;
Mis. miiton bchucnard, lamps; Mrs. Bayard
Geichell, china and glassware; Mrs. H. A. Davis,
doils; Mrs. Timothy Daily, willowware; Mrs.
Joseph T. Antony, tigurines; Dr. Bartels, clocks;
Mrs. Fred Bayiiss, demi-tasse spoons; Mrs. Frea
T. Burich, china.
Three additional committee members are
shown (center) with some1 of the supplies used
locaiiy in the campaign. Pictured (lert to right)
Mrs. Kay Casleriine, Mrs. Robert W. Hanf and
Mrs. Fred T. Burich.
Unpacking posters which are being used in
the drive are iiower left) Mrs. Ray Frisbie, (at left)
Mrs. Delos Walker, Gold Hill, and Mrs. Paul Hauf
man. Prospect, members of the county com
mittee. Members of Junior Service league and of the
cancer committee spent several hours stuffing
envelopes to be maiied to county residents asking
their support of the drive. Shown (lower right)
are (left to right) Mrs. Walter Graff, Mrs. Jack
Enders, Mrs. Warren Bayiiss, cancer committee
member, Mrs. Wright Scoville, Mrs. John Crow
ford, Mrs. Robert W. Root, Mrs. Norton Smith and
Mrs. Richard Sleeler.
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When the work of the American Cancer so
ciety was first started in Jackson county, it wai
carried on by the Medford Health group, on of
the units of Jackson County Public Health asso
ciation. As the program expanded, plans were
made to form a separate committee and Mrs.
Day was named chairman in 1947. She headed
a committee of six.
This year the county committee Is under the
auspices of the Women's Auxiliary to Jackson
County Medical society, with Mrs. Bartels, Mrs.
Barnes, Mrs. Burich, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs.
Hanf and Mrs. Casleriine, auxiliary members
making up seven of the 1 1 -member committee.
Of the money raised in Oregon each year,
sixty per cent is kept in this state and of the re
maining 40 per cent, 25 per cent is used for re
search, carried on in centers throughout the na
tion, and 15 per cent carries on the national edu
cation oroaram.
In Oregon the funds are used for research
at the University of Oregon Medical school and
Oregon State college, to purchase facilities for
diagnosis and research, the training of technic
ians, establishment of tumor clinics, production
and showing of both lay and professional films
on cancer, lectures, instruction of nurses In can
cer nursing and postgraduate refresher courses
in cancer for the general practitioner in coopera
tion with the university's medical school.
The American Cancer society had only $10,
000 for cancer control work in 1913, the year It
was founded. Last year more than $15,000,000
was given ACS by the public. The 1952 Cancer
Crusade goal is $16,000,000 for triple program
of research, service to patients and education.
About 600,000 persons are under treatment
for cancel in the United States now, the society
estimates. Because of the high medical costs, and
the long period of cancer illness, a severe finan
cial burden will be placed on most of these pa
tients and their families. ACS attempts to lighten
this load and to make the patient more com
fortable through a humanitarian program of
service. ' '
In its education program the society stresses
that cancer is curable in its early stages, and that
of the 215,000 persons who died of cancer last
year, more than 70,000 died needlessly.
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