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MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MTDfOSD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28, 1963
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Edilor'i notes This is the
third of a five-part series
dealing with the operation
and function of the U.S. fed
eral post office.
By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press International
Washington-IUPD-The U S.
Post Office Department has
a sort of combined motto and
pep talk which it lifted from
the Greek historian. Hereo
dotus, and put on the front
of the New York post office:
"Neither snow nor rain nor
heat nor gloom of night stays
these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed
rounds."
What frequently does stay
these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed
rounds is a dog. Also a wom
an. The department talks
freely about the dog prob
lem, and the supervisors safe
ty handbook for postmen says
under section 188 that "car
riers should neither antagon
ize nor attempt to pet dogs."
Gets No Counsel
Nowhere is there advice
and counsel on what the post
man should do when a wom
an invites him to put down
his mail sack and come in
for a cup of coffee. But it is
a real problem and a postman
of about 10 years experience
told about it after exacting
a strict pledge that he would
remain anonymous:
"A lot of these women are
just the motherly type. You
know, it's raining and they
feel sorry for you and they
want to give you some hot
coffee and maybe toast. They
don't cause much trouble be
cause you can always tell
them you're late and have to
keep going to get your whole
pouch of mail delivered.
"Then there's the other
kind. You could call them
lonesome. They're waiting at
the door every time you de
liver the mail. If you turn
them down on a cup of cof
fee, then they tell you to come
inside because one of their
letters has been lost and they
want to talk about it. I al
ways tell them to give me a
written memorandum, but
most of the time they don't
buy that. Sometimes they get
real tough and say they're
going to report me to the de
partment if I don't come in
side. Nobody has reported me
so far, but you never can
tell.
Spots Dangerous Ones
"It's easy to spot the dan
gerous ones. Usually they're
wearing a kimono or some
thing like that and have their
faces made up as if they were
going to a Saturday night
dance. When you see one like
that, brother, you better run.
"I'm not saying there are
lots of them on my route, but
there are enough to cause
trouble. But I hear things are
even worse for people like
television repair men, tele
phone company workers and
fellows who sell things door
to door. Those guys got to
to go inside the house to do
their job. Me, I can always
stand at the door and say
no."
Unfortunately, there is no
way a postman can say no
to a dog which is rushing at
him with every intention of
biting. About 7,000 postmen
were bitten by dogs last year,
and the worst offenders were
State Leads Nation
In Freeway Building
Salem-fl)PI-Oregon contin
ues to lead the nation in
percentage of Interstate free
way mileage completed or ad
equate for present traffic and
in use, according to State
Highway Engineer Forrest
Cooper.
The U.S. Bureau of Public
roads in its latest quarterly
report credits Oregon with
71.8 per cent of its Interstate
system open to traffic. This is
7.5 per cent ahead of New
York, which is in second
place.
The Bureau of Public roads'
report also states that of Ore
gon's 732 miles planned for
the system. 330.3 miles are
completed to full Internslate
standards, another 194.4 miles
are adequate for today's traf
fic, and 0.8 miles consist of
toll roads over the Interstate
bridge between Oregon and
Washington at Portland and
Umatilla.
Amphibious Landing
Held on Sfafe Coast
rimn Rilea-ITD- Two thou
sand troops stormed ashore
here Tuesday morning in the
second amphibious assault
landing by Army reservists
and regulars this week.
The troops established a
beachhead after debarking
from amphibious landing
craft about 7 a.m. The men
spent the night aboard seven
Navv ships after going aboard
at Astoria Monday. They be
gan their move toward the
h. Jich at 3 a m.
Dobermans, cockers, Peking
ese and terriers.
The Post Office Depart
ment knows it's walking a
tight rope. It wants to pro
tect the postmen, but it faces
the wrath of millions of Amer
ican dog lovers. The first at
tempted solution was to ad
vise the owner of any dog
that bit a postman that here
after he would have to pick
his mail up at the post office.
That didn't work because it
developed that many postmen
were bitten by stray dogs.
Now an experiment is in
progress in Detroit, Miami,
Baltimore and San Francisco
where the postmen have been
aimed with an aerosol capsule
called Halt. It is loaded with
mineral oil and an extract of
cayenne pepper and was de
veloped at the University of
Georgia. When a postman is
about to be attacked, he
squirts Halt at the dog.
The department says the
preliminary results are encouraging:
"The sprayed dog does not
cry out. He merely puts his
tali between his legs and
beats a hasty retreat. In most
cases, after one or two ex
periences with Halt, the dog
never again attacks the user.
"While an animal obvious
ly has been made uncomfort
able for a short period of
time, there are no lasting
effects to the eyes or any
other portion of the face.
Within 10 to 15 minutes the
effect of Halt has worn off
and the doc returns to nor
mal. Halt leaves a yellowish
coloration on the dog s hair
which is removable by wash
ing." Dog Bites Costly
Ten per cent of all dog
bites cause injuries which
force postmen to lose work
time, and last year the de
partment says the total cost
was S800.000. Even so, the
department did not plunge
into the Halt experiment
rashly. It informed the
American Kennel Club, the
American Humane Associa
tion, the Popular Dogs Pub
lishing Co., and the Humane
Society of the United States,
and invited suggestions and
co-operation. The trial pe
riod for Halt is about over
and by Labor Day there may
be a decisioon as to whether
it will become a permanent
weapon in the postal arsen
al. Any time the Post Office
Department is accused of be
ing anti-dog, it tells the story
of Owney, the Post Office
Jog, who was mounted and
is now on display in the
Smithsonian Institution.
Owney showed up at the Al
bany, N. Y., post office in
1888 and began taking out
of town trips with the mail
sacks. The clerks put an iden
tification tag around O w n
ey's neck and he began trav
eling all over the country.
One day he got aboard a
mail steamer in Tacoma,
Wash., and went around the
world in 132 days. In Japan,
the Mikado gave Owney a
canine passport and he col
lected what the department
calls "200 medals and certifi
cates." He was considered
lucky because no train nor
ship on which Owney was
riding ever had an accident.
If this doesn't convince
critics of the Post Office De
partment's dog policy, the
story is told of how Owney
died on the streets of Toledo,
Ohio, in 1897. Another dog
attacked and Owney - not
being equipped with Halt
fought back unto death.
Next: Junk mail: who sendf
it and why.
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