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opinion
Loss of Saturday mail will harm rural America
TEXAS STATE RAILROAD
TONDA RUSH
Washington, D. C.
The postal service has failed,
to take into account the effect
of the loss of Saturday mail
delivery upon small town
America and has overlooked
new competition it will spur
from newspaper carrier forces
if it drops Saturdays, National
Newspaper Association wit-
nesses told the Postal Regula-
tory Commission.
The Commission is hearing
testimony on the postal ser-
vice's proposal to repeal a law
requiring six-day mail deliv-
ery. Postmaster General John
Potter has said that if Congress
relaxes the constraint, USPS
will drop Saturday mail de-
livery in 2011. The PEC will
issue its recommendation in
October.
Al Cross, director of the In-
stitute for Rural Journalism
and Community Issues, based
at the University of Kentucky,
testified that rural Americans
are more heavily dependent
upon the mail than their urban
cousins.
"Reducing the quality of
postal service will reduce the
quahty of life in rural America,
making it a less attractive
place to live, Theresultingout-
migration, and suppression of
in-iii igration, will contribute to
popula tionlossand stagnation
in rural counties and add to
suburban sprawl that drains
other pubhc resources. Mt.
Cross said.
NNA postal expert Max
Heath affirmed Mr. Cross's
viewpoint. He challenged
comments that Postal service
witness Sam Pulcráno made
during PRC hearings about
rural citizens.Heath is NNA's
Postal Committee chairman,
and frequent expert witness
before the PRC. He has testi-
fied in four proceedings in the
past decade.
"Itis regrettable that policy-
maker* in the nation's capital
do not take the time to visit
smaller towns, " he said. "If
the Postal service had con-
ducted such an investigation,
its officials wouklhave quickly
learned that sentiments like
Mr. Pulcrano's, stated on
the witness stand, that rural
America chooses to have poorer
and lesser services are highly
offensive and objectionable.:"
The loss of Saturday mail
will deeply affect many news-
papers that count on USPS
for delivery over the weekend,
Heath testified. A particular
loss will be reporting on high
school sports.
"Publishers are rightly con-
cerned about the reporting of
local sporl s. That may seem
like a parochialfiet to someone
in Washington, DC, but any-
one who has roots in a small
town can attest that the high
school football and basketball
teams for m the nucleus of com-
munity gatherings.
"If the postal service's mis-
sion is still to bind the nation
together, it must use the
bindings that the community
chooses, not ones selected by
Washington. High school
sports help bind small towns
together — even more than
small post offices, in my
humble opinion,'' Mr. Heath
said.
He noted that the news loss
would reach far beyond sports
coverage, however, and would
affect local elections and poli-
tics, zoning decisions, school
news, community groups,
churches, economic develop-
ment, taxes, crime, highway
crashes, honor rolls, births and
deaths, pubhc notices, yard
sales and a host of other news
bites that make newspapers
critical.
Mr. Cross pointed out that
rural dwellers rely upon the
printed newspaper, rather
than the Internet.
"The latest data from the
Pew Internet and American
Life Project, gathered in
December 2009, show that
while the percentage of rural
Americans using the Internet
has come close to the overall
percentage they are likely to
get less from it, because they
lack high-speed broadband
and make less use of interac-
tive features," he said.
Rural America's access to
broadband service at home was
only 47 percent, comparedto 61
percent for urban America,
Newspaper publishers need
Saturday delivery because
readers and advertisers want
and need it. Heath told the
Commission.
If USPS will not deliver,
publishers will beforced to cre-
Support makes a 'splash' at Rusk City Pool
MICHAEL GUESS
Rusk
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank
all of you for your support of the Rusk City
Swimming Pool this summer.
We have had, andcontinue to have, a great
swimming season.
Thank youfor all of your positive comments
and recommendations.
My family and I look forward to serving
our community in the future by providing
a fun, safe, family-cenlered environment
TNT camp is an explosive success
SHEILAH O'HEANEY
Rusk
Thanks ever so much to Gloria Jennings
and the staff of the Cherokeean Herald for
the great coverage of the Cherokee Civic
Theatre's summer TNT 2010 camp.
For the camp productions, we had 79 people
at the July 24 show and then on the 31st, we
had 50+, 65+, 100+ and 70+ for the four dif>
Looking for answers about health care
JUNE KEY
Rush
Can you tell us what kind
of care this is?
My sister's-in-law sister —
my friend—went to the emer-
gency room in Cleveland.
She was running a high
fever and her stomach was
swollen.
They found out through
surgery that she had a tear
in her colon. When she came
out of surgery, she was wear-
ing a bag.
The surgery was in March.
She was only supposed to
wear the bag for six weeks
and have it taken out.
Because she has no insur-
ance, she is still wearing it.
Because of the surgery
and the bag, she now has a
hernia. They told her to wait
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ate private delivery services,
which will compete with the
postal service for mail volume.
That trend would reverse one
of the postal service's few
positive growth areas - - within
county newspapers.
"Within county newspaper
mail is the only product in
market dominant mail that
has seen growth in the past
few years, having grown 12.8
percent in pieces in FY 2008,
then 3,4percent in FY 2009.
"So far in 2010, pieces have
grown 2.6 percent for the first
six months, with the second
quarter showing acceleration
to 3.6 percent," he said.
NNA President Cheryl
Kaechele. publisher of the
Allegan County (MI) News,
expressed her appreciation for
the witnesses'testimony, and
reiterated NNA's commi tment
to preserving affordable and
timely mail service.
"Our experts are sharing
wisdom that the postal service
needs to hear," she said. "Re*
ducing service in this economy
—even as USPS tries to impose
a double digit rate increase
upon local newspapers — is
a recipe for business failure.
NNA believes the postal ser-
vice must continue to seek cost
controls that do not cut into the
muscle of its core franchise.
We hope the commission will
agree."
Ms. Bush is a spokesman
for the National Newspaper
Association.
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at the pool.
We are very fortunate to have such a great
facility in Rusk.
My goal is to continue to improve the
atmosphere at the pool. to return it to the
type of family gathering place where summer
memories can be made for a new generation,
just like the memories so many of you have
so fondly shared with me this year, May
God bless you.
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ferent showcases. I'm pretty sure those are
all records for the different age groups.
Admission to attend the productions was a
canned good for the Good Samaritan pantry
in Rusk, I lost count at 75 cans.
Thank you very much for your continued
support.
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She has been a nurse for
many years.
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the older people are going to
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