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Show Nationwide Courier Service to Provide Competition for Some PostalDeliveries Rising postal rates ad exvolumes of third and fourth class mail iave stimulated the formation of private enterprise competitors to the United States Pos: Office. One of these, Nationwide Courier Service of Utah, has now established offices in Salt Lake City and is seeking subdistributors on a franchise basis ut the state. Nationwide plans to make weekly door knob deliveries in neat, colorful plastic packets called ‘Action Paks”containing the week’s collection ot promotional literature, samples, coupons, ads from iocal merchants, and other items which are usually addressed to ‘“Occupant” or “Householder” and up tonow have been delivered by posimen. Mr. Herrick said the system is on the same order as United Percel Service, which delivers parcel ‘kages nationally. Sub-distributors contract to makethe deliveries in specified who i would otherwise be unemployed. Yet their pay for one day per week may be as iauch or more than they would earn at a regular or part-time job.” Mr. Herrick emphasized that Nationwide’s certified service NewFranchise local businessman who can Nationwide Courier Service is a new and rapidly expanding fratichise system which hopes to establish distributors and subdistributors in each state and city, coast to coast. Nationwide Courier Service of Utah, located THIS MAMMOTH DRILLINGmachine,called a mechanical mole,is being prepared to drill a 13-foot-diameter tunnel 3.3 miles jong through 5sel cock MSE oe pactthe Central Utah Project’s Strawberry Aqueduct. Drilling Slated to Begin on Second Tunnel Of Strawberry AqueductEast of Reservoir Drilling is about to begin on Healy Company, said the the second tunnel of the of Aqueduct Reservoir. A120-ton mechanical mole has arrived at the tunnel site and is being assembled preparatory to drilling th 13-foot-diameter Layout Tunnel, stated A. S. D’Alessandro, construction from Water Hollow Creek to wut Creek, a distance of 3.3 machine weighs about 120 tons and is driven by six 190 horsepower motors. Two hydraulic grippers ‘braced on the sides of the tunnel hold the machine stationary while a hydraulic ram forcesthe cut head against the rock. After inches, the machine is moved ahead on. y runners to a a new eh= drill again. It Srl about foot oftelathe outlet portal by conventional methods so that them mole could get started. The convex-shaped cutting head of the mole ue about Three shifts will keep the mole eeee eee clock. Each shift employ 15 to 20 men inside the tunnel and eight to 10 men working on the outside. Mr. Ames explained that except for three or four key men from Healy Company, all the employee used ate tunel wl be men, Carl Pes. from e tunnel pa Utah, superintendent. Chieere of the work for the Bureau of Reclamation is Larry S. complete. Strawberry AC major feature of the Central Utah Project being built by the completed, the 37-1mile-long aqueduct will flows from seve on the flank ofthe Uinta Mountains to the enlarged Sareey Reservoir fol use along the Wasatch Front, specify delivery of circulars, catalogs, or product features to any part of any city, county, or state for less than he would normally pay for mailing servicice. Contract for Bills Asked if Nationwide could deliver addressed mail to specific households, Mr, Herrick replied that a distributor in a large eastern city has contracted to deliver monthly gas and power bills throughout the service area. Several national magazine publishers are said to be anxiously awaiting establishment of the service on a nationwide basis. “As soon as we have all our sub-distributorships set up,” Mr. Herrick said, “we will be able to deliver Action Paks to any home or every home, anywhereiin the state, or through the Nationwide System| to any home in the nation.” Robert Strong, postmaster at the Provo Post Uffice, confirmed that Natic..wide Courier Service is a completely independent and private concern and has no! to do with the United States eal sysstem. Asked how he felt about the possibility of com. petition, he said, “I think we should have a competitor who says, ‘either you deliver it right, or there’s someone else who will.” ParcelPost Problem The Post Office Department's big problem, however, 'Y’ Psychology Chairman Selected To Appear in Educators’ Volume at321 S. 600 E., Salt Lake City, Dr. Darhl M. Pedersen, has already set up subdistributorships in many areas chairman of the BYU Departand is currently taking ap- ment of Psychology, has been plications for others throughout selected to appear in the 1971 the state, Plans call for chem to awards volume of Outstanding be in operation at the state and Educators of America which local level within three weeks, honors the achievements of the Dennis Herrick, state nation’s most distinguished manager for Nationwide, claims college and university teacaers that the new system will save 25 and scholars. Dr. Pedersen received his B.S. to 50 percentof the normal cost of distributing third and fourth and M.S. degrees from BYU in 1957 and 1958 and his Ph. D. in class mail. “Rising postal rates have 1962 from the University of severly hit national, regional, Illinois. He joined thefaculty in and local firms who rely heavily 1962 as an assistant professor on direct mail,” Mr. Herrick and was promoted to associate said. “Nationwide Courier will professor in 1966 and has been provide and certify door-to-door etna chairman since delivery in any given locality He is a member of the with considerable savings to the user, and at the same time, American Psychological relieve our over-burdened postal Association as well as the Western and Utah Psychological sysiem,” Associations, He also holds membership in the Psychometric Society, American Association of University Professors and the Society of Sigma Xi. His Ph. D, dissertation received a national awardin the Creative Talent Awards Program of the American Institute for Research and he received a Senior Resident Research Fostdoctoral Associateship from the National Research Council during 1969-70 when he was at the National pemeises and Space Ad- Ames Research Cite at Moffett Field, Calif. Dr. Pedersenis also listed in Who’s Who in the West, Amezican Men of Science and Dictionary of International Biography. DR. DARHL PEDERSEN Actual drilling of the tunnel will begin about Tuesday when the mole is assembled and should take about a year to S. A, Healy Company from McCook,Ill., is constructing the tunnel under contract with the seven Bureau of Reclamation. In and contains 32 Tae cutter Marasco Loses Tunnel, the bit addition BLOOMFIELD, N.J. (UPI) contract includes Currant green Beret Capt. Tunnel, wo diversion dams and Robert F. Marasco, pipelines to divert water from veyorbelt for loading in muck cars. Three trains 10 muck cars spy, luct, between the tunnel portals, and each will be used to remove access roads into the con- aete tunnel, Dust drilling .peration struction sites. This contract, created by amounting to $10,976,025, will is removed from the cutter head Re Strawberry Aqueduct area through a suction line and a nominations for city eeeaes Oe reer council in Tuesday’s New Jersey aoe . CamA ‘ly built Laserpaigning a “man poopie goles and shipped here to assem- beam onto a target in front of the courage,” hepele 2,113 votes. bled at the tunnel lsBob operator. This will keep the male All three winners were endorsed by the pariy. Ames,project manager for S. A. chewingin a straightline. Auntcomectng“pont Insurewil direct a ler MossPredicts Quick Senate Passage Of Consumer Prodyct Warranties Act WASHINGTON, v.C. — Senator Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee for Consumers, has announced cominittee approval, without objection, of ibe Ca sumer Product Werranties and Federal Trade eaueees Improve ‘ Senate Commerce Committee will consider the bill in Executive session soon. Upon subcommittee approval, the Senator commented that “this bill will provide the consumer with critical infor concerning his rights under warranties and will stimulate specific consumer redress, “Consumer groups across the improved quality control for warrantied products. Ad- country had written in support of ade maintaining Title II intact, and dittionally, ‘ ‘eder: the subcommittee, with minor redrafting to clarify language, tools it needs to police the marketpiace and was ableto satisfy objections to protect consumers from the Title at the sametime as preserving the important deception and fraud.” greneviae powers of the Considerably pleased with the progress of the bill since in- Senator Moss predicted full troduction in February, Mocs committee approval and early said that there had been Senate passage of the bill. 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