Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1953 — Page 2

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Post Office Dept. Planning Changes Decentralization To Improve Efficiency WASHINGTON UP — The post office department, one of the world’s largest businesses, is planning to decentralize its operations for greater efficiency, a spokesman said today. f The move was ■ recommended by the old Hoover commission on government reorganization several years ago. ' . -No decision has been made yet

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on when and where decentralization will start, qr how many regional offices will be set up, the spokesman said. The department plans to feel its way with “corifiideyable trial and experimentation.” The spokesman noted that large private businesses have found it practical to set up branch headquarters in various parts of the country and said it “would seem to be a matter of good common sense,’’ for the post office department I to follow suit. The department is a a year business, with more than half a million employes. Transferring control over routine operations to regional offices ! .’I • '4

would. speed pp actions and free headquarters of a mass of “little problems” that keep piling up. J For iExample, a bill for repair of a broken window in a local post office must be approved bypostal headquarters here under present rules. The 41.00 P postmasters have to write Washington about every conceivable administrative matterAAs a result, staff members should be concerned with plaftning and policy are “enmeshed in routine correspondence,” the spokesman said. The department '( decentralized management of postal transportation and inspections years ago. 1$

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now has about half a dozen regional offices handling only transportation. ; > ; Under the decentralization pldb, these probably would be incorporated into general regional offices with authority over other administrative and personnel matters top, the spokesman said. Post office policies would st|U be set in Washington, but much of the work of carrying theiqy obt would be transferred to the branch offices. The spokesman said decentralization would “not necessarily” bring a reduction in the department's personnel, but might mean some Washington staff members would be transferred to branch offices.

Visits Former Local; Men At Moosehaven While on a vacation trip in* Florida recently. Mrs. Kvelyn Kingsley of this city states that she had a pie as.mr visit one <ray at Orange Park, Fla., with Frank Runischlag and Charles Werlhig former Decatur residents, who now live at Moosehaven. Moosehaven is ’ operated for members of the Moose lodge and there are residents there from every- state in the union. Rumschlag and Werling guided Mrs. Kingsley on a tour of the buildings which comprise the operated home for retired members of the lodge. i .

Says Reds Killed Kun On Death March '.bt ’ ‘I : • Released Prisoner Tells Os Slayings FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea UP — A freed prisoner disclosetF today that Communists under the command of an infamous officer known as “The Tiger” killed a Roman Catholic nun and another woman on a North Korean death march. Pfc. diaries L. Fronapfel, Alliance, Neb., said about "88 men were killed in eight days” of the

Bendix Is Planning Expansion Program SCft TiH IJEND UP - A $2,000,000 expansion program at the Bendix Aviation Corp, plant at Mishawaka for production oE a “secret weapon” authorized by the navy was reported today Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker RInd. :annuonced tie expansion prog|-ani, under tyhich 400 additional workers will be employed.- “ P- 1 i —’—? — Imposter Admits His Story A Lie liFi '' 1 I " . V' - : Told Detroit Couple He Saw Missing Son Djffih'RQlT UP — An Imposter who told a Detroit couple he saw their missing son in a North Koreap prison camp and thep admited bj? story was a lie will be charged with illegally wearing an army ■uniform, police said today. Burford Fisher, who said his iiotnti was at Four Mile, Ky.. was heli in Wayne county jail. Mr;j arid Mrs. Jesse Hili said rang their doorbell and annou i»ted be had some “good news” for them. He said he saw their son. Jkis»Me Douglas, alive and well in a f*OW camp. Ti|b Hills, whose son was reported missing in action in DeTheyt|roi|ndeq up as many of their 13 children they could >n short notice to celebrate the . Occasion. “Y@u’re-thf guest of honor,” the HUI told Fisher, who wore an army uniform with the .stripes of a sergeant. Dicing the gaiety, a friend of the family became suspicious oDFfejier. \|jid had hinted several tiniqs that .was broke. The friend, a also noted several in Fisher's “war” storigs anti asked to see his identificatßn papers. ‘They're in my room at ttye YM(Ja.”! Fisher stammered. ; ‘"Hmn iget them,” the friend demanded.; |. Fiflteri failed to return and the Hills| called police who found Fisher i®,"tli£ YMCA basement unddr the iUrn|ce -pipes. , : - Fi&ter. who said he had beep drilling, admitted his story nyas a hoax; -He told police he bought the J tiniform in a war surplus storqj jjafter his regular clothes were ; stolen.

northward march in the early days of the Korean war. ~ i “There were some priests and nuns :Whq got the same treatmentwe did.” Fronapfel said. “The North'Koreans shot one nun and a Rqssiatn Indy," It wins the woman was i a Russian who had defied Communism «and taken refuge in Seoul only jb Ibe captured when the Reds the South Korean in June; 1950. Anafhfer retufnee, Sgt. 1 Edwin W. Valens, Houston, Te*., blamed the Reds jfor the death of 6,01)0 to 8.000 prisoners in the winter of 1950-51. “I gon’t think that figure is high,” JVoilers said. FirstiLt, Walter L. Jackson, Jr., 28. SeVmour. Ind., said the Cominunistij threw air force officers into a wa,ter filled hole to force them into’ signing confessions. Jackson said about 75 or SO air force Officers signed statements that they waged bacterial warfare in Korfea. i “Nohodyi an our camp condemns them.” Jackson said. “We knowhow pressure the Chinese can put on a man.”

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I. U, Get-Together, | ) Meeting September 4 ) | Students Iran this area wbi> will enter Indiana University this fall haye been invited, together with their parents, 'o attend a University “gjpt-acquaihted’.f ■ meeting at 7:30 p.ip., Sept. 4. in the Fojrt Wayne Center, 1120 South •Barr St.. Fort Wayne. pTp | The meeting is one of a series being held'in various parts ojf the state under sponsorship, of i-oun-ty ajumnl jclubs, ths I. U. association, and the university s junior (freahmanj division. Hadh meeting is Attended by representatives- of the university to answer questions from prospective students accepted for admission ta date? Others considering the University also are pxpected to attend. ' Counties included in the meeting for 1 his'area are Allen. Ada ns Welty, Huntington. Whitley, Noble DeKalb, gad SteUben. . 4 ’ | r ' 1 ! If You have something to sell or rooms for ?rent, try a< Democfat Want Add. It brings results.

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