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...Ralston, N.J., a sleepy rural village of 100 inhabitants near Morristown, likes to boast that its post-office building (built in 1776) is the oldest in the U.S. Nowadays the post office has eight box holders, only 17 other customers. Most Ralstonites get their mail at Mendham or Chester, each two miles away...
...last June, Mrs. Catherine Groenewegen took over the job of Ralston's postmistress. In summer she made out all right. Then winter came. Mrs. Groenewegen donned her woollies, put on a coat and overshoes. An icy blast swept in through rifts in the ancient clapboard walls, and the floor was none too solid. Mrs. Groenewegen installed an oil stove with three burners, to help the old potbellied stove. Said she dourly: "The place is well ventilated...
Then George Jennings, a nurseryman, the biggest customer the Ralston post office has-he sends out some 300 letters and bills a month-heard what Mrs. Groene wegen was up to. On his mail is a picture of the post office and the legend: "Oldest U.S. Post Office Building." Mr. Jennings was indignant. Said he: "This building ... is our only claim to fame. It means a lot, too, to stamp collectors who want the Ralston postmark in their albums." Mr. Jennings wrote to New Jersey's Senator W. Warren Barbour, asked him to take a stand...
...challenge to the U.S. in the field in which the U.S. has for generations considered itself supreme: the field of production and work. If U.S. citizens thought he would give them time to make haste slowly, they were deluding themselves. This week Canada's Defense Minister J. L. Ralston spoke some straight words to visiting U.S. Rotarians. Said he: "Our most dangerous enemy on this side of the Atlantic is the idea that we have plenty of time...
Captain White's remarks, directed to Lapointe, netted him a sound spanking from Minister of National Defense James Layton Ralston, plus whatever satisfaction there was in knowing that he was the first to debate openly a subject that sooner or later Canada must bring out into the open...