Page Ten I HL M[CHIUAN UAILY Wednesday, beptember 2-4, 1915 Page Ten I I-IL MIC..Ml(,AN UAILY Wednesday, September 2% l'915 What a Rush! at PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY-THURSDAY 7-10 p.m. 1000 Hill Street House fights for post offices WASHINGTON (A') - The ad- counting arm of Congress soft- ened its position yesterday on closing 12,000 rural post offices in the face of strong opposition from members of Congress.. "When a community loses its post office, it also loses its iden- tity. There is no road back," Rep. Keith Sebelius, (R-Kan.), said. A REPORT of the General Ac- counting Office (GAO) has said that. $100 million could be saved by closing the 12,000 rural post offices. It also said there would be no cutbacks in service be- cause of the closings. Testifying on the report before a joint meeting of two House Post Office subcommittees, Wil- liam Anderson of the GAO said: "If we issued the report again today, we wouldn't write it the same way." ANDERSEN said the report has been "misinterpreted to make it seem we are in favor of wholesale closing of post of- fices." He suggested a "compromise that would allow something oth- er than the status quo situation of uneconomic post offices." Rep. James Hanley (D-N.Y.), termed the GAO testimony "an admission of fault by the GAO on the wisdom of its report." ANDERSON spoke after four' members of Congress who rep- resent primarily rural districts testified against the GAO pro- posal. The accounting office in June recommended that Con- gress change the law to allow the closings as long as the qua- lity of service is maintained. Present law forbids the Postal Service from closing small post offices solely to eliminate de- ficits. "For business and industry to locate in rural and small-town America, there must be a foun- dation of basic community serv- ices. The community post office is the cornerstone of this foun- dation," Sebelius said. ALSO testifying against the GAO proposal were Reps. Patsy T. Mink (D-Hawaii), Alvin Bal- dus (D-Wis.), and Clair Burg- ener (R-Calif.), Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar has said that the Postal Service has not increased its closings in rural areas "primar- ily because of the concern ex- pressed by members of Con- gress about such closings." When a rural post office is closed, service is provided by rural delivery or by the Postal Service contracting with a pri- vate store owner to operate a community post office. Clericals fight over proposed bylaws By ELAINE FLETCHER bargaining team, when asked if A proposal for union bylaws the negotiators would block such went to the rank and file of the an action. University clericals yesterday, CDU objections to the pro- but a faction of the local is try- posed bylaws center on provi- ingto loc pasae o th plnsions which would vest the ul- aiming t hpassagen embersp timate authority of the local in has not had a chance to contrib- a representative council, and al- ute input, lot the local president a $14,000 sa;larv - twine that of an nver- BG 10ORG'S0@@ ' a: Members of the clericals bar- gaining unit which last month negotiated a contract between UAW Local 2001 and the Uni- versity drafted a set of bylaws, but a group called Clericals for a Democratic Union (CDU) hopes to prevent approval of the proposal at a meeting to be held Sunday night. CDU seeks a membership vote to name a committee to write the bylaws. Last week the group presented the former bargaining team a petition with 319 names supporting their position. CDU plans to present a motionI at the Sunday meeting asking for an election of a committeeI to write a new set of bylaws be- fore the bargaining unit's pro- posal is voted on. The move is an attempt to prevent consider- ation of the bylaws written by the negotiators. "It's a democratic procedure to allow the assembly to decide what business they are going to take care of," claimed Carolyn Weeks, a CDU member. "IF CDU makes such a mo- tion and the membership agrees to it, then we would follow the rules of the motion," responded Jean Jones, head of the former "IT WOULD take away all the power from the membership by only having two membership meetings," objected Sue Han- son, a CDU member. Dan Byrne objected to the proposed president's salary say- ing, "When you make that much money you become unaccount- able and isolated from your membership." Jones countered that, . 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