European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday May 3,1993 robot clerks May stamp out postal quirks Washington a postal executives this work will be introduced 10 a new Breed of postal clerk that May never Imilce. But one that also never frowns or jets Cranky or lakes i break when Here s a inc waiting. It s the new face of postal technology automated postal clerks and they Wilt begin greeting the american pub Lic later this summer. The robot Cli res. Inf Post and Auto Poil will be on display at the . Postal Armce third advanced technology conference in Washington this week. Info Pom which answers customer questions already is whining away in u m form. It will be deployed to Post offices in the Washington area this sum Mer to Sec How ii dots in real life meet Ings with the Public. Auto Posi which Uris is mail lakes Money makes change and Sells postage is still being built although a wooden lockup will be on display. Field Lesi iof a working Model arc expected in the All. These Are but two of the developments that will be under discussion at the three Day International conference where technical managers will Exchange ideas about speeding mail a Mcmeni. Improved mail handling technology is critical to speeding up movement of the increasing volume of mail while holding Down costs explained Kenneth Hunter senior assistant postmaster general for management information and research technology. Postal officials say the Agency needs automation to avoid being swamped by. The 250 billion i rfcs of mail expo card by the year 2000. Other developments described by . Postal officials at a pre conference Brief ing Laii week included machine thai can arrange letters and parcels so the and. Dresses All face the same Way read zip Eodes and handle a variety brother tasks. Teaching machines to read hand writing for example is something technicians have struggled with in Hopes of developing equip men 10 find and read Al p Eodes and then print a bar code on the letter like those Mack lines used on supermarket items. With the bar code already widely used by business mailers. Letters can be sorted More quickly. Other items under discussion will in clude laser equip Mcnol to help sort mail automatic truck leading equipment and robots id move mail containers and do Oiher jobs. On hand Loce the american work and discus developments in their own nations will be officials from 16 foreign countries including Australia Canada West Germany. Britain. Japan the Sovi. It Union swim Ireland and Uruguay. While these executives May Long for High Speed mail Sorters and cargo handlers the Public face of technology Wilt be embodied in inf Post and a impost. People accustomed to automatic banking machines will Likely find the new machinery familiar. Hub Din k it and pm Fieri Martin donned filial curb at Miami internal ionic Airport recently to help Mark the 60th inn Hersey if commercial visions of a bygone Era l tilth Iii 1928 Ford try motor. The plane reputed id be the world s Rura Merriall oper aircraft nude a flight in Honor of the ecu Lon Hoyden confronts protesting s. Viets with Bose Boll Bat Santa Monica Calif. A state Assembly Man Tom Hayden confronted some South vietnamese protesters outside his Home with a Hairball Bat police said. A spokesman for Hayden said the politician we carrying he Bat because he was on his Way to coach a. Little league baseball game. No injuries were reported and no arrest were made saturday outside the Home Hayden Sham with hit wife Arr Csc Jane Fonda said Santa Monica police sol Walter hard Fonda a two time Oscar Winner is in Mexico filming the movie old Gringo with Gre gory Reck and Jimmy Smits. About 23 people most of hem South vietnamese participated in the protest carrying signs and calling Hayden a traitor and liar hard said. Some of them activated the intercom at his front Gale and began chanting into it hard hidden said. It created a confrontation Between the demonstrators and 1 Layden who was carrying a baseball Hayden. A baseball enthusiast was on his Way to coach a Little league game when he Mel the Demon Strain on inc sidewalk outside his Home his a pokes Man. Bill Schulz. Said sunday. The pretest was staged to coincide with the 13th anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam to the communists. Zirgulis said. But the group also wanted Hay Den to apologize for past remarks icy feel were insult ing u the vietnamese he added. Those remarks were made by Hayden in june 1437 about a .-based vietnamese gang whom he de scribed is a bully narrow interpretation of antitrust restraint upheld Washington a the supreme court said monday a manufacturer does not always violate Feder Al antitrust Law when agreeing with one retailer to Stop doing business with another who Sells at discount prices. The justices by a 6-3 vote said such a vertical re maim imposed by a manufacturer on a retailer becomes Ili enl Only when it includes some agreement on Price or Price the decision a significant one for antitrust Law. Is a Vic Iury for Sharp electronics corp. And a setback for n former Houston retailer of Sharp calculators. Business electronics coro., owned and operated by Kelton . Was the exclusive retailer of Sharp calculators in Houston from 1968 to during thai period. Sharp became dissatisfied with Bec s performance. Sharp contended hat it was unhappy with Bec s failure to meet sales quo Lii to but u of Jeral jury found that Sharp was dist ii red with Bec s policy of Selling calculators at prices lower than those suggested by Sharp. Sharp in 1972 appointed Hart Cal s office world As a second retailer of its calculators in Houston and in 1173 terminated s Dealership. Hartwel had told Sharp thai it would quit distributing is products in supreme court Roundup ass Sharp ended its relationship with Bic. Dec then sued Sharp and a Federal jury awarded Bec $600,000 in damages. Under Federal antitrust Law that amount was tripled to $1.8 Mil lion. The 5th . Circuit court of appeals however threw out he jury verdict and sent the Case Back far a new trial. Monday s supreme court decision upheld inc appeals court ruling. In Uther action the court ruled that Federal Law yen procedurally botched a contempt of coun Case against a Rhode Island newspaper that published Fri information about a mafia Boss. By a 6-2 vote the justices said the procedural flaw must result in dismissing inc government s Appeal from a ruling that the Providence journal was justified in defying a judge s order barring publication of the material. Agreed to hear a Reagan administration Appeal aimed at making it easier for tie . Government to turn Over tax information
