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Show PAUL HARVEY NEWS a fiasco ! The postal service GODFREY'S FOOTHILL RETREAT Now 40 bd nursing hem In Brigham City with ultra iriodam features in an ideal setting "The largest Angus Dispersion Sale West of the Rockies in 77. . . . SERVICES FEATURED Nursing, dietary, laundry, social sorvicos, recreational activities, occupational tharapy, physical therapy, religious services, and many BEAVER CREEK RANCH of DuBoii, Idaho TOTAL DISPERSION SALE By PAUL HARVEY (c) 177, Lot Aipla limes Syndicate You want to know why the nice of postage is soaring while the quality of postal service is declining? Hear this: The Gary, Ind., Post Office if fairly typical. The lowest-pai- d unskilled worker in the Gary Post Office gets $16,000 a year. That is more than the pay of the average school teacher or the average policeman. No wonder die three-cen- t stamp now costs 13 cents and the Post Office wants it raised to 16! THREE STATES have initiated a federal court lawsuit which seeks to roll back the cost of mailing a letter. In open court, the states of Maine, Massachusetts and Indiana are going to reveal some of the most groteoque extravagance ever attributed to any government agency. At the same time, the National Asan. of Attorneys General is probing the documenting what postal service may be construed as fraud. Legally, that's strong language. But more and more the evidence appears to warrant strong language. Indianas A tty. Gen. Theodore Sen-dawho initiated this investigatian, believes that consumers are being defrauded "even if only 13 cents at a time. k, HE SAYS there is now no control over the Post Office. It does not have the political control of the people. It does not have the control of the Congress. It does not have controls which any other independent business with stockholders and would have consumer protection chairman. It was he who bulldogged the expose of GM engine switches. It is he, in your behalf, who will probe the pricing, payroll practices and control of the Postal Service. Hardworking, efficient and honest instead of resentpostal employees should ing and resisting this effort want to assist it in any way they can. statements. profit-and-lo-ss more. Wednesday, October 19, 1977 10:30 AM. - SHARPI at the Mackfoat Livestock Commission Co. BLACKPOOL IDAHO SELLING OVER 400 HEAD! Qualified personnel provide friendly, caring services. We welcome your inspection. 1 1 Featuring the Largest Concentration of Holts Emulous Ride 70 Blood Ever to Soil Gained 4.89 Ibs.-pday 1440 lbs. at 365 days For information, call: Ranch - (206) 3 0 or Sale Yards - (206) And of course it does not have any competition. Indeed, there is a federal law prohibiting competition. You are prohibpersonally, individually ited from delivering a letter to your neighbors mailbox. Personally, Atty. Gen. Sendak favors return of the postal service to congressional supervision. Then, at least, extravagances would be period- ATT: Real Estate Sailors.. ically ventilated and curtailed. Contact Mo Before Listing. As is, he says, the cost of sending a Will Not List. Buy first class letter is eight cents. That indicates five cents worth of Dee 0. Leak G & B INVESTMENT REALTY waste or fraud someplace. 374-547- ADDRESS: 775 NORTH 2ND EAST BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH PH: 723-403- 1 723-3772 GODFREY'S FOOTHILL RETREAT 785-050- nt 854-39- IT COULD be waste. In addition to the disproportionate pay scale for postal workers and the fact that they cannot be fired even for inefficiency there are grotesque examples of postmasters making more than $16,000 a year assisted by clerks making $6.91 an hour though they handle postal business amounting to only about $5,000 a year! The Postal Service is right now purchasing Jeeps costing seven and pureight thousand dollars each chasing them by the hundreds of TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION PROGRAM Free Introductory Lecture 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16 Pianos Crystal Hot Springs thousands. The National Assn, of Attorneys General has designated one of its own, Ohios Atty. Gen. William Brown, as Honayviila, Utah 680 West 2 North, Logan 279-85- 15 25 TRADERS DEN Navy 'new' HUNTING SALE J5 5 Firearms Reduced Ammo uniform brings Riffles 3LN 39.00 - .243 5 10-5- 0 New A Used - 270 - $4.99 PEI From BOX Ml00 Tremendous Savings Used Pianos 400 firearms to choose from (areas largest) Over back old favorii e offu,tpr, On New Pianos up! 30.30 & Organs Whan you buy your gun ask about Leisure suits with flared mattress and sleeping on it for a couple of nights. trousers, worn with shirts, became the For sailors who preferfashion a couple of years red to iron their gear, the our special scope prices open-neck- ed PRACTICE AMMO AVAILABLE ALSO - BLACK POWDER S SUPPLIES FIREARMS old bell bottoms needed ago. That was the same time only a light touch with an that the U.S. Navy dis- iron, something that could be handled at sea in carded trousers and anything abort of a full Jumpers for a gale. outfit whose' trouser legs Now bell bottoms are were narrow and straight. craning back, their only FREE Bori SiBhtin! 9 Targets bell-bottom- open-necke- coat-and-t- COME IM AMO REGISTER d ie A Rifle or Black Powder 50 cal. Rifle mens styles are concession to modernity again playing up suits being that lighter weight, Now, with cuffed, 54 Winchester modal UV WHERE EXPERIENCE COUNTS permanent press Mends trousers, and shirts with may replace the neckties. So what is the of earlier eras. In this age of computers Navy doing? Its going back to and technicians, the trousers and new bell bottoms might Jumpers. recreate a little of the old romance of the sea, allow434 IT SOUNDS AS if the ing even radar operators GunsmRhing Navy deliberately is being at alum stations to legitcontrary. 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