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Show Campaign Now On To Encourage Food Stamp Use "Food Stamps make the difference" dif-ference" is the motto of the United States Department of Agricuiure's Food Stamp program. pro-gram. For thousands of Americans and Utah residents too, Food Stamps do make the difference differen-ce between a poor or nutritious Utahns, though, Food Stamps people, especially the lower diet, For thousands of others are not available. : These are the low income paid workmen and women with families, who are eligible for Food Stamps, but are not aware of it. One estimate is that over 170,000 people in Utah are eligible eli-gible for the program. The program pro-gram now serves some 42,000 people. The Utah State Department Depart-ment of Social Services which overseas the program administration admin-istration is trying to reach more of those who might qualify qual-ify for stamps. A "Utah Food Stamp Awareness Aware-ness Campaign" aimed at informing in-forming potentially eligible Food Stamp recipients began in mid-November. The campaign campa-ign started with Governor Calvin L. Rampton's declaration declara-tion of November 10-17 as Utah Ut-ah "Food Stamp Awareness Week." "Our hope is to reach the working family man and woman putting in a full day but still earning low wages," says Food Stamp campaign worker, Mike Burgoyne. "There are many elderly and working people who qualify for Food Stamps but don't know it. If we can help them out, we will," Mr. Burgoyne said. According to Burgoyne less than 8 per cent of the "lower Continued on page 5) i, Food Stamp (Continued from page 1) income working persons" in Utah are using the program now. He says the campaign goal is 10,000 new participants in three months. Food Stamp information is being distributed everywhere in the state. Local food stores have joined hundreds of others in the state by passing out Food Stamp literature to customers. cus-tomers. Central to the information effort is a network of telephone teleph-one hotlines that any interested interes-ted person can call to find otii about Food Stamps and where to apply. Food Stamp information is available by calling either the statewide toll free number: 1-800-662-5431, or one of the follow in area numbers: Ogden 621-7420; Salt Lake 486-8157 or Provo 377-9220. The telephones are in ser-vie ser-vie from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. |