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Show PACES 4. 1976 THURSDAY, MARCH Red letter Day Dawning For Roadside Mailboxes An American milestone is on the march the roadside mailbox is migrating to the city. Already there are almost as many 11,139,000 along city curbs and suburban streets as there are along country roads. Even in the country, though, there are more than ever 12,330,000. Time was when the roadside mailbox was almost as much the trademark of farms and ranches as barn, silo, or windmill, the National Geographic Society says. Battered by hard weather and rough life, this lonely sentinel perched on a fence post or sprouted from a cement-fille- d milk can. Mail service in the United States goes back to before the Revolution, but rural free delivery didn't get going until 1896 when a " the government $50 a year for every doorstep delivery by the neighborhood mailman, but only $35 to leave the mail in a curbside box. The Postal Service currently serves 13,440,000 families living along 32,423 rural mail routes, including 80 covered by boat, and seven-- all in Kentucky on NOW MAILBOXES often serve as curbside status symbols, dolled up and disguised with the painted ways of the city. In the ultimate new look, the mailbox is a miniature stand-i- n for the house it serves. The familiar mailbox shape disappears under tiny dormers, chimneys, porches, and windows in loving replica of the suburban split-leva- l, Cape Cod colonial, pseudo Swiss chalet, or whatever is on the other side of the front lawn. Even the occasional farm d red may sport a barn, complete with silo and barnside advertising. The United States Postal Service is in favor of more curbside mailboxes. It costs familiar unadorned mailbox galvanized and with flipping red flag to signal that mail has been delivered was approved in le route horse-and-bug- delivery." Every time another shocking story appears in the news, we have to resist the urge to conclude that the ultimate depth has been reached. But we live in an is age when commonplace. Unfortunately, a good many of the marks being set inspire anything but pride. Some sort of record low must have forced the Los Angeles board of education to pass a new ruling early in January. Beginning with the class of 1979, the rule says, high school graduates who cannot read will not be granted diplomas. Before we ask some obvious questions, let us commend the board for at least recognizing that a serious problem exists. And before anyone begins to feel smug about his own school system, let us sadly point out with high that school diplomas are a national phenomenon. record-breakin- g v non-reade- fast-growi- JSpw, the questiojisWtat., were students doing in school for 12 years if they cannot read in the 12th grade? How did they get there without an ability to read? Are there no minimum requirements for promotion from grade to grade? AMAZINGLY, the board's ruling will not affect present seniors, juniors, and sophomores. According to a U.P.I, in Hawaii's non-reade- rs schools would) continue to receive high school diplomas, because a diploma merely signifies attendance. In other wordSj hi&sohools have no academic requirements whatsoever. ONE LOGICAL outcome of Hawaii's system is the destruction of the worth of everyone's diploma. At least Los Angeles is now trying to protect its value. If a school system produces diploma-bearin- g illiterates, hasn't it both hurt its achievers and fostered more AND BOX ELDER COUNTY 5 TJr ' i J&? $11 KOTEX REG. $1.89 J!"" TV A APPLIANCE 70 Will Center, logon RCA Headquarter in hofitm MAXIPADS 30'S W.F. CARNATION PINEAPPLE A OR CHUNK NO. 2 OZ. 314 CATSUP HOSTESS REG CUPCAKES 8 105 SEEDS WE R0W HI 1. 11 DUI Ik. in in thi Minp . 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MARCH 1 PKG IDA ONION RINGS WISX OZ. 9 for homa MrrUnart "before 29c STALK MEATS COOK-IN-BA- G ORE iiAtMUJMiiU aim Wfldl. $1 FOR PASCAL CELERY Of 4 BANQUET AVOCADOS FL0WERSEEDS our mm - r- on to $0i 0Z. 16 W.F. POST VEGETABLE l CHOC (KIIHIfcQGIlSI U.S. EXPIRES HAVE LB. Z1V 6 30' BRIDGE MIX PAKVC rrrirmn rm (e) 19 Z, CANSOV SLICED GRADE FANCY W.F. SAVE BREAKFAST n AC W.F. SWEET THAT'S LB 1 49 ONLY monop- that of the student who finds himself bored to death in today's caverns of mediocrity. Not to make such an is to guarantee about-fac- e further decline. SOBERS MUSIC RIGHT dJ CHEDDAR er teach than babysit, and M!5I plNNCREST HOOK Such a move would instill a WiiiMt CUITIS'MATHIS PKG. MILD new vitality into education at ent who would gladly pay for the excellence that competition always brings, that of the teacher who would rath- FHIICO ' 4, 5, ft 6 FISH The answer must involve moves toward reintroducing competition in education. And that can best be established by getting the government out of the field. COLOR SPECIALISTS AIL MAKES REPAIRED MtttniiTV nn s.rrr ja imam CAPT. oly in the field of education. 7CMM-I- vis, mm ll(QfflA mm Examples of educational decline continue to pile up. are College board scores re employers plummeting; an increai"B port basic skills in job applicants ; and schools from coast to coast continue to report drug abuse and violence, believe that these problems are a direct result of gov- near-tot- . with wooden horses. TURKEY What is the answer? We every level that of the JiWlHr' drums, and stagecoaches lf CACHE COUNTY IV oil gaily painted bridges, SLICED non-readi- SERVING SAliS AND SBVIC1 IS OU BUSINESS NOT A StDRINt n BUDDIG n, impose a new and unexpected requirement" on them. New and unexpected? To be able to read? What could be phone scaled-dow- wagons,-lo- cabins, freight train ca booses, steamer trunks, rustic nail kegs, covered AD EFFECTIVE FOR MARCH a more basic goal of education than the ability to read? Are the schools and the teachers so ineffective, or are their pricritles so upside-dowthat they cannot or will not take a senior in January and teach him to read by June? Why not drop everything else and give him at least this one foundational skill? But the ruling will not even apply to those who will graduate in June of 1978! Do they really mean that in the next two and one-hayears they cannot or will not teach teenagers what one school board member called "survival" reading i ..ills? Within days of the Los Angeles board's ruling, "Hawaii's new school superintendent, Charles G. Clark, achieved a new low. Disagreeing with the L.A. board, he announced that report, the board felt it unfair to these students "to 752-651- covered chains, d CARL sSr f2 WmiwiH '1.29 4 DON'SJ WITHOUT GOOD 69' COUPON ONLY pot- bellied stoves, cream separators, plows, pump handles, and wagon wheels. Near Norwood, New York, the mailman is serenaded with a recorded musical salute as he opens one rural mailbox mounted in the horn of an old marching band tuba. gabl a ww breaking By JOHN F. McMANUS as masquerading hear vis, link-welde- swift completion appointed rounds are greeted by roadside mailboxes THE POSTAL Service has several pages of specifications for mailboxes, but doesn't object to homemade models. This encouragement flowers at the end of May during Mailbox Improvement Week. mm q&r box-size- of their year. Ever since then mailboxes have been targets of convenience for rural marksmen and city delinquents, who prefer clubs and firecrackers. Mailbox wrecking is a gan to take mail and cata- n Jeffer-,sologs to 87 families in It West Virginia. County, is no longer called rural free delivery, but "rural route Mailboxes are mounted on As a result, mailmen in tne cul- offense; 2,022 prits were arrested last 1901. be- We Live In An Age Of Record -- federal The AT ..... CARL & DON'S TREM0NT0N IKCMUUIUiJ SMITIIFIELD SMITIIFIELD PRESTON PRESTON |