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RESOLUTION 71-13 <br />AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY <br />a C FLORIDA DIVISION, INC. <br />V <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY CHAPTER <br />= a P.O BOX 1587, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA 32960 <br />OFFICIAL CRUSADE PROCLAMATION FOR 1971 <br />WHEREAS, there are more than 1,500,000 Americans alive today, I <br />who have been cured of cancer, and <br />WHEaBA5,.23 years ago fewer than one -in -five cancer patients was <br />being saved. Today, one out of three is cured of cancer, and <br />WHEREAS, one out of two cancer patients can be cured with present <br />knowledge and methods of treatment, if diag4osed in time and properly <br />treated, and <br />WIMEAS, an annual physical checkup and knowledge of the Seven <br />Warning Signals of cancer, popularized by the American Cancer Society, <br />can help save thousands of lives from cancer, and <br />WHEREAS, some cancers can beprevented; most lung cancers are <br />caused by cigarette smoking, and most skin cancers by frequent exposure <br />to direct sunlight, and <br />WHEREAS, public education can help save thousands of lives now <br />being lost to preventable cancers, and <br />WHERE. &S, the American Cancer Qociety has produced life-saving <br />leaflets about the checkup and the Seven Warning Signals, that are <br />being distributed to the people of Indian River County, and <br />WHE3E"'Ls, the American Cancer Society is stepping up its research <br />3 <br />efforts in the search for causes and cures of cancer. <br />Therefore, BE IT aZ OLVEED <br />That all residents of this county be urged to support the <br />educational ,an 4,•H4 raising efforts of the American Cancer. Society <br />-as part of Cancer Control Month in April. <br />Done under my hand this to day <br />of 0,4A& -//-in the year of our Lord, <br />One Thousand Nine Hundred and <br />Seventy -One. <br />Chairman, Board of County <br />Commissioners <br />Indian River County f <br />MAR 10 1971 <br />i <br />