Show Postmaster Jack Green ON ON THE STAR ROUTE j Writes Well of or Postoffice We often orten hear Inquiries here at the Post Office about how many women ar are employed In the Post Offices throughout the Uni United ted States and nd what kind of work they are permitted to perform I Land and thereby hangs a 1 tale 1 I Legend has bar It that Calamity I Jane Wild Dill Bill girl girlfriend girlfriend girlfriend friend once was a rural wall mall carrIel carrier car carrier rier rIel In the Black Dlack hula Hills of South Dakota It Is not known whether there Is any allY truth to this but even so the Post lost Office Department Depart ment mont can boast of a number of Interesting and well known women women wo wo- men on Its rosters I For 01 example deep In the heart of Texas Texas Texas-Texas Texas County Missouri Missouri Mis that is Is during during one recent winter whiter there was a blizzard that still I still has the talking For Forten Forten I II I ten days no car or truck was able to travel over the snow locked roads I Finally a farmer hitched a I I tractor to a sled and managed to get get Into town for groceries for tor I sonie some of ot the Hill families hut But during each of ot those bUzzard bUzzard- buzzard bound ten days the US U.S. MallI Mall Mail Mall I went through on schedule And who was the mailman You guessed gues gues- I sed sod It a woman Mrs Eva Crank Contractor on Route that I crosses Stillhouse Creek four times In Texas County Missouri We made matte our route every everyday everyday day Mrs Clark observed laconically laconi laconi- cally Part time I had to walk I and lead the horse but the mall mail went through i I This is but one oue example of the many real life stories being enacted enacted en en- acted dally daily by hundreds of women J who carry the US U.S. Mall The thousands of women in supervisory and Postmaster positions post are in the Postal losta Service to the branch managers upon whom the nations nation's private business rely so heavily in conducting con ducting their operations Is there such a thing as a lady letter carrier Yes there are 95 96 o of them throughout the country lady rural carriers and hundreds hundreds hun hun- more who work In various other capacities in the Postal Ser Ser- vice Amon Among these are our own Agnes Haytor and Marjorie Sessions See Ses who serve as clerks clerk at the Park lark City Post Office They are i well known at the stamp and order money-order windows for their I ready smiles smile and cheerful greet greet- I Ings We feel teel they are a real asset assetto j i to our office and appreciate workIng workIng work work- Ing with them I Counterfeit Currency I I Have you ever er taken a second look at the currency that passes I II I i through your hands Now dont don't dontI tell me that It passes too fast to toa I take a second look It might pay you to check any currency you get especially In a larger city I You know that If you do get counterfoil currency and tt It t Is la l I II I detected when you pass it the loss lose is la your personal loss lose you I will not be reimbursed by a bank or the Treasury Department I IThe The United States Secret Service Service Ser Ser- Serl vice Treasury Department has announced the discovery of several severa sev era eral new now counterfeits Two Federal Reserve Notes four 20 federal Reserve Notes six 10 notes and four tour notes If you check your currency you youcan youcan youcan can usually detect some feature that will wUl stand out in counterfeit currency We think that It cant can't happen to us but it sometimes I does I I I I J See You At the Polls Poll The news is la full of polls and poles all of which brings to mind that It Is s the duty of every real American citizen to go to the polls next Tuesday and vote It is not only a duty but a rare privilege liege in this day and age The uprisings In ln Poland and Hungary attest to his tact The Poles' Poles and Hungarians have risen up against the Communist Communist Com Com- aggressors and are sacrificing their very lives for the opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to have free elections On the other hand here in this land of liberty free elections are part of our heritage so much a apart apart apart part that some of us take the privilege for granted and dont don't even bother to cast our vote If It the Poles Polee will trade their lives for a chance to vote in a afree afree afree free election surely we Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans can trade a few minutes of our time for the same thing Always remember this the person who is elected to public office is the one who will have a hand in formulating laws that will directly effe effect t you TOU person personally an You should therefore exercise your our tight right to select that man or or woman and you TOU can do it by going to the polls and voting One fallacy that seems to domInate dominate dom dom- mate the mind minds of those who do doI donot donot I not vote Ja Is the idea that all aU office seekers are merel merely politicians pollI poll poli Interested only in themI them them- i I I selves selve rather than their Actually nothing is further Arther I i from Crom the facts We all know that the big majority of office seekers land I I and office hold holders rs are honest dedicated I people who are vitally Interested in the welfare of ot America and her people I Yes there have been some who wl have gone bad during their terms in office but please pleas do not judge all of those In the American political sense by the acts acta of the tew few who have failed tailed to live lire up up to the high standards of the many many good law makers and statesmen throughout our nation Closing thought thought See See you at the polls |