Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, December 01, 1963, Image 21

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Newspaper Page Text'mm "8 Awfor Officials Ready For Rush In Temporary Home ACROSS THE SEA The Klamath Falls Post Office is a busy place these days as the first deluge of Christmas mail begins to come in. Packages, letters and cards bound for every state in the union and many foreign countries come into the post office, housed in temporary quarters in a remodeled garage. Here, parcel post cleric Mel. vin Clayton attaches a postage sticker to a Christmas package bound for England. III II lllt ' t; 4fM i 1 ; J$t& V4M M i f. ""l4..::; SlM ' ; '.2v5?- Mf(1- TIMESAVER One of the most useful machines in the Klamath Falls Post Office is this automatic canceller, which shoots a stack of letters through in a split second. Here, dispatch clerk Ed Gardner operates the machine in the post office. Record Flow Of Mail xpected This Season eled at a cost of $883,280 by the Work Saver Body Compa ny of Seattle. Housed in the quarters are 67 regular employes, including car riers and other personnel nor mally working outside. But dur ing this Christmas season, the post office will increase its staff by nearly 50 per cent, adding about 30 employes for the sea son to receive, handle and dis patch thousands of Christmas letters, cards and packages in addition to the regular mall load. One feature of the temporary post office is the modern coun ter, which replaces' the old fashioned windows. The lobby of the post office contains postal boxes and is separated from the rest of the building by a set of doors, to keep cold win ter air from invading the main section. The Klamath Falls Post Of fice faces Christmas 1963 in a remodeled garage and all indi cations point to a record holi day flow of mail. But local postal authorities are not dismayed about t h e prospect of a record Christmas. The garage at 734 Klamath Ave nue contains slightly less room than the regular post office building on Seventh Street, but is arranged more conveniently. Gone in the temporary quar ters are the pillars of the old building. One problem is park ing and persons having busi ness at the temporary post of fice have had some difficulty finding parking space. But this problem is being studied by city and postal authorities. The temporary post office will be in use for about a year while the regular building is en larged and extensively remod- ; T5 V v " STAMPS. PLEASE The public meets the postal em ployes in the temporary Klamath Falls Post Office across a modern counter, replacing the old fashioned windows. The post office is housed in a remodeled Klamath Ave. nue garage. Here, stamp clerk Pearl Libby (right) waiti on a woman customer. leratfc anil KLAMATH FALLS, OltEGON. SUNDAY. DKCEMMKK I. ONLY HUMAN HANDS Letters come in virtually every size and are covered with every manner of writing and no machine has yet been devised to effectively replace the human mind and hands to sort them. Thousands of letters each day pass through the Klamath Falls Post Office. Here, substitute clerk Jane Gorsch sorts out a batch into holes bound for various Klamath Falls locations. 3 4H br-M r i 'tot mih&ttif ' ' yAAv J v -i i iz 4tt cv 1 ; BOX AFTER BOX Post office box service continues at the temporary Klamath Falls Post Office on Klamath Ave nue. Here, a boxholder collects his mail from a lower box in the lobby of the post office. The lobby of the tempor- ary quarters is separated by a door from the rest of the build ing, so that cold winter air won't constantly bo pour ing into the main section. PPM lHVfI''Y: liiij : , JM.IU Mh. : P LrriSiS - . 'V''MM mmnvrniLC. DAi.it A I ttUMt WhiMJ the Klamath Falls Post Office resides in a remodeled garage and prepares for a record stream of Christmas mail, work contin ues on the regular post office building. The temporary quarters will be occupied for about a year while the present three-stor structure on Seventh Street is enlarged and remodeled. The vtok W being don by the Work Saver Body Company of S. attle for contract price of $86"3,280. At left, carpenters finish up a wooden fram. into which concrete will tgi poured to form a wall of the north addition to the build- ing. Concrete pouring on this wall began last Tuesday. At right is a wall on the south addition that has already been poured. While work is being done on the outside of the building, the inside it being extensively remodeled and moderniied.