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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...
...Senator Byrd. Most of them apparently believe that their departmental budgets are tight. Secretary Mitchell defends every dollar in the Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative" but to spend the massive $5.3 billion requested by the Agriculture Department to keep the farmers happy. Secretary Wilson told a press conference that...
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...