Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 24, 1956, Image 27

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Newspaper Page TextBuried Treasure Franklin Carrier Stamp Valuable When Cancelled It you ever come across a lamp with an oval portrait of Franklin on it, with the word CARRIERS above and STAMP below, you are lucky. Especial ly if it is cancelled. A friend of mine found one some months ago on an envelope mailed at some outlying station in NewYork City back in 1851. In addition to the carrier's stamp was a three-cent, orange brown Washington item. That was the one that paid for send ing the letter from one city to the other. But while it cost three times as much as the other and did a far more valuable job at the time, its value today is only a small fraction of the Franklin item. The carrier stamp was gen erally used to pay postage on a letter to a post office when the same letter was to be sent on to another post office. In the case YOUR OLD DECANTER MAY It gave me a strange feeling to look up and see a decanter sitting on a joist in the barn. Judging from the cobwebs on it, no one had touched it for at least ten years. "I put that there myself some 25 years ago. "Used to keep harness oil in it." "Well, it's a nice old de canter," said Charles. "Doubt less you'll want to take it with jrou." "No thanks," ha said. "Wt hive no further us for It. We no longer have horses. And we're not drinking people." OLD BOOKS FROM WESTERN , Jack handed m a slender volume bound in faded brown wrappers that might have been new anywhere from 60 to 100 years ago. "Does that title mean any thing to you?" he asked. The title was "Heckendorn tt Wilson Miners' and Business Mens' Directory for the year.". . . I opened the volume. It was dated Jan. 1, 1856. It was pub lished at Columbia, Calif., and there was a full page woodcut giving a view of the old mining town. "All I know," I said. is that any book printed in California that long ago or any other western state for that matter and In such good condition ought to have a definite pre mium value." "That's what I thought, too." Jack replied, "and so I felt kind of guilty in getting it for $2." "It even has the correct num ber of pages," he said, "exactly 204. "Well, after getting it I 27 BUSINESS DIRECTORY Tractor Work CUSTOM MOWING. RAKING 2-8485 CUSTOM BALING &Ta- 6-3984 Custom Do ran Anywhsra M hr. 1-J13S Bdinefie.d 3-3018 Trenchinaf Loadinx Backfillinc ptio tank Drain fields, Installed Stat approved LEROY CALKINS VT? Palm Ph. 2-3581 or 3-3598 Hout Cleaning SANDY'S CLEANING SERVICE Ruf a an ( Fumitur. Walls, wood work and floors cleaned by experts. t-'none or 3--ftO Electric Motor SAGE ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE Detco and GE Motors and Repi Peats and Tarmli Control TERMITES 4"n Pemmnun Pm sTAMfrnt Irupect before buying. Ph. 3-8701 LOYD Termite Control Prated vow Rome from termites free inspection TV & Radio Repair EMERSON TV Where) honest service la iTre estimates Ph. 2-6001. must KAMMILL TV SERVICE CO. Home cells Medford area 13.30 Open 10 e m to 30 p.m. 1B30 W. Main Ph 3-303 TV & RADIO SERVICE EXLTMAN & OLSON ELECTRIC PHONE --fl070 or 3-2436 DOW TV SERVICE Expert Service All makes. M rfev GUARANTEE on ail work. Phone 2-7994. CORN REMOVER Cet Inifoitt reRef fee pai mn4 peel tfc feet, eellevtes, worn, aswllefftof. dv noila. rt lewluim sev ere! attterent aits that soften. leeiea sliuef acid Biislwret. WHen est n rafted try sWs arte. Try awr luniaa Belief, wkkst refloea poin. soreness, swelling first or iscgwd ppfieotteA. torn remedies seta est money bock guarantee. Exclusively it WESTERN THRIFT x of my friend's find, it paid for delivery of the letter from the outlying station to the New York post office. The Franklin carrier stamp is one of the few issued by the United States without a deno mination. The only suggestion on it that it sold for one cent is that the words CARRIERS and STAMP are set off on either side by a star in parenthesis. Color of the (tamp is blue on rose, usually a dull blue. Unused, its value is only $100 as against $250, according to Scott's Specialized Catalogue. But if it happens to be on an envelope that has been cancel led, itself, so that the two are "tied" together, that is another matter. In my friend's case the value was $754 of which $4 was for the three-cent stamp and the balance for the "tied in" one- cent carrier. HAVE VALUE TO SOMEONE The body of the decanter was ornamented with a leaf motif. Midway about it wound two snakes which entwined much as those on the traditional staff of Hippocrates do. I turned the piece upside down to see if there was any indication as to the maker. There was none, though I later learned that it had been made at Sandwich. As for its value, it wasn't as much as I had thought it would be, but it was still worthwhile, especially as a find. It readily sells in the $45 to $65 price range. STATES HAVE GOOD VALUE had to go down to Los Angeles, and while I was there I took it into a bookstore to see what kind of an offer I'd get. "The buyer looked through it carefully, his face becoming more impassive by the minute. Presently he announced he could let me have $10 for it. He was sorry he couldn't give me more, but there was so little demand for it. "That was indication enough for me. Without further delay I hurried to the public library where I looked it up in their rare book section. "It was quite understandable that there should be little de mand for the book. Only seven copies of it were known at the time. "As for its value, the latest sales price I could find for it was $300. But even that's no indication, because since word has got around that I have a copy, I've been offered $400 for it." (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) 27-BUS1NHSS-DIRECTORY Painting PAINTING Brush or Spray Interior or Exterior Ph. 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Chester Nimitz is this prac tical memento presented to him by his officers and men. It is a stainless scale model of the submarine USS Barb in form of a weather vane. Pivoting in the wind, the sub can also assume diving angle of five degrees when wind shifts the tail diving planes. , Guard Planes Turn Back After Trouble Fort Lewig, Wash. (U.R) Two National Guard planei de veloped engine trouble over the Cascades and turned back to Gray field here Thursday. Two top officers of the 41st in fantry divisions were aboard one of the planes. Both aircraft apparently de veloped carburetor icing while climbing over the Cascades near Mt. Rainier. Aboard one of the planes were Grig. Gen. Frederick L. Wiegand of Beaverton, Ore., assistant commander of the division Lt. Col. Joe P. Price, Portland, di vision operations officer, and 1st Lt. William P. Wells, Port land, general's aid. The pilot was Capt. Eldon Bailer, Portland. Aboard the other plane were Capt. , Robert McGandy, Che halis. Wash., pilot; 2nd, Lt. Glenn Gillespite, division public information officer, Portland; Philip Carrell, Portland, photog rapher, and Capt. John Brown, Ontario, commander of a heavy weapons company. . Portland (U.R) Richard R. Kidd, confessed Portland fire bug, has been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of un authorized use of two motor ve hicles. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY NOTICE COMMERCIAL SPRAYING ALL KINDS Ph. S-S379 WITHROW BUNDLES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS for salo 20c each Mall Tribune Office 27 North FIT ENROLL NOW for Sewing Class at Singer's Sew- ing Center. 318 E. Main. Ages 10-17. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for asonaay; other aays ao previous day. CALL LININGER'S I ii2 3 SL-. Commiserating I Ijl X W WT THE 8lOTrJEI? I Vg$V) f FijL MEMBERS WHOSE I ZXS I VSlf WIVES OOMTUNDEU- mam l-J-rs? $Sb'W? 'ifX?"" Ms3t)i :, Jv. T sgS c7 V'A a7 UCD DCT Orrr iff -n ir-vt-t4- -. i Ot-AJNIJS X IX MrTTU Nh X I X I DONT TAKE AW i MOST HEN- !tH" V LLS ME TWO j Y, INTEREST IN A PECKED GUVS tTS7il? ZT'X M0RE MEMBERS -rue ur. iccr- My BARRACUDA WILL BETAKING V- ""k -WEVWERE j ROOMS AT THE y ) rnrr r-nri referring v club- y f 'rmTO rw rr CELEBRATING AT NIGHT CLUB in Hollywood, Actress Leigh Snowden and Accordionist Dick Contino announce engagement. She Is wearing They plan to wed in fall. We Paint at Cost! ic INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR k HIGHEST QUALITY WORK 6-MONTH CREDIT PLAN FREE ESTIMATES Phone BRAUN -2-9114 - M Spectacular ': ; FIREWORKS I 'A A Sunday. June 24, 19SS By Jimmy Hatlo iHcr Kt JUST WMRM NS UP" I'M WCdmNfi POP MILO Tn fcXKLjUIN THAT PURPLE ErE . three -carat diamond ring. 1'nJrnoftoTiaJSoniplkt A'.1 mi 11 PP1" MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL- TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Hall Claims Health Issue Ineffective Washington U.PJ . Republi can National Chairman Leonard W. Hall said Friday the health issue will be ineffective if the Democrats try to exploit it against President Eisenhower in the 1956 campaign. Hall met with newsmen dur ing a break in an all-day meet ing of the GOP Arrangements Committee to complete plans for the Republican National Con vention beginning Aug. 20 in San Francisco. He said it is "not news' that the Democrats are trying to em phasize Mr. Eisenhower's heart attack and recent operation as a campaign issue. "It's apparent," he said, "they have been trying to find an is sue for the past two years and haven't found one." Lower Oregon Polio Toll Seen for 1956 Portland -U.R) It was pre dicted by two leading health ' authorities Friday that Oregon's i 1956 polio toll may be cut about I 50 per cent below the average of the past several years if Salk vaccinations continue at present high leyels. Dr. S. G. Babson, chairman of the state polio vaccine advisory committee, and Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, made the prediction in a letter to Oregon physicians. If the prediction is correct, Oregon can expect about 140 cases of paralytic polio this year compared to an average of 280 LdDCKS WAMTIEIID DOUGLAS FIR WHITE FIR GOOD PRICE GOOD SCALE STAGECOACH LUMBER CO. Inc. Galls Creek Road, Gold Hill Phone: Gold Hill 5-9291 Night Phone: Grants Pass Greenwood' 9-1 824 or Greenwood 6-7532 4? off JULY Aerial and Ground Display Senior Hi Stadium Adults 1.00 Children 50 YMCA CAMP BENEFIT Medford Mail Tribune Washington (U.PJ Edwin T. Forbes, president of the Western States Meat Packers Association, urged Congress Friday to prohib it big packers from handling other products and bar chain grocery stores from operating packing plants. cases a year since 1&50, the Stat Board of Health said. Dead Una for Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday PACIFIC, IMDUSTJUAL 16 S. Central Phone 1-1301 Be Choosy Buy Jacuzzi 1, H.P. Deap Q jtqq Well Pump 70 ij H. P. Shol- $QQ50 low Well Pump 07 WI GIVE S t H GREEN STAMPS SISKIYOU HARDWARE 225 Wert Main mm 123