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Show iimnm III I llll.'P gj I 1 mil i.iiii ;.i urn '11111111111 1 1 M wedoesdoy, Moy u, 1986 Vernal ExpressAdvertiser 2 1 " .. 1 -Ht-i-- .- ,-r 2,600 named winners in college merit scholarship Some 2,600 winners of college-sponsored college-sponsored Merit Scholarships were named today in the last of three nationwide na-tionwide announcements this spring by National Merit Scholarship Corporation Cor-poration ( NMSC) . These academically able high school seniors have won Merit Scholarships financed by 200 U.S. higher education institutions, which have committed $10 million to support the awards. Winners were chosen from among Merit Program Finalists who plan to attend a sponsor institution by officials of that college or university. Each scholarship ranges in value from $1,000 to $8,000 over the four years of undergraduate study, and each reci pient's stipend was determined by officials of-ficials of the sponsor college. Merit Scholars in today's announcement will seek baccalaureate degrees at the 120 private and 80 public sponsor colleges and universities that are located in 44 41 SIGN WARNING river runners to wear their life jackets is nearly covered by high releases from Flaming Gorge Dam which are projected to continue until the middle of July. New law may affect benefits for veterans Veterans and military retirees as well as active duty military personnel person-nel and their families across the country are up in arms these days about a new law that will slash veterans vet-erans programs by more than $745 million this year. Fortunately, a leading veterans group is taking action to stem the tide of ill-effects from what it considers con-siders the ill-advised Gramm-Rud-man-IIullinga Deficit Reduction Act. The Act, which seeks to lower the deficit by slashing funding for mnny important government programs, pro-grams, has come under fire from the two million members uf the Veterans Vet-erans of Foreign Wars (VFW), among other groups. They ay, among other things, that it threatens ntiiwi! security.. According to VFW National Com-mantU-r in Chief John S. Siaum, cuts to tlii; military mny mean our trnttps tnny ! forced into comlmt Bt a very low Male of read mess. He Attention "Uintah Basin Anglers" A Custom fly tying and rod building. Specializing in area tested fly patterns. V FTop quality rod blanks from glass to boron Workmanship Guaranteed 21 i g 5Fiuit Spurting (Giuiii is Rich Younger 785 CQ43 LoriOatty 7854641 If r !?l !). '"I At i' f : - : ' J ; J j l"' v f . : 1 1 ' ' 1 ' ' '- J 'rf.-,r -.-.... . '-j JT i - - - i III- "j II 1 M cV "5 TV C?.i ;! '5?" 1 I ,r,sr-r:- a, S s O Western Living 1 1M West H7 40 Vernal 709 05X3 states. This year, a total of over 5,800 Merit Scholarships worth more than $21 million have been awarded. Two other groups of Merit Scholars were identified iden-tified and honored in separate nationwide nation-wide announcements earlier this spring. In the first release, on April 10, nearly 1,400 were named as recipients of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarships, Scholar-ships, supported by business organizations organiza-tions for finalists in whom they are especially interested. The second announcement, an-nouncement, on April 24, named 1,800 winners of National Merit $2,000 Scholarships, the awards that every finalist has a chance to win and that are distributed on a state representational representa-tional basis. More than one million young people in over 19,000 public and independent, secondary schools entered the current competition as juniors by taking the qualifying test, the 1984 PSATNMSQT. The top scorers, representing about half of one percent of every state's high school senior class, were included among 15,000 Semifinalists publicly announced last fall. Nearly 90 percent of the Semifinalists met the rigorous academic standards and other requirements re-quirements necessary to become finalists and to continue in the competition. com-petition. From this distinguished group of finalists, all Merit Scholars were chosen. The annual merit Program is conducted con-ducted by NMSC, a non-for-profit organization whose scholarship activities ac-tivities are supported by over 600 independent in-dependent sponsor organizations, without federal or state funds. Since the first awards were offered in 1956, over 97,000 of the nation's high school academic champions have won Merit Scholarships valued at more than $286 million. KOREA: AMERICA'S TRADING PARTNER Greater job stability and improved im-proved job opportunities for many Americans can come about thanks to a delegation of Korean business-people business-people visiting the United States during April. They're here to begin an ongoing program of purchasing goods from the United States. In the weeks ahead, executives of Korean businesses will travel to companies across the United States to make actual purchases and to begin negotiations on future contracts. con-tracts. Their shopping list includes such products as cotton, coal, grains, machinery and electronics. "We are intent on building a positive posi-tive trade relationship with the United States," said Jin-Ho Kum, Korean Minister of Trade and Industry, In-dustry, adding that successful trade relationships are a two-way street. In addition to purchasing American Amer-ican goods, the Koreans are expected ex-pected to explore other avenues for economic cooperation between the two countries a move that could cement ties as well as provide greater job security for a greater number of Americans. feeh that Congress should have demanded de-manded judicious budget cuts that would have gradually and surely led to a balanced budget. Among essential veterans programs pro-grams that are being slashed by the approved FY 86 VA budget as a result re-sult of the Gramm-Rudman law: readjustment re-adjustment benefits, burial benefits, bene-fits, medical care, medical and prosthetic research, lonn guarantee guaran-tee commitments and life insurance. insur-ance. Thanks to the VFWa efforts, the VA's full FY 86 budget was not subject lo the required 4 3 percent reduction becnuse veterans compensation com-pensation and pension benefits were exempt nnd reduction of the VA's direct medirnl care hioVet was limited to one jnrcent. 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