Evening star., 1949-05-01


Civil Service Committee has an
nounced that II viii not CONSIDER
proposals for commemorative
stamps during the present session
OF Congress and recommends that
all such requests and suggestions
be referred TO the Postmaster
General for decision. Should the
House Post once and Civil Serv-
Ice Committee take the same posi-
ton. this would mean that Post
master General Jesse M. Donald
son himself would be Obliged to
decide which. II any. of the many
stamps called for since the slsi
session began last January shall
be produced. The Senate com.
mittee has urged that not more
than a dozen commemorative be
issued In any calendar year.
| Stamps on the list submitted tc
the Postmaster General include
adhesives In honor of Lief Erik
son. Viking discoverer Of America
Elihu Yale. founder Of Yale Uni
versity: Albert Gallatin, Secretary
Of the Treasury: Carl Schurz
Secretary of the Interior; DR.
William Crawford Gorgas. mill
tary physician; DR.. Edward Liv-
ingston Trudeau. founder Of Sar-
anac health center: DR.. Charles
H. Herty. sponsor Of pine paper
pulp industry: Clara Louise Mass
nurse; Emily P. Bissell. sponsor of
the tuberculosis Christmas seals
Alice Mcclellan Birney. founder OF
Parent Teacher Association move
ment; Senator George w. Norris,
Senator Thomas z. Watson. Edgar
Allan Poe. poet. short story writ
er and critic: Booth Harrington.
novelist: John Burroughs. natural
list; p. r. Barnum. circus man
ager: Nat Palmer, discoverer Of
the Antarctic continent: Frederick
Douglass. Negro publicist and
educator; Joseph Lee. sr.. sociol-
ogist: William Merritt Chase.
painter; Maj. Jean Pierre Chou
teau. pioneer settler in Oklahoma.
Also stamps to mark the 300th
anniversaries Of the Religious Toll
erance Act Of Maryland and the
settlement of Stonington and
Norwalk. Conn; 250th ami
versary Of the Huguenot colony
in Virginia. 200th anniversary of
Preside La Bahia and the Mis-
sion Espiritu Santo In Goliad
County, Tex, l25th anniversary
Of Centenary College. Tooth an
niversaries of Michigan State Fair,
Independence, Mo-; French Cana
dian settlement Of New England.
settlement Of Seattle. Wash: set
tlement Of Catlettsburg. KY: For
syth County and Winston Salem,
N. c.; Department OF the In
terror. 60th anniversary of Amer
lean edition Of Izaak Walton's
"Compleat Angler" 50th ami
versary Of Old Home Week. 3oth
anniversary Of first flight over the
Atlantic.
Likewise stamps to publicize
Abilene. Kans.; Culpeper. Va:
Fort Laramie. Wyo.: Maiden,
Mass: Annapolis. Md: Fort Stod-
dart, Greenville, Tenn: Ocean
County. N. j.; first colony In
Louisiana Territory; Lake Wash
ington Floating Bridge. Texas A.
and M. College, Tennessee VAL
ley Authority. first cotton tex
tile mill. National Jewish Hos
pital. Denver, Colo: Theodore
Roosevelt National Park. Bovine
House at Flushing. N. Y: Booker
IT. Washington birthplaces Mount
lRushmore, 3. Dak.; inad control
plan in Great Kanawha River
Basin. Ballard Locks In Lake
washington Ship Canal. olympic
National Park. Cass River cork
tpine at Vassar. Mich: Tennessee
walking horse competition, ma
tional safety campaign. American
nursing. Grand Army Of the Re-
public, Disabled Veterans Of the
United States. American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Pledge
to the Flag. Battle of Stony
Point. old powder house at Somer-
vile, Mass: termination Of the
War Between the States. soil con-
servation campaign. good will let
ters. petroleum industry. COAL
mining industry. cranberry indus
try. Community Chest movement.
Hambletonian. trotter; Rex Nc
Donald. saddle horse: angora goat
raising.
The latest resolution introduced
would provide for Q stamp for the
Oblate Fathers of Texas.
Collectors desiring to make their
own reactions known to the Post
master General may check the
items in the above list which they
approve, clip 1t and send 1t TO