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US AIR FORCE GIVES UK
REWARDS FOR
MONEY SAVING IDEAS
By PETER JOHNSON
Weisbaden, May 9.
An award of $1,100 (about £370) awaits the airman with the idea which saves the most money during 1957 for the United States Air Force European Command, which also includes Britain, North Africa and the Middle East.
Until now, the top award has been $500. But Command headquarters here has announced that its suggestions scheme, introduced in 1954, has been so successful that awards at all levels are to be increased.
under this section of the awards,
The total paid out is expecteding to be made by a single idea to be at least double the $10,002
which went to airmen in the Command Inat year. The idea which wins the top award will
an estimated have to produce annual saving of $20,000,
More than six per cent of the Command's milltary per- sonnel mado suggestions inst year under the scheme, a normal practice of American personnel management. The bigger awards now offered are expected to skep this percentage,
Some of the Ideas are quita, simple, such as buying items for meals by the thousand instead of} by the hundred.
Annual Saving
was
In 1066 military personnel in the Command sent in 5,482 sug-¦ gestions which, it is estimated, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES could achieve an annual saving
of $2,097,310. IL
not possible to adopt all the ideas received, although 1,272 of them were put into practice with an unnual saving of $32,000 in cash and 140,000 man-hours,
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Hong Kong, 10th May, 1957.
SAILS:
Mr Dominic Deile Monache, of East Orange, New Jersey, la now based here with the head- quarters of the Air Force's air material forces, European Area. In 1995, Mr Delle Monache, then at a supply depot at Erding, in Buvarla, suggested that instead of allowing excess property to be destroyed or sold for scrap it should be offered to bases which might be able to use it,
'Snupped Up'
Air Force
officials said that
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1957.
POST OFFICE IN TANGIER
“BRIGHT DAY' TELEVISION TUBE
supply officers Hterally INDIA'S ACTION
base "arшpped up" to excess items, The re-distribution saved time ua well
us money. Mr Dolle
received the Monache
top award for the civilion scheme 5500,
Awards in this scheme have not been increased.
'INHUMAN'
SAYS S. KOREA
Seoul. May. B. Civilian suggestions in the Air Force's European command last A South Korean Ministry year ranged from a design for a Justice spokesman vald tonight wrench for adjusting jeep brakes
pelsoner of tu a simple rubber stamp for air former Korean A separate
who war, suggestions pro- force supply inspectors,
re- recently Was gramme is run for civilian em-
North Command employees sub-parialed from India to ployees, both American and milted
1,373 ruggections last Korea, Jiad been sentenced to foreign, employed in the Com-year, of which 287 were adopted.
dealt by a North Korean court mand Notives at bases, in a Tangible savings amounted to
martial. variety of languages including $187,857 (including working Arabic, tell employees about the time saved).
lan.
An American civilian's sug- reation produced the largest nov-
P&O
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| Envoy Sees Queen
CANCELLATION
OF COMET
་
ORDER
It was feared that this post- ponement would be a first step towards the cancellation of the order altogether.
Closed Down After Century Of Business
By ALAN ROY
Tangier, May 9.
The British Post Office in what used to be the International Zone here closed down at midnight on April 30,
All British postage stamps not sold were destroyed. The stamps are similar to those used in Britain and in the same values, but are over- printed with the word "Tangier."
the
Moroccan post office officials, Ofees merged to become the took over the British Post Office | Cherian Postal Services, tak- then building in the early houta_oning their name from May 1 and when the office ruling dynasty. opens to the pubile, the postage
arc those The German Post Office dis slampa on sale showing the Bultan Mohamed V. appeared in 1914 when Morocco entered World War I on the The step follows the abroga- side of the Allies tion of the International Statuto
The British Post Onice Lun of Tangier and although it has
on April 1 been taken voluntarily, It in Tangler, opened
1857, A fow months obvious that it would have been
only a matter of time before the Queen Victoria had now sovereign state of Morocco treaty of trade and asked the British Government to with the Sultan
hand over.
A Relic
after signed a
friendship of Morocco, was the first post office in the It was housed in a country, room of the British Legalion with an unpaid official, M James Siesu, in charge.
Surcharge
for
Postal rates
letters W Tangier were fixed at two pen- its a latter and Mr Sieru levied a surcharge of one half-penny. per letter on the addresses,
found
London, May 9,
Nevertheless, the British Pos! The news that the American Omw here has remained open Capital Airlines has decided long enough to celebrate its for financial reasons to postpone contenay, on April 1 this year, its orier for 14 British Comet!
It is a rolls of the time when jet airlinery and 10 Viscount Morocco had no post office BUT turbo-prop aircraft, caused keen vices of its own and when each interested sought to disappointment la the British nation
Oflice Before the new Post aircraft industry today,
establish its own postal services
was opened, latters for Tangier for political or business reasons, As a result, at the beginning of hed to be sent to Gibraltar and
there
I thence WAS
across the trails by this century
whoso
captains towns in boats Tangier and overa) Morocco not only a British Post someone in Tangier to distribute Office but also a Spanish one, a ikem. Under this systero, sibe dressers were charged between French one, a German one and a Moroccan one.
one panny and threepenny fot delivery. After the troaty which
the Protectorale, the In 1872, the unpaid system
and French
Moroccan Post was abolished and Mr Bles was given a salary of £80 gst iing year, out of which he had to pay all office expenses
the including £12 a year to postman who delivered the inttuna,
The De Havilland Aircraft
The ideas, like many of the military personnel's ideas, often brought considerable intangible
London, May 9. benenta too, such as improve-
Korean mchis
health, safety pr He added the South
The Queen today received at inorale, Civilian employees of government considered India's Buckingham Palace Mr Richard
returning prisoners Whittington, who kissed hands) Company, maker of the Comet, the United States Government | action in
British has decided to go ahead with throughout
world
in on his appointment es naylum saved who had sought
the construction of the 14 air- altogether nearly $70,000,000 in india nt the end of the war to Ambassador in Bangkok, Slam.
craft all the same. France-created 1936 by
mean of 19.205 sug- North Korea, "Inhuman."--Reu- | The Queen also received
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Whittington-Reuter.
the
ter.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
NOW I SHALL DESTROY
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RING
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By Lee Falk and Pill Davis
LOTHAR, HEAR THAT? THE ONLY ONET IF HE DOES~~.
WAIT--DON'T SMASH IT!. SEND US BACK FIRSTI, OH--NO**
HOW CAN WE EVER
SET BACK TO OUR TIME?
HERE THEY COME --- I'M ALL SET FOR THE
SNOWBALL
FIGHT
JOHNNY HAZARD
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San Miguel
By the following year, other premises had to be found for
office the past
because such crowds gathered at the Legation on days when the mail was dug. to arrive that it
Was almost impossible
building.
to get into the
A small shop was rented in 1873, and the post office has moved to larger premises twice since then. The present bulld ing was erected according to plans drawn up in London and opened to the publie on Juna 15, 1992.
Identical
Until 1886, the postage stamps sold at the British office were identient with those used in Britain, Then, from 1880 to 1889, British stamps over- printed "Gilbraltar" were used. From 1889 to 1898, Gibraltar stamps were used and from 1800 to 1000, Gibraltar stampe overprinted "Table".
The only special series of stamps ever put out here werd those issued on April 1, 1957, to Dolebrate the contemary, They were ordinary British starps overprinted "Tangler 1857-1957" and were put on sale for one month unil the Post Office closed,
Hundreds
of collectors, believing that in this Caso stamps bearing the cancellation mark of the last day would be more valuable than that of the first day, sent in envelopes to be posted on April 80,
The
British
disappeurance of the Port Offloc is regroited by many people here because it Was by convenient moons of making payments by postal of money order, in Britain or any country
of tho Bettiah Commonwealth. · The sixpenny "air Lotton", too, was o
Cheat form of altmail which does not axlat in the Moroccan postal Morvices,
Moroetan postal rates, too, are higher than the British, fa Home Cadea ay much na double, By a curious anomaly, the rates charwad by the Brißah Post Office in Tangler are in maDA Gleds lower than those 10 Britain
The Moroccan rtionalita, willie working for the In dependence of their country, minde considérable use of the British Post Office for their fenign, cortenpondenor, A1 tina khan, Kany possibility of bentorship the Britists Post Office offendāī thma: an unicián, #6curity,
tokred-the
Paradoxically the very dependence which this security haped to father, la. now the chuse of the disappearanÓN DE the serving-China Mall Sipostali