Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1951 — Page 5

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- THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1951 New Postal Era— a : 1H

Interstate Tricking of Mail Started Here

By DAVID WATSON A work crew shivered in the early morning hours on the postoffice loading docks: today. Momentarily the men rested, then bent their muscles to the | task of ushering in a new era of | mail transportation from the Indianapolis station. The loading crew was staffed by postal employees, and the truck they loaded was assigned to the first inter-state contract run operating from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. When the truck rolled from the station before dawn, another step was taken in the postal department’s expansion into the truck transportation field, a departure from the traditional ‘practice of shipping “short-hauls” by rail. Interstate runs have long passed through the Hoosier capital, but motor-truck shipping from the local station was confined to points within the state.

Small Part of Big Shift HIGHWAYS AND THE MAIL—Harry E. Reasner (left), clerk in harem, and Guy Tracy, as-

One of the pioneer runs inside sistant station superintendent, oversee the loading of mail. In the truck are contractors Herschel

the Indiana borders lies between Indianapolis and Evansville, Cin-| Lawson (left) and his son James.

cinnati was added only last week | . after opening of bids on the run. A Assigned to the task of ove colse dyer @ bulk parcel post from Indiana olis to the southeast is a 30-fout|

semitrailer capable of hauling, Gets Hea Guard 450 sacks of mail.

And Indianapolis is only a| small part of the Post Office Department’s gigantic shift to truck N eavin ourt traffic. Sixteen other major metropolitan areas are also becoming | highway mail terminals. There will be still moze. Already millions of dollars have been earmarked by the Congres-| sional House Appropriations Committee for trucking the mails. ! This basic change in the postal transportation policy was first|

brought to light in February when negotiations on new trans- fatal shooting of Rickard Decker, |

20, one of the “battling Deckers. "| poRation rate structures were "pn. wing a hearing in Crim- | compe-e {inal Court 2, Judge Saul I. Rabb Increased Rail Cost ordered out a large group of| In effect, the new structure in- <pnactators before Jordan was recreased the rail cost of shipping tyrned to jail. |

mail on what the Post Office de-| mp. hearing was on a petition | scribed as short hauls. There-'(, iow Jordan to be freed on fore the department decided 10 y,,ngq pending trial. His attorneys transfer this classification to the "4p grand jury acted on

insufficient evidence.

million worth of mail annually, o 2 po-tal officials said. dar case was continued to to- C . 0S G | Many railroads have also 2 m r urp Pp nN :

dropped trains from the short- i runs because they were losing IU Observatory |

money under old rates. This ac- : tion had the effect of forcing the Programs Are Listed The public will take a telescopic

Post Office to turn to trucks in many cases. peak at the ring nebula in the High ranking postal officials constellation Lyra at the Indiana estimated that 49.4 per cent of Ail.University observatory near mail 1s hauled within a 200 mile Brooklyn, Sept. 23 Kenneth G. radius of major postal stations, Widing will lecture. and the average haul for all mail’ Other publie’ night programs at in the country is only 561 miles. the observatory are scheduled: And this, again, fits what the Oct. 7, telescope, the moon, with| truck contractors had to offer. lecture by Mary Lois Connelly;| They can fit approximately 20,000 Oct. 21, telescope, Jupiter, with| pounds. of mail into one of their lecture by Thomas Swihart; May | fast vehicles. . 4, telescope, the moon, with Ken-! —_— ineth Hallam lecturer; May 18, Rites for Car Victim telescope, Saturday, with Robert NEW CASTLE, Aug. 23 (UP) Brownlee, lecturer. —Services will be Saturday for| Programs begin at 7:30 p.m.

Mrs. Kolena Mathers, 66, Knights- and tickets may be obtained by” Rash D EALER T0 DAY! town, who died yesterday of in-isending self-addressed onthe of

juries suffered when she was hit envelopes to IU. astronomy de- a. asorors. Division Nash-Eelvinator Co tiem, Detrolt, Meh. By a car near her home. partment. ?

An accused slayer, fearing reprisals. froin the victim’s family, was escorted from the Courthouse to County Jail under heavy guard yesterday. i Extra sheriff's deputies and| city police screened Porter Jor-| dan, 47, who is charged with| second-degree murder in the |

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