Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1957 — Page 30

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Holiday Mail High Throughout Nation I Mail Three Times Over Normal Level ® v .s 1 By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON iUP» — It just wouldn't be Christmas unless some reporter wrote a ’’pity the poor postman" piece. So . . . here are the facts, and let him who can hold back a sympathetic tear: The rush started about Dec. 10. Heeding the perennial post office warning, several million people did their Christmas mailing early. The volume of letters, cards and parcels pouring through the U.S. postal system jumped from la "normal" level of 150 million a day to twice that figure, then three .times as much. By last week end, it had hit what apparently will be the peak—soo million pieces of mail every 24 hours. Since mailmen do not customarily open letters to see whether they contain greeting cards or past-due bills, no one can say precisely how many wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year have been exchanged through the mails this year. Holiday Mail High But a post office spokesman said a "high proportion” — well over half—of the 5,500.000,000 letters and the 85 million parcels delivered during the past two weeks looked, felt or smelled like Christmas mail.

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR. INDIANA

WELL. NOW . . . This young lad, representing 1958, seems shout to expound for one and all, so let’s ail pause for a moment and listen to find out what the bright, New Year has In store for us. On the basis of population, your fair share of all this mail figures out to 33 cards and letters 'including bills, circulars and other just-ordinary mailt and one - half of a parcel. (The Post Office emphasizes that any fractionated parcels you may have received do not represent ah attempt on its part to make sure that you got precisely your per capita share, but were the inevitable result of handling so much tonnage in so short a time.) Staggering on their appointed rounds beneath this fearful load of season's greetings are about 500,000 regular postal employes

I and 250,000 temporary helpers i hired for the Christmas rush. Veterans and people who have passed Civil Service examinations for post office jobs have first call on these temporary jobs. Many ' college students and public school ; teachers, trying to pick up some extra money during their holidays, also are signed on. Horseback Delivery Some of the Christmas mail is delivered on horseback (there are still more than 100 contract mail routes, mainly in mountainous regions, where horses are used.) Some ride in style in a few fleet of "mailsters” —. threewheeled motor scooters with red-white-and-blue decor and room for a quarter ton of mail. But the vast majority is being lugged from house to house by carriers who travel on spot. Post office regulations forbid them to carry more than 35 pounds of mail in their leather sacks at a time. This means that when the volume is heavy, they have to keep trudging back and forth to • the “storage boxes” where the i mail is deposited by trucks. Postmaster General Arthur E. ■ Summerfield has pledged that ’ neither sore feet nor tired back • nor the lure of the family hearth I on Christmas Eve shall stay his I couriers from completing their i annual task. i Even if the mailmen have to i work around the clock from now ■ on, Summerfield says, ‘We inf tend to see that no Christmas mail remains undelivered in the post office on Christmas Day." 1 Climax, Colo., near Leadville, produces 72 per cent of the world’s > molybdenum.

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Fire Tests CHICAGO — (UP) —Researchers may learn more about fire hazards because of experimentation concerning the rate at which flame travels along various materials. The National Bureau of Standards developed special equipment for the tests. Length of life of flower seeds varies considerably, depending on the type of flower. Morning glory seeds may live 5 to 10 years. Best 7 Wishes I FE-o AsIV I 1 V rs B « m w \ -J' \ I w i /Fl 1 ■ i s< ' * We have a long, long list of warm wishes for alLour friends for a bright and joyous holiday! From Your Friends At The COURT HOUSE Surveyor’s Office Recorder’s Office Assessor’s Office . Treasurer’s Office Auditor’s Office Clerk’s Office i Sheriffs Office

.i . I — I' KEEPING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS ■■HH How are you planning to spend thia Christmas? If ever there was a season when ■IIC— people are tempted to put first things last and ' ast diings first, it is the season of Bf I Christmas. gj{“ “ Unless we determine right now that for T* Fj us this is going to be a Christian Christmas B\ v* we shall be unable to withstand the paganizing pressure of the world about us. We / I succum b 10 th* tn p' e Xof a pagan • X mas —the modem excesses of excitement, J \ME H / extravagance, and exhaustion! f But how can we keep Christmas Cbristian? First of all, by acknowledging the »Ck\ Christ of Christmas as the eternal Son of ‘ God and the Savior of the worli Our high- - --*. -A - est joy during the present days 4u« find its roots in the conviction of the Prophet: “Unto us a Child is bom; unto Us a Son is given . . . and His name shall be called . . . the MIGHTY GOD, the Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6. No gift, be it ever so great or ever so grand, dare overshadow the Gift of God tn Bethlehem’s manger. No gladness, be it ever so high or ever so deep, dare match the gladness of our heart over the thrilling angel message: “Unto you is bom this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11. ♦' ' * Christmas is- the birthday of oUrKing. Let us keep it that. Let us bring our gifts of sacrifice, of worship, and of praise. Let • us crowd our Christian churches with fesIf yon woxU likr tival throngs. Let us make the welkin ring to know mart nbont with the jubilant strains of tbr teochinfi of the "Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let reC “ Ve her K ' ng! ” cbwreb offUUtion I” that way, and in no other, will we be onJ on tn neri of able to rescue Christmas from the influences spiritnol conmrl, which would make it a pagan holiday. In write tu. t h at wa y t ant j i n no other, will we be able • to keeo CHRIST in our Christmas! ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Monroe & Eleventh INVITES YOU TO WORSHIP CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS VESPERS Monday and Tuesday Night at 7:00 P. M. CHRISTMAS DAY FESTIVAL WORSHIP Wednesday Morning at 9:00 A. M. — ■■"

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