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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1965

Page

8

Biggest Mail Explosion Sweeps Across U S Says Sylvia Porter

The piece notes the largest post office surge in history driving deficits and higher rates. It cites 1965 73 billion pieces mailed 8 billion in a single month and 375 per person with 6 million tons of mail and 1 billion packages. It highlights business mail growth and credit payments fueling volume. A plan to tackle the explosion is promised in a tomorrow preview.

U. S Grissom and Young Earth Post Office a_ development

Piano Gift to Grant School from Hodges Sisters

Miss Nina Hodges presented a Steinway upright piano to Kate Duncan Smith DAR School at Grant, a bequest from her late sister Willie Esma Hodges. Hodges, active in the Stephens chapter DAR of Decatur, endowed the gift from estate proceeds.

Nina Hodges Country Club Rd Decatur Steinway Kate Duncan Smith Dar School Grant Miss Hodges Willie Esma Hodges Kate Duncan Smith School Stephens Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution of

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