LETTER CARRIER IS STILL WINNING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01590A000400010039-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: January 12, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

Getter
Carrier
Is Still
Winning
g Employees diverted another $250 to the
send each other $56 worth of gree
Ordinarily, the heavy year-end mail for
cards this year. - hospital by not sending small personal
Children's Hospital has slacked off by this
At their annual Christmas "auction," gifts to its friends on Capitol Hill.
date. After running a week or so behind the
staffers at the Lewisdale Elementary , if you're not in the military, fasten your
letter carrier, I begin to catch up with him.
School raised $64 for the children. No card seatbelt as [report that $251 arrived from
This year the pattern has been dif-
exchange among the 10 members of the MILPERCEN, PERSINS D, HQDAMSD,
ferent-somewhat tighter before Jan. 1,
staff of the English studies division of Systems Branch-which translates into:
considerably heavier after. My reports to
Prince George's Community College Military Personnel Center, Personnel
you remain a full week behind, and in my
netted $85. Systems Information Directorate,
struggle to get caught up, the letter carrier
Arlington County firefighters moved us Headquarters, Department of the Army
is still winning.
to the three-digit level by chipping in Military Systems Division, Officers
Let's get down to business. Six Camp
$124.59. The staff of the American Alliance System Branch. You can unbuckle now.
Springs toddlers with a repertoire of one
for Health, Physical Education and Employees of the National Labor
song, "Jingle Bells," went caroling on
Recreation sent me $128 and a note that Relations Board maintained good
Christmas night and came home with $10.
said: "This is the first year we have relations without exchanging 826-1.25worth
Tilree youngsters In Springfield, Va.,
participated. We'll do better next year." of holiday cards. Baltimore and Rockville
collected $12. "Our office goofs" (no
In their fifth year of not exchanging employees of the Paul H. Werres Co.
details were provided) accounted for
holiday cards among themselves, em- chipped in $300-up at per cent from last
$12.48. The Army's Civilian Personnel
ployees of the Bureau of Manpower year. And our best nonmedielnal shot in
Support Division chipped in $16.25.
"A group of King's Manor kids" Information Systems at the Civil Service the arm for the day came from personnel
(McLean) collected $18 and were Commission raised $148.46. And once in NASA's Lunar and Planetary
distressed that their total was down 40 per again the Chevy Chase Business & programs, where $3.35 worth of cards were
cent from last year. ild;._ Professional Women's Club held a gift not exchanged.
r vement eney's Trends and exchange in which all the gifts (this time To summarize, 27 organizations con.
under 53 s $20 under my $155 worth) ended up at the hospital tributed $3,222.32 and 61 individuals added
or. Fo Release 2OG O81 ': eh& HavinfAegun t e 5.157.32.
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oc ors added another $20. And a third Administration the rt nt Having begun t e ay wit $70,135.64, the
check for $20 arrived from a unit that Is Finance and Revenue know what to do shoebox now holds $75,292.96,
onday, Jan. I , 9.76 W "i
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Improvement Agency - ABSPC at the
National Security Agency. Psychologists
at CIA sent in W.
toward wiping out the one at 13th and W.
Members of the staff of Aerospace
Industries Association sent me a wad of
"The Tuesday Morning Koffee Klatch checks that came to $168. The fourth year
Bowling League In Laurel" responded to of the no-cards plan in the Science &
the need at Children's Hospital as coffee Technology Division of the Institute for
drinkers and bowlers usually do and sent, Defense Analyses netted, after analysis by
me $36.29. the abacus, a delightful $242. The Con-
"Thirty-two hardy souls" played bridge sumer Credit Division at American
at Silver Spring Duplicate to raise $48 for Security and Trust sent me $250 for the
the hospital. Employees of Hechinger's children. The Public Affairs Council of the
credit and collection department didn't National Federation of Federal
tin