European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Atuf a of font motion Puuri Siulc Flore a Miracle Sophia Loren gets a Chance to marry Omar Sharif who plays a persistent Prince woo ing a peasant girl in this whimsical and sophisticated comedy if she can win in a hilarious dish washing con test. Even treachery fails to keep her from winning. F Isabella Sophia Loren is washing dishes to decide her fare in Matrimony. The ambushed world conquerors in Acapulco Hijack a revolutionary new american outer space Craft a flying Saucer. Dean Martin As Matt Helm uses unusual weapons and gadgetry to recover the Craft. M Senta Berger comforts Dean Martin. Other films scheduled for release next week Gigi Leslie Caron plays a Lovely but naive parisian ass who has to find what love is All about the hard Way in the return of this musical comedy. Also starring Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jordan. M the venetian affair the bombing of a peace conference in Venice kills 12 delegates and the bomber. Robert Vaughn enters the Case because his wife is believed to be involved in the plot. The dirty business of cold War espionage envelops Vaughn As retries to solve the Puzzle of political mass murder. With Elke Sommer and Boris Karloff. Revival. My the upper Hani the Boss of a powerful Ameri can crime Syndicate tries to muscle in on a Large european smuggling ring. The fireworks turn into Athree Way War when a . Treasury agent moves in to expose both gangs. Jean Cabin George raft and Jert Frobe Star. M the stars and stripes Corner by c. 1. Peterson be of the Many specially areas open to  Stamps this is a particularly enjoyable Uttz to since it s  v l9collectors can spend As much time on research organize to. Material in whatever Way they choose and limit or exo Andi collection As time and Money permit. Material is plenty in most cases inexpensive. Collectors of . Stamps Haveous Precancel in their albums whether or not they realize it Precan eled Stamps were introduced by postal authority i save time and Effort in handling bulk and business is j stamp is cancelled by or with permission of postal authority before the mail is delivered to the Post office. The great it maims of these Stimps Are actually cancelled at the same time Are printed. T Large bulk mail users were Given somewhat favourable Raf with the condition that mail is pre cancelled before consigning to local Post offices. Printed permits and postage meters replaced pre cancelled Stamps to a Large degree but the Precan celled Stamps Are being used still. . Precancel Date Back to very Early issues when tie were produced by some of the local postmasters with various methods of printing or stamping the practice developed rapidly until in 1903, postal authorities officially sanctioned their use. At this time recommendations were made that a Standard Precan format be adopted with City and state designation in two lines and Plain lines or bars above and  or City Type Precancel flourished during the period 190 to 1923. These consisted of cancellations applied locally by postal employees or by contract printers when Large quantities were needed. Almost any stamp from that period can be found pre cancelled High and Low values of regular issues Commemorac lives air mails postage dues and parcel Post Bureau prints came into being in 1923. It was More Economy Al to have the Bureau of engraving and printing Precancel stamp sin sheets at the time the Stamps were being printed. A Post office has to order at least 500,000 copies of any stamp printed in Sheet form 250,000 if in Coil format in order to obtain Bureau Precan Selling. Those Post offices requiring lesser quantities continue to Precancel locally. Bureau prints Are the most popular issues for collectors since they Are More clearly printed appear in much larger quantities and can be considered government issues where others  mail order houses have also received permission to have individual Stamps pre cancelled at local postal facilities. These companies often receive postage Stamps in payment and in order to comply with the bulk mailing requirements they have these Stamps pre cancelled one by  1938, the Post office department added the requirement that users show their initials together with the month and year. This step was taken to prevent unscrupulous individuals from soaking off the Precancel and using them Over again. Thus Many of we mail order parcels received from the United states have a pre cancel plus Date and Sec or  Lull there Are Many ways to form a Precancel collection. In i w beginning of course collectors should keep All the Precancel a we find until they finally decide upon their ultimate  stick to bureaus attempting to build a collection Ione of each Bureau Issue for each town. Since there were � least 500,000 of each these issues Ore for the most part very inexpensive and relatively easy to find. To others try for a towns and types collection attempting to a a copy of every Type of pre cancellation used by one or particular towns or states. ,. A further method is to build a synoptic collection entails showing one copy of every major Issue of Ine us states including Watermark varieties. This is the exact oppo Kwof the towns and types collection. In synoptic collect we the stamp is All important and any Type or locale of Preca inc i do in the other the Type is the significant Factor regu Diess what stamp it May be   collecting has been with us since need 1920s. One of the collecting pioneers who has made to lib life Long specially is recommended for readers a Teresita in u n a detailed information and for those who would like n a Jon Precancel prices Swap possibilities and organized p new collectors groups a. Gunesch . Box 43, Roselle 111. By Fly Dother countries have found pre cancelling a useful s Biu Precancel can be found from Canada France be Giuin , the Netherlands and Hungary. Since � fam sized and quite localized interest the Best sources 10 i information on foreign Precancel Are the collectors kit la countries themselves. Saturday april 20, 1968