Postal Subsidy toMagazin. Greater Than Entire SKHnil of ' Rural America no longer u the "forgotten zone” of mall delivery according to Postmast er General Arthur E. Summer field. Millions of citizens now are getting better mail service be cause of a new emphasis on ru ral free delivery, Summerfleld said, pointing out that the Post Office Department is moderniz ing service everywhere to de liver the mail faster and at less cost. In a report on operation for the past year and plans for ISM, Retail 86 Proof the postmaster General de clared: “Just a year ago, a new team of executives took over the man agement of the Post Office Department’s $10,000,000,000 a a year business with a direc tive from President Elsenhow er to provide better mall serv ice while reducing hosts and the postal deficit. “We are undertaking one of the largest reorganization proj ects ever made In the U.; 8. and the dangerous trends to ward poor mall service, poor employee morale and ever mounting deficits have been reversed. “For example, the Department closed about 600 Out-moded fourth-class post offices and substituted modem rural- tree delivery service. “We intend to proceed witn this policy of improving rural delivery.. It is badly needed, not only by agricultural families who deserve better service but also in the rapidly growing sub urban communities around our cities. More and more people cure moving into these areas and they must have (modem, fast mail delivery six days a week.” One of the big tasks facing the new postal administration was cutting the def icit to help balance the national budget and put the Post Office Depart ment on a more nearly break even basis, Suminerfleld point ed out. "Already we have reduced the estimated postal deficit for the current fiscal year to about Jar man-Howard, Inc. FUNERAL HOME > (Formerly T yndalJ-Wood-Jarman) D. E. Wood Mutual Burial Association DIAL 3846 AMBULANCE SERVICE KINSTON, N. C. ■ UMKLE HANK SEZ ( A GOOD WAN} OH ANV OCCASION,^ KEEP FROM BtIHG OlSAPPOINr You’ll never be disapointed In any Ford tractor or Dear born machinery you purchase at J ENKINS FARM EQUIP. CO., INC. Ford tractors sod Dearborn Implements are de. signed to modem mechanized farming. Ask for a demon stration of the Implements and tractor. JOHN T JfSKINS,Vi'f 'PkrS. L 8. JENKINS. Ppr-s I• -nkirf f f tn lquipmemr ('nmpany im RPORR T€ ' • 7 FI *701 '■:ri£r. :s $44u,uuu,uw. xnat represenxs a reduction of the deficit by about one million dollars every working day,” he said. “But we still are running behind. In the eight years since World War Iff, the postal deficit totaled $3> 800,000,000. The Interest alone on this huge debt costs the Amer.can taxpayers over $100, , 000,000 a year. “We believe . that Congress should recognize that economies already made tund to be made by the new management of the Post Offifoe Department cannot by themselves bring the postal deficit into balance. “We have asked the Congress to raise the cost of out of town letters by one penny from three to four cents. That hasn’t been raised in twenty-one years but meanwhile the cost of operat ing the Postal Establishment has doubled in that time. “We have askecl the Congress for a modest raise in second class mail rates for newspapers, magazines and periodicals to bring in added revenues equal to less than nine per cent of the present loss on this class of mail. “Second-class mail rates are lower today than they were in 1925; in fact our revenues at present rates are barely suffi cient to cover our bills for transporting second-class mail, with nothing left over for the enormous expense in 'handling, distribution and delivery. “We have also asked the Congress for an increase in third-class mall — comprising advertising matter—circulars, and packages up to 8 ounces. We lost 191 million dollars on this class of mall in 1952. Our taxpayer should know the size and extent of our losses on both second and third class mall “SIraee 1936 through the fis cal year 1952 the losses on sec ond-class mail with magazines comprising 68 per cent of the total, were two billion one hun dred and twenty-seven million! dollars. “Ei contrast we are told, pub lished statements indicate this sum is over twice the real iezd losses of one billion forty nine million dollars in the price support program given to the farmers of the country by the Commodity Credit Corporation. "We believe it unconscionable that this postal deficit should he passed on to succeeding gen erations to pay. Instead, we believe the cost of operating the postal service should be distrib uted fairly among the actual users of the malls.” Postmaster general sn merfield pointed out to these significant improvement in service this past pear: - Later pick-uqps from mall box es in most cities now speed de liveries by a full day.' • (Mr transportation is being used as an experiment in speed ing first-class mail and Is work ing out very /well at no in creased cost. Merit is the primary crlt&rkm for promotion of postal em ployees to supervisory poet window service am in effect In 200 larger cities. Regional offices are being es tablished to decentralize man agement and provide closer su pervision over operations. Administration has been re organized and simplified to elim inate duplicate functions and save money. "Much progress has been made hi this first year under the new management,” Sum merfleld said. ‘Much more can and will be dome In the day* ahead to assure better mall o$| service. “Dramatic proof that our citizens are getting real! serv ice at lower cost is evidenced by the recent holiday mall sea son when the Department han dled more Christmas mail than ever before at lower operating costs. It did so efficiently and promptly so that the Christmas mall was delivered by Christmas Day.” —- *"■ DR. KEFFER'S CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Ml West Vernon Aye. (Goldsboro Highway) Kinston, N. C. William A. Keffer, D. C„ Ph. C. Charles F. McAndrew, D. C. Dial 2954 for Appointment Free Parking tor Clinic Patients •> AMBULANCE • - Equipped With Emerson Resusdtator With this equipment LIVES MAT BE SATED tram suffo cation, heart attacks and like emergweini. EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME 7M N. QUEEN ST. 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