Conant Is National Member Of New National Cancer Group

President Conant has been named a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the Public Health Service.

The newly created council, authorized by law, will guide the course of the National Cancer Institute at Rethesda, Maryland. Serving with five other prominent scientists among whom is Dr. Arthur H. Campton, Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, President Conant will have as duties the consideration of regulations to govern the granting of aid to cancer control projects, and the creating of fellowships.

In Dr. Parran's announcement, President Conant is partially described as "author of textbooks on the subjects."