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HERALD AND NEWS, Kl.rn.th F.IL, Oregon Monday, August 1J, 19M PACE 7 1 4 ' C ivr. U I :ii " '1- J at . m L i f ST' -r ? V v ii lis a 4 ' 3 A l',,":. to J v. MANY HAZARDS Postman Theodore Wilson, left. use. dog biscuit, to make friend, with pooch, while Ch.eeqo mailman Glenn Thomas, riqht, ducks robin that ha, nest above h route. These are just two of the many hazards that beset the man that make, his daily rounds with your mail. UPI Telephoto California Solons Differ On Mexican Labor Program WASHINGTON UPI - Rep Charles M. Teague, R-Calif.. said today that hopes (or extension of the Mexican farm labor pro- pram Had delmite)' been im proved. But Rep. Harlan Hagen, D- Calif., expressed doubt there would be a "useful" extension of the program for bringing bracer- os into the United States to help harvest crops. The Californians, both members of the House Agriculture Com mittee, were asked for comment on the Senate's action in voting to extend the program for one year. The senate voted 63 to 24 to extend the program but tacked on an amendment requiring farmers to offer housing, transportation and other benefits to domestic workers before being allowed to use bracero labor. December Deadline The house earlier this year turned down a simple two-year extension of the program. Unless extended, Ihe program will die December 31. Both Teague and Hagen, Inter viewed separately, agreed that the amendment by Sen. Eugene .1. McCarthy, D-Minn., might maket he program. "unworkable." Teague said congressmen from bracero - using states probably would meet early this week to plan their course of action. He said they might push for a bill calling for a simple one year ex tension. If successful, he said, this would force a House-Senate conference on the differing ver sions. Hagen said any effort in the House probably would be on the basis of a simple one year ex tension, but said he was not op timistic that it could pass since the House already had rejected a two year extension. Farmers Must Plan On the other hand, Hagen said, the bill with the Senate amend ment might be unacceptable to most growers. Even a simple one year extension, he said, would be "relatively useless" because farm ers had to plan their crops far in advance. The McCarthy amendment calls for domestic workers to get work men's compensation, housing, transportation and a guarantee of a minimum amount of work all benefits now granted to the Mexican workers. Teague said the amendment had even gone beyond changes asked by the Kennedy Administra tion in requiring farmers t o guarantee U. S. workers a min imum number of days of work. Another problem, he said, was U. S. Post Offices Process WO Million Pieces Of Mail Daily WASHINGTON UTI'-"! could easily do without the post office.' rote Henry David Thorcau. "I have never received more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage." Most Americans violently dis agree with Thorcau, a lfllh cen tury nature lover and philosopher who once broke off a conversa tion with the abrupt statement that he had a date to go commune with a tree. Americans are the world's greatest letter writers and the United States Post Office processes more than two-thirds of all the mail in the world. Every working day the Post Office delivers 180 million pieces of mail almost one for every Sen. Gordon Allott, R-Colo., who I pressed hope the house would introduced the Dill lor a one- make a "good bill" out of it by year extension, voted reluctantly eliminating the McCarthy amend for the amended bill but ex- ment. . Narrow Victory Will Stop Call For British Elections By PHIL NEWSOM I'Pl Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables; British Elections: The narrow margin by which the Conservatives squeaked through to victory in the Strat ford by-election virtually has end ed speculation that Prime Min ister Macmillan will risk a gen eral election this fall. This means the election almost cer tainly will come next spring, with Macmillan gambling that a mild winter will put voters in a good mood. The near-disaster at Strat ford made no difference to Mac millan's own position. He has out maneuvered the young Turks who sought his ouster and now will quit only when he himself de cides. With Parliament in recess, Macmillan will use the breathing spell to prepare (or the Conserva tive party congress in October the only really threatening cloud on his immediate horizon. Moscow Quiet: The remainder of August is ex pected to be quiet in Moscow aft er the momentous events of past weeks, including the signing of a nuclear test ban treaty and the unsuccessful Sino - Soviet talks. Premier Khrushchev's trip to Yugoslavia will further demon strate to Peking that the Soviet Union has given up any immedi- Nursing Home Situation Is 'Nothing New' PORTLAND iL'PD The vice oresident of the Oregon Nursing Home Association said Friday that eviction of seven people on wel fare from a nursing home is noth ing new. Frank D. Gilman, operator of the Bid-A-Wee Nursing Home in Portland, said he has found it ne cessary also to have four of his own customers on welfare moved out within the past month. "More may have to go," Gil- man said. Gilman's statement follows ac- ate hope of reconciliation with the Communist Chinese. Khrush chev's absence from Moscow means that diplomatic activity will mark time until his return Expanded Contracts: West Germany is expected to move rapidly in its campaign to establish contacts with the Soviet Union's East European satellites Bonn's next goal is an agree ment to exchange trade missions of ambassadorial rank with Com munist Hungary, as has already been agreed upon with Poland. Government sources say a West German negotiating team will go to Budapest next month to start the bargaining. Austerity: Despite talk In Western Europe aoout increased trade with Com munist China, the facta are that there will be no torrent of West ern goods flowing into Peking The Chinese must pay lor their large purchases of grain from Canada and Australia and after that won't have much money left. A British delegation which staged an industrial fair in Peking has come back empty handed. The Chinese were interested b u t didn't buy. Japan may be in better position for Chinese trade because she can use raw materi als which can be shipped more cheaply from China than from the West. tion last week by the operators the requirement for "comparable" of a Monmouth nursing home to housing. The Mexicans, who come evict seven oi meir pauenis on with their families, are provided barracks-type housing, while dom estic workers are expected to demand family housing. The de partment of labor presumably would have to determine what would be "comparable" in such cases. "Slave Labor" charged Teague said supporters of the McCarthy amendment were "well intentioned but inconsistent" in voting for continuation of the pro gram. Teague said they had branded the bracero program as "slave labor" but then had voted to provide the same conditions for American workers. "If they thought braccros were being treated as slaves." he said, "they should have voted against final passage instead of voting for similar treatment of domestic workers." The McCarthy amendment was approved by a one vote margin during a seesaw battle. After the amendment was agreed to, sever al senators supporting it joined in voting to extend the program. CCPT Plans Workshop v DUNSMUIR - Mrs. Everett Barr of Yreka will be among the representatives of tlie Cali fornia Congress of Parents and Teachers attending the ninth an nual teacher education workshop. The workshop, cosponsored by the CCPT with the California Council on Teacher Education, California Association of School Administrators, California Teach ers Association and State Depart ment of Education, will be Aug. 20-23 at College of Notre Dame in Belmont. Mrs. W. W. Wood, Marysville. CCPT president, and other state PTA officers will be among the workshop participants with offi cials of the other sponsoring groups. Principally for professional peo ple in state colleges and private and Mrs. Ken E. Draheim, and ; institutions involved in the teach ing ui suKienis wno are prepar ing to teach, the workshop will provide an opportunity for coop- Members of the Public Welfare erative P'anning of !,cach?r edu" Commission reacted to criticism """" PS' "er lne new ceriiucaiion law. One of the original cosponsor ing groups, the California Con gress of Parents and Teachers established a teacher education in 1958. Since then, the CCPT has allocated $700 annually for 14 scholarships of $50. for which any teacher or administrator in public education or in a college or university may apply. welfare because they coudn't af ford to keep them. Gilman said he sympathized with the Monmouth operators, Mr, added that if welfare payments are not raised, the state may have to set up nursing homes. of its nursing home policies. Clay Myers, Jr., Portland insurance ex ecutive and member of the com mission, said the welfare commis sion operates on a "closed end" budget." "It is our job to do the best with what money we have." He added that he doubted they would ever satisfy completely either the nursing home operators or the tax payers. Other Portland nursing home! operators took exception to a claim by the chairman of the wel fare commission. Dr. Ensis Kci-' zer, who said the medical needs ' of the patients were the commis sion's first concern. Canada Signs Missile Pact OTTAWA i UPI i -Canada has femoved its biggest potential tnreat to good relations with the United States with the signing of a bilateral nuclear warheads agreement. The general terms of the agree ment, made public Friday by Prime Minister Lester Pear son, brought to an end diplomatic haggling over the warheads which has plagued both Washing ton and Ottawa lor the past three years. The door is now officially open for the stockpiling of U.S. war heads for Canadian weapons sys tems at home and overseas. In Canada, it covers the Bomarc anti-aircraft missile bases and F101 Voodoo interceptors of the North American Air Defense Command iNORADi, and in Eu rope the F104 Starfighter strike reconnaissance aircraft and Hon est John artillery rockels within the NATO alliance. The warheads will be main tained under a system of joint control giving President Kennedy sole custody of them and Pearson authority to decide upon their use by Canadian forces after release by the U.S. Technicians are al ready at work on an instantane ous communications system be tween Kennedy and Pearson. Under this system Pearson said the control provisions satisfied both the protection of "Canada's national interests and its interna tional policy of non-dissemination of nuclear weapons." In the case of other NATO al lies who have similar arrange ments with the U.S., "They don't consider themselves nuclear pow ers and nor do we," Pearson said. person in the nation. It claims toi be the world's biggest business with more than 500.000 em-! ployes and an annual budget of S4 9 billion. That claim is cor rect in the sense that the Post Oil ice Department is engaged in WASHINGTON UPI) -The first man to try to set up a rily delivery mail service was named De Vrlayrr who built boxes or the street corners of Paris In 11135. A rival put live mire into De Velayer's mail boxes and they chewed the letters until nothing nai left but scraps. It was 100 years before anybody else was brave enough to try to set up a Paris mall delivery system. selling services and materials fur fee. But the Defense Depart ment with an annual budget of around $30 billion makes the Post 01 1 li e look like a pygmy in the federal structure. The difference is that the Defense Department isn't selling anything but is pri marily a buyer interested in the security of the United States. Most Common Complaints By and large the American public and the Post Office De partment get along pretty well, but there are irritations which cause botli to complain. The most common complaints from the public: The stamps don t stick, or they stick together in booklets! and rolls. The Post Office Depart ment is trying to solve this by putting silicone treated inter leaves in the booklets. It takes longer for a letter to get from the Bronx in New York to Manhattan than it does for one to get from Boston to the same ad dress. That happens, all right. and for this reason: a clerk in the Bronx Post Oil ice makes a mistake and losses the letter in the Went Side Manhattan slot in stead ol the East Side. But it's (airly rare. Tlie postman stuffs the mail box with "junk mail." This is a highly controversial question which we shall examine in detail, but a brief explanation is that the Post Office Department merclv delivers the mail: it doesn't ori ginate it. Congressional action would be necessary to eliminate "junk mail," and Congress itself is one of the worst ollenders. Delays In Delivery A letter sometimes will be in transit (or years. Example: On April 9, 192:1, a store in a Kansas town mailed a letter to a man in a Missouri village. On Aug. 30, 1962, the letter was delivered to the man in Stockton, Calif. What had happened was that on July 31, 19152, the letter was found un der the platform of a weighing machine in tlie Missouri village post office where it had been for 39 years. Sometimes letters slip through cracks in the post offic floor and remain there until the building is torn down or renovated. The Pot Office Department is reluctant to criticize the public, but it does have some things to chide us about: Last vear there were 22.300,- 117 Americans who addressed let ters and packages in such crazy fashion tliat nobody could read them. All that mail ended up in the Dead Letter Office. Tlie worst part of it was that, not only was the address illegible, but there was no return address or if there was one it, too, was unreadble. Americans are restless peo ple and 30 million of us change addresses every year. This makes things tough lor the Post Office, but tliey realize nothing can be done about it and carry on the best they can. WASHINGTON (IPI) The American Telephone and Tele graph Co., ii the nation's larg est user of the I'nltrd States mails. It sends out about 3 billion pieces of mail each year. The mall consists of telephone bills, advertisements, corwrate re ports, dividend checks and spe cial reports to stockholders. ure things out and usually the "Bing" mail was delivered fair ly quickly to Bing Crosby who was at the height of his radio popularity. This is called "puzzle mail" and the Post Office wishes you would stop it. Advertiser! Are Problem Advertisers are a problem when they send samples by first class mail. Some of the things sent through the mail are tops of tin cans, nails ("nail down your future wilh life insurance"), tops of soft drink bottles, bleaches and detergents in thin cakes that look like candy. These things make it difficult for Ihe Post Office to put letters through the automatic machines. Women estranged from tlieir husbands have a habit of taking all their bills on the first of the month, sticking them in an en velope carrying a five cent stamp and mailing it to him. Tlie five cent stamp isn't enough postage and tlie weight of the bills fre quently breaks the envelope and spills everything. There is a heavy traffic in newspaper reports about wed dings, deaths, promotions, debuts and births. Many people try to mail the whole newspaper instead of clipping the item, thereby in curring a delay because of insuf ficient postage. Has Many Enterprises If tlie Post Office Department had nothing to do except pick up and deliver the mail, life would be easy and it would not incur an annual deficit of $293 million. But it is in all sorts cf enter prises: It is a giant detective agency with t,500 postal inspec tors in 400 cities: it registers 3 million aliens each year: it dis tributes income tax forms and census blanks; its rural delivery men take a census of wild life; it is one of the world's biggest auc tioneers of articles that cannot be delivered; it is an enormous bank selling postal money orders and taking in postal savings ac counts: it merchandises $3.5 mil lion a year worth of special stamps to philatelists. Many people like to play games with the Post Office De partment by simply writing "Bing" on an envelope and mail ing it. Thirty years ago, when the mail was not so heavy, postal employes had lime to try to fig- Ideal Location DOWNTOWN Businen or Office Inquire GUN STORE EVERYTHING FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS MAM KLAMATH FALLS State Calls For Bids On Big Project SALEM ( UPI i Bids on one of the state's largest single parks contracts, estimated to total $350. 000 will be opened here Aug. 27, the State Highway Commission announced. The contract will cover the relo cation of the present Cove Pali sades park to higher ground at two separate locations. The pre sent site will be covered by more than 200 feet of water after com pletion of the Round Butte Dam and water is backed up into tlie deep canyons this winter. The Round Butte Dam is being built by t h e Portland General Electric Co. The pool will be called Lake Chinook, and its three arms will be formed by the Des chutes, the Crooked and the Melo- lius rivers. The new park will have two sites. The park area on the east bank of the Crooked River will have a boat ramp and day-use facilities. The other area will have facilities for both day use and overnight camping. It will be lo cated on the eastern bank of the Deschutes arm of Chinook Lake. The day-use area will have boat ramps and parking, and the over night camp will have 48 trailer. and 44 tent sites. Other facilities will include pic nic areas, two rest stations, two utility buildings with laundry and showers, a bathhouse, and a parks maintenance building. Portland General Electric Co. will pay the cost of relocating the park. OREGON FOOD Prices Are LOWER UACH OREGON FOOD BRAND 1 GAL. 49' CANNED MILK BORDEN'S 10 LOW, LOW PRICES PLUS 7 MEDFORD, SWEET CORN 39 LARGE FRESH DOZ. GREEN STAMPS SEEDLESS, SWEET & FIRM MAYONNAISE 49c GRAI?H? AIRWICK SPRAY AIR FRESHENER 7 FLUID OUNCES 39' COTTAGE A PEANUT - BUTTER 8V 48 OZ. 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