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Show 'Get That Bum Out' Isn't What It Really Means revenue unit in Fiscal Year '73 was $91.13. to one of the nation's 31.UO0 post offices who happens to hear some one say. get that bum out of here." need not take umbrage. A "bum." in post office parlance, is simply a bundle ot empty mail sacks The definition of "bum" is one among hundreds includ ed in a new "Glossary of Postal Terms" prepared by the I!. S. Postal Service. It is a dictionary for a distinctive post office language that has been evolving since Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin's days The glossary was prepared mainly lor the benefit of newcomers to the Postal Service. A Visitor Idaho To Observe Old Hunt Tradition One of the nation's oldest hunting traditions will be observed by some Idaho hunters during the general wild turkey season Sept. 4. They will savor a sport enjoyed by the Pilgrim fathers. When Benjamin Franklin proposed the wild turkey be adopted as the national emblem. Congress chose the bald eadle instead by a margin of one vote. He commented: "I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our Country ; he is a bird of bad moral Character; like those among Men who live by Sharping and Robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. THK Tl'KKKY is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original Native of America." Naturalists have since proved that, as usual. Franklin knew what he was talking about. The wild turkey is a native American and considered the noblest and most intelligent game bird of the North American continent. FAMILY Have you checked coverage lately? paid for if your Will family be adequately "Wrili to us today . . . your provided for? Rlafional Public service Pesky Bee Causes$3000 login bars." This is a reference to the parallel lines which appear at the right of the circular postmark that are used to ture. The hot house is a place for separating and dispatching preferential ('hot"i mad. cancel the stamps on letters. He should not expect to "hit " some mail. But he will receive any bonanza at his not look silly, because he will, post office even if it does be postmarking letters w ith have a "jackpot." This rea hand stamp. fers to a batch of mail going to distant points for which a The newcomer also need clerk does not have immednot be concerned because his iately available room in his post office uses "killer sorting case. He masses it together in a box or sack (the "jackpot") to be sorted as soon as be has enough space in his case. Um acre Utah SALE Cantaloupe 10 a Lb. can, raitfes. aiims, m4 taaattts jet GREEK tkt kirfctaj. Meal far taw Vtaa tt taachettt Estatt ui priui at $14,000. Cal Brifkai tutti, 11 Stttk Mak, IrifkM. Pimm GARDENS 752 5577 Uftt 723-345- 1 A Book... THE WILD Tl'RKEY is Tanker Rolls a Perfect Gift Is burnished coppery sheen, white on wings, rump and tip of tail. A hairlike structure, called a beard, hangs from the mid breast of the male. A small beard sometimes is present on hens. Hens weigh pounds and toms Bag and season limit one turkey of either sex. Tags not used in the spring gobbler hunt still are valid for one turkey of either sex. Especially 15-2- Jensen told investigating Franklin County Sheriff's officer, D. C. Golightly, he was heading north on a county road one mile west of State Route 34 when a bee flew into the cab of the truck Book From Deseret Book 0 Eric R. Jensen, 24, Dayton, was uninjured but the 1973 CMC milk transport he was driving was damaged to the tune of $3,000 in an accident last Friday morningall because of a bee. A As A Cache Valley Livestock Birthday Gift... Auction Anniversary Sale Every Wednesday Presfon, Idaho Gift... Wedding ... ... Going Away Gift lut your colli today lor our Wednetdoy tola. Toke odvonloge of our medio. 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Beautiful Book Of Rembrance - Deseret Books Are Available ARMY ROTC 4 YEAR SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINES ARE DEC. 1. 1974 YOU COULD WIN $12,000 Major Ron .7521345 or for entry BY CALLING: Fishbom & Sons logan Henrichsen Printing smimield Preston Citizen Reminder Office Supply PRESTON BRIGHAM 245 3970 form ARMY ROTC; THE MORE YOU LOOK THE BETTER From The Following Wilkinson IT LOOKS CITY 1974 FOK setfes rapes. at tfcc feethilfe f NMerrO. 2S, PRODUCE Aba OK HE MAY be told to colorfula trim, slender bird whose feathers on the back and breast are black, with a Damage, The right door, top of the cab, windshield and tank shell were all damaged, according to the accident report. Jensen was cited for failure to use due care. INSURANCE COMPANY 112 East 1st North, area in 1961. others were When Jensen attempted to turn back onto the road, the liquid cargo shifted and rolled the truck onto its side. ukt." for their o truck, which was reportedly only traveling about 15 mph, veered to the side of the road. insurance Will Twenty-tw- While he was attempting to wave it away from him. the your home be you should die? trapped in the mountains of Colorado and released in Idaho in 1962-63- . The birds prospered. From the expanding population, ten w ere trapped and released in Nez Perce County. That was the forerunner of what eventually became a statewide stocking program in potentially suitable turkey habitat. The wild turkey is as American as the Indian, though not in Idaho. Seventeen of these bronze beauties were trapped in Colorado and transplanted in the t. 1 Your : the first class" (the largest class is one "which has 950 or more revenue units " fort-war- Dad, He will work on a "piggyback" operation involving a truck trailer used for mail on a railroad flat car. Or, if the newcomer's supervisor tells him to report to the "hot house" he need not worry about the tempera- - The glossary likewise defines many words or phrases in the postal "language" which new employes may find confusing For instance An employe assigned to work on the "pig" won't have any butchering chores. THE GLOSSARY goes 00 to explain a "post office of BI T. IT IS also designed, Postmaster General E T. Klassen notes in a to the brochure, for many postal old timers who may not have caught "the latest word." Aside from being the first guide of its kind to such terms as "pigeonholes." which even in Franklin's day were openings in a case used for mail sorting the new glossary provides many useful definitions of words and phrases that have their own special meaning in the postal "language " For example, even veteran postal employees will generally welcome definitions of such technical postal terms as "revenue unit." The booklet explains that a revenue unit is the average amount of revenue received from postal rates and fees at a post of ice during a fiscal year for each ,000 pieces of originating mail and special service transactions (such as money order sales 1. A It's SEPT. THURSDAY, PAGE 4 The Book Shop CowleyS tremonton Lewiston Drug Lowe Drug grace BRIGHAM CITY piston, utah |