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Show J Cedar Post Ofiico To Close fill Day Saturday Rocaitso of the Congressional Congression-al man. late to cut back Federal Feder-al employment to the June .'50, KK'hS level, including ftt,2'8 for (ho postal service nationally nation-ally and many in this area, mail sorvP'e limitations will start locally July 27, Postmaster Postmas-ter Fiank Petty said today. The local postal head has been advised by Postmaster General W. Marvin Watson to comply with the cutback required by Congress under the recently enacted tax bill by reducing some postal services ser-vices and curtailing new hiring. hir-ing. Curtailments as follows will take effect locally: Effective July 27, all regular reg-ular Saturday window service win bo discontinued. Effective July 27, Saturday collection of mail from street deposit, bo-:e.s will lv adjusted to conform to the generally less-frequent Sunday collection collec-tion schedules. Postmaster rot Pj also noted that beginning July- 1 all planner! plan-ner! "tensions of city and rural delivery were curtailed. At tlii.- time, th'M'o are no plans to provide mail delivery .service to new housing subdivisions sub-divisions and apartment pro-,-!s. "Ths U not a matter of dollars dol-lars but of people," Postmaster Postmas-ter Gen val Watson explained. explain-ed. "Under the manpower restrictions imposed by the tax bill, we simply will not have enough people to continue con-tinue all postal services at their present: level." The exact total out of the overall employment- cut that will apply locally is not yet known, and it will be nff-vt-ed to some extent by the rapidity ra-pidity of job turnover in the local staff in the months im'-mediatoly im'-mediatoly ahead. However, the postmaster sairl ho expects ex-pects the cut to be serious. To make the overall cutback cut-back to the lf level, post offices have been ordered to f'll only three out of four vacancies ns they occur. |