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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.
Station No. 2 in the Grand-
view Market is open from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through
Saturday, and will be open on
two Sundays, Dec. IS and Dec.
22 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
PRECAUTION
TUCSON, Ariz. (UPI)-A Uni
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said persons involved in a bat
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chemicals should wear a gas
mask and rubber gloves, and
take a bath as soon as ne can.
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