Thurmtoy, April 22. 1962
Stamps Featured
By Postmaster
James M. Bond.
' Wife the issue of a new
block 1 of stamps featuring
the qfficial bird and flower
of enbh of the 50 Uidted
Stated; the Postal'Service is
higfilightin g s one
but lesser
known, slices of Americana.
new stamps, which
come m panes of 50, bear the
{lass postage
tkmof 20 cents,
e issued April 14.
p designs are the
te first father-and
-1 ever to design
stamps - Arthur
d his son Alan,
state legislatures
onsiderable effort
the appropriate
lower to represent
e. Some appointed
commissions to
research the question.
Oth&rs left the selection to a
voty of school children.
Several went to civic
-grows, garden chibs or
stays Audubon societies.
Anq others surveyed all of
One adopted
its Jujed and flower after
recSdng ballots published
in syewspaper back in 1894.
ESorts taken to select and
profcct state birds and
floors offer interesting
insists into a unique aspect
of Anericana. Here are a
fewcjpxamples:
After a Colorado
legl|lature adopted the
colftnbine in 1899, the
subjpquent assembly of 1925
to protect the
flodjfcr from “needless
desteuction or waste.” They
pladnd bans on lacking and
selling columbines.
Tm 1918 legislature of
was also
seri&s about protecting its
mayflowers. It not only
impqaed a SSO fine for the
unlawful uprooting of the
plaift it doubled that
penny if a person per
petrfted such an act “while
in cfiguise or secretly at
A devastating invasion of
cropfiobbling crickets in the
late ftß4os apparently -4a—«-
n«|edut,h7Soii<Wor
ite %jbols. •
whoeebulbous roots served
as food during the crop
| shortages, was designated
the state flower. The
California seagull, which
miraculously appeared to
eat the invading crickets,
was subsequently selected
as the official bird.
Ohio designated the
scarlet carnation in tribute
to an assassinated
president. In 1904, the
legislature made its
selection “as a token of love
and reverence to the
memory of William
McKinley,” who was fond of
the flower.
The similarity between
the yellowhammer’s colors
and the gray-with-yellow
stripe uniforms Confederate
soldiers wore in the Civil
War is believed to have led
its selection as Alabama’s
state lard.
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Fishing Forecast
WITN-TV Inaugurates
Fishing Reports
WASHINGTON, N.C. -
WITN-TV has begun a
unique service for fishing
enthusiasts with two reports
from the coast each week
and a daily fishing forecast.
TV-7’s ALMANAC, seen
weekdays from 6 to 7 A.M.
will have a fishing report
from Nags Head on Wed
nesday mornings and from
Harters Island on Thursday
mornings.
A fishing forecast will be
part of each weathercast
weekdays in ALMANAC and
Monday - through Saturday
at 6 and 11 P.M. in
eyeWlTNess News. The
fishing forecast will
graphically display the best
time to plan to fish the next
~ day and over the weekend.
Picking the right spot and
time for fishing is up to the
individual, but TV-7 can
help with the where and the
when on it’s fishing report
and ftshfeg forecaster.
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fui for Ifni' liMHhood,
put mice in the boats to
destroy ’ the mail; thus,
0 no further attempt to ip
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