| Show Postmaster Jack Green ON ON THE STAR ROUTE ROUTE- I Writes Well of Postoffice f ice By J. J C. C Gr Green n Jr The I most important matter of business on the sta route at this this time of year is the the State Basketball Basket ball Tournament The fever begins In the middle of February and lasts for about four weeks Every Everyone one in town Is pulling hard for the Miners to be one of the en en- tries Our boys have two successive successive sive sh-e wins under their belt and Friday they face the North Rich Trojans who are presently tied with Park City and Morgan for forthe forthe forthe the lead In the Summit Division race The Miners are looking better as the season progresses and their showing against North Summit and South Summit has started tournament talk all allover allover over o town If the Miners p play fly as well in their next two games as they have in the last two we predict that we we will be seeing them In Provo come tournament time Keep up the team work fellows and you'll be right up there on top Camel Express I IDid Did you know that camels once carried the mall In the United States Part of the saga of the West is the story of ot the Pony Express- Express that gallant group which carried the malls across western Ameri Amen ca The Pony Express however was only one of a number of I means employed to transport the I malls mails during the settlement of this area I Not so well known Is the story I of the Camel Express which was tried somewhat less successfully successfully success success- fully than the known better means Jefferson Davis the Secretary of War was responsible for the Camel Express Assuming the American T esert was just like any other desert the plan was adopted whereby camels were to tobe tobe tobe be used to transport mall mail to Calls Call fornia However the rough terrain ter rain of the Great American Desert Des ert was just too much for the I camels so the Overland Mall Mail MallI was established In 1861 I Marsac I Saving Stamp Pro ProA Program A School Savings Program was recently inaugurated at the Marsac Marsac Marsac Mar- Mar sac School This program which is under the direction of Mrs Kathryn Hansen permits the children to purchase United States Savings Stamps and at the same time teaches them the value and Importance of thrift Learning to Save In just the two short weeks that It has been In operation the children have purchased nearly worth of savings stamps The success or of this program at atthe atthe atthe the Marsac will no doubt have some effect on the older brothers and sisters when the they see that the small fry try are well on their way to becoming financial ty tycoons coons Schools everywhere are finding that the operation of the School Stamp Plan Is not only patriotic but has proven to be valuable In Ins Instruction Instruction during the childs child's formative formative for for- years More than 19 million million mil mil- lion dollars worth of savings stamps have been sold In the United States during the past year the the highest volume in nine years Public Service St The Post Office handles Savings Stamps sales as a public service making them available to the public pub lic lie along with the other services Most of our stamps are sold through the School Savings Program Program Pro Pro- I gram however many Individuals take advantage of this way to save America is U becoming stamp conscious When mother sends the children to town for some stamps she must now distinguish between the postage stamps savings stamps S. S Ii II If Green Creen Stamps and now the new Gold Cold Strike Stamps |
