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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1963)
AlfclUKOKD MAIL IKIBUNU. MKUt-OUU. OKfciiON JHUKaiMt, UcLLitiucn i lathi Post Office Asks Patrons to Mail Letters Earlier in Day Refer To Attend Washington Hearing Raymond Reter, Medford pear shipper, left yesterday after noon for Washington,' D.C., to represent the Pacific Northwest Horticultural Council at trade in formation hearings. Reter will give oral testimony on international trade problems affcctiing the region's fruit in dustry. Fruit industry officials are consulting with the Christian Horter trade expansion agency relative to items to be nego tiated on at the General Agree ment on Tariffs and Trade con ference in Geneva, Switzerland, in May. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., also has arranged meetings with top level officials of the departments of state, com merce, agriculture, treasury and with Horter regarding in ternational trade problems. Meeting in Washington, D.C., with Reter will be Ernest Falk, secretary-manager of the horti cultural council, and the execu tive manager of the Internation al Apple Growers Association. Reter will give oral testimony also on Tuesday afternoon in Washington regarding French export items against which the fruit industry is seeking retal iatory tariffs as a result of France's violation of Article 22 of the GATT agreement. A plea for earlier mailing, particularly earlier in the day, has been issued by the Medford Post Office. Windows are open at 8 a.m. and the bulk of the mail con tinues to hit the post office after 5 p.m., Acting Postmaster Al Bradford and Chester Silli man, superintendent of mails, noted, checking the movement of Christmas mail. In addition to expanding the hours throughout the system for receipt of mail, the post of fice also is stepping up the de livery service, as it does each year in an intense effort to get Christmas mail to all pa trons before the holiday arrives. Starting Monday, carriers will leave the post office for their deliveries of mail at 8 a.m. in stead of 9:45 a.m. Regular em ployes will be working 10 to 12 hours each day instead of 8 hours. The regulars will be used on this overtime basis to a greater extent this year than ever before in keeping with a new regulation designed to give the regulars the benefit of the extra holiday pay and Die serv ice the benefit of experienced workers, Bradford emphasized. Trucks Are Borrowed Twenty-two trucks for de livery of parcel post have been borrowed for the rush season from other governmental agen cies, the Bureau of Land Man agement, the Rogue River Na tional Forest and Crater Lake National Park. Twenty-two additional em ployes have been hired as sub stitutes for the holiday mailing Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL WEST LOS ANGELES Frank Sinatra, celebrating his 46th birthday with his 19-year-old son he had just ransomed from kidnapers for $240,000: "The best birthday I ever had." LOS ANGELES Police Chief William H. Parker, critizing the FBI for not bringing his department into the search for kidnaped Frank Sinatra Jr.: "This is the first time that we were faced with a problem where there was criminal activity in the city of Los Angeles (hat was known lo a law enforcement agency where we were not permitted to participate." WASHINGTON President Johnson, urging the Defense De- rlmcnt to look for any chance to further U.S. efforts against Communist subversion in Vict Nam and the Caribbean: "In these two areas wc must be constantly alert lo every op portunity lo sustain and strengthen the forces of freedom." DALLAS Mrs. Shirley Williamson, a Fort Worth house wife who started a campaign to raise funds for the poverty stricken family of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of the late President: "We get more each day than we got the day before." season in keeping with the pro gram, adopted each year to step up delivery service. Regular mail will not be de livered on Sundays but parcel post packages will be. There will be no regular delivery on Christmas day but special de liveries will be moved, as al ways, and parcel post packages delivered in the concerted effort to get Chirstmas gifts to all patrons before the end of Christmas day. Most of the Christmas day delivery will be by substitute carriers as Christmas is always a holiday for regulars. Any work by the regular employes will be on a voluntary basis, Bradford stated. Crews Work Extra This week some crews have started work at 4 a.m. and are continuing as late at night as they are needed to dispatch the mail. The pick up of mail in all down town boxes is also being intensified for the accelerated movement of mail and patrons are urged to use these boxes, if they are accessible, for mail ing in order to avoid the con gestion that often occurs at the main post office. The early mailing is not ex panding as the post office staff anticipated although there is an increase in incoming and out going mail. Extended Hours The windows at all branches and substations as well as the main post office are open for longer periods lo enable people to mail earlier. The Medford, Central Point and White City Post Offices are open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., including Saturdays. The Village Variety Substa tion on Stewart Avenue is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. Station No. 1, downtown at Riverside Avenue and Main Street, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and will be open on Saturday, Dec. 14, and on Saturday, Dec. 21. 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