Evening star., 1952-09-28

ed a resolution calling for a
special series of stamps, telling
the story of our freedom, pro-
ductivity and desire to CO.
operate in world peace" This
action was sponsored by Earl
P. L. Apfelbaum. chairman of
the Board of Vice Presidents.
Wes M. Tryon, founder and
still an officer Of the Ridgewood
Stamp Club. now has four
grandchildren to carry on the
philatelic hobby-one boy and
three little girls.
DR.. Daniel D. Berolzhemier.
chemist, librarian and veteran
philatelist, died in q Long Island
hospital on August "a.
The Scent Newspaperboys
commemorative will be placed
on f1rst-day sale at Philadelphia
next Saturday. It shows a typ
lcal American carrier lad with
a bag labeled BUSY Boys, Bet
ter Boys" and a hand and torch
inscribed Free Enterprise"
Representative youngsters have
been invited to attend a banquet
at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
the night before the stamp is
released. Speakers on this oc-
casion will include Gov. Fine,
Harold E. Stassen, presi-
dent Of the University Of Penn
sylvania; former Senator Fran
els ]. Myers. and Horace A. Hill
dreth. president of Bucknell
University and former Governor
OF Maine-all former newspa-
perboys. Secretary of the
Treasury John w. Snyder and
Postmaster General Jesse M.
Donaldson also will attend the
dinner. The actual first-day
ceremony is to be held at the
Franklin Institute.
The Post Once Department
did not forget to invite Louis
Tosti. jr., who first proposed the
Scent Women in the Armed
Services stamp, to attend the
f1rst-day ceremony at the White
House. September IL.
George B. Sloane, jr., writing
in Stamps Magazine. credits
Henry Holtzclaw, mechanical
wizard" Of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing. with per-
fecting the electric eye presses
used in producing well-centered
stamps.
Western Germany has a new
20-pfg red stamp to mark the
return Of Heligoland Island to
German control.
A special cancellation die will
be in use at Charlottesville, Va,
October 8 to II, during the
Apple Harvest Festival. Send
self-addressed standard size
stamped envelopes to Festival
Headquarters with clipping Of
this notice.
Harold c. Way has been
chosen president of the Post
Office Department Stamp Club,
a new philatelic group organized
September II. Serving with him
will be Joseph Duchaine, secre-
tary-treasurer. Harry Bernstein
also is active in the enterprise.
Meetings are to be held In Room
5041. Post Office Department
Building. Pennsylvania avenue
between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets NV, second and fourth
Wednesday afternoons at $50.
Visitors welcome.
Harry L. Lindquist, editor and
publisher Of Stamps Magazine,
is writing the weekly stamp COL
umn of the Associated Press
during the absence of sgd
Kronish on vacation.
British postage rates soon may
be raised to meet deficits caused
by f33 million increase in wages
and pensions.
The stamp collection Of King
Farouk of Egypt was left in his
palace in Cairo when he abdi-
Gated and soon may come into
the international philatelic mar
ket by auction sale. Estimates
of the value of the royal accu-
mutation range from 81 to SIG
million. The King specialized
in the postal issues of the Con-
federate States of America as
we'll as in those of his own
country