Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1963 — Page 8

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U. S. Mail World’s Biggest Business

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U. S. Post Office Department would like for you to believe that the best buy in the nation today interms of value received is a five-cent stamp. It supports the argument by citing the fact that a letter going from one state to another passes through 16 separate processes and the address on the envelope must be' correctly read by at least eight persons. Unless each of the eight persons is operating at 100 per cent efficiency, there is going to be a snafu. Every human being is fallible at some time and that is why it occasionally takes a week for a letter from New York City te be delivered across the Hudson River in Jersey City. When you drop a letter into a mail box, you set in motion this intricate process: A truck rushes the letter to the central post office. It is run through what is called a “stacker”' which turns all the envelopes right side up and post marks them. Then the mail is “cased” bv states. Cased By Cities Then it is “cased” by cities, meaning that all the mail destined for one city is placed in the same case. This is where trouble can occur. If a Milwaukee letter gets in the Minneapolis case, it may take a week to straighten things out. Mail for each city then is “tied out I '—put into a big bundle and then into a huge pouch. It goes to the appropriate trains or airplanes and here, too, a slight error can cause chaos. A letter mailed from the northeast section of Washington to the northwest section went to San Francisco and back the other day. Trucks are waiting at the destination city to carry the mail to the central post office. There takes place a “primary separation”—letters are sorted according to postal sub-stations. Then there is a “secondary separation,” meaning the same letters are sorted according to carrier routes. A Cumbersome Process Trucks carry the mail to the appropriate sub-station post of-' fices where the letters are sort-1 ed again according to individual. addresses. Then the postman picks ] up the letters and delivers them. This is a cumbersome process, subject to human error, and the Post Office Department is seeking short cuts. One of them is the ZIP code, which works, like this — you address a letter as follows: Mr. John Doe 3300 North Dinwiddie Street Arlington, Va. 22207." The five numbers are the ZIP code. The 7 indicates the postal

maico Hearing service center To be held: Rice Hotel, Decatur, Indiana Time: 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Friday, August 23, 1963 By: Mr. John Kenwood, a certified hearing aid audiologist from Maico, 217 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne, Indiana. Visit him for a demonstration of the newest in a complete range of hearing aids. Supplies and repairs are available for all makes of hearing aids.

PEACE CORPS PLACEMENT TEST (NON-COMPETITIVE) AUG. H 1963-8:30 A.M. ROOM 103, U. S. POST OFFICE FORT WAYNE More than 4,000 Peace Corps Volunteers are needed to meet urgent requests from developing nations in South America, Africa and Asia. To be considered for training programs you should take the non-competitive placement test August 24. Either send a completed application to the Peace Corps before the test, or fill one out and submit it at the time you take the test For an application, or more information, write the Peace Corps, or see your local Postmaster. PEACE CORPS Washington 25, D. C. Published as a public service in cooperation with The Advertising Council

zone. The first 2 identifies the national postal area, which in tliis case consists of six states. The second 2 indicates the subdivision postal area, northern Virginia. The third 2 identifies the post office, Arlington. The 07 points out the sub-station from which the mail is to be delivered to -North Dinwiddie Street. With the ZIP code a postal clerk can tell at a glance precisely where the letter is going. It also opens up the possibility that eventually mail can be sorted by machines capable of reading code numbers. The ZIP code originally was designed for corporations with heavy mailing lists, but anybody can get a number by applying to his postmaster. The Post Office Department says 80 per cent of the letters reacting to the ZIP code have been favorable. But an angry minority has been writing to newspapers and magazines prolesting that if this keeps up we are all going to become numbers rather than persons. Objects To Numbers “ZIP, schmip” wrote J. Paul Hunter of Williamstown, Mass., to Time magazine in an angry letter, which he signed: “208-24-6254 (Social Security), 413-4583560 (telephone), 319 (college). 92167 (ZIP). Time's editors replied sympathetically, but said they were honor bound to tell Hunter that on their subscription list he was 00000j71t342014. That ended the correspondence and time marches on. A large headache to the Post Office Department is that 80 per cent of the day’s mail is deposited after 5 p.m. In New York City alone seven million pieces of mail —more than the daily mail volume of all Canada — goes into the slots after 5 p.m. The Post Office Department is fighting this bottle-neck by trying to persuade big corporations to deposit their mail at intervals throughout the day. Speeds Business Mail Another device for speeding delivery is called ABCD (accelerated business collection and delivery). It works only inside the business districts of cities. If you drop a letter in a box marked ABCD before 11 a.m., the Post Office Department will guarantee to deliver it by 3 p.m. of the same day. This was tried out last year in Lansing, Mich., worked well and is now used in more than 40 cities. Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who has just resigned to return to private business, is an imaginative fellow and h e kept coming up with ideas for speeding up the mails. One day he got to thinking about the plight of the postman who has to deliver mail in tall buildings and he came

up with VIM (vertical improved mail). It is now being tried in the 20-story Crown - Zellerbach building in San Francisco. VIM is a system of dumb waiters operating from the building’s central mail room. Each tenant has a big locked box which is sent up periodically to his floor. He opens the box with his key, takes out the mail and puts in the outgoing letters. You can have as many deliveries per day as you choose and get rid of the outgoing mail at the same time. (Tomorrow: Problems of the postman — biting dogs and amorous women). Warming Trend Is Returned To State By United Press International A warming trend came to Indiana today on the heels of the coolest day since last spring. Temperatures were due to climb to a range of 77 to 84 today and 84 to 89 Wednesday. The top readings Monday were generally in the 60s, although Evansville recorded 81 and Louisville 77. Fort Wayne’s 62, Lafayette’s 64, Indianapolis’ 66 and South Bend’s 69- were typical. The Indianapolis high was the chilliest since late last May. . Showers which added up to nearly an inch at some points Monday appeared to have run their course by this morning, and no more rain was expected before Thursday evening. Precipitation totals for the 24hour period ending at 7 a.m. today included Indianapolis .65, Cincinnati .70, Lafayette .45, Fort Wayne .30, Louisville .13 and Evansville .01. Overnight low temperatures this morning were a little warmer than most recent days in the August cool spell. South Bend recorded 51, Indianapolis 59, Lafayette 60, Fort Wayne 61, Evansville 64 apd Louisville 68. Lows tonight will range from the 50s to 64. Mostly fair skies will prevail until Thursday when partly cloudy conditions develop. Later totals, however, included some above an inch, including 1.40 at Crawfordsville, 1.16 at Rush-two-day totals were above 2% inches, including Peru and Crawfordsville. Other rainfall included Winchester .70, Wabash .60, Elwood .53, Monticello .74, Bedford .75, Terre Haute .20, Noblesville .77. Seymour .53, Frankfort .69, Shelbyville .71 and Anderson .74. Overnight low temperatures this morning were a little warmer August cool spell. South Bend recorded 51, Indianaplois 59, Lafayette 60, Fort Wayne 61, Evansville 64 and Louisville 68. Lows tonight will range from the 50s to 64. Mostly fair skies will prevail until Thursday whent partly cloudy conditions develop. I — ““ ' Evangelistic Meetings At West Missionary A week of evangelistic meetings will be held at the West Missionary church August 25-September 1, it was announced today by the pastor, Rev. Armin Steiner. The speaker will be Dr. Bill Piper, Greenville, S.C. I Trade in a good town — Decatur.

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Most Os South Governors Buck Wallace Plans WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. (UPI) — Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace planned today to submit several controversial civil rights resolutions to the Southern Governors’ Conference. New protests marches were scheduled by Negro demonstrators. Wallace was to formally submit hie proposals soon after conference chairman Orval Faubus of Arkansas announced the make-up ol the resolutions committee that will consider — and probably pigeon-hole — the touchy resolutions. ’ Most of the 15 Deep South and border state governors at the conference have shown no inclination to go along with the scrappy Alabama governor. Then it would be up to Wallace to stage a floor fight Wednesday if he wants to force the resolutions out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. Shuns Controversy Faubus, attempting to avert., a clash on civil rights, Monday urged the governors — most of them moderates on the racial issue — not to turn the converence into an “arena of conflict.” He delayed until today namings of the resolutions committee. Faubus, who once defied the federal government in the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School, Went on record as opposing consideration of any controversial resolutions — civil rights oi otherwise — at the conference work sessions. He was expected to name a moderate committee that would bury Wallace’s proposals. The behind-the-scenes maneuvering took place while Negroes staged protest marches aimed specifically at Wallace’s resolutions and in support of the civil rights moves of West Virginia Gov. W. W. Barron and the Kennedy administration. The governors scheduled a halfday agenda today, and planned to hold their black-tie state dinner tonight. The conference began Sunday and ends Wednesday. Converge On Gates About 100 marchers converged on the gates of the plush Greenbrier resort Monday after a threehour drive from the CharlestqnHuntington area more than 115 miles to the west. Greeted smilingly by Barron, their leaders conferred with the West Virginia governor in his rooms while the marches were taken on a conducted tour of the big hostelry after agreeing to leave their signs outside. Spokesmen for the group said . they wuld return to picket, to show their disapproval of Wallace’s proposals — even though they thought there appeared to be no chance whatever they would be adopted by the governors.

Man Arrested For Kidnaping Nurse •KENTLAND, Ind. (UPI) — Authorities revealed today that a young nurse was kidnaped and taken to an abandoned farmhouse Sunday by a man who pretended to seek professional care for a child polio victim. Miss Marion Whaley, 21, Lafayette, told Indiana State Police a story of being driven from downtown Lafayette to an old house near Enos and escaping from her abductor and hitchhiking for help. Miss Whaley later saw the man in front of her home, trailed him with the help of a neighbor, and watched as police arrested at Wolcott a man they identified as Eugene A? Schmittling, 45, Chicago. Authorities said a man called the licensed practical nurses’ registrar at Lafayette Sunday and said he wanted a young nurse to take care of a child stricken with polio. Miss Whaley, who trained at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, was assigned to the case. She arranged to meet the man in the Lafayette business district. When she entered his car in which the child was supposed to be waiting, Miss Whaley found she was alone with the man. They drove to Kentland and then to an abandoned farmhouse near Enos, where she struggled with the man and escaped, running to nearby U.S. 41 and flagging a passing motorist who took her to the Kentland police post. Officers searched for the car and man but failed to find them. Miss Whaley was surprised Monday when she saw her kidnaper stop in front of her home and leave her purse and other belongings she had taken with her the day before. She and a neighbor trailed the man, stopping only long enough to call police' into the chase. Schmittling was held in $20,000 bond in Newton County Jail here. Officers said he had served 15 years in Joliet, 111., Prison on a 1943 conviction on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill.

Wells County Rate Increase Proposed An overall increase of 35 cents is scheduled for Wells county’s tax levy for next year if the proposed budgets submitted to the audtior’s offic by the various countydepartments are adopted. The proposed levey of $1.27 is well above the 92-cent one in effect this year. It is 19 cents above the SI.OB tax which was originally proposed last year for collection /

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in 1963. It is expected that county and state review boards will reduce the levy somewhat before it is finally established. The $1.27 levy would raise $551,027 from Wells county’s assessed valuation of $43,056,630 to cover expenses exceeding income in 1964 budget estimates for the various departments of county government, the welfare department and the Wells county hospital.

No One Injured In Accident At Berne There were no injuries reported in a two-car accident Saturday afternoon on route 27 in Berne. The accident occured when a car driven by Jerry H. Thompson, 20, Decatur, hit the rear of a car driven by Chester R. Sheperd, 29, Winfield, Kansas. Berne police investigated and reported $250 damage to the Thompson car and $75 damage to the Shepherd vehicle.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1963

Decatur Police Plan Dance September 14 The Fraternal Order of Police dance win be held Saturday, Sept. 14, it was announced this morning. The dance will be held at Sunset Park and will begin at 9 o’clock in the evening. Non-members may pick up their tickets from any city police officer at a cost of $2 per couple.