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Page Eighteen THE McHENRY PLAINDEALEH PONDER EFFECT OF POSTAL RISE ON NEWSPAPERS Many Small - Weeklies Might Be Forced Out The National Editorial association has charged that increases in second class postal rates proposed hy the IT. S. Post Office Department would likely put ninny small weekly newsptipers out of business. Testifying on Thursday. May 26. before the House Posl Office and Civil Service committees: Bernard E. Esters, chairman, of NEA's legislative• commit lee, said Ihe proposed rates would increase h o m e t o w 11 vpewspaper costs an average of .over $2,000 a vea^ and cjuoted from many publishers who had told the association that "the increases would be disastrous to all and many small weeklies would be put out of business." Esters, publisher of the Houlton (Maine) Pioneer- Tujies, was accompanied before the committee by Edgar $. Bayol, executive vice president of NEA. Walter Potter, publisher of the Culpeper (Va > St ar-Exponent and president pf the Virginia Press association. and Thomas O. Mathews, publisher of the Fairfield (III,) Wayne County Press and president of the. Illinois Press association. ; Esters said, "It would oe pei tinent, we believe, to inquire what means the government and its agencies at all -levels would use to get their Inessages to the people of rur- *j] America if the small town .newspapers are put out of business in great numbers." Despite the rise of radio and -TV as communications media, •he said, it is a false assumption that "these comparatively -young media of communications can supplant newspapers •And/or other prinied media. . . the widespread dissemina- ."lion valuable news and information." • Esters strongly atlacked as erroneous and misleading a study made by a private management consultant firm for the U.S. Posl Office department on the "Impact of Postal Rate Increases" which apparently led the department to believe the proposed increases would have little impact on newspapers. Citing an NEA survey to which 1,900 weeMs* an** swrtl daily newspaper publishers from forty-nine states haid replied. Esters said the proposed 1 second class mail increases ; would cause an average dollar ; increase per newspaper- of : $2.i!72.72 a year -- an increase of 244 per cent compared to the "about 40 per cent-' increase estimated by the Post , < iff ice department. j Of all pajiers queried, he |said,~8fi.fi per cent favored re- I tent ion of the current free-in- | county distribution provisions for newspapers which the Post | Office department now wants to abolish./ Free-in-c o u n t y means that any publication | published in whole or in part in a county may be distributed ! free «1 all. post offices within ; that county not having city or | \illage letter carrier services. "We are proud to inform this committee," added Esters, j "that the entiye NEA survey : was done at a cost that will add less than $1,800 to our deficit at |ho end of fiscal I960, j We-ask that you compare this figure with the $137,000 paid by the Post- Office department for the McKinsey & Company study .which will, w.e assume, be chargeable to that department's deficit, on which so : much -stress i$ being laid in h hose-hearings." j Esters added., Ihat the long- ! term purpose and policy of the j postal service was to be "a j public service, instituted and j j operated for the benefit of all ( the people" and that "newspapers are quasi-public institutions, independent ly owned and operated, but dedicated to the service of their people and eommunit ies." Free and independent newsjpapers have always been rec- | ognized as essential to the j growth and to the welfare of ! the nit ion. Esters declared. He | added that the diffusion of news and information is indis- 1 pcnsible to a free government. ! thus it is part of the postal : system's duty to foster and j promote the general diffusion j of this public information, not j to stifle it by making it economically impossible for many I newspapers to operate. j INTERESTING STATISTICS | Statistics compiled by the j Illinois Department of Public 'Health show that there were j 87.281 marriages during 1959. | most of them in June, August and September, in that order. ! This is an increase in mar- I riages of 3,881 over the 1958 j total Divorces numbered 22,- j 566 for 1959. with the highest i incidence in June, October and j December. This is an increase . ol 2,132 divorcer in 1959 over EDITORIAL When the Monkeys Are Out! (an editorial) When we were kids -- and it was after the demise of the cigar-store Indian and the horse-drawn carriage, despite what our children may thiftk -- this was a pretty exciting time of year. It still is. It is just about now schools across the nation throws open their doors for summer vacation. When we were kids, the cry was: "School's out! School's out! Teacher's let the monkeys out!" Wouldn't be a bit surprised if kids today were saying the same darn thing. Time for school to let out for summer - a time when kids can indulge in what one writer refers to as "the birthright of even- child": having fun. The sun'imor months will be jam-packed with unbelievable amounts of fun - swimming. walking," playing, biking, climbing. running, jumping, and, for some of the oldgr boys and girls, driving a; car. Summer, for kid6, is the roaming season. It's a time of freedom. It's also, a time of tragedy •. tragedy from aecU dents. The big killel* in June- July-August to schoolage children is drownings. This information comes from the National Safety Council, a non-governmental agency founded in 1913 to prevent all kinds of accidents -- home, farm, work, public, traffic and school. According to the Council, which has its headquarters in Chicago, no exact figures are available on what injuries befall children in summer. Cuts arid bruises are probably high on the list, we'd suspect. To try to list even a fraction of the safety .tips that come to mind to prevent summertime accidents and injuries would be an impossible task, and would fill much more space than we have here. Eecause the National Safety Council tells us that drownings, in all probability, will be the No 1 death-de,aler to our children during the next few months, we think -a few words of advice on that subject are warranted here. The Council says children should, naturally. | be in condition to swim, that j they should never swim alone, and that they should be impressed with these cautions: • -- Swim only at guarded beaches. Wait awhile after eating before you swim. Don't swim when you're h«ated arid tired. Showing off in the water, ducking other'swimmers, and crying "wolf" are never done by boys and girls who think before they act. Any day now, the cry will go up: "Teacher's let the monkeys out!" It's our responsibility to keep those lovable monkeys safe to enjoy life. POST 491 By Dorothy YVciehmunn out but and will be- 10 JPROFEjjiTonAL DIRECTORY DR. JOHN C. GOETSCHEL Chiropractic Physician Naprapatliic Manipulation Steam Baths and Massage 304 East Elm Street McHenry, 111. Hours: Mon., Tues., Wed. A FrL 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Phone EVergreen 5-0713 1-31-6C EARL R. WALSH INSURANCE Fire. Auto, Farm & Life lz» • Representing ___ RELIABLE COMPANIES •195*Kn ffllli>*B.*J»milllMeillPt*ffiu NeM^r marriages in 1959 totaled 134. ifmm SH mm Now is the time to add the sparkling beauty of Firestone whitewall tires to YOUR car. 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