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Show Tracy Dloods represent state at World War I Vets National Confab Mrs. Lois Blood, President of the tJtah State Veterans of World War I Auxiliary and Tracy Blood, Commander of the Cedar City Barracks of the Veterans of World W'ar I, recently re-cently returned from the national na-tional convention of the veterans vet-erans organization held at Houston, Texas. The Bloods wcre official delegates de-legates to the convention, attended at-tended by over 9000 delegates, for the state department and the local barracks. They report that Utah was tanked third in membership in the nation and that nine Barracks in Utah, includng Cedar City No. 23-13, were awarded citations in membership. member-ship. Announcement cf the awards was made in the opening op-ening Frssion by J. B. Koch, national commander. Delegates were told by Olen Tcague of Texas, a member -4 the commtttee on Veterans iffalrs in the House cf R?prc--aentatives, that he was pledged pledg-ed "to isstt all veterans of all wars." He Indicated that !he latest figure released by the government show that there are 28 million veterans in the United States and the reteran population is Increas-ng Increas-ng at the rate of one mllion per year. The Congressman promised (betterment for all veterans in the areas of education, home loans and other assistance programs. Utah Department Auxiliary was awarded three certificates of merit at the confab. First award was for membership in the 100 percent brackwt; a second was for activities In and the third was for publicity the VAVS Hospital program and community service programs. pro-grams. Utah ranked fifth in the states in publicity activity, activ-ity, Mrs. Blood reported. Memoral Services were a highlight of the convention at which those who passed away in the Barracks and AuxMary organization were recognized. Tributes were paid by Commander Com-mander Koch and National Auxiliary president, Lenna Bradbury. Guest speaker was Oliver E.. Meadows, Staff Director Di-rector of Veteran Affain from the Uniud States House of Representatives. An expression of appreciation apprecia-tion was voted the Veterans of Foreign Wars for their support sup-port of the veterans of World War I. Palm Spring?. Calif was announced a the host city fort the 192 national convention, con-vention, the Bloods indicated. |