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Show WEEKLY PAPERS LAUD POST OFFICE CORPORATION PLAN A spokesman for the weekly newspapers told the House Post Office committee in Washington Wash-ington that he accepts the need for postal rate increases but they must be accompanied by reform such as the Administration's Administra-tion's proposal to turn the post office into a government corporation. cor-poration. Jack Lough, Albion, Nebr., president of the National Newspaper News-paper Association, said that his members realize "conversion "conver-sion of the post office department depart-ment to a corporation will mean an increase in what they pay for delivery of their newspapers." news-papers." "But rate increases, without reorganization, are inevitable," he said, and "the result will have to be higher and higher rates for poorer and poorer service." The NNA represents 7,000 newspapers, the bulk of them weeklies. Lough is publisher of two weekly newspapers, The Albion News and The Cedar County News at Hartington, Nebr. The NNA voted recently to support the Administration's proposal to remove the post office from the Cabinet, operate oper-ate it as a corporation under a nine-member board of directors, di-rectors, and set up a separate board to adjust postal rates subject to Congressional review. re-view. Lough warned, however, against any attempt to weaken the self-management proposals in the corporation plan and said it would be "better to abandon the corporation than to emasculate it." |