Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1959 — Page 4
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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Bunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. Dfc Entered at the Decatur. Ind.. Poet Office as Second daw Matter Dick D. Heller. JrPresident John G. Heller Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Bahacrlptlea Batea: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, MOOt Six months. H.2S: 3 months, Bz.ll. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, 33.00; 6 months, 34 75; 3 months, $2.50. Py Carrier, 30 cents per week. Single copies, • cents. Your Help Needed The Adams County Cancer Society held its regular meeting Tuesday night. Two professional staff members, one from the state and one from the national organization, were present to explain the new cancer society policy. The new policy is this: all local cancer societies must withdraw from local united fund or community chest efforts by 1960, and wage a separate fund-raising campaign. The reasons given are very good ones, from the point of view of the national organization: health agencies, with special appeal, such as the cancer society, should not be lumped together with social agencies like the boy scouts, girl scouts, community centers, etc; separate fund-raising, on a house-to-house basis, is more effective than a combined effort; the important Warning pamphlets concerning cancer can best be distributed on a house-to-house basis while making such a campaign. The Adams county cancer society, under Dr. John B. Spaulding, is operated by a board of directors. The local board is made up of persons from all parts of the county who give up their free time to meet and publicize the cancer society campaigns. The board fully agrees with A. J. Perrine, assistant national crusade director, and with Robert Biddlecombe, northern field representative of the Indiana division, that a separate campaign is more effective. However, most of the members of the board are also members of numerous other organizations: crippled children, polio, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, heart, cystic fibrosis, tq mention only a few. If the cancer society is to operate under the national organization, a number of “new faces” are urgently needed. Perhaps some of those who have had one or another of the forms of cancer, and recovered, would be willing to help set up a separate drive. A house-to-house campaign, county wide, is a tremendous undertaking. To stage a separate one for every worthy cause will require a tremendous increase in active participation on the part of the public. The Fort Wayne-Allen county group has revolted. And they have been supported by the Allen county medical society. Everyone recognizes that a divided effort is not good, however. So the question is: will the Adams county cancer society fall by the wayside, a victim oi a squeeze play between national policy on fund drives and local nonparticipation in separate drives? Or will some volunteers come forward who are willing to help plan a concerted house-to-house separate campaign? Central Daylight Time UUANF.TV 12:30—1t Could Be You W I:oo—Farme and Farming * CHANNEL 15 1 10—-News and. Weather - I:2o—The Bd I tor's De«k THURSDAY — 1:30—1 Married Joan "" . 2:oo—Truth or Consequence* 2:3o—Haggis Baggie l?,>r ftfwirds Kewi - 3:oo—Young I>r. Malone ?:M>“"Hlghwav Patrol 3:3o—From These Roots -4:oo—Queen Eor A Day I'm— nieernVer Br?<te ~ ' " 4 :W-C<>U»ty Fair s:oo—Jlm Bowie 9!otZlTne y Gre e y r The