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Show Mail Truck Fire Causes Damage To Parcel Post Parcel post for Rooievelt and first class mail and parcel post moving west out of Vernal was destroyed or damaged by fire, Sunday morning when a fire broke out in the maiV truck as it pulled into Gusher. 'Postal authorities, unable to determine deter-mine the. cause of the fire, hastened to explain why the Roosevelt parcel post pouch had been carried through to Vernal, and returned on the west-bound truck Sunday morning. Ordinarily all parcel post and first class mail addressed to the local office is brought in on the same truck. But an unusually heavy load necessitated the use of a second carrier out of Salt Lake Sunday. Carrying Vernal mail, the substitute truck was dispatched ahead Qf the , regular truck, and arrived in -Roosevelt before the post office was open. ConseQuently, the Roosevelt pouch 'went onto Vernal with the driver planning- to. drop it pf on th return trip.-. At Gusher, on the west bound trip, the driver discovered that the open top truck was ablaze. The fire was extinguished, but practically all pf the Roosevelt parcel post, and west bound first class, mail out of Vernal was damaged or completely des- troyed. Everything in the form of clothing or cloth wai a total loss, the Roosevelt post office reported. re-ported. Monday the Roosevelt post office of-fice took on the appearance and the odor of a fire sale as Postmaster Post-master J. Austin Pack, Postal Inspector Hammer, of the Salt Lake office, and cler'ts sorted charred packages and attempted to identify them. - "Some packages. wuave not yet been able to identify Mr. Pack stated, "therefore persons rwho expected the arrival of parcels par-cels about Sunday should check with us." |