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Show Utah Federal Employees Tops In Contributions Utah's federal employees, who led the nation last year on percentage per-centage of payroll contributed to the Federal Service Joint Crusade Cru-sade fund drive, have already surpassed their 1958 record in the current campaign, it was reported re-ported by Ralph Wright, president', presi-dent', Union Bank '& Trust Co., and state treasurer of the Joint Crusade. - William W. McBride, regional manager of the Veterans' Administration, Ad-ministration, was accorded special spe-cial recognition for a dual role in this achievement first, as chairman of the Joint Crusade for the state of Utah,' and sec-end sec-end as head of the federal agency with the highest per capita contributions. con-tributions. The Joint Crusade is an annual campaign approved by White House for solicitation among federal fed-eral agencies and military installations instal-lations in support of CARE, the Crusade for Freedom and American-Korean Foundation. According to recent word from Washington, the $10,298.72 contributed con-tributed by Utah's federal em-pi em-pi oyeers in 1958 was tjie highest in the nation on the basis of federal payroll. Already this year $12,789 or 12.5 per cent of last year's total has been received, re-ceived, with additional returns still to come from Clearfield Naval Na-val Supply Depot, Dugway Proving Prov-ing Grounds, Army Reserves and several other federal agencies. Hill Air Force Base employees contributed $6,129, accounting fnr nparlv half nf 'thf st.atf id- ; . 77 , tt: ; tal. This was almost twice the $3,284 from HAFB last year. The 80 employees of the Veterans Vet-erans Administration Regional office, Salt 'Lake' City, contributed contrib-uted 29 per cent more per capita than the next highest federal agency in the state. |
