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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1, 1972 Page Five 'Friendly Visitors' Program Can Postal Service Cooperates With State Dept, in Issuing Passports Bring Joy to Senior Citizens Now that it is bad weather and chat, write letters, read, or and outdoor activities are limited, would you like to help those who never get outside? In the Salt Lake valley there are many senior citizens who need something to combat their loneliness thoughtful attention and new take a short walk. The reward is the happiness and joy given to the less fortunate who need a friend. There is a great deal of personal satisfaction in helping those who desperately need personal attention to assure them they are not completely alone or forgotten. This is something that you alone can give. If you or your group would like to give a few hours each month to make someones life more pleasant, call the Friendly Visitors at 156Westminster Ave., friends to stimulate new interests, hobbies and activities. A Friendly Visitor can do all these things and more. You can read many elderly people with keen minds have dull eyesight. You can walk many oldsters never get beyond their own 4 walls because they cannot go out alone. You can phone thoulisten sympathetically sands of our aged have no one it's to talk to, or no one to be interested in them as individuals. You can be a Friend. Friendly Visitors is such a service. The volunteer Friendly Visitor spends a few hours each month bringing joy and happiness to others by relieving their loneliness. There is a great sense of personal satisfaction in knowing that you have helped someone in need. After completing the application the Friendly Visitor attends a free training workshop at 156 Westminster Avenue (North end of the County Complex) or at a time and place convenient for the group Interested in being Friendly visitors. Workshops are held at night as well as daytime 487-366- 7. if printing... dial 364-846-4 Postmaster General E. T. Klas-se- n announced this week that the Postal Service will begin accepting applications for U. S. passports on a nationwide scale this month. The Postal Service, cooperating with the Department of State began passport application acceptances on an experimental basis last year in seven states. The pilot program was highly successful. Allen E. Johnston, Officer in Charge, Salt Lake City Post Office, said that the Salt Lake Post Office will join the many other offices across the nation in accepting applications for U. S. passports. Applications will be accepted at Window 7 in the Main Post Office from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. More than 190 post offices in ten states will accept passport applications under a first phase of the nationwdie expansion and by May, U.S. citizens will be able to apply for passports at nearly 600 post offices in the country. The program is designed to provide a convenience for U. S. travelers and reduce the work load at the Department of State passport office, 10 field agencies and federal and state courts that handle applications. The U.S. Postal Service is pleased to join with the Department of State in expanding the passport program on a national scale. The experimental phase of the program in selected post offices was highly successful. I am confident that its nationwide expansion will bring a new di sessions. It takes only a few hours to complete the training workshop. At the end of the training the volunteer is knowledgeable of the many community services available to make retirement more enjoyable for Senior Citizens. At this time an identification card is presented to the volunteer identifying him as a Friendly Visitor of the Metropolitan Salt Lake Services for the Aging. Then the volunteer Friendly Visitor chooses the names of the Senior Citizens he would like to visit. There are many, many names on the list supplied by both public and private agencies in the community. He chooses an oldster who has the same interests, hobbies, activities ,etc., and in the area he wishes to visit. A telephone call is made identifying himself as a Friendly Visitor, and at a time convenient for both visitee and visitor, a personal call is made to the visitees home. Perhaps they sit mss OHO to Persona railroad is... ...Steel strings tying a country together, A with people on both ends. On one end of the track are you. And the things you need. Cars, soap, fresh vegetables, TV sets, clothes. On the other end of the tracks are the people who make or grow the things you need. In between, are the people who keep the things you need flowing smoothly. Union Pacific people. Union Pacific people man the trains, work the docks, keep track of every car on the system and generally just get things safely from here to there. It's a big job because it's a big country. What America makes, UP delivers. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Corporation A Utah . mention of service and convenience to the Ame ican people. Secretary of State Rogers recently noted that the nationwide expansion of the passport application program is timed to assist citizens in the 1972 travel season. With the volume of international travel increasing steadily it is clear that we must provide additional ways to accommodate the increasing numbers of U.S. citizens applying for pass ports. The use of post offices in helping us meet this need is a fine example of how two government agencies can effectively work together to better serve the public. People speaking the 1,431 languages into which at least one book of the Bible has been translated represent 98 percent of the worlds population, reports the American Bible Society. A part of the Bible now exists in about half of the worlds estimated languages and dialects. 3,-0- t i 00 |