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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-
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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.
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