Evening star., 1954-09-19
PhiloteHc News

4cCtUIS DIS WCl1 do w ti1C SCAA-
eral public are expected to
follow the swearing in Of To-
bias r. Talbert as Regional
Operations Manager in charge
of the newly established WASH
ington Division Of the national
post Office system on Thurs
day.
One of the suggestions sub
mitted to him within a few
hours after his induction was
that a philatelic window be
opened at the Washington
City Post Office-technically
the only post Office in the
United States.@ = The proposal
contemplates supplementing
the Philatelic Agency in the
Post Office Department Build
ing on Pennsylvania avenue
between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets NV, which
Is closed all day Saturday and
all day Sunday. The new
philatelic window at the City
Post Office, Massachusetts av-
enue and North Capitol street.
NE, would be in opera
ton from 9 am. to 8 pm,
every day in the week. It
would be stated with skilled
clerks familiar with philatelic
requirements and stocked with
clean, well-centered stamps in
sufficient quantities to meet all
reasonable needs.
Such windows have been
operated successfully in other
cities for years. The increase
in philatelic business traceable
to them has justified the ex-
pense many times over.
Mr.. Talbert also has been
asked to open a regular stamp
window at the Ben Franklin
station for all-night service to
downtown patrons requiring
accommodation after regular
business hours.
known to philatelists for
many years, the new Regional
Operations manager has had
IS years of service in the Post
Office Department. He was
born and educated in the Dis
trict of Columbia, entered
postal employment in 1908 and
has risen through the grades
to his new position. Stamp
and cover collectors have
worked with him on numerous
f1rst-day occasions, including
the unforgotten and unfor-
getable January /, 1882, when
the IL George Washington BIZ
centennial stamps all went on
sale at the same hour of the
same day.
The area which Mr.. Talbert
Is to manage includes: Wash
ington, D. c.; all Virginia, ell
Maryland. all West Virginia
and Kent and Sussex counties
in Delaware. Locally he will be
assisted by John E. Burke, an
other Washingtonian. with SO
years service to his credit, who
now will be Washington Dis
trict Manager, and Harry S.
Green, a native of Richmond,
educated at Georgetown Uni
versity, who served in the Ma
rines in World War I and in
the Army in World War II and
now will be Assistant District
Manager.
The new 2-cent Thomas JEFF
ferson regular postage stamp
in sidewise coil form will be
placed on first-day sale at st.
Louis, October 90, in connec-
tion with the annual American
Philatelic Congress meeting
there on that day.
George w. Peterson. clerk
in the Redemption Office of
the Philatelic Division of the
Post Office Department since
the Philatelic Agency was es-
tablished in 1921 and known
to hundreds of collectors for
his service to them particu-
larly in connection with the s.
cent DR.. George Washington
Carver stamp of 1948. is chair
man of the committee in
charge Of the celebration of
the 90th anniversary of his
toric Zion baptist Church, 337
F street Southwest, starting
today and continuing through
out the week.
The Washington Philatelic
Society. the Collectors Club
of Washington. the Woodbridge
Stamp Club and the Silver
Spring Philatelic Society will
cooperate in staging the an
nual exhibition and bourse of
the Associated Stamp Clubs
ofgthe Chesapeake area at the
Maryland Institute of Art,
Mount Royal avenue and Lam
vale street, Baltimore, Octo-
ber 3 to 10. DR.. John A. Buch-
ness is to be chairman. Three
hundred frames of material
will be displayed and the Post
Office Department and the
United Nations will have spe-
cial demonstrations.
The 1854 Health stamps of
New Zealand will be released
on October 4. Values are I'd
blue-gray and Sd purple. The
design shows a your-g noun
tain climber pausing to study
a map. In the background is
Mount Aspiring. well-known
New Zealand peak. and in the
upper-left corner a "fade-out"
view Of Mount Everest. con-
Quered by New Zealand climb
ers last year. James Berry OF
STAMPS.