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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1966 Page Sixteen DIPLOMATIC POUCH The following letters were cently answered by the Department of State: What year did the State Department institute a Memorial Tablet in its lobby? What is written on it? M.K. York New City, N.Y. Dear Miss K.: The plaque was unveiled by Secretary of State Stimson on March 3, 1933; it was originally located in what is now the Executive Office Building next to the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, at that time the home of the Department of State. After the Department moved to governments continued support of a nation which permits this situation to exist regardless of that nations political affili- ations. M.G.P., M.D. Dear Dr. P.: Brookline, Mass. in any part of must always be viewed Germany Nazi horrors. We of iu the light all share the deepest feelings of renewed shock and revulsion when we remember the persecutions and mass murders of the Hitler period. Every effort, is being made by the present German government to erase the stigmata of the past. It is a mistake to view isolated instances its present quarters, the tablet diehards or hooligans as typiwas placed in its present location by cal of Western Germany of tothe lobby of the Diplomatic day. Entrance on C Street, N.W. After years of financial assisThe inscription on the De- tance and increasing trade, the partments memorial tablet is as Federal Republic of Germany follows: estabof and the Israel State Erected by members of the lished diplomatic relations and American Foreign Service Asambassadors last year. exchanged sociation in honor of diplomatic You probably know that the and consular officers of the Unit- West Germans have been making ed States who while on active restitution payments to persecu-tee- s duty lost their lives under heroic all over the world. Money, or tragic circumstances. can never be full comof course, There follows a list of 73 inbut it is evidence of dividuals, with the circumstances pensation, and effort on the part will and dates of their deaths. The good people. Unfortufirst person listed is William of the German cannot be said of the this nately, Palfrey, lost at sea 1780, and Soviet Zone of Germany, the the most recent one is Joseph German Democratic R. Rupley, who was killed by which has not made Republic, gun fire, Caracas, 1965. any such payments to these victims of World ,War II. It has come to my attention that there has been a marked Do you have an inquiry? Send increase in activities it to: in West Germany this past year. The Dilomatic Pouch I would like to record my protest PMS, Room 4835 against these barbaric manifesta- IU.S. Department of State tions; I seriously question our Washington, D.C. 20520. Anti-Semitis- so-call- m Bonds Holdings to $50 Billion in U.S. Wendell E. Gile, Senior Vice President of Continental Bank and Trust Company, the American Bankers Associations Sav-ng- s Bonds Chairman for Utah, oday paid tribute to the volun-eer- s of Utah who helped to sell he $50 billion dollars in Series E and H Bonds which are now owned by the American people. The announcement of the new 3eak in bond holdings made by he Treasury Department to high-igthe 25th Anniversary year of the bond program, now being observed. The first Series E Savings 3ond ever issued was sold to ht President Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 1, 1941. Since then, more han 2.7 billion individual bonds, amounting to more than $150 billion, have been sold. Mr. Gile saluted the thousands of volunteer workers in Utah and he nation who have participated n the bond program. Without heir help, this record would not lave.been possible, he said. The upsurge in bond sales that bas pushed the outstanding total past the $50 billion mark has 'esulted in considerable measure irom President Johnsons appeal o Americans to support the fighting men in Vietnam jy buying Savings Bonds. The na-io- ns 2.3 Million Acres Added to Tree Farm Program in Year reation. wildlife habitat and to water sheds. The 1966 additions raise the total acreage under the sponsored Tree Farm program to 69,154,572. There are 30,758 tree farmers in the United States. Taxpaying forest lands are certified under the program after being dedicated to and inspected for careful forest management practices by the regional Tree Farm sponsor. In Utah, Western Wood products Association is the industry sponforest-industr- y More than 2.3 million acres of privately owned forest land were dedicated to the forestry conservation standards of the American Tree Farm program during the first ten months of 1966, according to American Forest Products Industries. AFPI, the education and information arm of the nations forest industries and national sponsor of the program, reported that the new acreage dedicated to the program during its 25th anniversary year was more than 120 per cent more than a 120 percent increase over that added in 1965. During the first ten months of the year, 1,377 private landowners dedicated 2,374,511 acres of forest land to the Tree Farm program of growing trees as a crop and to the multiple use concept of providing products, rec- -- purchase of bonds also has been described as a most effective measure of curbing inflationary trends in the nation.. Earlier this year, the President announced a new and higher. interest rate of 4.15 per cent on both Series E and H Savings Bonds. The new rate also applies to all older bonds for their remaining period to next maturity. sor. Only privately owned, taxpaying lands are eligible for certification under the Tree Farm program, which was launched by the forest industries in 1941 to encourage good forestry practices on privately owned forest lands across the nation. - Utah joined states giving recognition to tree farming during the 25th anniversary year when Gov. Calvin L. Hampton proclaimed a week in May as Tree Farm Week. Utah state forester Paul was among state foresters honored during a national Tree Farm program held in Chicago, Illinois, in April. Utah was also among western states to participate in a special anniversary year planting of super hybrid trees which are being studied for their outstanding growing trait. Sjo-blo- ed , , anti-Semiti- c Utahns Attend Meet On Community Action Mrs.' Anna Belle Kagie of 1155 South 8th .West, Woods Cross, Utah, Acting Director of the Davis County Community Action Program located at Farmington, and Rev. Frederick T. Draeger, of Farmington, Chairman of the Board of Directors, attended an regional meeting of Community Action agencies in Kansas City December 16 to discuss new policies for the War on Poverty since Congress substantially altered Economic Opportunity program budgets last fall. Approximately 250 directors and board chairmen of Community Action Program agencies from all over the North-CentrRegion of the Office pf Economic Opportunity met with Don Thomason,. OEO Regional Director, and other OEO regional staff members to discuss the future of local programs since the changes 11-sta- te . . al by Congress. Let us be brutally frank, told local War on Poverty representatives, in just a few months, Congress once again will be reviewing the Economic Opportunity Act. Your representatives in Congress will once again be evaluating the job you and I have done to serve the poor in their districts. What we have done will be up for inspection. You and, I have a responsibility to make our programs pass that inspection with a good record. Take the work you have done, the insight you have developed, and the concern which you have matured into responshow these things sible action to your community and your community, in turn, will make its will known. And it is to this Thomason . will that Congress can and does respond. The local Community Action Program representatives learned that although Congress increased War on Poverty nation-wid- e Community Action funds from for approximately the last fiscal year to about $846 million for the next fiscal term, Congress also earmarked most of the funds for specific pro grams such as Head Start, Legal Aid to the Poor, and manpower-are- a beautification projects. This action, in effect, has cut in half funds to be used for all other. Community Action Pro gram projects. Those attending the meeting also learned that last year the $690-milli- on . Region of OEO received a total of $33 million for Community Action projects and that there will be some $43 mil lion for the region for the next fiscal term. Last year, of the $33 million, $20 million was for un earmarked Community Action projects, as compared to only $12.8 million for the coming fiscal year. This change means North-Centr- al that many programs which are will have to be curtailed or reduced and that there can be no new programs. now on-goi- SCOTS WHISKY ng 007. Scotch Whiskies SmUaA best Wlik PUZZLE SOLUTION L OOhoof BaBaDQBHEKlia AlB DO 0N N laM JUlSlEl mcnacra anna nnnianinanan angiaaaiaaaa 45 vs American! buy moreCutty Sark than any other Scotch whisky. Why? The No. Treason is in the bottle. Try Cutty Sark...tonight! N wsiMiwfl mi mjfif? mi eutf mm niftCNftU fcWY BROIh RUW1 m .'Nmiu T4HIC STflT.lOHSO . DMUd mJ BoaU Seodud BIcmM 86 M tkw Yk, N. Y, m |