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Workers Announced For
April Cancer Drive
Appointment of Mrs. H. C. Warwick as. campaign chairman for the 1950 Cancer Crusade of the American Cancer Society in Rappahannock county was announced jointly today by Dr. Guy R. Fisher, Virginia campaign chairman, and Major General William S. Donovan, national campaign chairman.
Dr. Fisher said, “The goal of the campaign in which Mrs. Warwick will play such a vital part is to save lives. The stakes are large. Statisticians of the American Cancel- Society estimate that —if present rates continue—some 22-million Americans alive today (one out of every eight) eventually will die of cancer.
“No one can tell in advance who will develop the disease. It may strike on the next farm, in a neighbor’s ho'use, in our own house. Each of us can and must join in fighting this disease.’’
A statement from General Donovan said, “The 1950 Cancer Crusade for funds offers us all an opportunity to strike back at cancer. In accepting this appointment, Mrs. Warwick is assuming community leadership for a most important cause. The money we obtain broadens the attack through research, which seeks cancer’s ca>use and cure; through education, which today can save thousands of lives if people learn cancer’s danger signals and act upon them, and through service wh ir»V» i Vinlrtful t /v f Vi nntinnt
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