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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04722A000200020117-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: January 4, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

.onday, lan. 4,1971 TIIE WASHINGTON POST
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ors of Plate Printing at the
Bureau of Engraving and
Printing got on the bandwagon
and found that they didn't
have to send out $150 worth of
cards. (These are the men, in-
cidentally, who are responsi-
ble for the, production of post-
age stamps, food coupons,
government securities and all
our paper money. They're nice
people to have on your side.)
And the no-card technique
brought $155 from another
group with which good rela-
tions are always advisable, the
General Accounting Office.
This contribution came from
GAO's Washington Regional
Office.
To the heartwarming
Shannon & Luchs gift pre-
viously reported we can now
add $120 contributed by the
,Residential Sales staff of
the Uptown Office. There it
was gifts rather than cards
that weren't exchanged. A
$200 check from employees
of Lambda Corporation was
accompanied by a note that
said: "Once again, Lambda
employees wished each
other the warmest holiday
greetings in the warmest
way possible: a contribution
to Children's Hospital."
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Miss
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-OUGH it had been
1 then pasted to-
n with transparent
d tell that it was a
, who wrote it, and
vhy" of the tearing
ng remained Some
rious. The accom-
?e merely said:
the bank will
mutilated check.
molt, I'm sorry. I
nned mad when I
Miss (deleted)'g
.t I Immediately
If the bank hon.
neck for the ac-
hildren's Hospital,
3 Miss (deleted). I
- any of her damn
Office Department
edly enjoying a hol-
: much of the past
ut a lot of mail got
.nyhow. The Stock
e Department of
lectric chipped in
idren's Hospital as
respect for two su-
n the Endorsement
GEICO, the man-
am stash. managers
arly, honer'td by
?-I providing medical care for
needy children. A tidy $310
ill Gold
of $605 by three, secret
groups in an anonymous
agency. (I'm sorry, that's
wrong; please change it to
"three anonymous groups in
a secret agency.")
Inasmuch as the $605 has to
be credited to somebody, we'll
list it as coming from the
Child Improvement Agency,
which is sometimes better
known, by. Its initials_-_.. ..,........
To conclude today's account-
ing of funds that have arrived
for Children's Hospital, I
would like to tell you about a
local teacher-one of those
idealistic but not very practi-
cal gals who has a thing about
children being the strength
and salvation of our country.
"Last year," she wrote, "I
sent you a check for $68 that
my class of 30 children colt
lected for Children's Hospital.
The children had been so en-
thusiastic about the project
that when I wrote to you'last
year I mentioned that this
year I would run it as an all-
school program,"
Poor dear) She just didn't
realize that one year's enthusi-
asm can't be relied upon to
carry over until the next 3)ear.'
So she went ahead with her
campaign to get the other!
classrooms to join in (and you
know how difficult that sort of
project is).
But somehow she came up
with $1,047.14 contributed by
the pupils at the Chevy
Chase Elementary School
(Rosemary Street and Hill
crest Place), and I simply do
not know the right words
with which to express my
surprise, my gratitude and
my admiration. My hat is off
to all who helped.
When we stopped counting
last week, we had $30,537.39 in
the bank. Today's total of
$3,661.96 moves us up to
$34,199.35, and now I am no
longer willing to concede that'
we will fall below $50,000 this
Isn't that nice? The next
time you need a Lambda, I
hope you buy it from these
friendly people.
Instead of exchanging gifts
at their annual Christmas
party, employees of. National
Labor-Association Processing
Co. exchanged reminders that
"the hospital with the built-in
deficit" was asking for help
with the financial burden of
was raised. The Stidham Tire
Company's hired hands came
through with a comparable
amount, $328 to be precise, by
not exchanging Christmas
_.-
cards.
11 Warty poNmed u,p to tbn tuna 'year,
going to the hospital in their
names.
Fourth graders at the Holly
Park Elementary School in
College Park all signed a
lovely Christmas card for the
children at the hospital and
tucked a $15 check inside it.
The Past Councilors Club of
Barbara Frietchie Council No.
44, Daughters of America, sent
me $25 together with wishes
for "loyalty, love and patriot-
ism" in the new year.
Two more Navy groups,'
checked in. The first was
the Navy ~ Manpower Pro-
grams Support Activity,
which collected $43. The sec-
ond was the Chesapeake Di-
vision of the Naval Focilities
Engineering Command,
which engineered an addi-
tional $100 boost to the
Navy's already praiseworthy
total.
The money that can be di?
verted to charity through the
simple expedient of not ex?
changing intramural holiday
cards in large offices is again
reaching truly astonishing lev-
els this year. At the State Na-
tional Bank on Rockville Pike,
$74.34 was raised, At the Gov-
ernment Sales division of Itek
Business Products in Falls
Church, it was $80. In the Con-
struction Satistics Division of
the Bureau .of the Census, a
precise count yielded an $87.40
tally. At Value Engineering,
the Producibility Division's
value to the hospital this year
rose to $109.08. If your edu-
cated guess as to the Strayer
College no-card savings was
$148, you get an A+. Supervis-
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