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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
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"cased" by cities, meaning
that all the mail destined for
one city is placed in the same
case. This is where trouble
can occur. II a Milwaukee let
ter gets in the Minneapolis
case, it may tak a week to
straighten things out.
Mail for each city then is
"tied out" - put into a big
bundle and then into a huge
pouch. It goes to the appro
priate 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 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.
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Mass., to Time magazine in
an angry letter, which he
signed:
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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.
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1963)
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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
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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.
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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
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the Oct. 12 windstorm and
repaired it.
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Valley rd. works for the two
during the summer as a co
pilot to earn money for college.
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