Evening star., 1942-08-09

can be based upon the facts OBJ
tanned. USO club directors are being
questioned as to the extent of stamp
collecting interests in their camps
and whether they desire to add
philately to their recreational &C
tivities.
Stamp collectors who are pres
emily serving in the armed forces
are urged to inform their camp
USO directors of their interest
in the hobby so that they may judge
whether to include stamp activities
in their programs"
Postmark collectors may be in
terested in a list Of Is particularly
busy war activity cities" as follows:
Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Char
lotte, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis,
Kansas City, Louisville, Minneapolis,
New orleans, Norfolk, Richmond,
St. Louis and San Francisco.
In reply to question addressed
to Frederic J. Haskin, the first ad-
hesive postage stamp-the famous
Penny Black of Great Britain
was sketched in rough outline by
Sir Rowland Hill, drawn by Henry
Corbould, engraved by Frederick
Heath and printed by Perkins,
Bacon g. Co.
Co1 IJo~e r eoarloof Jo,or of tho
Ralph A. Barry Memorial Trophy
for philatelic writer's, is native
Of Sweden, born at Mem in Oester-
goetland March %, 1880, second
cousin of the famous novelist and
Nobel prize winner, Selma Lager
loef. He formed the Scandinavian
American Trading Co. in 1907 and
the Lagerloef Trading Co. in 1918,
dealing in wood pulp and paper
making supplies. In philately he
is famous for his gifts of the Royal
Postal Museum in Stockholm, 1922
to 1939 His honors include dec
orations from his native country
and from Finland.
The entire cost of manufacturing
and distributing Canada's war
propaganda stamps was paid three
times over by sales on the day of
their release, July l.
Don Houseworth, editor of the
Information Stamp Review, st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, has been elected a life
member of the Trans Mississippi
Philatelic Society in appreciation
Of his services to stamp collectors.
w. H. Wilkins of Oklahoma City
has been chosen president of the
Oklahoma Philatelic Society fo1
1923.
Postmaster General Frank c.
Walker is urging postmasters
throughout the country to advocate
the use of the so-called "V-mail
or micro-fllm system Of CORE
spondence The campaign should
stimulate the resistance of stamp
collectors as a group If it were
to achieve the goal of its sponsors
the production Of postal adhesives
would terminate altogether.
Chile has released a stamp to
publicize the bicentenary of the
city of Talca. The municipal coat
of arms is the feature of the design
Denomination and color, 10c, dark
blue.
Gum applied to recent stamps o1
the Leeward Islands is SO yellow
as to stain the paper.
Frederick w. Green of Cleveland
writes in Mekeel's Weekly StamI
News. Il think we are all agrees
that spurious and counterfeit
stamps should be taken out Of cir
culation How about the like atti
tude toward spurious and counter
. felt collectors, if any such there be-?
The Revenue Philatelic Agency
room 1902 Internal Revenue Build
ing, has issued its first list of reve
nue. stamps now being offered t
collectors at face.
A. A. Christensen. 1855 Jackso
street, Alameda, Calf, announce
a cachet in tribte to the U. S.
+ Lexington Those interested are in
vited to send five standard size g.
white wove envelopes, stamped an
, self addressed but not sealed, read
; to 60 with 5 cents service fe'
Mailing will be arranged at flV
a different towns in as many State
y bearing the name Lexington. Clos
. ing September l.
: j. Edward Vining, president Sc
= ciety OF PhilaAlic Americans, he
proposed that the l943 convention
II of his organization and the Amer
q can Philatelic Society be held joint
e ly in the same city, at the SAN
II time, at the same hotel, with
e combined banquet"
Local philatelists who did NJ
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