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PAGE 8 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1958 "5 a n r "n n n UHtbUN 1859 STATEHOOD 1959 n 1 tL OREGON CENTENNIAL STAMP will go on sale February 14, 1959 at Astoria. It was designed by Robert Hallock of Newtown, Connecticut. It will be printed in blue-green color and initial printing will consist of 120 million stamps, Oregon Centennial Siamp Slated For February Sale The four-cent Oregon Statehood Centennial commemorative, to be placed on sale February 14 at As toria, will symbolize the end of the long overland trek of its orig inal settlers, according to Post master General Arthur E. Summerfield. Robert Hallock of Newton, Con necticut, is the artist who designed the forthcoming commemorative (tamp. It emphasizes a rear view of an unhorsed covered wagon, . typical of those used over the Ore gon Trail by the early settlers. The stamp design depicts the : covered wagon in the center with Mount Hood to the right. The ter rain slopes to the left, or west, meeting the Pacific Ocean. The new stamp, measuring 0.84 by 1.44 inches, arranged horizon tally, will be printed in a blue- green color in sheets of .ill. elec tric-eye perforated and printed by the rotary process. An initial printing of 120 million has been . authorized. Collectors desiring first day can cellations may send addressed en velopes to the Postmasler, Astor- : la, Oregon, wilh remittdnce to . California Weather United Press International San Francisco Bay Area: Fair today with some high cloudiness, cloudy tonight and occasional light rain Saturday: high today 62-67; low tonight 43-52; gentle winds be- coming southerly 8-15 m.p.h. Sat urday; ram probability 30 per cent tonight and 70 per cent Sat urday. Ml. S!ii,sta-S I s k 1 y o u area: cloudy today: occasional rain be ginning late tonight and continu ing baturday except snow above 8,000 feet; cooler Saturday. Sierra Nevada: Mosllv fair In- day and tonight; cloudy Saturday with occasional rain Yosemitc northward late in day; cooler northern ranges Saturday, x Sacramento Valley: Fair with .variable nigh cloudiness today: in creasing cloudiness tonight: cloudy Saturday with occasional rain likely most of valley by late in day: rnnler SalnrHav hint, in. day 65-7(1, Saturday 60-65; low to night 42-46: gentle winds becoin . Ing southerly 10-15 m.p.h Satur day. San Joaquin Valley: Fair today and tonight; cloudy Saturday with occiasional very light rain possible : from Stockton northward: slightly cooler: high both days 63-68; gen tle winds. Northwestern California: Low overcast near coast and high cloudiness inland today; cloudv tonight wilh occasional rain Fort Bragg northward beginning during the night and spreading to entire area by Saturday afternoon; slighlly cooler inland: high today and low tonight Napa 66-46, Ukiaii 65-45, Santa Rosa 66-45; coastal winds southerly increasing to 15 30 m.p.h. Saturday. cover the cost of Ihe stamps to be affixed. An enclosure of med ium weight should be placed in each envelope and the flap either turned in or scaled. I lie outside envelope to the postmaster should be endorsed "First Day Covers Oregon Statehood Stamp." Oregon was named for its great est river, now the Columbia, which was called the Ouragan by Ihe Indians, In area it ranks ninth having 96,315 square mMes. Its first explorers landed in 1788, from boat commanded by Robert Grav of Boston. The first actual settle ment was at Astoria, by John Jacob Astor s fur trading company, in inn. In 1848 Oregon was made a ter ritory, and 11 years later it be came a stale. Its first canital was Oregon City and later Salem. II is interesting to note that the Oregon Trail stretched across Ihe country for roughly 2,000 miles n uegan at independence. Missour; crossed the Rocky Mountains, and enaea at wnat is now Vancouver, in the state of Washington. The beginnings of Ihe Oreoon Trail were blazed by Indians and lur trappers. The first explorer to travel over tne whole trail is be licved to be Nathaniel J. Wveth. 1832. Famous Letter Writer Schedules Retirement By II. D. Qt'lGG United Press International NEW YORK HPIi Sixly-one years a?o Virginia O Hanlon wrote one of the world's mosl famous letters. In it she asked Ihe question is there a Santa Claus? 'I am ready to retire," said Weather Table United Press International Temperatures and rainfall for 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. High Low Rain Albuquerque 58 32 Allanta 52 34 Boise 41 28 Boston . 31 25 Brownsville 74 53 Chicago 40 32 Denver ' " 59 39 Detroit 32 28 El Cenlro 70 42 Fairbanks -3 -10 Fort Worth 64 37 Fresno 65 31 Helena 50 29 Kansas Cily 55 39 Los Angeles 73 48 Miami 75 49 Minneapolis 37 20 New Orleans 66 40 ?4ew York 38 30 Oakland 72 53 Oklahoma City SI 39 Phoenix . ; 72 45 Pittsburgh 33 no Red Bluff 72 3) Reno . 60 17 . -Sacramento 64 37 Salt Lake City 48 25 San Diego 73 48 San Francisco . 66 52 Seattle 54 38 Spokane 37 32 ' Stockton . 67 32 Thermal 79 3 Tucson 79 42 Washington 42 25 Inquest Set For MacLaren SALEM (API An inquest to day is scheduled here in the case of a MacLaren School for Boys inmate who died after a fight. William James, , 16, Grants Pass, died Thursday as an ambu lance rushed him to a Portland hospital. School officials said James 11 hours earlier had been knocked down in a fight for an empty chair in a cottage at the Wood burn institution. An autopsy was held later Thursday, and coroner's deputy Lee Edwards said a skull frac ture and brain hem o r r h a c e caused death. School officials said James was knocked down while fighting with Donald Paul Long, 15, Toledo. Long had been sent to the school Nov. 14 after being arrest ed on a burglary charge. James was returned to the school' Nov. 10 after escaping earlier. Police also had arrested him on a burglary charge. The fight occurred Wednesday afternoon. Hours later the youth became ill. When he went into convulsions, James was rushed to Portland. Carpenter Dies In Stair Fall ATLANTA (API - An Atlanta carpenter fell down a flight of stairs Thursday night with an armful of Christmas decorations and was killed. He was H. Smiley Hanson Jr.. 39. Police said Hanson's head struck the stair steps and the floor. 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"Next July, I will be 70 years old, and I've been teaching in the New York public schools roughly 43 years. I intend to finish out the spring term. Retirement is man datory at 70." One short half-term as a junior principal and then retirement ' in a quiet apartment in Manhattan. Ihe island that has always been home for Mrs. Laura Virginia O Hanlon Douglas. She was born in Manhattan July 20, 1839. not far from the spot where Clement Clarke Moore wrote the verse that begins "Twas the Night Be fore Christmas." Her father. Dr. Philip -. F.i O'Hanlon, a physician and sur geon, later moved his family up town into a four-story brick- house with brownstone trimming at the front. Her room had a fireplace where she always hung a stock ing on Christmas Eve. The tree was in the parlor downstairs. "One of my earliest memories is of the sound of the bells on the sleighs outside a lovely sound in winter I'm sorry chil dren don't hear them now," she said. "And I still have the old fashioned ornaments we used on our Christmas tree. They are used to help decorate the tree df my seven grandchildren every year.'-' " One day. when Virginia O'Han lon was eight, she came ' home from Public School 93 with word that some of her little friends were saying there is no Santa Claus. She put it squarely up to tier tamer. "My dear father was always a great pal of mine. I felt he was being equivocal in the way he was answering he wasn't saying yes with conviction, and he wasn t aying no. I told him I was going lo ask our family newspaper, the Sun. Papa was delighted it was an out for him. Virginia got a sheet of the fam ily's best heavy writing paper. She went to her father's second floor office, took a stub pen, and wrote a letter starting "dear edi tor" and ending: "Please tell me Ihe truth, is there a Santa Claus?" The answer, an editorial writ ten by Francis B; Church in the Sun, has been reproduced all ov er the world and is held to be the most famous editorial article ever written. My family used to write the Sun about such things as pronun ciation of words," she said, "and when I wrote my letter I never! expected there'd be anything but a yes or no answer. "Our first word of the editorial came when a lovely gentleman. Mr. Matthews, an officer of the Actor a Fund, met my father and; said: 'Did you see today's, an swer to Virginia's letter?'" ! The famous answer assured1 Virginia, that there is indeed a Santa Claus "he exists as cer-l tainly as love and generosity and devotion exist... thank God . he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood." Mrs. Douglai smiled when asked if she ever met the author: "No, we never knew him, al- m the summer. 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