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NUMISMATIC NOTES

Coiled hair varieties struck
in gold are exceedingly rare.
AS a group, pattern silver
dollars have been especially
popular. One unusual dollar
series illustrated on alloy
called "goloid" which con-
tanned silver and gold in a
1911 ratio.
Patterns frequently have
appeared well in advance of
the official adoption of new
values. The first pattern q
cent piece was made % years
before issue of such a coin
Likewise gold dollar patterns
preceded the regular coin by
10 years.
Many truly unusual pat
terms, oddly enough. are less
popular than the So-called
transitional" patterns. These
include the 1858 pattern In
dian head cent as issued in
1859, the 1868 pattern 2
cents as released in 1864 and
the 1882 Liberty head nickel
pattern identical to the 1888
regular coin.
A unique design among
pattern dimes was proposed
in 1868 to use in exchange
for United States Postal
Notes. In 1877 consideration
was given to minting 500
gold pieces to be called a
Union" A pattern Half
Union $500 was made be-
fore the idea was abandoned.
A number of token and
game counters exist that have
a facsimile of a United States
coin on one side and a fan
ciful related design or a copy
of a foreign coin on the
other. These sometimes are
offered as patterns. Most au-
thentic patterns, however,
were struck in proof and bear
a full array of inscriptions
typical of regular coins OF
the period.
r. C. SOXMAN.
The Washington Numis-
matte Society, Whose mem
berS haze prepared this Serie,
of articles, tDiu dnStDer QueS-
tionS on coins and paper
money addressed to The Sun
day Star, Washington 3
D. C.
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1886 Statue Model
Is an Iron Man, Too

WILSON, N. Y. (AP) A 900
pound iron statue Of a 10th GEN.
tury fireman, and the man who
was model for it, have wealth
cred the years well.
The statue, which stands near
the firehall, was cast in 1886
and has been on outdoor display
ever since. The man who mod
eled for it, George Singer, con-
tinues to live in nearby. Lock-
port and celebrated his 92d
birthday this year.
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The green and nge
stamp was printed in photo,
gravure by the Courvoisier.
firm of Switzerland. I
KOREA-The tenth ami,
versary of the Korean Ma
rine Corps, which is modelled
CT osely on our own, was
marked, April Is, by the re-.
lease of a stamp picturing
a landing operation.
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STAMP CLUB
MEETINGS
MONDAY

Northern Virginia Stamp
Club, 8 PM, Recreation Cen.
ter, 158 East Broad street,
Falls Church, Va. Capt. rs.
Dukeshire will discuss Con
federate Patriotic and Naval
Covers.
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Brett Wins Award

George w. Brett. Wash
ington representative of the
Bureau Issues Association,
has been selected as winner
Of the Walter w. Hopkinson
award for the best article
published in the Bureau Spe-
cialist in 1858. The award
was made for Mr.. Brett's Sc
rial article on the Giori press.
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Philatelic Informant
A useful booklet for COL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

lectors who like to buy from
foreign philatelic agencies is
the Philatelic Informant.
which includes a worldwide
list of addresses Of postal adj
ministrations and a foreign
exchange conversion table.
The 1859 edition costs so
cents from Van Dahl Pub
locations, Inc. Albany, Greg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-19

BALLET STAMP-This IS
ore stamp will be issued
May 16 for Denmark's Bal
let and Music Festival. The
ballerina is Margrethe
Schanne in the title role
of la Sylphide."
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WEDNESDAY

Washington PhilateIic So
ciety, Arts Club. 20l7 I street
NV. Meeting about 8:15 fol-
lowing dinner at 6:45 pm.
(sold out). L. Robe Walter,
special assistant to the Post
master General. will be guest
of honor and principal
speaker.
Woodbridge Stamp Club,
7:30 pm, Woodbridge Library,
Eighteenth street and Rhode
Island avenue NE.
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coin sesquicentennial. Wash
ington Is, D. c.
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The 40-hwan olive green
stamp was produced by
TYPOGRAPHY by the Korean
Government Printing Agen-.
cy.
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May First Days

Two first days are sched-
uled in May:
May 1 - Argent green
Hermitage coil, Denver 2,
Colo.
May 3O-4-cent blue Lin
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PHILATELIc NEWS
Maple Leof and Eogle
On Seowoy Stamps

abeth and President Eisen-
hover.
Covers for first-day cancel
lation of the United States
stamp may be sent TO the
Postmaster, Massena, N. ".
with a remittance for the cost
Of the stamps.
Requests for first-day can
collation. Of the Canadian
stamp must be sent to the
Postmaster. Ottawa 2. On
/. tario, Canada. There is q
service charge Of 5 cents q
cover. The total remittance
of 10 cents for each cover
should be made by domestic
money order payable in Ca
madam funds to the Receiver
General Of Canada.
\ \ y
World Trade Stamp
The Scent maroon world
Peace Through World Trade"
stamp. to be issued here to-
morrow, will be dedicated by
Postmaster General Summer
field at an International
Chamber Of Commerce din
ner meeting tonight at the
Shoreham.
Guests will include the di.
rectors Of the organization,
heads Of delegations from 40
countries and chairmen Of
convention committees. The
international chamber opens
its six-day meeting here to-
morrow on the theme of
business responsibilities In
domestic and world affairs.
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Postal History Journal

The Postal History Journal,
which has been published an
nually since 1857 by the
Postal History Society of the
Americas, carries seven major
articles in its current issue,
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leading with a 26-page we'll.
illustrated piece by Alan w.
Robertson on ship Letters Of
England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales" Information on
the society and its publica-
ton may be obtained from p
Edwin Mayer of 10 East 40th'
Street, New York is. N. Y. a
= 49, 9
Apple Blossom Cachet
A bicolor cachet has been
provided again this year for
the Shenandoah Apple Bios
som Festival, to be held at
Winchester. Va, April 30
May 2. Covers will carry a
7-cent Alaska airmail stamp
with the festivals slogan,
cancellation. Orders, at 10
cents each, should be sent
with names and addresses to.
Paul M. Chamberlain, P. o.
Box 642, Winchester, Va. :.
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New Issues
IRAQ - Tree Day, a ma
tional holiday which is cele-
brated by the planting Of
trees throughout the country
at the beginning of the
spring season, was marked,
March 81, by the issuance Of
a 10-fils special stamp pic
turing an orange tree.
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THURSDAY

Silver Spring Philatelic
Society, 8 pm, County Build
ing, Georgia avenue and
Colesville road, Silver Spring,
Md. Talk by Herbert D.
Duey, Stamps Of the Far
East"
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bits Of string or even leftover
scraps of bread fro mthe table
scraps of bread from the table
subjects for your camera.
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A useful booklet for col
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Electricity s'DeveIoped
Directly From A-Power

LOS ALAMOS, N. Mex.
April 7 (AP) The first direct
conversion of nuclear reactor
energy into electric power was
announced today by the Los
Alamos scientific laboratory.
The laboratory developed
plasma thermocouple produced
enough power to light an cleo
trio lightbulb for almost IL
hours before it was shut down
and dismantled for analysis.
The achievement was the
result of an experiment in
which the plasma thermocouple
was placed in the core of a
heterogeneous research reactor.
laboratory officials said.
A thermocouple is a means
of producing electricity by
bringing two different metals
into contact, then cooling one
metal and heating the otner.
The Los Alamos thermocouple
is the result of a laboratory
experiment which substituted
|ironized ceSium gas (the plas-
MAJ for one of the metallic
elements. The other metallic
element is enriched uranium.
The device bypasses the in
termediate step performed by
turbines in the present con-
version of nuclear power to
electricity. It also represents
a saving in weight, bulk and
completely over the turbine
generated electricity.
The experimental plasma
thermocouple resembled an
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Michigan COP. Mokes
Best Showing Since IS

/ ted were Frederick c. Matthaei
chairman of the committee
which hopes to bring the 1864
Olympic Games to Detroit, and
Frank Merriman, a farmer. who
topped the slate of four candi-
dates seeking the two openings
on the State Board of Agri-
culture. Mr.. Matthaei was
elected to the Board of Regents
of the University of Michigan,
The Board of Agriculture's sole
job is to administer Michigan
State University.
The Republicans lost one
seat on the Board of Regents,
the one open job on the State
Board of Education. and one
seat on the Board of Agricul-
ture. The new Wayne State
Board gained five Democrats
and one Republican.
Gov. Williams, now in an
unprecedented sixth term, has
steadily guided the Democrats
to ever increasing victories in
Michigan.
There was no immediate in
dication that yesterdays bal
loting results stemmed from
See MICHIGAN, Page At
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merce in 1888 and officiated at
the planting of the tree during
a Cherry Blossom Festival.
"It breaks my heart to see
that tree CO." he said. looking
wistfully down Wisconsin ave-
nue.. MY daughter is agitating
for us to pay for moving it to
our yard, but of course that's
out of the question"
Solution Sought
Bud Hadley. secretary Of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Chap
ter OF Izaak Walton League,
said: Bethesda won't be the
same without that tree. Our
organization is the largest
chapter in Maryland, and be-
lieve me, we are deeply op-
posed to destroying such a
beautiful Landmark. We won't
leave any stones unturned to
try to save it."
Howard Hamilton, foreman
of the Nicholson Engineering
Co., which is constructing the
post Office addition, said many
angry citizens had besieged
him with requests not to cut
down the tree.
Everybody seems to think
it's my fault. he complained
II hate to see it go as much
as anybody else. It's by the
order of General Services Ad.
ministration, which is in charge
of Government building prof.
ectS."
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empty frozen fruit juice can
The source of power was q rod
of enriched uranium about one
fourth inch in diameter and
about three-fourthS inch long
The rod was suspended in
the center of the cell and sur
rounded by cesium gas. When
the assembly was lowered into
the core Of a reactor the neu-
iron flow activated uranium
fisSion heating in the center
of the can while the flow OF
the reactor coolant around the
outside of the can dropped the
temperature of the cesium
plaSma.
Laboratory officials said the
implications of the experiment
in future atomic energy devel-
mentS are enormous, as are the
uses of the thermocouple in the
field of nuclear propulsion in
both submarines and space
travels.
A team of 10 scientists headed
by George Grover completed
the experiment in a little more
than three years. Others in the
group were Jack Barger. George
Erickson. Thurman Frank,
John Hopkins. Daniel Kelly,
William Ranken, Duane Roeh-
ling. Ernest Salmi, all of Los
AlamoS, and r. w. Pidd, a con-
sultant from the University of
Michigan.
The Los Alamos scientific
laboratory is operated by the
University of California for the
Atomic Energy Commission.
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Heoton Is Nominated
For Surgeon General

Mai. Gen. Leonard D. Hea-
ton, the Army surgeon who OPP
Grated on President Eisenhower
for ileitis nearly three years
ago, was nominated by the
President today to be Surgeon
General of the Army.
Gen. Heaton, Sc. who has
been commanding officer Of
Walter Reed Army Medical
Center since 1852, intends to
continue surgery work at Wal
ter Reed. the White House
said.
Gen. Heaton headed the
team Of surgeons that operated
on the President in June Of
1856. He has participated in
several medical checkups on
the President since then. He
also operated on Secretary of
State Dulles, who subsequently
underwent extensive radiation
treatments at Walter Reed for
abdominal cancer.
As Army Surgeon General
Gen. Heaton will succeed Mai.
Gen. Silas B. Hayes, who COM
pletes a four-year tour Of duty
in that position on May /.
Among other nominations
sent to the Senate. the Presi-
dent named former Republican
Senator Frank A. Barrett Of
Wyoming, defeated for re-
election last year, to be gen.
eral counsel Of the Agriculture
Department.
Mr.. Barrett, who served as
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DETROIT. April 7 (AP)-
Republicans slowed what has
been a steady victory march
for Gov. G. Mennen Williams
Democratic forces in yester-
days Michigan election. The
G. o. P. managed three victo-
ries in IL partisan Statewide
races.
The showing was that party'S
best since the spring election
of 1855 when Gov. Williams
dominance first thoroughly as
serted itself.
Despite the general stiffen-
ing. the Republican Party once
again suffered an overall loss
in State officeholders. The Re-
publicans vent into yesterday:
balloting with five education
Offices and held only two.
Six new jobS-members OF
the governing board of Wayne
State University in Detroit
were up for grabs and the DEM
ocrats took five out of these
six.
The lone exception on the
Wayne State Board was Ben
jamin Burdick of Detroit.
The other Republicans cleo
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RALPH McGuL'S
COLUMN STARTS

THE IMMORTAL KIM Of Ruydord
KipIing looms into the foreground es
Ralph McGiIl, in his first column for
The Stor, probes the ose-oId in
tellisenee worries over the strategic
passes Ieoding into India, TibefS
neishbor. Follow the intriguing por-
olIeI drown todoy by Mr.. Mc6iiI as
Red forces continue 10 grow in the
land Of the Dalai Lomo, on Poss
Alb.
ESoX NIGER is a fresh-woter
boroeudo, soy experienced onslsn
Of the piekerel. Outdoor Editor
Charles coveII reIotes his own bouts
with the predatory creature on the
Leisure Poss, All.
THE NATo BALL in Norfolk, w.,
motched onythins Washington en-
tertoiners' could provide, according
to Society Writer Ruth Deon. The
octivity- packed doy in the Virsinia
port is reported todoy in the WOm-
on's Section, Poss 81.
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President Asks
DC. Funds
Half Eormurked
For Welfare Aid

President Eisenhower today
asked Congress for an addi-
tional $264.0o in District funds
nearly half of it to cover in
creased costs of public assist
ance cases--for this fiscal year.
The Welfare Department re-
quests totaled $4,000.
Another $57, 800 was request
ed to cover a 16-cent-per-day
increase in the reimbursement
rate for District patients in
st. Elizabeths Hospital.
The requests will be made
when the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee hears tomor-
row a District plea for restora-
ton of supplemental fund cuts
made by the House in earlier
supplemental requests.
Trimmed SIS Million
The hearing involves a
House-passed $14 million sup
Elemental appropriation bill
for the current fiscal year
which was trimmed by $1.3
million.
Just how much officials will
ask to have restored has not
been announced. But the new
est requests will be added tc
this figure.
The increase for the Welfare
Departments Public Assistance
Division was requested because
of the constant rise in re-
cipients. At the end of Feb
ruary, there were 10,941 cases
141 cases above the 10,8O(
originally anticipated as the
average for the coming f1scaI
year.
Set for Tomorrow
The Senate Appropriation;
Committee hearing will be al
2:30 pm. tomorrow.
Spokesman for civic organi-
See d. C. BUDGET, Page Al
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Eisenhowers FIy
To Augusta Club

President and Mrs. EiSen-
hover few South today for q
vacation at the Augusta (Ga.)
National Golf Club.
The Eisenhowers took OF
from Washington National Air.
port at 1850 am. in the Presi-
dents personal plane. the Col
umbine III. They arrived in
Augusta at 12:45 pm.
Mr.. Eisenhower is expected
to get in 10 holes Of golf be-
fore the day is over.
The President Is due back
in Washington next Monday
for a speech at a Republican
women's dinner, but there is a
possibility he may return to
Augusta the next day for sew
eral more days Of vacation.
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Fishermen Missing

KUSHIRO, Japan. April Z
(AP).-Eight cod-fishing boats
carrying a total of 40 men dis
appeared yesterday in a 80
m.p.h. wind storm that swept
Manure Strait. The Maritime
Safety Agency said the boats
may have been driven toward
the Soviet-held South Kurile
Islands and Soviet authorities
have been asked to watch for
them.
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Urrutiu Denies
Any Castro Rift

HAVANA, April Z (AP).-
Provisional President Manuel
Urrutia declares he and Prime
Minister Fidel Castro are work.
ing together to make a success
of Cuba'S revolutionary pro-
gram.
He denied yesterday rumors
of supposed differences between
him and Mr.. Castro.
Mr.. Urrutia told a news con-
ference he believes Mr.. Castro
will give the American people
a good explanation of Cuba'S
problems and detectives of the
revolutionary on his visit to the
United States this month.
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be largely a ceremonial figure.
However, Mr.. Adenauer may
be able to choose his successor
as Chancellor. Under the West
German constitution, the Pres
ident dominates the Chancellor
and the Bundestag-controll
by Mr.. Adenauer's party-con-
firms him.
If Mr.. Adenauer, as expected,
remains Chancellor during the
presidential election campaign
and is elected, he will become
President in September.
The man most frequently
mentioned as Mr.. Adenauer's
successor, Deputy Chancellor
and Economic Minister Ludwig
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Russian Help
To Iraq Seen
Reported Sending
Kurds and Arms

CAIRO, Egypt, April Z (AP)
- Reports that Soviet-armed
Kurdish tribeSmen are being
shipped through the Suez Canal
to Iraq aroused speculation to-
day that Russia Is helping
Iraqi Premier Abdel Karin
Kassen1 form a pro-Commu-
mist foreign legion.
Egyptian authorities said
three Soviet ships-one carry
ing 855 fully armed Kurds and
the other two loaded with mill
tary equipment - passeo
through the canal since Sunday
bound for Iraq's big Persian
Gulf port of Basra.
The KurdS, though not Arabs
are scattered through Arab re-
gions as well as into the Soviet
Union and make up one million
Of iraq's 6 million people. Many
have long dreamed Of carving
their own nation out of the
areas Of Northern Iraq, West
ern Iran and Eastern Turkey
which they inhabit.
Trained Guerrilla Fighters
Observers at Port Said re-
ported the tribeSmen passing
through the canal were Soviet
citizens of Kurdish origin, from
the Southernmost regions OF
the Soviet Union. The United
Arab Republics Middle East
News Agency said the Soviet
Kurds were trained in guerrilla
fighting.
The agency. without giving a
source, said more Soviet ships
carrying new groups of Com
munists, are expected at Port
Said en- route to Iraq.
There was no foreign con-
f1rmation of the Egyptian re.
! ports. U. A. r. President Mas.
ser has been waging a bitter
See IRAQ, Page At
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bloom on q small plot OF ground
just behind a large statue of
the Madonna Of the Trails,
erected by the Daughters of
the American Revolution in
honor Of pioneer women.
Located at the corner of
Wisconsin avenue and Mont
gomery lane, the tree is the
only blooming foliage visible
for several blocks in the Be-
thesda business district.
Employees Of the county
managers Office in the Bethes-
da County Building. whose
windows overlook the monu-
ment now framed by wide
spread cherry branches. heard
about the proposed destruction
of the tree and sent out a dis
tress signal to the Maryland
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Samuel H. Mumford, super
intendent Of parks, made a sur
vey Of the situation.
Moving Questionable
at would cost a minimum Of
$1,000 to move it, and even
then, I don't believe it would
be logical to attempt to dig ur
such a large tree" Mr.. Mum
ford said. TOO many large
roots would have to be cut anc
the tree probably would die.
really can't see why that beau
tiful tree has to be cut dowr
anyway; it is on the edge oil
the area that is to be used fol
parking, and a Japanese cherry
certainly could be preserved
The space it occupies woulc
only be useful for two of those
little motor Scooters, anyway
Henry Hiser, who owns q
theater near the post office, re.
called that he was president Of
the Bethesda Chamber Of Com
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Erhard, has a reputation for
tough conservatism. as does
Mr.. Adenauer.
But there has long been a
split within the German For
eign Office and in the German
Embassy here on the degree OF
"fiexibility" the West should
show in trying to negotiate a
German and European settle
ment with the Soviet Union.
Mr.. Adenauer has been the
rock on which most German
Foreign once ideas of fleXi-
bility have been smashed.
The s3-year-old Chancellor
See REACTION, Page At
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Governor Of Wyoming in 1885,
So and as a Senator from 1858
until his defeat last year, will
succeed Robert L. harrington
as general counsel of the Agri-
culture Department.
Mr.. harrington. completing
more than 80 years of Govern
ment service, has been general
counsel at Agriculture since
August 81, 1856. He wrote the
President on March 26 that he
found it necessary to resign
because Of urgent personal
reasons.