Show Postage Increase Would Woud Cost Special to the Clipper Residents of Bountiful who are now paying a year for postal services may be charged considerably more in inthe inthe inthe the near future That will happen if the bill now before Congress to increase increase in in- crease mail rates rales Iby my million million mil mil- lion n wins approval The local share of this boost which amounts to more than 18 per cent is estimated at 11 r The Administration has called called call- call ed d for lor or the scaling up of rates t i an order in order to reduce the r 1 f t hg ig g de deficit under which the Post ost Office Department labors each a year In the present fiscal fiscal fiscal fis fis- cal year its revenues will total 2501 million but its operating operating operating ing costs will run million above that figure Under the pending legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion most of of that deficit would be eliminated by increasing the price of stamps First-class First mail which takes 3 cents now would go to 4 cents Post cards would rise from 2 cents to 3 cents Air mail letters would I g go from 6 to 7 cents and air airmail airmail airmail mail cards from 4 to 6 cents Rat Rates s for lor second-class second mail chiefly newspapers and magazines magazines magazines maga maga- and for third-class third matter matter matter mat mat- ter such as s advertising materials materials materials ma ma- and small parcels would also be increased Parcel Parcel Parcel Par Par- cel post however would be unaffected The spent in Bount Bountiful Bountiful Boun Boun- t ul for for stamps and other postal services in the year as shown by the Post Office Departments Department's Departments Department's Departments Department's De De- De- De recently issued figures would rise to under the new schedule This presumes that local mail com com- II average proportions of first second and third-class third matter Many Congressmen are clear clearly clearly clearly ly in favor of an increase They feel with Postmaster ster General Arthur Summerfield ld that the higher rates are past due and sorely needed I There are others however who are wary Some of them asked witnesses at House committee committee com committee com com- hearings whether the increase in first-class first mail would not not Abe ibe used to offset partly the huge deficits encountered encountered encountered en en- countered in other categories I Still o 0 other t the h e r Congressmen I think that there should be a decision before any increases are granted as to just what extent the postal service should be run as a business and to what extent as a public I service |