Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1963 — Page 6

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U. S. Mail World’s Biggest Business

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—“I could easily do without the post office,’’ wrote Henry David Thoreau. “I have never received more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.” Most Americans violently disagree with Thoreau, a 19th century nature lover and philosopher who once broke “off a conversation with the abrupt statement that he had a date to go commune

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with a tree. Americans are the world’s greatest letter writers and the United States Post Office [ processes more than two-thirds of ’ all the mail in the world. i Every working day the Post t Office delivers 180 million pieces of mail—almost one for every - person in the nation. It claims to ■ be the world’s biggest business • with more than 500,000 em. ■ ployes and an annual budget of t $4.9 billion. That claim is cori rect in the sense that the Post

Office Department is engaged in selling services and materials for a fee. But the Defense Department with an annual budget of around SSO billion makes the Post Office look like a pygmy in the federal structure. The difference is that the Defense Department isn’t selling ,anything but is primarily a buyer interested in the security of the United States. Most Common Complaints By and large the American public and the Post Office Department get along pretty well, but there are irritations which cause both to complain. The most common complaints fr6m the public: —The stamps don’t stick, .or they stick together in booklets and rolls. The Post Office depart-

ment is trying to solve this by putting silicone treated interleaves in the booklets. —lt takes longer for a letter to get from the Bronx in New York to Manhattan than it does for one to get from Boston to the same address. That happens, all right, and for this reason: a clerk in the Bronx Post Office makes a mistake and tosses the letter in the West Side Manhattan slot instead of the East Side. But it’s fairly rare. —The postman stuffs the mail box with “junk mail.” This is a highly controversial question which we shall examine in detail, but a brief explanation is that the Post Office Department merely delivers the mail; it doesn’t originate it. Congressional action would be necessary to eliminate “junk mail,” and Congress itself is one of the worst offenders. Delays In Delivery —A letter sometimes will be in transit for years. Example: On April 9, 1923, a store in a Kansas town mailed a letter to a man in a Missouri village. On Aug. 30, 1962, the letter was delivered to the man in Stockton, Calif. What had happened was that on July 31, 1962, the letter was found under the platform of a weighing machine in the Missouri village post office where it had been for 39 years. Sometimes letters slip through cracks in the post office floor and remain there until the building is torn down o r renovated. The Post Office Department is reluctant to criticize the public, but it does have some things to chide us about: —Last year there were 22,300,117 Americans who addressed letters and packages in such crazy fashion that nobody could read them. All that mail ended up in the Dead Letter Office. The worst part of it was that", not only was the address illegible, but there was no return address or if there was one it, too, was unreadble. —Americans are restless people and 30 million of us change addresses every year. This makes things tough for the Post Office, but they realize nothing can be done about it and carry on the best they can. —Advertisers are a problem when they send samples by first class mail. Some of the things sent through the mail are tops of tin cans, nails (“nail down your future with life insurance”), tops of soft drink bottles, bleaches and detergents in thin cakes that look like candy. These things make it difficult for the Post Office to put letters through the automatic machines. Has Many Enterprises If the Post Office Department had nothing to do except pick up and deliver the mail, life would be easy and it would not incur an annual deficit of $293 million. But it is in all sorts of enterprises: It is a giant detective agency with 1,500 postal inspectors in 400 cities; it registers 3 million aliens each year; it distributes income tax forms and census blanks; its rural deliverymen take a census of'"fold life; it is one of the world’s biggest auctioneers of articles that cannot be delivered; it is an enormous bank selling postal money orders and taking in postal savings accounts: it merchandises $3.5 million a year worth of special stamps to philatelists. Two Cars Damaged In Accident Sunday Two cars were damaged in an accident Sunday evening near the Drive-in theater on U.S. 33, with a Goshen driver arrested. J. Harold Nation, 20, of Goshen, was arrested and charged with driving left of center, after his vehicle had gone out of control and sideswiped a car at 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Nation was traveling northwest, or toward Decatur, when he lost control of his car. The vehicle crossed the center line and sideswiped a car driven by Deryl Allen Bauman, 19, of route 2, Geneva. Bauman had pulled off county road 30, which runs in front of the Drive-in theater, and turned right, traveling southeast, when his auto was struck. Deputy sheriff Warren Kneuss, who investigated, estimated damages at S4O to the Nation car, and $250 to the Bauman auto. Cracked Chinaware Cracked chinaware can often be saved simply by boiling the piece in milk for a half-hour or so.

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Two Arrested Here On Traffic Counts Two rural route Decatur residents were arrested this past weekend, one following a two-car accident. Mary Ann Braun, 29, of route 4, Decatur, was cited for failure to yield the right of way after an Fifth and Jefferson streets at 11:02 a.m. Sunday. She was northbound on Fifth street and pulled into the path of an eastbound vehicle on Jefferson that was operated by Paul William Concard, 55, 417 Fornax St. Conrad applied his brakes and skidded 28 feet but was unable to avoid the collision. A high hedge on the souhtwest corner of the intersection hampered the vision of the lady. Damages were estimated at $275 to the Braun car and $225 to the Conrad auto. Mrs. Braun will appear in justice of the peace court this evening. Lloyd J. Kirchner, 17-year-old resident of route 3, Decatur, was arrested Saturday evening, and charged with driving left of center. Kirchner was arrested by the city police at 10:30 p.m. Saturday on South Second St., and was cited into J. P. court at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

I. U. Freshmen And Parents Are Invited Adams county high school graduates planning to enroll as freshmen in September at Indiana University have been invited to a "get acquainted” meeting sponsored by Jocal alumni Wednesday Aug. 28, in Fort Wayne. Parents also have been extended invitations to the meeting, which will be held at 8 p.m. in the Chatterbox Room of the Hotel Van Orman, Fort Wayne. In charge of arangements is John N. Pichon, Jr., 3528 Kirkfield Drive, Fort Wayne. ' The meeting is one in a series sponsored throughout the Hoosier state by the alumni association and the junior (freshman) division of the university. Guests will see color slides of orientation activities dating from the day students arrive on campus to the beginning of closes. They also will have an opportunity to ask questions about courses of study, housing, expenses and extracurricular activities. Coming from the Bloomington campus for the meeting will be Max Skirvin, alumni field secretary, and Logan F. Blank, assistant to the dean of the junior division. Fall From Hay Wagon Is Fatal To Farmer UPLAND, Ind. (UPD—Fletcher G. Miller, 73, R.R. 1, Upland, died Saturday in Marion General Hospital from injuries suffered when he fell from a hay wagon on his farm.

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■ H JAMES W. FLEMING, of Goshen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fleming of Decatup route 3, will receive his master of arts degree in education at Ball State Teachers College Wednesday. He is a 1953 graduate of Mopmouth high school and 1959 graduate of Ball State. He has taught industrial arts for four years at Concord metropolitan school system at Elkhart. Diis year will be teacher junior high industrial arts with half time counseling. His wife, the former Doris Cauble, teaches elementary art in the same school system.

Adams County Man Is Jailed For Contempt Sam Cottrell, 35-year-old resident of route 3, Decatur, was jailed this morning on an attachment for contempt of court. He was apprehended by the sheriff’s department this morning, and was taken to jail. Bond has been set at SSOO.

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