European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Pogo 10 the stars and stripes a turd a. August i Corner by . Peterson sooner or later Ever collector comes across some Stamps that he just can t class Ify. They look hauntingly sin Ilar to other Stamps in his Al bum and they May be jus about but not quite identical to items listed in the Catalon which he is using. Chances Are High that the Stamps Are locals from Spanish civil War Days or from immediate Post War Ger Many from China in the mid 1940s or fro m similar area where there was political unrest and confusion. Local issues Are exactly what the designation implies Stamps which Are put out Bya City county or state to serve As Basic or supplementary Post age within that local area. The most f a m o  american examples of locals Are the Post masters provisional which were released in 1845-47 before any uniform . Postage Stamps were printed. Most countries have similar Earl issues which served until the Central government took Over full authority for mail delivery and stamp production. War time and postwar local issues Are generally Short lived. Cities such As Falken Stadt Gorlitz and Cottbus found they had no valid postage Stamps at the end of world War ii. The allies had had no time to Issue Stamps but the for Mer German Stamps of the third Reich had been declared invalid. The Only solutions were to Send mail without Stamps or to produce local  local products ranged from mimeographed labels to Well designed printed Stamps in Many cases the former Ger Man issues were overprinted to Block out Hitler s portrait and other symbols of the  period. Upon establishment of four Power postal control use of the local issues  locals have been produced during revolutions again where no Central authority was exercising postal control. The locals and provision als issued under the above conditions Are eminently collectable. While they might not be found in All of the general Cata logs they Are usually Given full listing in Cata logs of the countries concerned. The Early provisional Are quite expensive whether in mint or used condition. The later issues Are usually of Little monetary value in mint Condi Tion but command a very Good Price if they have been authentically used. Some locals have been called Forth simply because the Cen trial government has no postal service to the particular  Channel islands of ileum Guernsey and Sark Are examples where mail must be carried from the islands to the Mainland before it can be con signed to the British mail sys tem. These islands have All issued their own Stamps. The issues Are not Reco Nied As legitimate postage by great Britain so All Island mail must be fully franked with British postage in addition to the locals. In a less a Kious vk1n,individuals have taken advantage of regulations to Issue heir own Stamps for local courier service. Herman Ilert Al one of the Deans of . Spec Ali of dealers has Long franked his mail with Al Fie Stamps recognizing the postal duty provided by his dog. Alfie carries the Herst mail to and from the Shrub . Post office through rain and Snow and dark of night. The Rattlesnake Island local Post was founded in 1966, since the . Post office depart ment had no service to the is land. Three issues have Bee printed the last Issue in july 1968, includes a five cent Post card stamp a ten cent letter stamp and a parcel Post value. The Stamps show wild life of the Island and Are Tri angular in shape to comply with regulations that they be readily distinguishable from . Issues. These Stamps Are used to carry mail by Ford Tri motor air plane to the main land at port Clinton Ohio. The american collecting Public got a new stamp Catalon last year the Long awaited . Version of the Stanley Gibbons Book. Since the Catalon numbers in the Gib Bons Whitman reference Are Dif Ferent from those of the Previ Ous Standard the Scott Catalon there has naturally been some confusion in stamp identification depending on which Book was being used. A comparison list is now available which lists All . Issues carried by the two Cata logs and correlates the two numbering systems. Copies of the list Are available free of charge at stamp dealers shops in the . Overseas collect ors May obtain their free copies from the Whitman publishing co 1220 Mound a Racine wis. R,3404. This is my last column for stars and stripes be cause of reassignment Back to the . I Hope that readers have enjoyed the columns and Learned from them As much As i be enjoyed and Learned by writing them. As one last hit of advice i give you the philatelists s epitaph old stamp col lectors never die they just come  for crying in the grog will you please quit wasting valuable newspaper space on those Squirrel teen age  kids who write have a Dif Ferent beef every five minutes especially the girls they sound As if the world is coming to an end. I la bet by the time their letters appear in print they have forgotten who the Clown was they were writing  the past two weeks i be read nonsense from a Sitter who complained about not getting horizontal. Father b. Male swan8. Money 32. Sweet sop 13. Color14. Recorded proceedings 15. Type 10. Greek letter 17. Blemish18. Jets 20. Innate disposition 22. Three toe sloths 23. Conjunction 24. Toreador opponent 27. Poisonous Plant 32. Hebrew priest 33. Exist34. Metal 35. Dissertations 38. Marshes 39. Spread hay40. Article 42. Beliefs 45. Assignment49,Turner 50. Kimonos Ash 52. Commotion53. Hebrew measure54. Males 55. God of love56. Sailors 57. Ovxim58. Scarce 2 3, vertical1. Mountain defile above South american country4. Starlike 5. Castle or Bishop 8 not at Home 7. Vegetable answer to yesterday s Puzzle. Arr e time of Lulu Lon m my nuts. 8. Twin of Pollux 9. Corre Tjo. Heavenly body 11. Rabbit10. Note in scale 21. Conjunction24. Household need25. Rubber tree 26. One of a audience 28. Skill 20. A Bab Bird 30. Relative31. Being 36. Trees 37. Fuss38. Ulcerated 41. Pronoun42. Coagulate 43. Incarnation of Vishnu 44. Any46. Wading bird47. Smell 48. Olfactory Organ 51. Plead 15 in 14 41 49 5b is 43 Zoe v 37 Byj 44 so 54 57 51 20 40 45 41 6 14 17 52 55 14 10 to 47 m in fed while on the from a in All the time if fir nah j Iff. F Fryou be also printed 0h, 1%kids whose friends Froni i lifters and smoke  should not we. Your column. Zitnak s writer feel important la please use i adults who be your help a themselves besides fable Don t listen to y n  i no dear s e i a thanks for Poi roof i. Mere s Soin i m a teen Railei like to make a Reque Ann make sure then one teen at a Prole column every Day Are faithful readers we of passed Over we feel very a in nored. Many Leen a its h to confide in your a wonderful place without fear of embarrassment Wea lot from the kids made mistakes and say so. So  attention to a need Yon Tel k Yot St. Is All in you we tee and a a no one column isto unload Union orals learn who have written to i Ann we really  to i e a is we rent everything dear True i can t Promise but i will to to publish one teen Aye letter every Day. Thanks for sour of of conf Deuce. I just read the letter from the wife who complained be cause she and her husband must .140 visit her 79-year-old Mother in Law several times a  she said the old lad lives 140 Miles away and the trips Are a bk1. Fat bore. My Mother in Law lives two blocks away and she drives me Ami my husband nuts. She thinks nothing of telephoning at7 in in the morn ii and Askin him to Moel it a pint of cof fee Cream or a Leaf of bread. And no Mattit there she a. He has to Dri i her.1 Hope the Oman who complained sees Liis letter and  How Hek she is. I d be Happy to \ 11 her mothering Law several tunes a year if she d play Handmaiden to my Mother in Law around the Chut wok not t dear worn a or i can t a Ranye the a ilex it thanks Lor writing. I already checked Tosee if they d rent a boy to take Baths for us v p o g o sax Nipper i wonder if.,.