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Show J. EMMETT BIRD IS REELECTED POSTMASTER HEAD ; J. Emmett Bird, of this city, was reelected president of Utah chap-j chap-j ter of National Association of ' Postmasters on the doncluding' j day of the chapter's convention in ' j Hotel Utah last Friday. Other officers elected were Daisy H. Wilkin, Magna, secretary-treas- urer, and Melvin Lind, Midvale, first vice-president. Joseph J. Lawler, third assistant postmaster general, who made the principal speech at a dinner-dance Friday evening in Newhouse hotel, commended postmasters for the fine job they have accomplished during the war and in the present postwar period. He noted that, if postoffice employees had not had their salaries increased twice in the last year by acts of congress, the postoffice would have finished the fiscal year with a profit of $75,000,000. Albert Goldman, national executive execu-tive committee member of the postal pos-tal association, described improvements improve-ments in aeronautics which have opened up opportunities to speed mail service. In 1941, only 166 planes operated on air mail routes; last year there were 700 mail planes and helicopters used experimentally exper-imentally at Los Angeles and Chicago Chi-cago were very successful, he said. |