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Show THURSDAY, MARCH PAGE 3 4, 1976 Red Letter Day Dawning For Roadside Mailboxes An American milestone is on the march the roadside mailbox is migrating to the city. the government $50 a year for every doorstep delivery by the neighborhood mailman, but only 635 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, 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 Mail service in the United States goes back to before the Revolution, but rural free delivery didn't get going until 1896 when a y route began to take mail and catalogs to 87 families in Jefferson County, West Virginia. It is no longer called rural free delivery, but rural route delivery. The familiar unadorned mailbox galvanized and with flipping red flag to signal that mail has been delivered was approved in le 1901. horse-and-bugg- Ever since then mailboxes have been targets of convenience for rural marksmen and city delinquents, who prefer clubs and firecrackers. Mailbox wrecking is a federal offense; 2,022 culprits were arrested last year. As a result, mailmen in toe swift completion of their appointed rounds are greeted by roadside mailboxes THE POSTAL Service has several pages of specifications for mailboxes, but does- masquerading scaled-dow- n cabins, freight train cabooses. steamer trunks, rustic nail kegs, covered n't object to homemade bridges, oil painted gaily drums, and stagecoaches with wooden horses. Week. chains, 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 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. box-size- We Live In An Age Of Record -- breaking By JOHN F. McMANUS 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 record-breakin- g commonplace. Unfortunately, a good many of the marks being set- inspire anything but pride. Some sort of lecord 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 fastgrowing national phenomen- on. Now, the questions: What "Wife students doing ftmiMbl" 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 - non-reade- rs i 3 grade? . AMAZINGLY, the board's ruling will not affect present seniors, juniors, and sophomores. According to a U.P.I. report, the board felt it unfair to these students to impose a new and unexpected requirement on them. New and unexpected? To be able to read? What could be SERVING CACHE COUNTY and; BOX ELDER COUNTY 752-651- BUDDIG SLICED a more basic goal of education than the ability to read? ' Are the schools and the teachers so ineffective, or are their priorities so upside-dowthat they cannot or will not take a non reading senior in January and teach him to read by June? Why not drop everything else and give him at least this one luinAirs TURKEY m n, -- 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 twri and one-hayears they cannot or will not teach teenagers what one school board member called survival reading frills? Within days of toe Los Angeles board's ruling, Hawaiis new school superintendent, Charles G. Clark, achieved a new low. Disagreeing with the L.A. board, he announced that in Hawaii's schools would continue to receive high school diplomas, because a diploma merely signifies attendance. In other words, his schools have iw TicAdelftlfn'equirements whatsoever. FISH lf MILD K0TEX MAXIPADS non-reade- rs W.F. REG. 1.89 30S ONLY 0fL-,A.N0- .2 SLICED AAc L cansoV W.F. GRADE FANCY 314 CATSUP system produces diplomabearing illiterates, hasnt it both hurt its achievers and fostered more ment? Examples of educational decline continue to pile up. College board scores are replummeting; employers of port an increasing lack 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- OZ. CUPCAKES Rffi-'105- 8 . SOMERS MUSIC TV A APPLIANCE TO Wil Cantor, Lagan RCA Headquarter in Lagan U.S. PAK 79c NO. nun right WE Hm b tin tins to gst isai ysar LB. 2 CALIF. LARGE BANQUET 4 AVOCADOS FOR PER 29c STALK 2 WITHOUT 0NLY COUPON AT CARL 18 wcoupon 74 A WITHOUT DOITS 'NORTH LOGAN, UTAH 84321 - G000 ONLY 2.09 COUPON AT CARL 2.40 T A 01 55 wooupoM WITHOUT (XvfcOOO ONLY To Corf A f! b . COUPON AT iSSjf WUES LOG CARL 63 J.DQf MARCH CABIN fa TOASTIES Then's More 2015 NORTH MAIN 1976 POST 54e NC0UP0H U MAI 0Z. 12 ONION RINGS EXPIRES 1971 IDA 1171 BUTTERED syrup 99 wcoupon WITH0UT GOOD. 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Not to make such an about-fac- e is to guarantee further decline. 0Z. 16 BRIDGE MIX $I CIKI What is the answer? We every level that of the REPAIMD CHOC W.F. mon-achiev- e- SPECIALISTS g.ojV . the field of education. The answer must involve moves toward reintroducing competition in education. And that can best be established by getting the government out of the field. MAKES m save BREAKFAST oly in cotot W $1 49 W.F. Hawaiis system is the destruction of the worth of everyones diploma. At least Los Angeles is now trying to protect its value. If a school near-tot- 6PAK LB. CARNATION CHUNK PINEAPPLE ONE LOGICALoutcome of 5 n 19 CHEDDAR t's AU HOOK CAPT. 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. covered wagons, log models. 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