Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1953 — Page 9

SECTION TWO

Divided Authority Is \ Postal Service Plague

By JOHN L. CUTTER 'United Press Staff Correspondent i WASHINGTON, Ft* - Divided authority is one of the first things' noticed in a study of postal service problems. -r—- -. Congress sets the postal nites, pickls the postmasters, and decides _ the {wages, hours and working conditions'of the more than SOO.mi't) employes. \. ■ The interstate commerce commission and the civil aeronautics board decide how much the department shall pay to the railroads 4nd air lines for transportation;/ The ICC also sets parcel post rates. ; ■ General services administration - is the landlord, owning and mans aging all the post office buildings across the country. " Wages, transportation, and, rentals niiakes up 97 percent of the estimated $2,822,000,000 operating ex-; ponses this year. The x other 3 percent goes for trucks, ‘equipment, supplies, printing, and that sort pf thing. .<• It is within those limits that postmaster genera! Arthur E. Summerfield must any changes

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to provide mail service atless cost. { The case ofitwo hydraulic lifts purrhased\ for the serVicingjof inail trucks at the uetyoit postal garage < points up one aspect of how the I divided authority works out. An investigator for the house appropriations > i committee found lifts sitting useless- in their {packing eases luring an inspection trip In. Octobof, 1951|. They had been there sine e August. They still weren't installed by the end of the following January. The commit ee. which had accused |he post, office of dragging its feet on adoption of modern methods, wanted .to know why. The! explanaiidn was the post office couldn’t make any changes, not eVen derive a nail in the wall.! of a building “owned” by general services admin strgtion. \ The time between August delivery of!the lifts' amj their^ February installation up with letters! between thd post office and GSA. surveying the project, {advertising for bids, letting th© contract, and getting the w-ork done.

The present year also provides an example of how the divided authority affects the department’s income and outgo. Costs were raised an estimated if 422,319,000 by two actions over which the department had no control. They were a $285,919,000 wage boost congress voted for postal employes and a -1 $136,400,000 ( rate which interstate commerce gave the railroads for carrying the mail. J \ • Income was boosted an estimated : $277,641,000 by three separate actions. Congress raised postal rates in estimated $123,655,000. ICC approved a $95,700,000 increase in parcel post rates. Another $8,086.000 was added by the postmaster general through higher febs fpr things like money orders, special delivery, registered and insured mail. ' The increases in inepme still fell $19‘i,678,0'00 short of paying the increased costs of operation: Ab application for a further increase of $136,000,000 in parcel pdst rates is pending before the ICC. \ (Next: New postmaster general callu in business team.) Ybu can help crippled children. Use Easter Seals. .

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 12, 1953.

■ Books For Blind In ‘ Library Os Congress j WASHINGTON, UP—One of the least publicized services offered hy j the library of congress is “talking books’’ for the blind. Texts of certain books are recorded on phonograph records and are inade available to adult blind , persons in the United States and territories. . \ 'The blind do not have to go to the library to borrow a record. Therte are- 28 regional circulating libraries, which also have for loan . books in Brille and talking book | reproducers, or machines on which the records may be played. The machines are distributed through 55 agencies located in the Various states. These services were made pos\, sible by congress in 1931. The annual appropriation, for this aid to the blind is somewhere near sl,000,000. According to reports submitted to the division for the blind by I regional libraries, almost 50,000 blind persons each year benefit from the books'and records. Most of thenv prefer the recqrds. A spokesman for the library

jtaid: - “The division for the blind eacl year disti-ibates about 130 talkini book titles in editions of 100 o more and more than 15< books in standard English Braille 4 “In addition, several hundrei . books are hand-transcribed ii , Braille throughout the country During most years, the divisioi _ for the blind distributes 10,000 new I .talking book producers’ and re I pairs 5.001) older models.’’ I . The blind get this service free ► kaccoon Racket WHORTONS VILDE, N. C. UP - D, C. Day, 25-year-old farmer, has a SSOO-a-year sideline that. coati him nothing. Plagued by an over Abundance of raccoons bn his farm Day traps the animals and sell; them for $5 each to ■ the state’s Wildlife Com'mission to’be released in ’coonless areas. He averages abput 100 of the animals a year. Y" v ' , There are 50,000 passenger .'COaches, including 500 restaurant edrs apd 400 sleepers, on British .railways with a seating capacity of- over The greatest tonnage of river ■traffic in the United States is carried by the Ohio and its tributaries.

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Expensive Autoing JACKSONVILLE, Kia., UP — A 55-y.ear-old motorist found it is expensive\to have an accident hdre uhder certain circumstances. His car was damaged to the tune of $350 and he was fined SSO for reckless driving, SIOO for driving while intoxicated, SIOO for hit-and-run driving and SSO for driving withput a permit. That Weaker Sex BRIDGEPORT, Conn. UP — Henry Lyles took a long taxi ride, then refused to pay the fare of l he attempted to -leave tte .without paying, the driver slammed the

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