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Show Food Donated to Navajos A record 8,000 pounds of food, clothing and sundry sun-dry goods has been donated don-ated to 140,000 Navajos in the Four Corners Area of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah from White Sands Missile Range's charity Project Navajo '72. The five-week drive ended Dec. 15 and Whitfield Whit-field Transportation Co. trucks, free of charge, now are delivering goods to Navajo Council warehouse ware-house at Ft. Wingate near Albuquerque, New Mexico and Mexican Hat, Utah. The Navajo Council Coun-cil will distribute the supplies to tribal members, mem-bers, with emphasis on widows, destitute families fami-lies and pregnant mothers. moth-ers. . The 8,000 pounds surpassed sur-passed last year's 6,000 and resulted when a tumultuous tum-ultuous pouring of goods and monetary contributions contribu-tions netted 4,000 pounds during the last week. The late spurt came from contractors with affiliates on the range and from distant locations loca-tions where individuals either read of the drive in wire service dispatches dis-patches or in letters to the editor authored by range military and civilian civ-ilian personnel and addressed ad-dressed to their hometowns. home-towns. The most distant aid came from Concord, New Hampshire. Early support came from the United American Amer-ican Veterans Organizations Organiz-ations of El Paso, El Paso food distributors, the Naval Reserve Unit in Las Cruces, N. M. and from thousands of range military and civilian civ-ilian personnel who contributed con-tributed the bulk of material. mat-erial. The year's was the third consecutive Project Pro-ject Navajo. The first effort netted 1,600 and the second 6,000 pounds. The White Sands' effort ef-fort connects with those undertaken by other military installations in the west |