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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
CITIZENS
MEETINGS

Meeting announcement
must be in the hands of the
Civic Calendar editor By noon
Thursday of each meek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Those
received too late tDiH not be
used separately unless there
is some special netDs Signtti-
canoe attached to them.
Fred w. Mallon, superintend-.
ent of the housing division Of
the Department of Licenses
and Inspection, will speak on
enforcement of the building
inspection code at the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association
meeting at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the Mount Pleasant Library,
Sixteenth and Lamont streets
NV. Other groups meeting at
8 pm. this week are:
TOMORROW
Marshall Heights Civic Association
Male school auditorium, Fiftieth and c
BIOomingdaIe Civic Association Tabor
Presbyterian Church, Second and S
streets NV. 4t
Fort Davis Citizens Association-R yland
Methodist Church, Branch avenue and
S streets Sc.
NJ
Library, Georgia avenue and Upshur
street NV ems
Interfederatlon Council Room 527, Dis,
trict Building, Fourteenth and E
streets NV. as
Friendship Citizens Association Column
1901 Wisconsin avenue NV. -..'
Capitol View Civic Association Rich
ardson School, Fifty-third and Blaine
Ivy City.Trinidad Civic Association
Wheatley School, Montello avenue and
Neal street NE. no
Chiilum Heights Citizens Association
SOIL First street NV.
Chevy Chase Citizens Association
Chevy Chase Community Center audi
forum, Mckinley street and Connecticut
avenue NV;
Junior High School, Thirty-fifth and 7
Lincoln Park Citizens Association-Ep-
worth Methodist Church, 1906 East Cap
itol street.
Randle Highlands Citizens Association.
National Capital Bank, 27ol Pennsylvania
TUESDAY
Anscostia Citizens Association Anacos-
tia Methodist Church Hall, Fourteenth
and streets Sc.
Northeast Washington Citizens AssOcia-
tion-lolo Massachusetts, avenue NE.
Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park Citi-
zens Association Guild Hall, St. Adams
Parish, Wisconsin and Massachusetts
avenues NV.
Eastland Gardens Civic Association
kenilworth School, Fortyfourth and Nash
Central Northeast Civic Association
Smothers School, Forty fourth and Brooks
streets NE. -
East Central Civic Association Scott.
Montgomery School, AIS p street NV.
Central Northwest Citizens Association =.
Garrett Patterson School, Tenth and U
CrestwoOd Citizens Association - 1873
Shepherd street NV.
PetwOrth Citizens Association - Rock
Creek Parish House, Rock Creek Church
road and Western avenue NV.
WEDNESDAY
Capitol Hill Community Council St,
streets Sc.
Upper Northwest Community Group
Gethsemane Baptist Church, Fourth and
Hamilton streets NV
River Terrace Community Organization
River Terrace Elementary School,
Thirty-fourth and Dix streets NE.
FRIDAY
Federation Of Civic Associations Room
500, District Building, Fourteenth and E
streets NV.
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on the floor was in front of
the MinkuS booth where the
reprint errors were selling at
SIS sheet.
Although the Giori presses
at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing are capable of
printing three colors from a
single plate. the design of the
HammarSkjold required the
brown of the protrait to be
printed over a yellow back
ground, a type of work pos
Sibe only with two separate
impressions. Giori press COM
memorative size stamps are
printed on pre- gummed
sheets of paper from 200 sub
ject plates. The printed
sheets are later cut into four
post office panes of so
stamps.
The yellow impression, cut
out to leave the name and
denomination white, was
printed first. BY some &C
cident during the press run,
sheets were fed into the press
the wrong way for the sec
ond impression, the brown
and black which make up the
actual stamp design.
Plates are Intentionally ar
ranged so that an accidental
reversal will throw the de-
sign about % inch out of
register. which should make
the error obvious at a glance
The light yellow Hammar-
skiold background, however,
is very hard to see, and at
least two sheets of 200
stamps got by the inspectors.
One pane of so with the
plate number combination
27,27S for the black and
brown plate) and 27,282 (yel-
low), turned up in the post
office at Cuyahoga Falls,
near Akron, Ohio. 1t was
bought on October 90 by
Gerald P. Clark, who used
81 stamps on letters before
a friend, William Throop,
noted the error. Mr.. Clark
gave two copies to Mr..
Throop. one to Russell Fer
guson, and had 16 left, two
used on letters to his family.
He estimated his stamps to
be worth between $4,000 and
$4,000 each. Cash offers made
before the general announce
ment of the discovery went
as high as $1,000 a stamp.
A second pane of so with
the place number combina-
ton 27,266 black and 27,-
275 yellow turned up last
Monday in the hands of Mr..
Sherman, who had bought
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the sheet October "a in the
New Brunswick. N. j., post
office. He estimated its value
at 100000. This highly-in-
flated figure apparently was
obtained by comparing it
with the most spectacular
of all United States errors,
the 24-cent airmail of 1918
with the upside down plane,
which, A years after the
discovery of a single sheet
OF 100, sells for about $10,-
600 for a choice copy.
With six more panes of so
each unaccounted for, the
Post Office Department took
all Hammarskjolds off sale
until stocks could be checked.
Late in the week a pane of
so from the same full sheet
as the New Jersey find was
reported to be in the possess
sion Of Mrs. Terry Terre-
groSSa of Carmel, N. Y. There
was also a report that still
another sheet of so had been
found in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
On Tuesday morning Mr..
Day, after consulting with
his own advisers and Off
Gals of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, de-
cided to deliberately reprint
the error to make it avail
eble to all collectors.
The Governor of the Canal
Zone quickly followed suit
with an order for a printing
OF an even more spectacular
error, the bridgeless version
of the Thatcher Ferry Bridge
commemorative.
Mr.. Day had at least two
precedents for his action, al
though no actual error was
involved in either case. Back
in 1886 Postmaster General
James A. Farley had reprint
ed for sale to collectors I'M
cut and in some cases i'm
perforate sheets of 20 diff
ferent issues after the gift
of such sheets to President
Roosevelt, Secretary of the
Interior Ickes and others had
aroused political storm.
A more direct precedent
was the Nursing stamp issued
last December. 1t, like the
Hammarskjold stamp, was
printed from two plates.
There were no errors. at least
none that got by the inspec-
tors. But normal production
procedures created IL plate
number combinations in a
very uneven distribution.
Only five were com mon
enough to be offered at the
Philatelic Sales Agency. Five
more were scarce, and two ex-
tremely scarce. When prices
of the scarcer blocks began
to soar, Mr.. Day ordered a
new printing of Is million of
the stamps, using six of the
seven scarce combinations.
One plate had been damaged
and could not be used again,
so the last of the seven COM
binations is still scarce.
Mr.. Day made it clear at
that time that he did not in
tend to allow exorbitant and
artificial values to be placed
on any stamps for which he
was responsible. and that he
would act when necessary to
avoid any kind Of rarity that
would be unavailable to the
ordinary collector. This ear
lier statement of policy was
pretty generally overlooked in
the excitement.
The bureau has printed
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PHILATELIC NEWS
Inverts for Everybody?
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor

Postmaster General j. Ed
ward Day tried to provide
Hammarskjold inverts for
everybody last week.
He didn't quite make it,
but he did succeed in sharply
debating the value of the
original error before a Fed
eral court order halted the
sale of his official imita-
lions Friday afternoon.
Collectors had snapped up
$4,000 of these Intentionally
misprinted stamps in less
than four hours. Whatever
the legal outcome, Leonard
Sherman of Irvington, N. j.,
the owner of so of the orig
inal misprintS. had failed in
his attempt to keep his rarity
rare.
Even If no more were sold,
$4,000 copies took his so
originals out of the great
rarity class and shattered his
dream of a 100000 windfall
from the stamps issued Oc-
tober % to honor Dag Ham
marskjold, secretary general
of the United Nations.
Mr.. Sherman'S estimated
half million dollar value for
his sheet of so had little to
support it. No collector or
dealer could be found who
would guess at a value of
more than $4,000, and the
more conservative were talk
ing about something like
$17,5O0.
Even $17,500, of course,
would be a pretty good re-
turn on a So investment.
Mr.. Days action was taken,
the Post Office Department
said, to prevent inflated
value of the few accidental
diversions from depriving the
average collector of the OPP
portunity to purchase the
unusual stamp"
Collector reaction to Mr..
Days efforts to take the
jackpot out of philately var
led widely, but the Post Of
flee Department reported a
small number of communica-
lions In favor after an ear
lier flood of protests. Al
though some of the collector
reaction was violent, nobody
threatened to boycott the
ade-to-order errors.
In fact, Mr.. Days misprintS
carried jackpot possibilities of
their own. If, as seemed
unlikely, the Postmaster
General were permanently
enjoined from selling more,
lucky buyers of the 375,000
stamps could expect a stable
profit since the immediate
d mand was well over a
million.
At the National Postage
Stamp Show in New York.
where Mr.. Sherman had his
original sheet of so on dis
play, the most crowded area
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CAMERA
CALENDAR

NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC So
Getty, Wednesday. 8 pm, National
Museum auditorium, Constitution aV-
enue and Tenth street NV, Lloyd
D. Henbest, geologist, will discuss
Adventures In Familiar Terrain:
The -Four Seasons" Slides.
FREE STATE CAMERA CLUB,
Tuesday, 8 pm, at Hyattsville
Building & Loan Association build
ing. 3505 Hamilton street, Hyatts-
vile. Workshop on experimenting
with lights.
WASHINGTON SOCIETY OF CIN-
PHOTOGRAPHERS, Monday, 8 pm,
GSA Auditorium, F street between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets
NV. Special intermission newsreels,
Beyond Silence" and "Winterlude"
10 nm films to be shown and dis
cussed.
WASHINGTON FILM SOCIETY,
Friday, 6:35 and $3.50 pm. show
ings, Freer Gallery of Art. Earth"
q alexander Dovzhenko, 1880, q
world classic, and Man OF Aran,"
Robert Flaherty, 1891. study of
primitive life on barren Irish island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-18
HOBBY CLUB
MEETINGS
TODAY

IODA1
National Capital Match
Collectors Club, 2 pm, Con-
greSsional Hotel, 300 New
Jersey avenue Sc. Meeting
and auction; $50 pm,
Little Tea House, 1901 South
Arlington Ridge road, Airing
ton, Va. anniversary dinner.
MONDAY
Northern Virginia Stamp
Club, 8 pm, home of Will
liam H. Woddrop, $500
Youngblood street, Mclean,
Va. Cover contest and auc-
ton.
TUESDAY
International Society for
japanese Philately, Wash
ingtOn Chapter, parish Hall,
st. Columbia's Church, 42O1
Albemarle street NV.
Japan" a film presentation
by ]. F. Carpenter.
WEDNESDAY
Collectors Club of Wash
ingtOn, 8 pm, Odd Fellows
Temple, 419 Seventh street
NV. Auction.
Montgomery Coin Club, 8
pm, Perpetual Building As
ISOLATION. 8710 Georgia ave-
nue.. Silver Spring, Md. civil
War Night" program by
Brent Hughes and Ben
Douglas.
THURSDAY
Silver Spring Philatelic
Society, 8 pm, Community
Room, Citizens Building and
Loan Association, Pershing
drive and Fenton street, Sill
yer Spring, Md.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
FOUR US. ARMY OFFICERS WOUNDED IN VET NAM

SAIGON, South Viet Nam RI- Ut. Col Frank Clay, son of Gen Lucius Clay, and three other Army officers were wounded today when their helicopter was hit by Com munist gunfire, a reliable source said.
 None was injured seriously. They were flying support mission with South Vietnamese troops in a major attack on Viet Cong guer- rillas south of Saigon.
 The informant said Clay, senior US. military adviser to South viet Nam's 7th Division, was released after treatment at dispensary.
 The four officers two field advisers and two helicoptar pilots
 were struck by bullets and flying metal and windshield fragments when their helicopter was hit by Communist fire. The aircraft ap- parently was landing close to the target of Vietnamese infantry at- tack when it was hit.
 All four were flown to Saigon for medical treatment, but only one was kept in a dispensary for further attention. He was suffer ing from heel wound.
 The damaged helicopter was one of 14 that landed vietnamese forces to take part in an attack in the Mekong River Delta area south of Saigon.
 Vietnamese military authorities said 55 guerrillas were killed and IS captured in the battle.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
House Approved $3.67 Billion For 1862 Space Program

WASHINGTON Rt-The House voted today record budget for space exploration and heard a pre- diction that the burgeoning cost of the program eventually may in- clude the life of an astronaut.
 It sent to the Senate a bill to authorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to spend $3.67 billion during the fiscal year starting July l.
 This is almost three times the agency's budget for the present year and is subject to actual fin ancing in a separate appropriation bill.
 There was no vocal opposition to the measure after members of the House Space Committee head ed by Rep. George P. Miller, D. Calif., said continued heavy spend ing was necessary to keep the United States in front in the space race.
 It was Miller who said that part of the cost of the program prob- ably would be loss of life for some of the men engaged in it.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23

SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
NEW HANDBOOK FOR GIRL SCOUTS OF BRITAIN

LONDON tR --- A handbook on love-making has been issued for the Girl Scouts of Britain, Iiken- ing the perils of sex to the haz- ards of driving a car.
 Adopting the par1ance of driving instructor, the book warns girls against thinking they can indulge in high-powered sex play and then jam on the brakes at the last moment"
 Chapters come under such head i1gs as ssPerils of the Road" and Under the Bonnet British ex- pression for hood"
 The 32-page book was written by Mrs. Nancy Warner, mother of six and former teacher at the exclusive Roedean School for girls. It was published for the Girl Guides Assn.
 Girl Guides, as the Girl Scouts are known here, number about 250,000 in Britain. An official of their association said:
 Our book was too out of date for the modern miss. 7
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
pAA Considers Merger Possibility

NEW YORK tH - A committee to consider merger possibilities has been appointed by Pan Amer ican World Airways, Juan Trippe, president, said at the annual meet ing yesterday.
 Trippe said talks already have been held with several air car- riers. His statement came in res- aponse to question regarding merger negotiations with Trans World Airlines. He declined to elaborate.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
Wednesday. May 2s. 1862
Father Bernard Passes On

Word has been received here of the death of Father Joseph Ber- hard, S.J., on May 3 in Louvain, Belgium. Father Bernard served many years ago in St. Joseph's Catholic Church here and at the Pilgrim Springs Mission.
 Father Bernard was 88 at the time of his death. One of his regrets in his last years was that he could not be buried in Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
FIVE SOLDIERS PERISH
 IN MEDIUM TANK CRASH

FIT. HOOD, Tex. N Five soldiers perished when an M-48 medium tank toppled over &C., foot cliff into creek and burned Monday during q platoon tactical exercise.
 Radio failure in his tank caused the platoon commander to transfer to the wrecked tank minutes be- fore the accident.
 A Ft. Hood spokesman said the tank plunged down the cliff short ly after it started forward under simulated artillery fire.
 Names Of the dead were with held pending notification of kin. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
FIRED FOR EFFECT

CALI, Colombia R Mexican singer Roberto Ribedo fired a re- volver for effect as he rendered a cowboy song of his homeland at the San Nicolas Theater. One bullet hit Dr. Hernando Sanchez, seated in the audience, in the knee and he was taken to a hospital Ribero was taken to jail.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23

Don't endorse checks drawn to your order until you are ready to deposit them to your account in the bank. Then, if they are lost or stolen you have lost only time, not money. All you need to do is to request payee to make out a new check.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
Expel Czech Envoy from Iceland
 REYKJAU Tcolard fpt T,o

1lE IAJAVIfA, ICeIdIlu HT -- IcG- lands government has expelled Czechosovak trade envoy V. Stochl, charging he tried to get an Ice landic plot to collect information on the kind and number of US. military planes at the Keflavik Base.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23

All the worlds stock of mined gold could be put into room 30 feet high and 30 feet square.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
oDoRLESs STILLl.

oDORLESS STILLl...
 NASHVILLE, Ga. tR = Officers discovered still buried under a sawdust pile surrounded by dead cows.
 Sheriff Walter Gaskins said a room had been constructed under saWmill pile and the sawdust put back in place. Authorities ran It down after arresting man with five jugs of moonshine flecked with sawdust.
 Why the dead cows? They were used to counteract the odor of the moonshine operations, Gaskins said.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23

If you like to talk, isn't it de- ightful to meet someone who likes to listen?
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23
Three Sets of Twins

WOODBURN, Ore. lR The third consecutive set of twins was born Monday to Mir. and Mrs. Robert Miller of Woodburn.
 Like the other two. the new twins are boy and girl. The oldest twins are IA. The other pair are 5.
 Isaaee MI CTS have tight children.
The Nome nugget., 1962-05-23

Fine Job Printing Al The Nugges
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gate whirled around and yelled
"Hey!"
That is strictly out of
bounds" he said, taking Mrs.
Swami by the arm.
Pvt. Washington Berry Of
fered the women a tour of the
White House.
Mrs. Within said, I'VE must
do what We must do"
Mrs. Swami said, I'VE have
no intention of forcing our
selves into the White House"
You've already done that"
said the guard.
Mrs. Swami offered to give
her pledge that they would
simply stand at the steps. This
was refused.
Maj. John Slower joined the
group and asked the women
to return to their hotel and
await word from the White
House.
Mrs. Swami said they had
already been waiting for two
weeks.
Finally after an hour of
such exchanges in the cold
March wind a car drove up with
two representatives of the
Woman'S Bureau. Mrs. Swami
handed the daffodils and a
letter to President Kennedy to
a reporter and the three were
taken to the Woman's Bureau.
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Miller Will Invite 50
To A|I-G.O.P. Council

:, of California and May of
Washington.
Representing the party or
ganization on the new council
will be National Chairman
Miller, Senator Goldwater of
Arizona, the chairman of the
Senatorial Campaign Commit
tee. Representative Wilson of
California, the head of the
Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, and members of the
executive committee of the
Republican National Commit
tee.
Invitations also may be sent
to a few Republican mayors.
Dominated by Moderates
AS projected, the All Re-
publican Council would be
dominated by Republican mod
crates, with minority represent
tation for spokesman for the
COPS liberal and conserva-
tive wings. About one-thrd of
the members would be from
Congress.
The stated purpose Of the
group is to help the Repub-
licans combat the political
propaganda advantage Demo-
Gratis enjoy through their con-
troll of the White House, both
branches of Congress and two
thirds of the governorships.
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Presidents Mother
Recovering Steadily

BOSTON, Mar. Is APP
Mrs. seph P. Kennedy,
mother of the President, is
making Continued excellent
progress a hospital bulletin
reported today.
The 7l-year-old patient, who
underwent surgery at st. Eliza
beths Hospital for a pelvic
hernia, has had a record of
steady recovery since the
surgery on Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-16

obviously reluctant to apply
the full force of the law.
They were under advice from
the Presidents appointments
secretary, Kenneth O'Donnell,
to avoid arrest if possible.
Here for Two Weeks
The women, Mrs. Marjorie
Swami of Norwich, Conn.,; Mrs.
Frances Within of New York
and Mrs. Hermene Evans of
Chicago, have been in WASH
ington for two weeks seeking an
interview with President Ken
needy, who, they think, has been
talking to the wrong people
about resuming nuclear tests.
This morning they presented
themselves at the East Gate at
1890 am. Mrs. Swami was
carrying a bouquet of daffodils
for the President.
Often when 1 60 to call on
people I bring flowers" she
explained.
The White House guards de-
tanned the women for almost
an hour in the sentry box, while
Thomas M. White attempted to
talk them out of walking up
the White House driveway and
waiting outside until the Pres
ident saw them.
Out of Bounds
When the women, who repre-
sent only themselves, started up
the driveway, a guard at the
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Senate Committee
Passes Fund Bill

The Senate Appropriations
Committee approved today a
bill carrying $5,525,558,OO0 to
pay operating costs of the
White House and the Treasury
and Post Office Departments
in the fiscal year which begins
July /.
The amount is about SOS
million more than was in the
bill when it passed the House.
Among the Senate commit
tees increases were SIT MILLION
for 1871 additional tax COL
lectors for the Internal Reve-
nue. Service, SIT million more
for the Coast Guard, and $34.5
million more for the Post Of
flee Department.
5 AS the bill goes to the Senate
it carried $64,887,OO0 more
than voted by the House and
$213,700,000 more than voted
for the same agencies last year,
but $48,828,000 less than the
budget estimates.