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o SIX MTDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, November 18, 1955 Post Office Uses Burlap Bags for Mail To Russia Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower probably won't make an issue of it, but It appears that Russia has been "collecting" Uncle Sam's fancy mail bags. This came to light -when the General Services Administra tion revealed that it had trans ferred 480,000 patched-up bur lap bags from the Post Office Department to the Foreign Op erations Administration to be used for shipping rice in the Far East. A curious reporter wanted to know why the Post Office was using burlap bags in the first place. A GSA spokesman ex plained that when mail was sent to Russia and other Iron Curtain countries in the regular U. S. mail canvas-and-leather-reinforc-ed bags, the bags never were re turned. Since these fancy bags cost $18 each, this got to be too ex pensive. So the Post Office switched to using burlap bags for mail going to the Iron Cur tain countries. Many Jobs The Communists apparently have enough gunny sacks be cause they return these bags. So as the bags get worn and patched they are retired from the mail service and used for other purposes. Finding a new use for burlap bags is typical of GSA's role in transferring excess property from one government or agency to another to avoid the necessity of new purchases. "That's where we really save the tax payers some money," said H. C. Kleinstuper, head of the branch. The Transfers amounted to $225,500,000 in the three and one half years ended last Dec. 31. Items ' included everything from live ducks to locomotives and harbor dredges. The Veterans Administration, for instance, had a male skele ton in its closet that it didn't want. GSA turned it over to Howard University which at the time was under the Federal Se curity Administration. One day the National Park Service called GSA and asked what to do about 350 Pekin ducks the zoo had to get rid of. Paper Clips , It seems that parents give ducklings to children as Easter gifts. After the ducklings be come ducks the parents put them in the duck pond at the zoo. The GSA gave them to the National Training School for Boys for a Sunday dinner. The GSA has on hand 58,000 boxes of paper clips that it got from the Air Force. When any government agency orders paper clips they'll come from this sup ply until it is gone. Other items include things like razor blades from the De fense Department to veterans hospitals and prisons; a harbor dredge from the Army engineers to FOA for Thailand; house trail ers from the air force to the fish and wildlife service for married employees in remote Alaskan areas; 500,000 blankets from the Defense Department to the Federal Civilian Defense Ad ministration for disaster re serves. Right now GSA is looking around for a slightly used fire tug of a certain size. It seems that the Washington, D. C, fire department's tug is just about rugged out. GSA had its eye on a couple of them, but they proved too big for the Potomac channel. FBI Fingerprint File Now Nearly 135, (Tip Lose weight GRADE A rQi By GWEN GIBSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The FBI's famous identification division, started on a shoestring 31 years ago, now has nearly 135,000,000 sets of fingerprints on file. Allowing for duplication, these constitute scientiic identi fication records of 70,999,000 persons. Only about 10,000,000 of these are criminals, spies, saboteurs or potential public enemies. The rest are law-abiding citizens whose prints are there purely for identification. The division was established in 1925 with some 810,000 sets of prints from the International Association of Chiefs of Police and from the federal penitenti ary at Leavenworth, Kans. In 1925 the bureau collected 104, 660 additional sets from contri butors. Last year it received 4,892,566, or 4,000 for every one received in 1925. Currently the FBI is receiving prints at the rate of 19,224 sets each working day from 12,678 contributing agencies. Volunteer Prints Most of these contributors are, of course, other law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. The FBI also exchanges finger print data with 83 foreign coun tries, territories and possessions. In its non-criminal files it has fingerprint cards on members of the armed forces, govern ment employes, civilians work ing on defense or other security jobs, prisoners of war, aliens and others who have simply vol unteered their prints to insure against the loss of identity. If you've ever been printed for a driver's license, a postal savings box or a routine person nel card, chances are the FBI has a copy of that record. If the 135,000,000 cards on file today, the FBI says that 47,000,- 000 came from "miscellaneous" sources. The fingerprint cards, if stacked on top of each other would stand 20 miles high. But the FBI often can search this collection and identify a crimi nal, an amnesia victim or a dis aster victim within minutes. Quick Work It made 12,522 identifications from its criminal files alone last year. Recently it tracked down the identity and past record of a criminal for Detroit, Mich., po lice in less than 30 minutes. Another fast identification oc curred in May when police in Tulsa, Okla., asked -for help in identifying an alleged amnesia victim. It took the FBI 25 min utes to determine that the man held at Tulsa was a deserter from the U. S. Army. The FBI declines to speculate on the future growth of its iden tification section which already requires seven floors and some 400,000 square feet of space in a blocklong Washington building. "It is not possible to predict what percentage of the-American population would be repre sented in our fingerprint files on the basis of the current rate of collection since receipts fre quently include the prints of per sons already in our files," a bu reau spokesman explains. "But the total fingerprints in possession, on a comparative ba sis, portrays the phenomenal growth of the division." ,i- .ill ,,. niiMn immiiiH iinmrn iDAV OFFICERS This year the officers of both the Department I of Oregon Disabled American Veterans and auxiliary are man and wife teams. The officers took part in a meeting held this week at the Central Point Grange hall attended by a large group of state department heads and National service Officer Gerald Kelsey of the Portland Regional office. Shown above, left to right, are Mrs. Arch L. Brewster, auxiliary commander; Brewster, DAV depart ment comamnder; Mrs. George Simmons, junior vice-commander for the auxiliary, and Simmons, senior vice-commander of the DAV. The Brewsters were here from Salem and Mr. and Mrs. Sim mons live here at 606 Valley View dr. The state and national group spent about three days here conferring with Pat Graham, local service officer, concerning department affairs and claims problems. Four Children Die In Tacoma Blaze Tacoma, Wash. '(U.R) Four children died early today in a $7000 fire which destroyed the home of Tacoma fireman Don ald R. Evans. One of Evans' children, six-year-old Donald, survived the fire but the other youngsters, Charles 5, John 4, Pamela 3, and Patricia 2, were suffocated. Firemen said the fire broke out about 3:30 a.m. and the house was a mass of flames when they arrived. Mrs. Evans first noticed the fire, but couldn't call the fire department because flames blocked her from the telephone. She ran next door and phoned, but then was unable to get back into the house to rescue the chil dren. She was tak"n to St. Jo seph's hospital suffering from shock and was put under seda tion. Evans was sleeping in the fire department dormitory. Fellow firemen notifiied him of the tragedy. Evans also was suffer ing from shock but was not hos pitalized. Firemen said the fire in the two-story frame house was caused by an overheated fire place. Two children were dead when firemen reached them. The oth er three were rushed to Pierce County hospital but two of them were dead on arrival. Donald was reported to be "responding to treatment by hospital attendants. Three Artificial Food Dyes Banned By Food-Drug Rule Washington U.R The Food and Drug Administration has banned three widely used artifi cial food dyes because they are "not. harmless when fed in large amounts." - The ban takes' effect 90 days from today. Food and Drug Com missioner George P. Larrick said recent scientific ' investigation shows that the three coal-tar dyes are "not harmless when fed in large amounts," even though they are harmless in the amounts ordinarily consumed in foods. Two of the dyes, called "Orange No. 2" and "Red No. 32," are used in coloring orange skins. The third dye, "Orange No. 1," has been widely used to color candy, cakes, cookies, car bonated beverages, desserts, hot dogs and other meat products. Lakeland, Fla. U.R A spokesman for the citrus indus try said today that the Food and Drug Administration's ban on artificial food dyes now used to color oranges could seriously af fect Florida's economy. The bulk of Florida's early oranges are dyed to give them a true orange color, which helps greatly in marketing them as fresh fruit. California, the other major orange producing state, does not have to use dye in the quan tities used in Florida. The cli mate in California is much more favorable for producing true orange color in ripe fruit. BOOKIE KEEPS PROMISE Boston U.R) Federal Judge George C. Sweeney allowed con victed bookie Henry G. Ryan, 40, a day's delay before begin ning a one-month jail sentence. The delay was at the request of Ryan's lawyer who explained that Ryan had promised to drive him home. TRAVEL NOTE Fort Devens, Mass. (U.R) The USO Junior Hostesses at Fort Devens have traveled 121, 142 miles, or more than seven times around the world, while entertaining GI's since 1948. Of the 4,581 hostesses, only 92 have wed. f Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for at noon Saturday. Afternoon Nap Premium of Wise Cincinnati (U.R) Viva la siesta! That brief afternoon nap is not the refuge of the lazy, but the premium a wise man pays for a long life, says two University of Cincinnati professors. Dr. Clarence A. Mills, expert on the effect of climate and weather on man, and Dr. Rob ert Kirsner, associate professor of romance languages and liter ature, both laud the siesta. Ten minutes of sleep will do it. A short nap is better, says Dr. Mills, than a long slumber, which makes one groggy. 'America, Dr. Mills, continues, has the highest heart disease rate in the world. This is because Americans rush around all day without getting the proper rest. In many cases sudden and ex treme temperature changes often stimulate people to great spurts of productive energy. These peo ple keep right on going without sufficient rest and collapse ev entually from exhaustion. The siesta is the answer: "When knocks and creaks begin to appear in our bodies, it means that we need longer and more frequent periods for repair forces to do their work," warns Dr. Mills. "Proper hours of sleep at night are essential, but a short afternoon nap is equally important." Actress Terry Moore Sues Rave Magazine Santa Monica, Calif. 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