Evening star., 1947-05-18

the greatest stamp snow ever StAScu
opened as scheduled at Grand Cen.
trail Palace, New York, yesterda!
and viii continue through Sunda!
evening, May IS. A full and com
lplete report will appear in this de
partment Of The Star next week.
A total of 1ss.56o air letter sheet'
were sold on April 20.
The story behind the 3-cent Amer
liean Medical Association centenn1a
commemorative, to be released q
Atlantic City, June 8, was told II
The Star editorial page on Friday
Among those who first suggested
that Sir Luke Fildes' (pronouncet
| to rhyme with Childs) famou
painting, 1.-THE Doctor" should b
reproduced was Chester E. Stiles
$500 Connecticut avenue, NV.
4 new edition of the Post ofic,
Departments illustrated booklet de
scribing United States postage
stamps from 1847 to date is avail.
able at the salesroom Of the Super.
intendent OF Documents, Govern
ment Printing Office. at cost price
IS cents a copy.
Joseph J. Lawler, Third Assistant
Postmaster General, speaking q
CIPEX, said in part:
"This is an historic occasion ane
a happy moment In the annals o1
the POST ONCE Department. Fol
today, we celebrate the centenary
of United States Postage Stamps
It was on July !, 1847, that the mrs,
postage stamps were sold In posi-
office for use on mail.
"Since that eventful day, l0e
years have elapsed-100 years OF
progress, of tremendous strides IN
the growth Of our great Nation-a
Nation that has prospered because
1t has continued to follow the prin-
ciples OF democracy laid down by
the fathers of our country.
"The history Of the United States
its hopes, its trials, its people, its
accomplishments-all Of these have
been portrayed on postage stamps
And 1t is a history Of which we can
be proud. :.
"The postage stamp--a small
piece of printed paper-is youI
agent and mine. By placing it on
q letter or a package 1t extends to
all OF us every facility the United
States Postal Service has to offer
insurance, registry, parcel post, spe-
cial delivery, air mail-or whatever
it may be.
Nineteen billion postage stamps
are sold each year-and since 1847
more than $50 billion stamps have
been used-a testimonial to their
popularity and to the service which
they render.
"As we enter into another hun
dred years of service to the Nation,
want to assure you that we in the
Post Office Department will en-
deavor at all times to give to the
Nation and its people the kind of
service they need and which they
are entitled to receive"
Elmer G. Pratt announces that
his stamp column again will appear
In the Camden Courier Post be-
ginning next week.
The Robert Fulton Stamp Co. has
brought out handsome series of
20 engraved envelopes for the CEN
tenary of the first United States
postage stamps. st,s:.
Greece has released a Victory set
of eight stamps rejecting the part
played by her nationals in World
War II.
The Soviet Union announces two
commemorative for the 10th an
niversary Of the death Of the poet
Alexander Pushkin. AL such labels,
1t should be remembered, are pro-
duced for export. They are not
available for ordinary, use under
the Red Flag and the hammer and
sickle.
New Zealand now has King
George VI stamps of the following
denominations: u, /, IL, Q, 3, 4, S,
6, s, Cd, 1sh, 1sh Sd, 2sf1 and Ssh.
The spring issue of the Bell Tele-
phone Magazine, 1875 Broadway.
New York, contains much interest
ing material on Alexander Graham
Bell and the stamps recently pro-
duced in his honor.
DR.. David D. Caldwell, senior at
torney of the Department of Justice,
chairman of the National Stamp
Conference in 1887 and the Postage
Stamp Centenary Committee in
1910, has been elected president OF
the Washington Philatelic Society.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at the home OF Chester F..
Bletch, 1000 Nineteenth place, NE,
tomorrow evening at 8.
A meeting of the Collectors Club
of Washington will be held at 1912
Ninth street, NV, Tuesday eve
ming at 8.
George A. Scott, stamp writer for
the Associated Press, reports: "Nor-
way observed the 300th anniversary
of its postal system, which in the
beginning was limited to local
courier service, April Is by issuing
II commemorative stamps picturing
personages and episodes in Norwe-
gian history.
Each inscribed Norge Post
1647-1947,' the stamps, colors and
designs are: five ore dark red,
portrait Of Hannibal Sehested 1609-
1860, who was a Danish governor
In Norway, and the old castle Aker-
shus in Oslo In the background; 10
ore green. mail carrier of the 18th