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...prefer not to have another too soon." In the past year, 14,000 pamphlets with these words have been sent to Ohio parents in and around Toledo. The sender: Toledo's Planned Parenthood League. Last December, soon after his tenth child was born, William Kunisch, a Roman Catholic mailman, received such a pamphlet in his own mail, promptly decided that a rebuttal was needed. With the help of his wife and the advice of Father Lawrence Ernst, moderator of Toledo's Catholic Lay Councils, Kunisch went to work. The Toledo Deanery Council of Catholic Men agreed...
...down three tickets, and took the money out of the pot." Fearful of his persuasive tactics, many students would be expecting him and "they'd run in the closet and under the beds." The CRIMSON at one time complained against the coercive tactics of a Dunster House mailman, but Andy denies that he did more than persuade people...
...people want something a little faster," admits Odd Fellow Edward McCarty of Lamed, Kans. (pop. 4,447). The lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town bankers. Says a Missouri Mason: "Men just won't go out to see their mailman drone through a meeting." Even members' funerals, once a must for most orders, get scant attendance. Commented one Knights of Pythias bigwig in Birmingham: "The brothers just don't have the whole spirit...
...York City post offices alone. Growled the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "Mr. Summerfield's sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform, which indicated a return to twice-a-day home deliveries. The absence of the Saturday mailman was felt in every U.S. home-and no one knew better than the Congressmen that their constituents live in those homes...
...would virtually meet his demands before Easter recess this week. But Summerfield stood fast. Sniffed Clarence Cannon: "He's been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead. And he took the opportunity to remind the U.S. of one of the freaks of Government accounting: no matter how much money the Post Office takes in by selling stamps and money orders, the Post Office cannot...