Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 30 198- 6- Jim JohnsonHerald Journal illustration The price of mailing a letter has risen dramatically through the years By Martha Dixon staff writer used to be back in the 1950s you could a letter anywhere for 3 cents The penny post card though had to the huge sum of 2 cents Most first-clamail was carried by trains and it took from five to seven days for a letter to get across the country s In 1985 and 1986 a letter costs 22 cents and it takes about three days to get across the country The little post card used to cost 2 cents but now its 14 In the 1950s most of the mail except airmail was carried by train either in baggage cars or on railway post office cars attached to s passenger trains Now all mail from going any distance is transported by It ss first-clas- first-clas- plane with the rest being carried on trucks Beverly Burge public affairs officer for the US Postal Service in Salt Lake City said Now we add a it number — the zip code — to all of our mail whereas in the 1950s all that was necessary was a correct street address city and state for a letter to get from here to there Leon Astle a veteran post office employee recalled that about that time Logan had 12 mail routes compared to todays 25 There were only two motorized routes while now there are several Mail carriers walked more in the 1950s with drop boxes every four or five blocks where mail was deposited by the main office for the carrier to pick up Now much of the mail is sorted in Salt Lake City by sophisticated machines including some of Logan’s mail In the 1950s all the mail five-dig- arrived in pouches and every single piece i mail had to be handled usually by seve people from departure to destination Even the locale of the post office has changed Now it’s a modern cement block and y decorative building on 100 West accessible to everyone It used to occupy an y brick building with tots of imposing steps at 160 North Main now the Hall of Justice The population has doubled since 1950 but mail volume has increased three times Logan Postmaster Kim Taylor said The postal service in the 1950s was a part of the US Government and received about 25 percent of its budget in tax dollars The postmaster general held cabinet status Since 1971 the post office has been a private enterprise with a government subsidy which one-stor- two-stor- decreased every year until 1983 when the subsidy ended As a private corporation without government subsidies the postal service was forced into the position of paying for itself Burge said s The cost of mail as well as other kinds of mail increased dramatically Ac- to Post US 100 Office Publication cording issued in March 1985 the stamp (first issued in 1932) rose to 8 cents in 26 years and jumped from 8 to 22 cents in increments from 1971 to 1985 The post card during the same time periods jumped to 14 cents While the postal service operated in the red a year ago Burge said it is now in the black paying for itself first-clas- j j ' Many of the changes which have come about See MAIL on page 10 i i In the July 3 50Lj WESTON'S 1957 A number of proposals were brought before the Logan City commission at their weekly meeting Tuesday night First one was a delegation from the Eighth ward headed by Bishop Lamont Tueller Members requested an extension of lights to their new parking tot The proposal was referred to the light department for study The commission also did a little preliminary discussing of the sewage disposal plant and of a few general sidewalk pro- blems Three men were behalf of there in the The pro-fluoridationi- com- mission told them the citizens would have to decide on this matter They briefly outlined the legal procedures the committee would have to follow in order to get the matter on the ballot at the fall election (Vean) Postma a member of the school board was appointed as a member of the planning and zoning commission to fill the unexpired term of JE Christiansen who has left for three months work in Uruguay The term expires on July 11960 Central Millina Co is located in downtown Logan Utah tne county seat of Cache Valley The original portion of the plant was established in 1867 by early pioneers in this area who operated it as a grist mill The mill has been in continuous operation since that time It was incorporated in 1903 as a Utah cooporation HR Weston became manager of the plant in 1917 Over a period ot years he purchased all of the outstanding stock and the mill has been run as a family enterprise since that time The mill has been expanded and remodeled through the years and nas become one of the largest independent mills in the intermountain West It is capable of producing over 1000 CWT per day The products distributed under the registered trademarks of "Golden West" and "Red Rose" are delivered to the states of Utah Idaho Arizona Nevada and California on privately owned trucks The mill also produces several private lables Although the mill is powered primarily be electricity it still retains the old water wheel in workina condition The plant consists of three story teed building three storage warehouses and grain elevators of over 50000 bu storage capacity SJ July 19 1957 Frank G Shelley chairman of the Utah Farm and Home announced Safety Commitlc toll from death "the that today farm-woraccidents last year was higher than that in any other major industry” He explained that one of the reasons this is true is that in industry accidents can be cut k down because there are foremen and managers that control the safety of the plant to an extent For the farmer and the person in the home there is only self discipline In order to reduce the heavy tosses and great suffering caused by these accidents the Utah Farm and Home Safety Committee are making extensive plans for a state-wid- e campaign against farm home and traffic accidents Sept 25 -- RED ROSE WESTON'S 1957 Logan City commissioners today have under study a request from the Utah State University administration that culinary water rates charged by the city to the institution be reduced Appearing in commission meeting last evening Business Manager Dee A Broadbent asked municipal officials to reconsider the new water rate which went into effect July 1 It was on that date that USU was placed on the same schedule which pertains to other citizens and organizations © 122 EAST CENTER LOGAN UTAH 752-662- 5 i |