HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTAL RATES

OF THE

Congress. House COMMITTEE ON

POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETIETH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 7977 and H.R. 7978

BILLS TO ADJUST CERTAIN POSTAGE RATES, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

MAY 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 31; JUNE 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22,
23, 27, AND 28, 1967

79-196 O

Serial No. 90-14

Printed for the use of the

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1967

COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE

THADDEUS J. DULSKI, NEW YORK, Chairman

DAVID N. HENDERSON, North Carolina
ARNOLD OLSEN, Montana
MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona
DOMINICK V. DANIELS, New Jersey
ROBERT N. C. NIX, Pennsylvania

JOE R. POOL, Texas

WILLIAM J. GREEN, Pennsylvania
JAMES M. HANLEY, New York
CHARLES H. WILSON, California
JEROME R. WALDIE, California
RICHARD C. WHITE, Texas
WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan
LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana
FRANK J. BRASCO, New York

ROBERT J. CORBETT, Pennsylvania
H. R. GROSS, Iowa

GLENN CUNNINGHAM, Nebraska
EDWARD J. DERWINSKI, Illinois
ALBERT W. JOHNSON, Pennsylvania
JAMES T. BROYHILL, North Carolina
DANIEL E. BUTTON, New York

WILLIAM L. SCOTT, Virginia
PHILIP E. RUPPE, Michigan

JAMES A. McCLURE, Idaho
FLETCHER THOMPSON, Georgia

Acuff, Noble, vice president and director of circulation, the Curtis
Publishing Co., accompanied by John Martelock, Allen Hansen, and
Ronald Diana....

312

Abramson, Arnold E., president, Universal Publishing & Distributing
Corp...

257

Anderson, Vern, vice president and advertising director of the Prairie
Farmer Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill____.

Andersen, Harold W., President and publisher of the Omaha, Nebr.,
World-Herald and chairman of the Postal Committee of the Amer-
ican Newspaper Publishers Association..
Anderson, Leo A., AMVETS national commander.

522

113

297

Arnstein, Joseph M., senior vice president, Esquire, Inc.
Bell, Richard H., president, Highlights for Children..
Broaddus, Luther, III, publisher, Special Agricultural Publications,
Inc., Raleigh, N.C.

Andrews, Hon. Mark, a Representative in Congress from the State of
North Dakota..

771

351

357

765

Cavanagh, Charles, vice president, Christian Herald Association,

Brumbaugh, David W., chairman; John K. Herbert, president; and
Charles D. Ablard, vice president; Magazine Publishers Associa-
tion, Inc.; accompanied by George Tasso and Walter Becker, of
Ernst & Ernst accounting firm..

Cain, John J., vice president, McCall Corp..
Cassidy, J. W., managing director of the book club and mail-order
operations of Doubleday & Co., Inc., accompanied by Steuart Pitt-
man, attorney, of Washington, D.C..

Inc..

420

232

563

791

Collins, Thomas, vice president of Rapp & Collins..

663

Cooke, Miss Eileen D., assistant director, Washington office, American
Library Association, Washington, D.C.

680

Cooper, James H., executive director, Protestant Church-Owned Publishers' Association....

90

Conte, Hon. Silvio O., a Representative in Congress from the State of
Massachusetts..

502

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