Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas, Founded 1897. HUMANITY
BENEVOLENCE VOLUME 59 — NO. 14
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE SPJST, FOB 100, TEMPLE, TEX '76501
APRIL 7, 1971
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK For the past two years, your editor has received quite a number of letters from our correspondents or contributors and members writing to the Vestnik with NO postage, NOT ENOUGH postage or the stamp having fallen off. We gladly accepted them and paid the postage and will continue doing so, however, we are printing here an article which appeared in the Waco News Tribune dated April 2, 1971: "TOUGHER POLICY DUE ON POSTAGE. Washington (AP) — A government report recommended a gettough policy on postage-due mail. If the Government Accounting Of fine •recommendations are carried out, the public, will have to pay for deficient postage, plus legally authorized handling charges that haven't been collected since 1958. Furthermore, postmen would send postage-due mail back to senders rather than delivering it to the addressee, as is now done in most cases." Now, dear readers, if this goes into effect, which it probably will, with this new Post Office reorganization, you can see what will happen, to your no postage or insufficient postage, mail, i.e. it will be sent back to you with a charge for handling and at the same time very likely render your correspondence too late and completely useless for publication in the Vestnik.
tributions in earlier. Let me give you an example: letters sent from Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, etc., on Thursday, reach here on Sunday ` or Monday morning. Four letters arrived Sunday and Monday, April 4 and 5, and have information about Sunday, April 11; they have to go into this issue or they are useless. What happens? The Linotype operators have to spend time Monday setting these and this disrupts the shop's schedule. Your editor conscientiously tries to get all of the letters into print, but what if: the amount of late mail should become excessive on a given Monday? . . . Of necessity, some letters would have to be left out and the writers would be disappointed. Mail early and everyone will be happier. Thank you •
And while we are on the subject of postage and mail, may your editor AGAIN ask all of our correspondents to please write and send your con-
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Last week and this week, again, we have received corrections for the News_ briefs section and we wish to explain to our readers something that they should know and he aware of. Our information, by and large,. comes to us from the Supreme Lodge, SPJST. We receive these items weekly, and they state the name, age, date of death, place of death, place of interment, and lodge affiliation. We go by their report. The SL does not have the records of details of charter members, and if they did,
IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON PAGE 14 and 15