Evening star., 1961-01-22
PHILATELIC NEWS
PING Day Will Name: e .
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Stamp Advisory Unit
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor

star stamp Eoltor
Postmaster General j. Ed
ward Day Is expected to name
o new Stamp Advisory Com
mittee.
1t will include philatelic
representatives and artists,
but will not necessarily be
organized along the same
lines as the group which ad-
vised his predecessor. Arthur
e. Summerfield.
James F. Kelleher, Mr.. Days
special assistant for public
relations. has taken over the
stamp program responsible
tiles Of l.. Robe Walter.
Mr.. Walter, who suggested
formation Of the Stamp Ad-
visory Committee in 1857 and
who has served as its ex-
officio chairman. plans to
return to public relations
work in Washington or New
York after a short vacation.
Mr.. Day has agreed to CO.
operate fully with plans al
ready made by the previous
administration for the next
three stamps.
He will be the host at first
day ceremonies for the A.
cent and Scent Mahatma
Gandhi Champion Of Lib
erty" stamps in the Post
master Generals Reception
Room at 2 pm. Thursday.
He also plans to go to
Chappaqua, New York, for
ceremonies for the 4-cent
Horace Greeley Famous
American" stamp on Friday
February 8. He will not be
able to 60 to Salt Lake City,
Utah, where the Accent Range
Conservation stamp will be
released February 2, but will
send a representative.
The only other stamp an
nounced for this year, the
10-cent air mail for the
Inter American Conference
planned for Quito, Ecuador,
has been postponed indefi-
nitely. The meeting, first set
for February /, 1860, then
delayed until March / Of this
year, is now scheduled for
May "a, but q further delay
seems likely.
Release Of the Horace
Greeley stamp February 3
will, in effect, complete the
Summerfield stamp program.
The old Stamp Advisory
Committee prepared q re-
port recommending about a
half dozen more stamps for
1861, and this is "at the top
OF the agenda," but action
will be taken only as Mr..
Day and Mr.. Kelleher be-
come familiar enough with
their new jobs to consider
the proposals on their merits.
Mr.. Kelleher is, he makes
clear, no philatelic expert.
Like Mr.. Day. he had a
small general collection as a
boy, but he has not kept
up with the field. He does
expect to get acquainted
with his new job. including
his philatelic responsibilities,
as quickly as possible. and
hopes to have the co-opera-
tion and help Of philatelic
organizations.
He has no fixed idea on
how many stamps should be
issued in a year but his gen.
eral approach to the prob
lem suggests that there will
be considerably fewer this
year than last.
Mr.. Kelleher. who is "a. is
a former newspaper reporter
who comes to his new post
from a partnership tin Lin
der-Kelleher & Co., a pub
lie relations organization in
South Bend, Ind.
Born in Wilmington, Del,
he received his degree in
journalism from the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame after an
interruption for Army serv-
ice in World War II.
AS a public relations man
doing work for Indiana
Democrats during the presi-
Dental campaign he became
acquainted with H. w.
Brawley, the new Deputy
Postmaster General who was
then executive director Of
the Senate Post Office and
Civil Service Committee. 1t
was through Mr.. Brawley
that he came to Mr.. Days
attention.
Mr.. Kelleher Is married to
the former Mary Hanley Of