Thursday, November 7, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Colorful postage stamps popular for personal mail
By JOHN GILLIE Kansan Staff Writer
The little old lady from Pasadena is adamant about her postage stamps and the United States Post Office has knuckled under to her demands.
Because of her complaints the ordinary brown and white FDR 6-cent stamp is becoming extinct on personal letters.
"We get lots of calls about that stamp," said Eileen Davis, receptionist at the Lawrence Post Office. "I want anything but those ugly old things,' they say." Mrs. Davis said.
"We still sell more of the FDR than the flag but most of the FDR stamps go to businesses or the University," Wetzel said. "They're interested in postage and the little old lady in Pasadena is interested in looks."
The Lawrence Post Office now sells nearly as many of the red-white-and-blue American flag 6-cent stamps as the FDR stamp, said Assistant Postmaster Don Wetzel. The stamps must be specially ordered.
"When the ladies see that pretty little flag, they've got to have it." Mrs. Davis said. "Many people admire and respect that man (FDR), but his stamp is so colorless."
In addition to the flag stamp, the Post Office receives and sells a steady stream of 6-cent commemorative stamps, the largest issue being the Christmas commemorative.
"We got a lot of gripes about the stamp last year from people who didn't like the irregular shape." Wetzel said.
Wetzel is troubled again this year because the half million Christmas stamps stored in the Post Office are rectangular shaped, as was last year's issue.
Mrs. Davis explained that many patrons complained about the color of last year's stamp because the color clashed with their Christmas cards. The stamp was five cents and people who used them on letters after the first of the year had to add a square 1-cent stamp to meet postage requirements.
"Mail is an extremely personal thing," Wetzel said. "If Grandma's or Aunt Sadie's mail goes
astray, she calls and demands to know why she didn't get it today.
"It's not like buying a suit when you are willing to wait a few days for alterations," Wetzel said. "People want their mail now."
"We handle 140,000 pieces of mail every day and 99 and 99/100 per cent of it gets delivered on time," said the assistant postmaster.
"But, say a bundle of Social Security checks for Lawrence is dropped in a Lawrence, Mass., sack. We can expect to hear from nearly everyone who didn't receive their check on the third of the month as usual."
Postal clerks are human too. Each clerk must memorize the 1,100 separate routings in Kansas before he is given the job, Wetzel explained.
"People don't seem to realize this. We get a lot of inquiries, especially from older people, asking why their mail is delivered so late," Wetzel said.
"The postman usually begins his route at 9 a.m. and works eight hours and there is no way that he can pack all of those hours into into the time before noon."
A complete address is a necessity especially in a college town with its transient population, the assistant postmaster said.
"We get letters addressed just to Sam Smith, 1012 Emery Road," Wetzel said. "1012 Emery is an apartment complex with several buildings and hundreds of apartments and the carrier can't possibly memorize the apartment with such a changing population."
Black cast to perform
An all black cast will present the Nigerian play "Song of the Goat" at the Experimental Theater Nov. 14 through 23.
The play was written by the Nigerian J. P. Clark and will be directed by Joel Adedeji, acting assistant professor of drama.
Adeedji is the assistant director of the School of Drama at Ibadan University in Nigeria. He has recruited the cast from black students outside the theater department.
Dairymen file suit against producers
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HOUSTON (UPI) - A federal court suit seeking $3,054,000 from two milk producer groups in the Midwest and Southwest was filed Tuesday by a group of Houston area dairymen and two Waco, Tex., dairymen, alleging violation of the Sherman-Clayton anti-trust laws.
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The suit alleged the 46,000 member Milk Producers, Inc., based in Wichita, Kan., the 2,000-member Milk Producers Inc., headquartered in San Antonio, Tex., and Harold Nelson of San Antonio, general manager of both groups, raised prices in areas where there was no competition and lowered prices in competitive areas.
The suit was filed by Marketing Assistance Plan, Inc., (MAP), a Houston based group of 70 dairymen covering a 300-mile radius, and David J. Simons Sr. and David J. Simons Jr. of Waco.
Wallace declined to say whether he preferred Nixon over Humphrey. But he said he now hopes Nixon "makes the greatest President and the most successful President we have ever had." He said he would have wished Humphrey the same.
Wallace wired his congratulations to Nixon.
Wallace, responding to a question, said he had no plans to run for governor or U.S. Senator in 1970. His main plan, he said, was simply to resume a law practice in Alabama.
to the supreme court to the matter of law and order," he said. "So the impact of our movement turned the other two parties in a different direction."
Wallace said his campaign influenced the positions of both Nixon and Democrat Hubert Humphrey.
The suit asked $3 million damages for MAP and $54,000 damages for Simons Sr., who alleged he was forced out of business by the two powerful associations when he refused to join.
"For a new movement to originate in our part of the country and wind up with 10 million votes, we consider it successful." he said.
"Mr. Nixon talked about everything from school children
He stressed that he was pleased with his 1968 campaign.
"That's a long way off," Wallace said. "Events that transpire between now and 1972 will determine that."
Wallace wires wish for Nixon's success
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) George C. Wallace wished President-elect Richard M. Nixon "every success" yesterday and expressed the view that his third-party campaign had forced the Republican to adopt some of his conservative positions.
The former Alabama Governor, who will be 53 in 1972, didn't rule out the possibility of making another race for the White House in four years.
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