Evening star., 1947-12-21
Ne1us About STAMPS
By jones Waldo Fowcett

A Yuletide letter from Mrs. Es-
telle M. Cchiltree of Connersville
Ind, sayse Every year since I left
Neutrality-suspicious. 1851 have re-
ceived Christmas greetings from
stamp collectors there, and 1t has
given me great pleasure to have
made such friends and to have lived
in the minds of all of you.
Yes, I am 81. Think of it! But
I am well, strong and active, dc
my own housekeeping, take part in
my church and club work as of old
In spite of a fractured hip in 1943
I can walk half a. mile and kick
as high as a table. I also can run
the American War Mothers Offices
from A to 2! Let me add that
am still interested in stamps"
Mrs. Ochiltree was one of the
three War Mothers who were re-
sponsible for the issuance of the
Mothers day commemorative OF
1884. Repeatedly refused by White
House and Post Office Department
officers, she and her associates
planned and led the campaign which
finally resulted in the production OF
the stamp picturing Whistler's
Mother, symbolizing all the mothers
of the Nation.
Vatican City has issued seven new
airpost stamps. The designs include
the dove of peace, the Holy House OF
Loreto and the radiant cross on the
obelisk in st. Peters Square.
Postmaster General Ernest Ber-
trand announces a delay of month
in the release of the new Accent
Princess Elizabeth stamp of Canada
February Is, instead of January Is,
will be the date of first-day dis
tribution.
Printing of the Scent DR.. George
Washington Carver stamp was be-
gun at the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing last Monday. Among those
present when the presses were
started were: Postmaster General
Jesse M. Donaldson, Third Assistant
Postmaster General Joseph J. Law
Ter. DR., Russell w. Brown, director,
and j. Henry Smith, secretary of the
Carver Foundation. The new COM
memorative will go on sale at
Tuskegee Institute, Ala, January S.
Great Britain will have at least
three anniversary stamps during
1948. Postmaster General Wilfred
Paling has told the House Of Com
mons that he has authorized a COM
memorative for the silver wedding
of King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth; an adhesive to recall the
liberation OF the Channel Islands
and a promotional label for the
opening Of the Olympic Games.
Spain has produced stamp in
homage to the composer Manuel
de Falla and another in memory OF
the painter Ignacio zualoga y
Zabaleta.
The ninth annual souvenir envelop
issued at Bethlehem, Md, is being
mailed this week under the manage
ment OF the local Methodist Youth
Fellowship Committee. Readers de-
string copies should remit 10 cents
for each example wanted with
names and addresses to Miss Lois
Dulin. care Mrs. Mary Carroll, post
master, Bethlehem, Md.
DR.. Prichard Won David, nationally
known philatelist, recently i'll, is re-
ported improving in health. Friends
who wish to send holiday greetings
may address him at Box 8035, Pitts
burgh 16, Pa.
A set of eight stamps marking the
return of the Dodecanese Islands
has been issued at Athens. Accord
ing to the Associated Press, "the
20dr, blue, shows the castle on Cas-
tellorizo; the 30dr, brown, depicts
vase; the 50dr, dark blue, por-
trays a woman with a provincial
cape; the ~100dr, green. pictures the
monastery on the Island of Patmos
the 250dr, gray. bears likeness OF
Xanthos, leader of the Greeks
against the Turks in 1921; the 500dr
orange red. displays the Sun God;
the 60Odr, maroon, illustrates a
statue of Hippocrates. and the
1.o00dr, brown, shows the Colossus
of Rhodes"
Lyle F. Watts. chief of the Forest
Service of the Department of Agri-
culture, would be glad to hear from
readers who favor the proposed
stamp in aid of the campaign
against forest fires.
Carl P. Rueth, writing in Linn's
Weekly Stamp News, says: ut is my
earnest hope that some day when
the Post Office Department has an
excellent design, that they will print
it in black"
Add to the list of physicians and
dentists who collect stamps the
names of DR.. Chester r. Uhler, 839
Seventeenth street NV, and DR..
Ashley Robey, Salem, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kempton
Packard, jr., of Highland Falls. N. Y,
announce the birth OF a S-pound
blue-eyed stamp collector, John
Kempton III, october %. The baby's
STAMPS AND COINS.