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Show Vandals Damage Rural Mail Boxes Unknown vandals, driving between be-tween Whiterocks and Highway 40, deliberately knocked over 26 mail boxes early in the week, Roosevelt's Postmaster J. Austin Pack, reported Tuesday. Mr. Pack and Hollis G. Hulllnger, who investigated the damage, were at a los3 to explain the reasons which occasioned the destruction; but that it had been done maliciously and by the driver of an automobile was evident, according to Mr. Pack. After returning from the investigation in-vestigation the postmaster related re-lated that along the entire route between Whiterocks and Highway High-way 40, mail boxes had been knocked down by an automobile which had zig-zagged from one side of the road to the other in order not to miss any of the boxes. - In one or two Instances it appeared, Mr. Pack stated, that the car's driver, failing to accomplish ac-complish his purpose when going foward, put his car in reverse and backed over the boxes. .- Mail boxes on rural routes are subject to the same general postal regulations as those in a regular post office, consequently the matter will be referred, to the inspection service of the Post Office Department, stated Mr. Pack. |