Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 27, 1963, Image 11

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Newspaper Page Textlast Off By HARRY FERGUSON Uniitd Press International Washington - ami -The U.S. Post Office department would like for you to believe that the best buy in the na tion today in terms of value received is a five-cent stamp. It supports the argument by citing the fact that a letter going from one state to anoth erpasses through 16 separate processes and the address on the envelope must be correct ly read by at least eight per sons.' 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 occasional- ice Explores Ways to Eastern Mail ly takes a week for a letter from New York City to be de livered across the Hudson riv er 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 cen tral post office. It is run what is called a "slacker" which turns all the envelopes right side up and post marks them. Then the mail is "cased" by states. Cased by Cities Then it is "cased" by cities, meaning that all the mail des tined for one city is placed in the same case. This is where trouble can occur. If a Mil waukee letter gets in the Min neapolis case, it may take a STAR GAZER ! 4-2I-3M4 jf HUMS .gr APR. 21 I MAY 21 .f) 7-8-38.3 CiMM MAY 22 JUNE 22 g42-43-55-5 tSta.7DJJ.lMl CANCER p JUNE 23 l.lQ.'M.U.Jt no J?Q JULY 2 'S .. AUS. 23 .20-32.40-31 67-73-85-831 vuteo if 31-60-75 -By CLAY R. POLLAX- M Your Doily Activity Guide H According to the Stars. 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There takes place a "primary separation" - letters are sort ed according to postal sub stations. Then there is a "sec ondary separation," meaning the same letters are sorted ac cording to carrier routes. A Cumbersome Process Trucks carry the mail to the appropriate sub - station post offices where the letters are sorted again according to individual addresses. Then the postman picks up the letters and delivers them. This is a cumbersome proc ess, subject to human error, and the Post Office depart ment 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 si., Arlington, Va. 22207. The five numbers are the ZIP code. The 7 indicates the postal zone. The first 2 iden tifies the national postal area, which in this case consists of six states. The second 2 indi cates the subdivision postal area, northern Virginia. The third 2 identifies the post of fice, Arlington. The 07 points out the sub-station from which the mail is to be delivered to North Dinwiddie st. With the ZIP code a postal clerk can tell at a glance pre cisely where the letter is go ing. It also opens up the pos sibility that eventually mail can be sorted by machines capable of reading code num bers. The ZIP code originally I was designed for corporations with heavy mailing lists, but : anybody can gel a number by ' applying to his postmaster. I The Post Office department ' says 80 per cent of the let ! ters reacting to the ZIP code have been favorable. But an angry minority has been writ ing to newspapers and maga zines protesting thai if this keeps up we are all going to become numbers rather than persons. "ZIP, schmip" wrote J. : M SUM MMK flIST CO lOlKVUlt KT KfNTUCM STIIKHT MIIWM WHISKEY SO PROOF . KfKWKi Bit NOFO WHSKtV K WMf, 6S CW WEUTBAl SWIB 'Sv --S' v LIKE SUNNY 0 BROOK! JL S ' SUNNY ' i BROOK SUNNY hi - ; liuooK M BJMDWHl!m ' j t , KmHrfrt nuns Paul Hunter of Williamstown, Mass., to Time magazine in an angry letter, which he signed: "208-24-6254 (Social Secur ity), 413-4583560 (telephone), 319 (college), 92167 (ZIP). Time's editors replied sym pathetically, but said they were honor bound to tell Hun ter that on their subscription list he was oooooj71t342014. That ended the correspond ence and time marches on. A large headache to t h e vJk m PURSUED BY DETECTIVES - Scotland Yard detectives last week end pursued a fast-living driver, Roy John James, 28, known in the underworld as "The Weasel," in their efforts to solve Britain's $7,300,000 train robbery. Police flashed an alert for James, who was believed driving north in a British-made miniature car capable of speeds up to 100 miles per hour.-(UPI). The Medical Roundup 0 Emeritus Consultant In Medictnt Mayo runic Cmerilui Professor of Median Mayo Clinic (Register ajd Tribune Syndicate, 1963) the mild, smooth whiskey for modern tastes People with a taste for today's good living-people like you like Sunny Brook. It's fine whiskey, surprisingly smooth. Try Sunny Brook tonight. Smooth and cild' BUY THE STRAIGHT $480 $305 i Qt. f How do you like your whiskey? Jwolh and f irfra mild? BUY THE BLEND S3O5 Qf. " Pint S180 CANCER IN BOTH BREASTS A number of women have been writing to ask if when one breast is found to be c a n c e rous, what is the chance that the other one also has can cer in it or what can be done to make sure that the other breast hasn't cancer Alvare in 11; As one woman says, now after removal of her left breast she feels discomfort in the right one, and she won ders if this is due to nervous ness an anxiety, or to the growth of a new cancer, or to a scattering into Ihe ie maining breast of cancer cells thai arose in the breast that was removed. These women complain lhat they cannot get a clear answer to their ques tions. 1 have seen a very few dis eased breasts in which the cancer was so highly malig nant thai it made the breast swollen and reddish, as if it were inflamed. In some of these cases the cancer cells had already spread inlo the other breast. Sometimes when there was cancer in one breast and much "cystic mas titis" (enlargement of the chains of milk-secreting glands) in the other breast, the surgeon wisely advised the woman to have both breasts removed - if only to give her peace of mind, or to avoid a series of small opera tions in which every so often a large cyst would have to be removed for microscopic study (biopsy). Not infrequently I see a woman who has a marked and perhaps painful cystic mastitis, in both breasts. These breasts feel as if they were full ot buck shot. Per haps every so often a surgeon has to cut in and remove one of the cysts (little sacs) that has become alarmingly large. In these cases I now rec ommend that a cut be made j through the fold under each ; breast, so that the breast can be lilted up. I hen the sur geon can scoop out all the breast tissue, leaving the skin, the fat under it and the nip ple. This operation immedi ately puts an end to worry; it puts a n end to pain; it puts an end to a series of "biop sies;" and it removes the danger of cancer. I much wish that more surgeons would use this operation; it can give such great comfort to the wo man. Usually, an expert physi cian or surgeon can say, "I am practically certain that all you have in your breasts is cystic mastitis, but I cannot be absolutely sure." In hun dreds of these cases the liny bags of fluid are harmless, and can safely be left, but al ways there is the rare possi- cysls will have some cancer cells growing in it. This is why sometimes I ask a sur geon to remove all of the dis. eased breast tissue. 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 11 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. Another device for speeding delivery is called ABCD (ac celerated business collection and delivery). It works only inside the business districts of cities. If you drop a letter in a box marked ABCD be fore 1 1 a.m., the Post Office Department will guarantee to Delivery SECTION B Medford PAGES 1 to 8 RIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1963 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. Ed ward Day,who has just re signed to return to private business, is an imaginative fel low and he kept coming up with ideas for speeding up the mails. One day he got to think ing 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 be-J ing 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 periodi cally 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. '.; . Next: Problems of tha pott man - biting dogs and amor ous women. In his little booklet on can cer, Dr. Alvarez lists 19 dan ger signals to watch for. You may get a copy of the book let by sending 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamped en velope with your request to Dr. Waller C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Picture of Plane Recognized Here The photograph of an old B17 Flying Fortress which recently appeared in the Mail Tribune held particular inter est for several Medford fam ilies. The plane, which was being used as a borate bomber to drop borate on a grass, brush and timber fire near Redding, Calif., is one of a group owned by two former Medford resi dents, Dale P. Newton and Dick Foy, whose relatives here recognized the plane. Newton and Foy started the Aero Union Corporation at Redding and have nine planes and a shop building on prop erty leased at the Redding air port. Last fall they bought a DC3 which was damaged in the Oct. 12 windstorm and repaired it. Charles Swingle of Fern Valley rd. works for the two during the summer as a co pilot to earn money for college. 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