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For cancer research, at least, there will be no dearth of facilities and money this year. The American Society for the Control of Cancer practically has its million dollars to spend on public education to prevent cancer. Various other societies haVe their funds. Hospitals have their clinics, supported usually by special endowments. In Manhattan the New York Cancer Institute, financed by the city, cares for impoverished cancer patients and studies the infinite variety of the disease. Last week the New York Cancer Association, headed by Sanders A. Wertheim, occasionally flamboyant coal dealer, announced that, to cooperate still further with the city Cancer Institute, it had bought the 27-story new Hudson Towers building and would fit it up as a $5,000,000 cancer clinic and research laboratory. Most of the 400 beds will be free. In the clinic capable of caring for 500 patients a day, there will be no charge at all to cancer sufferers.