Evening star., 1948-11-21

Delng uSeQ just now 1Or Ordinary
postage purposes? An answer to
this question has been supplied by
Chester L. Lankford, son of former
Representative William C. Lankford
of Georgia. He studied mail passing
through a Government agency and
found that 912 covers in a sampling
of 1,040 were franked with regular
garden variety" stamps. The 12e
commemorative employed for pre-
payment of the remaining envelopes
were: IL Indian Tribes, II Harlan
F. Stone, 10 Girl Scouts, 10 Fort
Kearny, 9 Volunteer Firemen, 8
United States Friendship
7 Francis Scott Key, 7 Gold Star
Mothers, 6 Wisconsin, S Progress
Of Women, S Mount Palomar Obser-
vatory, 4 Oregon, Poultry, 3 William
Allen White, Doctors, 2 United
Nations (2c), 2 Youth, Utah,
Texas, 2 Clara Barton, and each
Swedish Pioneers (5c), New York
Boroughs airmail (5c), Win the War
Coast Guard, Mississippi, Motion
Picture, Telegraph, Two Jima (Ma-
rines), Rough Riders, Florida Park
Honorable Discharge, Carver, F. D
Roosevelt, u S. S. Constitution
Chaplains.
COLLECTORS attending the first two
days of the sale of the stamp collec-
ton of Harold L. Ickes paid $24, ,0OC
for about 1000 lots of material. The
panes and sheets autographed by
President Roosevelt and other no
tables brought $8,6OO A Philippines
cover franked with the Victory over
prints, including the 1-peso, went fo1
$3.50. Sol Glass OF Baltimore paid
$3.50 for autographed panes Of the
Army and Navy commemorative
$3.50 for three autographed I1pex
sheets. The sale will continue at
500 First avenue, New York, tonor-
row and Tuesday.
Pathfinder Magazine says:
"On the sixth floor of Washing
tons handsome Post Once Building
II clerks sit all day long in wire
cages busily stuf1ing commemorative
stamps into envelopes destined foi
millions of Americans who collect
stamps for fun and profit.
The clerks are employees OF tht
Post Office Departments Philatelit
Agency, created in 1921 to keep ar
estimated 100000 stamp collectors
happy by answering questions, an
nouncing and selling about $2,400,'
900 worth of new issues each year
These sales are the Department.
only profit-making activity.
More than 100000 letters year
containing anything from three
pennies carefully wrapped in tissue
and secured with sealing wax, mail
ed by a Texas school girl, to a $20,.
900 certified check from a New YORK
stamp speculator, pour into thf
Philatelic Agency. Buyers represent
a cross-section of United States
population, says James M. Bell, heao
OF the agency. The average remit
tance: $20.50."
Highway post ofice service, by
Government nt-owned and operated
highway post Office motor vehicles
will be inaugurated during the pc
riod of November 20 to December
IS or shortly thereafter, between the
following points: Middletown, N
Y, and Newark, N. j.; Wanaque
and Newark, N. j. Special first
trip cachets are to be provided for
each of the above-named towns
Send covers, prepared as outlined
last Sunday, to postmasters 1ndi'
Gated.
Harold P. Faust of Charlotte, N
lC., attributes the election of Presl-
dent Truman to the commemora-
tives issued in accommodation OF
pressure groups. "A special George
Washington Carver stamp was q fine
gesture to the Negro race" he ar
CUES. THE Discovery of Gold stamp
certainly pleased California. A Vol
tunteer Firemen's stamp didn't make
those boys mad. There was even a
bid for Swedish favor, with stamp
commemorating the Tooth anniver-
sary of the Swedish pioneers in the
Middle West
Hill F. Best of Detroit, new presi-
dent of the Society of Philatelic
Americans, is an attorney; Walter
j. Vredenburgh, secretary, an ad-
vertising and publicity manager;
Edward K. Minear, treasurer, a pur-
chasing and traffic agent for zinc
company.
Four printing firms manufactured
the l948 Christmas Seal for the
National tuberculosis Association.
Each inserted an Identification
mark on seal 56-the sixth from the
left in the sixth horizontal row.
The Eureka Specially Printing Co.
used e." the Strobridge itho-
graph Co. 49," Edwards g. Deutsch
Lithographing Co. d." and the
United States Printing & Litho-
graphing Co. "U." Eureka seals are
pcIlOIdIcO AIAAE12, n11 GAiC OtAiCA .
l212x121a. The Canadian edition
omits ~. s. A." and Is divided be-
tween Merry Christina" and
"Bonne Sante." Seals sold in Ber-
muda are overprinted Bermuda. "
Stamp collectors are invited to
attend the unveiling Of six bronze
plaques at the Longfellow Triangle,
Connecticut and Rhode Island ave-
nues NV, tomorrow afternoon at 4.
The markers, provided by the
Columbian Historical Society, will
commemorate Chief Justices Mel
vile Fuller, Edward Douglass White,
William Howard Taft, Charles
Evans Hughes and Harlan F1ske
Stone and DR.. Joseph Meredith
Toner, physician. bibliophile and
philanthroptst.
Postmaster General Jesse M.
Donaldson has been asked to bring
out a stamp to mark the bicen-
tenary of Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Va, next
year.