Newspaper Groups Criticize Postal Rate Proposal than in 1974. I'nder the judge's rates. iN The charts show that the hea- newspaper would have to p,i viest impact of the ruling will be $7,;fcs to mail an rqiu.i!'.r. felt at the smaller newspaper, volume - or a 546 perm.! in The Essex (MD) Times had crease in costs for an equivalent dry. To use, dip one in water mail costs of $1,043 last year, year's mailing. Make hw.m'.I soap pads for AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN h -King a::d -. ampirsg. Soak fold- , j paper U- . . .s in a thick soap solution, then hang them out to THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1975 The National Newspaper Association As-sociation and the American Newspaper Publishers Association Associa-tion have urged the Postal Rate Commission to reject postal rates recently proposed by an Administrative Law Judge, saying say-ing they violate historical concepts con-cepts of postal rate-making and stifle the flow of information. "The Law Judge's decision faces American newspapers with the greatest government threat since Colonial times, when the press was subjected to possible censorship and shutdown shut-down by King George's royal governors," the groups warned in a joint brief on exceptions they filed in response to Law Judge Seymour Wenner's May 28 decision. Wenner would cut the first-class postal rate and drastically raise the rates of all other classes. NNA and AN PA told the Com mission: "After the Revolution, the new United States government govern-ment showed its keen awareness aware-ness of the need for a press which was both free and freely circulated. But, today, Judge Wenner's punitive rate decision threatens to force newspapers out of the mails. The NNAANPA joint brief argues that Judge Wenner's rate-making theories are largely large-ly based on theories that were adopted by two other government govern-ment agencies, only to be abandoned aban-doned later as impractical. The brief also contends that the judge's decision reflects his lack of consideration of the point that first-class mail, as a required priority service, should be expected to pay more than his spaceweight theories allow for. They contend that "not only is the Law Judge's recommenda- Nobody's Business It's nobody business what I drink! I care not what the neighbors think, Or how many laws they choose to pass! I'll tell the world I'll have my glass! Here's one man's freedom that cannot be curbed, My right to drink is undisturbed. So he drank in spite of law or man, Then got into his old tin can; Stepped on the gas and let it go, Down the highway to and fro. He took the curves at fifty miles With bleary eyes and drunken smile. Not long till a car he tried to pass; There was a crash, a scream and breaking glass. The other car was upside down, About two miles from the nearest town. The man was clear but his wife was caught. And she needed the help of that drunken sot, Who sat in a maudlin, drunken daze, And heard the scream and saw the blaze, Eiut was too far gone to save a life, By lifting the car from off the wife. The car was burned, and the mother died, While a husband wept and baby cried, And a drunk sat by - and still some think it's nobody's business what they drink! Courtesy, Robert D. Bailey, Director of Safety, IML Freight Incorporated. tion bad economics, but it is illegal as well. The Law Judge's own formulae are unsupported by findings and evidence. Their imposition after the record was closed makes a mockery of the hearing process and deprives mailers of due process." The brief's summary concludes: con-cludes: "In sum, the Law Judge's decision is a recipe for disaster. A prudent Commission would question its power and discretion to adopt rates so far above those requested by the utility. Where, as here, the Service Ser-vice and the mailers have agreed to settle the case on a more equitable basis, the commission com-mission should reject its Law Judge's fatally extravagent recommendations." NNA and ANPA included cost charts for second-class postage expenses of several member newspapers. A comparison of 1974 costs with costs at Judge Wenner's projected rates shows increases ranging between 200 and 500 percent. For example, postage costs at the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press for 1974 amounted to $120,000. The new rates proposed by Wenner would raise those costs to $366,000, or 206 percent higher . . " L x . ---3rv' J - 1 ,r v 'i ' " it "'i-' i Worldwide ROADWAY - American Fork City crews complete blacktopping on road from Church Street to Center Street, adjacent to the American Fork City Hall. The road is a one-way street. It was blacktopped late last week as part of the city improvement project. 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