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Postmaster General Summerfield's shock treatment for Congress in threatening to curtail sharply postal service will probably get him the money he needs to operate his department for the remainder of the fiscal year. While Congress is acting on his request for $47 million, Summerfield should also reemphasize the need for an increase in some of the postal rates in order to place the Post Office Department in a sounder financial position...
...raising the rates on advertising Congress would move toward eliminating the annual postal deficit. While there is not a categorical imperative to operate the department without a loss, the profit-seeking advertiser should bear the full burden of his cost to the government. Summerfield should couple with his present demands a new rate schedule which would bring this adjustment about...
WASHINGTON, April 9--Republican House leaders agreed today to back Post master General Summerfield's request for an extra 47 million dollars to maintain full postal services through June...
...budget. And if you can, you should." Kansas Republican Errett Scrivner was more pointed: "Foreign aid, of course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids? Rural electrification and telephones? Increased pay for all federal workers? School lunches? Veterans' pensions? Veterans' hospitals and other benefits? The FBI? Our courts? Immigration? Atomic energy? Farm-surplus programs? Those are the questions...
...POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN will probably be junked by Congress this session after five years of talking about it. Deposits have slipped 45% over past decade to $1.7 billion, and Postmaster General Summerfield says 47-year-old plan, started when banks were not available in many places (and often not trusted), has outlived usefulness. Some opposition to Summerfield's idea is coming from postal employees' groups and A.F.L.-C.I.O...