Russians Coming Down

MOSCOW-Only one ship in the Soviet space troika remains in space, and It is scheduled to land today, closing out the week-long Soviet space venture.

Soyuz 8 and its two cosmonauts failed to produce the first space platform after unexplained difficulties, but the Soviet Union proved that it can carry out three-vehicle flights with the Soyuz.

Soyuz 7. carrying Anatoly Filipchenko, Vliadslav Volkov and Viktor Gorbatko, landed Friday morning just 15 miles from where Soyuz 6 was brought down Thursday. Official announcements have proclaimed the flights of Soyuz 6 and 7 as "complete successes" but the only new feat reported to the world so far was experimental welding inside Soyuz 6.

Semi-official sources said that the welding was to be used in building a space platform from which launchings could be made into outer space.

Post Office Collapse

LYNN, Mass.-The U.S. Post Office Department could collapse in two years. Thomas P. Costin, president of the National Association of Postmasters, said Friday. The postal system of the United States is now processing as much mail as the rest of the world put together.

Costin said that a government corporation is needed to handle the yearly increase of two billion pieces of mail. "We must plan ahead," he added. "We were told years ago about air and water pollution, and we didn't listen."

However, Francis S. Filby, a representative of the United Federation of Postal Workers, charged that if a gov-

Government corporation were set up 700,000 postal employees would lose civil service protection. "We don't need a government corporation." Filby said. "What we need are adequate funds to operate the present Post Office Department."

Blood Supply

BOSTON- The Red Cross warned that the supply of blood in Massachusetts is dangerously low. The Red Cross plans emergency blood donor operations this weekend to replenish the state's supply, which has dwindled to 347 pints.

The coincidence of three unusual events caused the shortage. Earlier this week, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital needed 60 pints of the Red Cross blood supply to treat the victims of an MBTA work train crash. In addition, the holiday Monday and the Vietnam Moratorium Wednesday slowed donations.

Because of the recent spread of hepatitis, which infected 75 members of the Holy Cross football team, five per cent of would-be donors have been rejected. Also, victims of hepatitis have needed whole blood for treatment.

Donors should go to the Red Cross Blood Center on Gloucester Street in Boston on Saturday or to a donor station at Mass. General Hospital on Sunday. Both stations will be open from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.

Boy Wonder

KENT TOWNSHIP, N. Y.- Unable to vote for himself, unable to serve if elected, a 14-year-old boy is waging a vigorous campaign for supervisor, the top administrative position in ris town.

Because his Youth Participation Party did not make the ballot, George C. Whipple III is using his summer earnings to finance a write-in campaign. Hoping to prove that "not all the youth of America are out rioting." he has distributed red-and-white "Win with Whipple" buttons, nailed up posters, and handed out literature. He has also given speeches whenever possible.

With his miniskirted mother Joan, Whipple has kissed babies, patted dogs, and handed out flyers at the local shopping center. The young candidate, home from Choate School on Columbus Day weekend, led a blaring motorcade through town.