Harry Truman: “I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1947 as Cancer…”

“I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1947 as Cancer Control Month, and do invite the Governors of the several States and the Territories and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations for a like purpose.”