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Show Daily Postal Service For Incoming Mail Is Resumed Government Order Put Mt. Pleasant On "Once-Every 0ther-Day,, Route Resumption of daily service at Mt. Pleasant on all incoming mail was announced Thursday afternoon by Ray Bohne, postmaster. post-master. Mail will not arrive from the north on the morning train as formerly, Mr. Bohne explained except on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the mail from the north will arrive-on arrive-on the evening train after having hav-ing been routed through Ephraim Eph-raim via Nephi. Reason for the original lapse in service, which occurred Monday, Mon-day, was an order from the Office Of-fice of Defense transportation which required the Rio Grande Railroad to make a 25 per cent reduction in daily coal burning passenger service locomotive mileage due to the coal strike. Under this order, the Rio Grande cut in half the schedules of trains serving Mt. Pleasant Since the railroad has the mail contract for this region, that meant mail deliveries were cut in half. This marks the first time in his 12 years as Mt. Pleasant post master that the town has had less than daly mail delivery. Mr. Bohne said. Some oldtimers said it was the first time since rail transportation entered the Sanpete valley. Formerly, when trains , were unable to keep the regular schedule, the railroad company furnished a mail truck which was routed out of Salt Lake citv to Mt. Pleasant, Mr. Bohne said. Mr. Bohne said he believed they were not going to furnish similar service in the present instance because the curtailment of schedules was not of the company's making, but by government order. Meantime he has requested inrougn w. in. inacKer, acting district superintendent of Railway Rail-way Mail service. Ogden, tha the postal department at Washington Wash-ington make an allotment tf provide truck service during thr curtailment of rail service. Mayor S. M. Nielsen state'" that he has wired Utah's congressional con-gressional representatives urg;" them to support such action b" the Post Office department. Meantime the schedule outgoing mail is on- an "eve'v other-day" basis Tuesdays, anr' Thursdays and Saturdays. O'l going mail for the north sho"' ' be brought to the post office b'1" 3;30 p. m. on these days, Mr. Bohne said. i Outgoing mail for the south I should be brought to the post j office before 6 p. m., he said. |