Show t t 4 at i rv pontha calder TO 0 RETIRE AS postmaster pontha calder vernal post master for the past 15 years will retire from his post office duties june 30 of this year according accor dim to an announcement from the th local post office mr calder who came to ver nal in 1000 1900 when hone horse and buggies were traveling the dusty dust roads of automobiles abid anc hitching posts no not t parking meters posts were I 1 a popular downtown decoration became postmaster june 18 16 1935 at that time he was appointed post master and after a five year period was placed in civil ter vice under which he has labor ed for the past ID 10 years post office regulations force the retirement of mr calder requirements state that when a postmaster has served for 15 I 1 years and becomes 70 years of 0 continued on page pontha calder to retire As postmaster f continued from PW pare li ia age ge as to I 1 the case of mr calder h he e w will III b ba retired urel I 1 vernal city and the U S post office branch here both have haye noted phe nominal growth during his hi 30 50 years as a resident and 15 yean years ai postmaster master states mr calder he e estimates that K the business cU district strict has enlarged to more than four times its original size and gross post office receipts hove increased from 12 44 in 1033 1935 to 65 i in 1049 mr calder ex plains that these amounts are for stamp sales only and do not include accounts for or money orders bonds saving stamps in revenue stamps migratory t bird stamps custom duty loi and many other things the poi post office handles for other depart ments mr calder can remember when rural routes were delivered by horse and buggy on dlf dif ficula roads since he began as a postmaster many miles of service have been added to the rural route and the city delivery has a 8 good start and will be d developed e as requirements are satisfied one regular clerk and three city delivery postmen have been added to the force during mr calders postmaster term the faithful postmaster often recalls the congested picture at the general delivery window typical of oil boom days we had to put on another clerk at the general delivery window said mr calder and added that window was continuously filled wl with th people looking back inta the past mr calder recalls that the first post office branch in vernal was established in the bolth calthorpe Col thorpe building and then moved to the e uintah state bank the building that houses the post office today was completed in 1925 and has been enlarged during mr calders term aa as postmaster born in salt lake city aug 3 1879 mr calder first came to vernal in 1893 he remained only a month returning to salt lake city to complete his higher education at the university of utah it was on the U campus that he met mrs mm calder the former miss rosella liffe the romance budded into full bloom and they were married sept 12 1900 the couple will celebrate a golden wedding anniversary september of this year reliving t that h a t honeymoon trip from salt lake city to vernal in 1900 mr calder recalls that the trip took 13 days no coming over the strawberry the most difficult part of the trek as be he remembers remember a lt was that steep rocky incline going down into the bottom of deep creek asked if the roads were hard surfaced them mr calder replied well if you want to call rocks hard surface I 1 suppose they were hard surfaced part of the way mr calder was affiliated with two confectionary stor stores prior to his becoming postmaster in 1935 the first of these was the calder brothers company featuring sale of ice cream products and soda POP mr mr and mrs calder have nine children seven of which still are living they are edgar calder vernal buick dealer donna abegglen vernal wife of louis abegglen of the vernal shoe store harold calder bountiful utah bulck buick dealer clive calder bountiful jeep dealer sam calder los angeles artist dr wallace S calder Winne winnemucca mecca nev and ruth Bur burkham kharn beno reno when ased asked whether or not he planned to reside in vernal after his retirement mr calder smiled broadly and said you mean there are other places to live |