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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1960)
Better than aspirin -even aspirin with buffering for ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY-VOIE MARITIME DU ST IAURENT TEHEraO C ME Y00 c AN A D A REGULAR SEEN in im I iM3ynn-lSn03WUIWW3IOA-AVMV3S 30N3MMVT1S INVERT by Jerry Klein Because of a freak printing error, this 5-cent stamp is worth up to $2,500 Do you have one of the postage stamps shown (in enlargement) above? If you do, or can find one, you'll be a lot richer. The stamp was issued by Canada last June to mark the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway but, through a printing error, some of them came off the presses topsy-turvy. Such specimens, originally worth five cents, may now fetch as much as $2,500. The excitement started the day an office boy named Ernest Slutchuk went to a post office in Ottawa to buy some stamps. When he returned to work, it was noticed that the blue eagle and maple leaf in the center of some of the stamps were printed upside down from the red lettering which appears at the top and bottom. Soon there was a scramble to post offices. Some similar misprints were found in Win nipeg and Picton, but elsewhere postal offi cials located and promptly withdrew the rare and valuable inverts. Canada issued 40 million of these Seaway stamps, but so far only 58 of the freak speci mens are believed to have been discovered six of them after being used on letters. No doubt there are others waiting to be found. (The United States issued 120 million of these same stamps in a four-cent denomina tion, but so far no misprints have occurred.) Rich rewards have gone to those lucky enough to find one of the errors. The Ottawa office boy who started the furor is reported to have received $3,500 for one, while a sec retary in the same office is said to have suc cessfully held out for $5,500. Currently, a perfect unused copy is quoted in Canada at $2,500. Gimbels, a New York department store, claims to have cornered the only copy in America but offers to part with it at the bargain-basement price of $1,000 because the specimen isn't in perfect condition. Used copies carry a $500 price tag. Because the stamps are in two colors, they go through two presses. The upside-down effect apparently was the result of a print ing pressman feeding the paper into one press the wrong way. Although Canada has been printing post age stamps for more than a century, only three times previously had so serious a blunder gotten into circulation. Canadian Postmaster General W. M. Hamilton asserts: "I do not expect it to occur again!" Family Weekly, January 17, I960 Acts instantly to Give More Complete Pain Relief - ) 0 t ' fc J How Tension &A Headaches i k Start i v L r- r 1 Tension builds up in neck and scalp muscles .0 . . . puts painful pres sure on nerves 0 Tension and pressure cause headache pain. Anacin contains' spe cial medication (not found in aspirin or any buffered aspirin) to relax tension, release pressure and relieve pain fast. ANACIN relaxes tension, releases pressure, relieves pain fast! Tense, nervous headaches need the special medication in Anacin. Mere aspirin or even aspirin with buffer ing contains only one pain reliever and no special medication to relieve nervous tension. But Anacin con tains a number of medically proven ingredients each with a specific purpose. Anacin not only relieves pain incredibly fast but also con tains special medication to relax tension, release painful pressure on nerves assuring a better 'total' effect more complete relief from pain. Anacin Tablets are safer, too. They have a smoother action and do not upset the stomach. Buy .Anacin today. 3 out ot 4 doctors recommend the ingredients in. FAST PAIN RELIEF NEURALGIA NEURITIS
