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Show i I i Page Eight FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1961 THE SALT LAKE TIMES S.L Post Office Handles Record Load of Christmas Holiday Mail perience this season, as shown by our experience on these peak days, in delivering residential mail in one delivery will enable the Salt Lake post office to con-tribute its share to the nation wide program of the Service in maintaining the best service with minimum use of inexperienced manpower. This means faster deliveries with fewer errors." The Salt Lake City post office handled the largest load of mail in its history on Monday and Tuesday, December 18 and 19, Postmaster David R. Trevithick reported today. The record local mail volume was handled with less employes than ever before under new pro-grams which emphasize over-time benefits for regular career employes of the local post office with minimum use of Christmas temporary helpers. This area's record mail load was in keeping with the trend over the nation. The postmaster said he had been advised by the Post Office Department that more than one billion pieces of mail, an all time record, were handled nationally by the 35.000 post offices during these two days. This year's delivery plan used an "all in one" home delivery with mail for the day delivered to homes in a single delivery, instead of the set up of previous years "in which residents would have inexperienced youngsters running over their lawns several times a day delivering a few cards at a time." In addition to greater economy and efficiency of all in one de-liveries, this year's holiday mail handling at the local post office has featured more pay for regu-lar full time career employes and a lesser use of inexperienced employees. This year's two day record totaling 6,096,000 pieces locally was handled with 600 tempo-raries, compared with 810 last year. Nationally, use of tempo-rary help, with extra wages to the regular employees, has been cut from nearly 300.000 last year to about 250,000 this year, about 20 per cent. Millions of dollars in extra wages, however, will go to the regular employes in over time. Despite the overtime, the Postal Service is achieving more economy this year because the speed and skill of the regulars in handling the mails more than offsets the additional costs. The once a day Christmas de-livery in most areas was made by a "fusing process." Simply stated, this means that regular employees began work in early morning hours to infuse all the mail for the day for each route into batches that can be handled in a single delivery by carriers out on the route including tem-poraries. In some cases, those making deliveries icked up extra loads out on the route from the familiar green colored relay mail boxes (which are serviced by postal trucks), but they do not have' to make numerous trips back into th post offices to carry out limited batches in frequent, costly trips. The Postmaster commented "We are confident that our ex- - Utah Lions Ready Annual Event Preparations are under way for the Utah Lions annual mid-winter banquet scheduled for Monday, January 22, at 7:00 p.m. at the Terrace Ballroom. Dean K. Swaner, Farmington, chairman, said the event is one of the highlights of Utah Lion activities and is. expected to draw 2000 Lions and their guests from the state. Tickets are now available from all Lion Club presidents. The banquet is one of the largest civic activities held in the state. Special guests include state and local governmental of-ficials, Lion District governors and international counselors of surrounding states. The special guest speaker from Lions Inter-national will be announced soon, Chairman Swaner said. Also scheduled in connection with the banquet will be dinner meeting Sunday, January 21, honoring the Lions International guest speaker and wife. Attend-ing will be state district gover-nors, international counselors, and banquet committee members and their wives. Other activities will include a breakfast meeting and noon luncheon for state Lion officials and a special business meeting at the Murray B. Allen Blind Center where state committees will make reports. Now is Good Time For Juveniles to Take Gun Training Juveniles yho have not taken the required gun safety and sur-vival training course will find winter a good time to do so in prepartion for the hunting sea-sons of 1962. Utah law requires all first-tim- e juvenile hunters to show a certificate in evidence of such training before they may pur-chase the hunting license. Since this law became effective two years ago, many juveniles have failed to qualify in time to go afield for their first hunting op-portunity after game birds or big game. Some 3,400 adult instructors have been trained and qualified to teach the required training course, with one or more living in each community of the state. During the three years since the teaching program became effective more than 37.290 ju-veniles have been qualified to purchase hunting licenses for the first time. Under legislative decree the department of fish and game has carried on this program of in-struction with valuable assist-ance from many individuals and organizations alike. Spokesmen urged all juveniles planning to hunt for the first time in 1962 to take the training course during the winter months when outdoor activities are re-stricted and instructors have more time for teaching. Persons interested in complet-ing the course of instruction may contact their local conservation office for location and time when the courses are scheduled to be given in their area. Audubon Society Advocates Pass To Wildlife Areas National Audubon Society, according to its president, Carl W. Buchheister, is advocating a $2 annual admittance pass to the National Wildlife Refuges as the "refuge program needs addi-tional funds." The proposed "wildlife con-servation stamp" for refuge visitors would supplement the present $3 duck stamp that is sold as a license to hunters. Mr. Buchheister spoke at a confer-ence of conservation leaders in Washington sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation. He listed two other reasons behind the recommendation: "1. This kind of fee system can be useful tool in preventing too much public use of a refuge when too many trampling feet or too many autos would damage the habitat. "2. A certain number of citi-zens make special recreational use of the refuges because the refuges make wild animals ac-cessible, available and visible It seems only fair that these citizens make an extra contri-bution to the establishment and maintenance of the refuge sys-tem." He said the proposed stamp would be sold through the post offices, as is the duck stamp, as an annual pass for adults wish-ing to enter the refuges for bird watching, photography, fishing or other , recreation. Holders of duck stamps would be entitled to the same privileges so no per-son would be required to buy both stamps. "At this stage of our study, we suggest the new stamp be issued at a fee of $2; that it be required of all persons 17 years of age or older; that the stamp itself be similar in design to the duck stamp except depicting each year a non-gam- e species of migratory wildlife, and other-wise colored or shaped in such a way as to be distinguishable at a glance from the duck stamp. The plan was first announced Oct. 30 at the National Audubon Society convention in Atlantic City, N.J. Since then Mr. Buch-heister said, "We have received a great deal of favorable mail and practically no opposition. We have yet to hear the first objection from a bird watcher. I am convinced that sports fish-ermen will be as willing to help for the additional fishing oppor-tunities provided on some of the refuges as the duck hunters are to take care of the ducks." SCOTCH BLENDED WHISKY, 86 PROOF IMPORTED BY LONG JOHN IMPORTING CO., A DIVISION OF SCHENLEY, M.Y. SCHENLEY brings you "the Scotch they prefer in Scotland" j f'y IMPORTED rl hod; f.JX yySCOTCH AGED i YEARS lip l AClUALITY 1 flK BO EIGHT Long on age, long on flavor, too, Long John is the world's gentlest whisky... gg 'r5 delightful, sociable, friendly to all. .Aged twice as long as ordinary scotches. ANOTHER FINE AGED IMPORT FROM dienlflj THE HOUSE OF AGED WHISKIES CHECKING CHECKING? 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