Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-05
PHILATELIC NEWS
Texas First Day Set
For Royburn Stomp
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor

star stamp EDITOR
The Accent commemorative
honoring Sam Rayburn will
be issued September 16 in
Bonham, Texas, his home
town, where he died less than
a year ago.
First day ceremonies are
expected to be held in the
Sam Rayburn Foundation
Library there, with Vice Pres
ident Johnson, an old friend,
as a key participant. Mr..
johnson and House Speaker
Mccormack joined Postmas-
ter General Day in making
the stamp design public last
Monday.
The date Of issue is the
twenty-second anniversary of
Mr.. Rayburn's first election
to the Speakership of the
House, a post he held twice
as long as anyone else.
The eighth of II children,
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
was born January 6, 1882 of
a poor family living on poor
soil near Kingston, Tenn.
Five years later the family
moved to a 40-acre cotton
farm near Windon, Texas.
Young Sam studied at East
Texas Normal School and
taught for two years before
he was elected to the Texas
legislature in 1906. In 1918,
at the age of 80, he was
elected to the House of Rep
reSentatives. He was chosen
Speaker in 1910.
The commemorative for
Mr.. Sam" was approved by
the Stamp Advisory Commit
tee last year on November
Is, the day of his death, and
announced by the Post
master General the following
day.
The design by Robert L.
Miller Of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing shows
Speaker Rayburn with the
Capitol dome in the back
ground. Mr.. Miller's pencil
sketch portrait is based on a
news photo of Mr.. Rayburn
with his old friend Joe
Martin. the Republican leader
who filled in as Speaker
twice during Mr.. Sans long
tenure, in 1947-48 and again
in l953-54. The artist found
it in THE Leadership of
Sam Rayburn", a collection
OF tributes by his colleagues
published last year as a
House document.
Portrait and vignette we're
engraved by Charles A.
Brooks and lettering and
numeral by William r. Burn
ell. The stamp will be printed
on the Giori press in two
colorS, brown for the por-
trait and lettering and blue
for the background. The ini-
tial printing will be 100 mil
lion.
Addressed envelopes for
first day cancellation may be
sent to the Postmaster, Bon
ham, Texas. with remittance
for the cost of the stamps.
The outer envelop to the
postmaster should be marked
First Day Covers Rayburn
Stamp" and must be post
marked not later than Sep
TENDER Is.
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New Scott Album
Scott Publications has en-
tered a new field with The
Family of Nations, a high
quality. low price album for
beginners.
With l22 uncrowded pages
(plus a two page world map
it obviously is sharply limited
in its coVerage. There are II
pages for United States, 31a
for Canada, less than two for
Japan and only a line or so
for many others. But all of
the new countries are rep
resented and the stamps
pictured are those most likely
to be readily available.
At $3.50, this is an ideal
album for the beginner, de-
signed to tempt anyone who
uses it to graduate to some
thing more comprehensive in
the Scott line.
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Slogan Cancellation
A slogan cancellation read
ing NATIONAL CULTURAL
CENTER TELECAST NO
VEMBER 20. 1852" will be
used to help publicize the
television program designed
to build up support for the
Cultural Center here. 1t is
to be used from September
Is through December l at
the Washington Post Office,
Philadelphia, San Francisco
and Dallas.
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