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GEORGE A. GOODLING
19TH DISTRICT, PENNSYLVANIA

ROOM 1714, LONGWORTH BUILDING
TEL. CODE 202-225-5836

YORK, PA., OFFICE:
FEDERAL BUILDING
TEL. 717-843-8887

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
March 21, 1969

COMMITTEES:
AGRICULTURE
SUBCOMMITTEES:
CONSERVATION AND CREDIT
DOMESTIC MARKETING AND
CONSUMER RELATIONS
FAMILY FARMS AND
RURAL DEVELOPMENT

MERCHANT MARINE
AND FISHERIES
SUBCOMMITTEES:
FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE
CONSERVATION
OCEANOGRAPHY


Mr. John Zampelli
President
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013

Dear Mr. Zampelli:

Knowing of your organization's keen interest in obtaining the trophies that had been earned by Jim Thorpe and returned to Lucerne, Switzerland, I wrote to the United States Department of State and urged that this Department implement United States-Switzerland negotiations toward the end of recovering the pertinent trophies.

I have today received a response from Mr. William B. Macomber of the Department of State, and I am enclosing the original of this correspondence for your convenience.

The letter sent by Mr. Macomber is self-explanatory, and it appears that the orthodox method of dealing with this matter would be for the private organization of the United States Olympic Committee to take up the matter with the International Olympic Committee. In the light of this, I am today communicating with the United States Olympic Committee, urging this Committee to institute negotiations with the International Olympic Committee to effect the return of the Jim Thorpe trophies.

You, too, might want to send a similar letter, thereby lending strength to the request.

I sincerely hope the enclosure proves helpful.

Sincerely yours,
Geo. A. Goodling
GEORGE A. GOODLING
Member of Congress

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