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Show J Young students urged to join stamp program To all students who would like to become JUNIOR ASTRONAUTS. AS-TRONAUTS. Your postmaster has received certificates which certify boys and girls, who join the STAMP SAVINGS PROGRAM to be JUNIOR ASTRONAUTS. AS-TRONAUTS. These certificates read: THE 8th MERCURY ASTRONAUT This certifies that having shown evidence of supporting sup-porting this NATION'S VITAL SPACE PROGRAM BY THE PURCHASE OF UNITED STATES SAVINGS STAMPS is now recognized as a JUNIOR JUN-IOR ASTRONAUT, pledged to help keep this country strong and free. Signed by the seven astronauts, by Sec. of the Treasury, Douglas Dillon, and by William H. Neal, National director of United States Savings Sav-ings Bonds. President Kennedy also endorsed it. All you have to do is purchase pur-chase SAVINGS STAMPS ON STAMP DAY AT YOUR SCHOOL OR FROM YOUR POST OFFICE. They can be had for 10 cents, 25 cents, 50 cents or a dollar. Besides the junior astronaut certificates you will get a book in which to keep the stamps. Many students much rather have a SAVINGS BOND for Christmas than anything else, it has been noted. So-called "foreign" dishes rapidly are becoming American Ameri-can favorites. National Family Opinion, a consumer research organization, found that two-thirds two-thirds of the families queried nationally enjoyed Italian foods with some frequency, with spaghetti spa-ghetti leading the popularity list. It reported these averag- ages of homes serving foreign foods: Italian, 66 per cent; Chinese, Chi-nese, 36; Mexican, 22; Hungarian, Hungar-ian, 7; French, 5; German, 3; and Armenian, 2 per cent. Nearly 98 per cent of the World War n veterans able to work are employed, according to the Veterans Administration. Administra-tion. The greater part of America's Ameri-ca's 15 million overweight people peo-ple go on diets repeatedly, say statisticians, but most of them regain the pounds lost. |
