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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
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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."
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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. (U.R)
Actress Terry Moore sought $2,
500,000 damages today from a
magazine, charging it hurt her
reputation by implying that she
wore no underpants during a
visit to Turkey.
The suit against Rave maga
zine was filed on Miss Moore's
behalf by attorney Jerry Geisler
who said a recent article in the
magazine tended to "reflect on
Miss Moore's character."
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Sultan Ben Youssef
Rabat, Morocco iU.P.) Sultan
Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssei
came back to Morocco today
from two years in French-enforced
exile and was greeted by
thousands of wildly cheering
Moroccans.
The four engines of the Sul
tan's DC6 airliner were drown
ed out by the roar of acclaim
from the huge crowd massed at
the airport when the plane
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Ben Youssef became the sym
bol of Morocco's fight for inde
pendence during his exile.
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