Evening star., 1948-02-01

SGlpuldt6Q SilOlllu De Interesting SOu~
venirs. Ask postal clerks to give
neat, clear cancellations.
The cost of maintaining the Phila-
telic Agency during the last fiscal
year was approximately $500, 900;
the sales of the agency passed So
100000 And these figures do not
take into account the investment of
collectors who bought stamps over
ordinary post office counters In
cities, towns and villages from coast
to coast.
On or about February Is airmail
service will be inaugurated at Rialto.
Calf. through the helicourt at Col
ton, Calf, on Route AM-84. A spe-
cial cachet will be authorized. Send
Rialto postmaster self addressed
stamped envelopes, stuffed, sealed
and ready to go, allowing 2l2x21a
space on left side for marking.
The Washington Lincoln Group
invites the public to attend Lincoln
anniversary meeting at the Lincoln
Museum Ford's Theater), 51l Tenth
street NV, Sunday afternoon.
February 8, at 2:30. Representative
Ben F. Jensen of Iowa will be chair
man. The address of the day will be
delivered by Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant
III, and the National Press Club
Chorus, led by DR.. Reinald Werren-
rath, will sing.
Max G. Johl, postal and phila-
telic historian, was In Washington
last week to consult with local COL
laborators in the rapidly developing
field of slogan cancellation collect
ing. His purpose is to trace every
slogan die used since January /.
1901. The active help of everybody
interested is wanted. Mr.. Johl's
home address is: Groton, Conn.
President Truman's balcony makes
the 412c White House stamp obsolete.
The l0c helmet of Mercury special
delivery stamp of 1908 now is cata-
logued at So copy, mint or used.
Myron Rullman, jr., and his post
mark hobby were featured in the
Louisville Courier-Journal recently.
The Government Printing ONCE
Stamp Club will meet in Harding
Hall Thursday afternoon at 4:40.
top 4848 in 48" is the slogan OF
the Society of Philatelic Americans
for the year.
The American Commemorative
Society will issue medallion for the
50th anniversary of the destruction
of the battleship Maine in Havana
harbor, February Is, 1898. 1t will be
struck in hand-cut dies in nickel
silver, same size as commemorative
half dollars. For information adj
dress Charles F. Smith, Box IS, Bos-
ton 80, Mass.
A meeting of the Woodbridge
Stamp Club will be held at 1918
Rhode Island avenue NE, Thursday
evening at 8.
A stamp to publicize the coal min
ing industry may be issued shortly.
Jerry B. Newby, petroleum geol~
ogist, 1916 Northwest 23d street,
Oklahoma City 6, Okla. collects
censored covers of World War II
mot APOs), Oklahoma Territory
and Indian Territory covers
stamped and stampless), Canada
and general United States postal
issues. He writes that the Oklahoma
Philatelic Society now has about $50
members.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV, Tuesday evening at 8.
x. Y, z. says: isn't it a pity ths
Gold Centennial stamp cannot be
printed in gold?"
Sister Mary Agnella, o. p, Mary
wood Academy, East Fulton road,
Grand Rapids 6. Mich, desires to
thank the unknown friends who,
having seen her name in the stamp
column of The Star, sent her stamps
for her collection.
A rich collection of perfection
copies of United States and British
colonial stamps, set up in four al
pums, has been purchased for resale
by Charles Kohen, proprietor of the
Hobby Shop.
Neat. clear machine cancellations
may be obtained from postmaster at
Lake City, S. C.
Harry L. Lindquist's Stamps Mag
azine reached its 800th weekly issue
on January 10.
Stamp collectors and their friends
are invited to attend the reception
and Marine Band concert at the
National Gallery of Art this eve
ming, when the eight paintings, given
by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Booth OF
Detroit will 60 on display No tickets
are required.
STAMPS AND COINS.
LARGE pictorials, Austria artists nOl
compl. for 1Oc with approvalS