Man pays $8 postage to ship cake. shares with workers
A man in Birmingham Alabama refused to pay high postage fees for a cake order from Venezuela. He paid $8 in postage and took the cake to the post office where he shared it with postal employees.
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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
4
A man in Birmingham Alabama refused to pay high postage fees for a cake order from Venezuela. He paid $8 in postage and took the cake to the post office where he shared it with postal employees.
Ukiah CAP held its second meeting at the William Cox home led by Commander Robert Banzhaf. Twenty members attended. the group outlined search and rescue aims and CAP duties in peacetime and war, inviting flyers and rescue volunteers to join. Further details via Bob Banzhaf at HO 2-4527.
Parents and friends filled Arena Elementary School for a Christmas program on December 17. The event opened with a welcome from Principal James Russell and featured a band medley directed by Mrs. Lois Scarempella followed by first grade scenes and a third grade performance led by Mrs. Kay Ormshee.
Sharon May and classmates presented a German nativity scene. Tom Helliday, the janitor, distributed gifts to children as Santa's helper. John and Naomi Allen prepared A Christmas Story directed by John Allen with solos by Joan Iversen and Stanley Solbeck.
A Negro educator says it is possible to conclude on certain intelligence tests that most southerners are dull normal or moron. President Horace Mann Bond of Lincoln University Oxford Pa said such tests alone do not give a true picture, noting that southerners on a congressional sub committee used similar results to claim Negroes are mentally inferior.
UKIAH Daily Journal lists Saturday December 22 TV lineup with games, sports, cartoons, feature films, and later evening programs. Notable entries include space themed shows, news, and weather blocks along with entertainment segments and local programming notes.
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