Show Postmaster Jack Green ON ON THE STAR ROUTE ROUTE- Writes Well of Postoffice By J. J C. C Green Jr An article in the January issue Is Issue issue is- is sue of the Postmasters Postmaster's Gazette tells us that the Post Office Department Department Department De De- recently announced Installation in installation tn- tn of an automatic sortIng sortIng sorting sort- sort Ing device in the Silver Sliver Springs Maryland post office early In 1957 The device while hailed as n II major achievement In reducing drudgery and Improving efficiency C cy will not effect postal career employees adversely In their Jobs and job security This announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment was made by Postmaster General Arthur E. E Summerfield As we understand It the machine machine machine ma ma- chine has an operator and looks much the same as a billing machine machine machine ma ma- chine or on typewriter As the letters letters letters let let- are brought to the front of the mac machine lne on a conveyor apparatus apparatus ap ap- ap the operator punches numbers on the key board that directs the machine to carry the letter to the proper pigeon h hole le We have no idea how long it will willbe willbe willbe be before this machine is ts in operation operation op op- op in the larger post offices or if it will prove practical after aCter it t Is In operation however we predict that It will probably be some time before a postal clerk will he be able to tell teU a patron that the he reason they did not get the theetter letter etter on time was because became of a mechanical failure All post offices in the United States now have the ball point pen in use in the lobbies Thus passes asses an another ther era We can now relegate the old post office pen to the same resting place as ashe the he five cent cigar and the Model T Ford At the time this change was being contemplated newspaper newspaper news- news I paper aper reporters around for or different dug up Christopher Morley's old poem To a Post Office Inkwell but Postmaster J J. J Ernest Jones of ot Lisbon N. N D. D went them one beter better better bet- bet ter er and added his own stanza just lust for fun Here lIere is the original poem seem and Postmaster Jones' Jones addition ad ad- To A Post Jod Office Inkwell I flow many humble hearts have dipped I In n you and scrawled their manuscript man man- Have shared their secrets told their cares Their curious and quaint affairs Your pool of Ink your Scratchy Pen Have moved the lives of unborn men And watched young people breathing hard J Put ut Heaven on a postal card To which PM Jones added How many humble hearts will scrawl With pens lIens now pointed with a ball Factory filled and chained quite quit tight Thwart those souls with fingers light No longer can the writer curse The Postal Service or still worse Watch Ink specks as they slowly spatter Across the face of first class mat ter January will mark the retirement of W. W D U. Thacker District Transportation Manager Only a few of ot our patrons know Hill personally but the excellent mall maU schedule that our office has enjoyed for so tong long U is the brainchild brain brain- child and the responsibility of ot Mr Thacker It Is la with deep re rev gret Bret that we learned that BillIs Bill Billis is going to retire The entire postal service will lose los one of the most efficient servants it has ever had Our own association with Bill goes back some eighteen eighteen eighteen teen years and it was always our experience that when we had any difficulty with schedules Bill was the man to work them out and he always saw to It that Park I City had excellent mall mail service Again we closed another post postoffice postoffice postoffice office box that has has' be been n in use for some fifty years The Robert Birkbeck family moved to Salt Lake and will no l longer nger get their mall mail at our office We here re at atthe atthe atthe the post office regret t. leaving leaving leav leav- ing and we wish them every happiness happiness happiness hap hap- in their new home Mr and Mrs James OHara O'Hara Hara and daughter Coleen were back In town recently The Illness of Mrs O'Hara's mother Mrs W. W D. D St. St Jeor occasioned the visit |