RMS BULLETIN NO. 573 March/April 2015

by Mike Prero

I happened to be looking over a 2003 article on RMS bulletins (―Our 500th Issue,‖ RMS Bulletin, Jan/Feb 2003), and the parts on bulletin content seemed ripe for an update. The bulletins have certainly varied over the years...in length, format, and content.

To get us started, here are those parts of the original article:

―Despite a spate of Bulletins in the early 1990s which had a lot of wasted space, maximum use of space has been characteristic of the Bulletin over the years .. . and well it should be; the Bulletin is the single biggest expense that RMS has. We'd better darn well cram as much on those pages as is reasonable. Font size has usually been 12 pt, but often 10, and sometimes even 8 can be seen.

But, content overshadows everything else, and when thumbing through earlier Bulletins, say up to the 1980s, one notices three glaring differences: relatively few lists from 1957-early 1980s, few cover pictures until at least the latter 1970s (but you might expect that because the lack of technology), and a rather astoundingly small percentage of cover/collecting information, again from 1957 through the 1980s, although this begins to gradually climb beginning in 1984.

Here's a content analysis of Bulletins every four years, starting from 1944. Trying to be consistent, I used the first two issues of the year, purposely avoiding the post-August 'Convention issues' so the results would not be unduly skewed. Even still, I had to make a few adjustments as to which issues were analyzed; for example, the January 1944 Letter contains a long eulogy to RMS President Bob Lockard, so I substituted the March issue. The percentages represent how much of those bulletins were devoted to the topic noted at the top of the column.

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The President’s Message

I've been in Florida for two weeks now and missing the weather up north. Plans for the various upcoming swapfests and the RMS convention are proceeding. If you are interested in attending the Southern Swapfest, you'll have to get busy and make your reservations for the hotel and register for this event in March; cutoffs are in February. After that, it will be AMCAL and the Trans Canada swapfests. I can attest to the great time to be had with our friends in the North. These two events are at the end of April. Up next is the UES to be held in June. Once again, speaking from personal experience, this is a great gathering to attend. And last but not least is the RMS convention to be held in Bethlehem, PA, in August. Please make your reservations and register for this annual convention as soon as possible.

RMS President, Carry Van Tol

THE RMS BULLETIN

Category Dilemma !! The RMS Bulletin is a bimonthly publication of the Rathkamp Matchcover Society. RMS dues are $20 by Ed Wright (single), $25 (single) for Canada and $35 (single) for overseas. Add. family members are $4 each. Dues are to be submitted to Treasurer. All articles, Deciding where to place matchcovers that fall into advertisements, comments, and letters should be sent multiple categories, especially when you have only to the Editor. Publication dates are: Sept., Nov., Jan, one example, can be a challenge. The covers shown, Mar., May, and Jul. Deadline for all submissions is 30 which would fit easily into ‗Vending Machines‘ / days before the publication month. This publication is ‗Tobacco –Cigarettes‘ / ‗Safety First‘ & ‗Little known owned by the Rathkamp Matchcover Society and is manumarks‘ was for me quite stressful. made available for public distribution through first class (Canadian and overseas) and bulk mail rates. At first glance the similar design, set-up and footer suggested the same manufacturer, but the manumarks RMS WEB SITE: http://www.matchcover.org inferred this was not so. Is it possible that: RMS OFFICERS (2014-2016): ADVERTIZIT MATCH CO. and MANHATTAN

MATCH CO. both of Newark, N.J. are one and the President: Carry Van Tol, 402 Cowan Dr., Elizabeth, same? Perhaps one of our New Jersey collectors can PA 15037 E-Mail: [email protected] supply the answer, to help me decide. 1st V.P.: Marc Edelman, 8822 Hargrave St., Philadelphia, PA 19152-1511 E-Mail: On line research of the U.S. Census of 1940 shows [email protected] Myron S. Hillman as Manager of a Vending Machine 2nd V.P.: Nancy Smith, 3810 Edinburg Dr., Co. so we can at least date the right hand cover as Murrysville, PA 15668-1060 circa 1940‘s. The Manhattan Match Co. is known to Secretary: Shirley Sayers, 1290 Corporation St., have been in business circa 1936-48, which puts the Beaver, PA 15009 [email protected] Membership/Treasurer: Terry Rowe, 1509 S. Dugan left hand cover in the same time frame. Apparently Rd., Urbana, OH 43078-9209 (937) 653-3947 only a hundred or so covers are listed by this E-mail: [email protected] company. Could this perhaps be a new one? Editor: Mike Prero, 12659 Eckard Way Auburn, CA 95603 E-mail: [email protected] RMS Bulletin May/JuneMarch/April 1996, 2015 No., No. 460 5 73 3 3

Year Editor # of Cover/ Social RMS Ads Letters Other pages Collecting Info Business To Ed Club Info Info

1944 Perkins 4 37.5% 5.0% 46.3% 0.0% 11.3% 0.0% 1948 Rush 4 46.2% 11.2% 18.7% 23.8% 0.0% 0.0% 1952 Sprenkle 9-10 60.0% 5.0% 20.5% 15.5% 0.0% 1.0% 1956 Mensch 12 43.7% 1.6% 15.7% 35.4% 1.6% 1.6% 1960 Abbott 14 27.5% 30.0% 13.2% 23.5% 2.8% 2.8% 1964 Abbott 12 27.5% 33.8% 18.3% 17.9% 0.0% 2.5% 1968 Abbott 10 12.5% 14.5% 48.5% 21.0% 0.0% 3.5% 1972 Abbott 14-16 16.6% 11.7% 38.7% 28.3% 0.0% 4.7% 1976 Gosztyl- 12-20 34.3% 9.6% 25.1% 25.9% 0.0% 3.7% 1980 Gosztyla 12-18 11.9% 9.4% 33.9% 28.8% 6.9% 6.5% 1984 Hollmann 16 23.4% 6.5% 32.9% 30.5% 3.4% 3.1% 1988 Retskin 16 20.6% 9.8% 37.6% 25.9% 5.0% 1.2% 1992 Retskin 20 36.7% 5.2% 38.0% 8.7% 6.2% 5.0% 1996 Prero 24 65.8% 1.3% 24.6% 3.3% 3.3% 1.6% 2000 Prero 28 56.3% 2.3% 20.5% 7.8% 10.4% 3.2%

From 1960 to the early 1980s, it's pretty obvious, the "collecting" theme was almost uniformly lost, and the Bulletin simply became an instrument to hype club business, run ads, and to a lesser extent pass on social information...Look, for example, at this notice in the May 1962 Bulletin: "Unfortunately, due to several reports and, fortunately, due to the welcome many ads for this issue, we are unable to have a regular column on covers. "- that entire issue was all convention news, other RMS business, and ads. Not a single cover was even pictured anywhere! That issue took the "matchcover" right out of "matchcover" collecting! [In fairness, though, keep in mind that the "collecting theme" represents a bias of mine; the next Editor after me could have a completely different point of view. That's why I started off pointing out that the Bulletin is an extension of the Editor's personality and philosophy.]

In any event, later on, the late Kent Morris was certainly correct when he complained that the RMS Bulletin was basically pre-convention news from Feb-Aug and post-convention news from Sep- January. The Bulletin has always contained some convention news during the year, and that's certainly to be expected, but such coverage became an obsession in the 1960s and 1970s. As an example of this "convention mania," just look at the front page headlines from 4 consecutive bulletins in 1977 (May/ June, July/August, September/October, and November/December): "R.M.S. Convention," "R.M.S. Convention," "Post-Convention News," and "Convention Cover News." With billions of covers in existence and the entire world to canvas, the convention overshadowed everything. [Readers should be aware that some RMS business 'stuff „is mandated in the Bulletin. The Editor has to run some publicity for the convention, the display rules, Outstanding Collector of the Year rules, Hall of Fame announcements, amendments to the constitution, membership information, etc.]

There have been a number of controversies over the years regarding the Bulletin. At the 1961 convention, for example, it had been moved during the business meeting that the Editor receive an annual $175 compensation for work on the Bulletin. At that point, one Earl Scott asked from the audience "what will we get for the $175?" A long discussion followed and the motion was eventually voted down. Scott thought his actions were misrepresented in the following November Bulletin 4 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 editorial. He wrote a rather scathing letter which was printed in the January 1962 Bulletin and answered by the Ed., etc. Most problems dealt with content, though. In the June 1960 Bulletin, for example, Ed. Ernestine Abbott notes that she's received multiple complaints about the minimum coverage given to covers, and her answer was that she wasn't getting enough reader input [Any editor today will tell you if he or she relied on reader input, bulletins would be basically blank! On the other hand, we, as editors today, have much more information and sources to draw upon.]

By the mid-1960s, in fact, there were so many complaints about running complete newspaper articles (instead of summarizing them) [and there were a lot of newspaper articles about collectors run in the early 1960s Bulletins], s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g text simply to fill space, all the space given over to advertising, and having a 'split' bulletin (part for the serious collector and part for the social collector), and more, that from Oct. 1965 - Mar. 1966, a Bulletin Committee actually investigated such complaints, and it was concluded that some were justifiable and some were just personal grudges [and notice how the social content of the Bulletin was drastically reduced right after that]. . Notice, also, how much ad space there was in pre-1992 issues compared to later Bulletins. The 1960s and 1970s were the high point of the big advertisers: Hobbymaster, Beachcraft, and Frank Tripodi. Tripodi's ads, especially, usually ran from 3-7 pages! Also, since at least 1990, membership has been steadily declining, so we see a corresponding decline in ads run [Now, 1 can't even get people to run ads in our "Free Ad" issue each January!]. Personally, I wouldn't want to see a return to Bulletins which were so heavily laden with ads.

And, as far as the incredible amount of space devoted to 'RMS business,' aside from the convention coverage running amuck in the 1960s and 1970s especially, a 'dubious' advantage that I have as the current editor is that I don't have to deal with lengthy lists of new members! When RMS membership was at its highest in the 1980s, the membership report in each issue would run from 2-4 pages! Now, it runs one.

In defense of earlier Editors [if they need any defense], we later Editors have significantly more room to play around with, and it's incredibly easier now to find good 'collecting' information with such things as the internet, scans, and e-mail. When I'm working on an article, for example, and I get stuck because I don't have the appropriate covers or all the appropriate information to pass on to readers, I just e-mail some knowledgeable collectors, and within an hour or two I have what I need!

This surge in technology that has occurred in the last 10-20 years, aside from making a nicer looking Bulletin possible, has made it much easier to compile lists, and store and retrieve information (thanks to the pc); communication between other collectors (i.e., sharing news, etc) has been greatly enhanced (thanks to e-mail); and the world's information is literally at our fingertips now (thanks to the internet).

Well I've saved the most controversial item for last [so I can hit and RUN!!]. Now, mind, I say the following in neither positive nor negative terms; it is not presented with any particular derogatory purpose in mind; I merely present it as 'food for thought,' a neutral observation based on a very glaring fact [notice how I'm making sure all of my escape routes are in place before I make said observation].

I simply find it interesting that the highest amount of social content and the longest sustained period of low collecting content both come from the only female editor that we've ever had ...[Oh! You sexist, male, chauvinist PIG!] OK, crucify me! That's what the stats show! I hasten to point out, though, that one couldn't draw any valid conclusions from that fact, simply because it's only based on one female editor, and one is not a valid sampling of anything. Ergo, no conclusions are possible. I merely thought RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 5 it was interesting...‖

All of the above was written in 2002. In the ensuing 13 years, a few bulletin factors have changed, the most notable being that the bulletin has expanded to 32 pages, a far cry from the original 4 pages in 1944. But, first here‘s an update of the previous statistical chart:

Year Editor # of Cover/ Social RMS Ads Letters Other pages Collecting Info Business To Ed Club Info Info

2000 Prero 28 56.3% 2.3% 20.5% 7.8% 10.4% 3.2% 2004 Prero 32 66.7% 5.0% 13.9% 3.5% 6.6% 4.1% 2008 Prero 32 67.8% 1.6% 12.1% 4.5% 6.4% 6.6% 2012 Prero 32 68.7% 4.4% 9.3% 6.4% 7.0% 5.1%

Notice the jump in Cover/Collecting Info after 2000. That‘s a direct result of the additional 4 pages added to the previous 28-page format, although some of those extra pages sometimes have to be used for convention ads and information. For example, in this issue we have the registration form for this year‘s RMS Convention.

The decline in space given over to ads from the 1996 stats onwards is a result of the shrinking membership, and, I think, a resulting general apathy about running ads altogether. I often hear, ―No one‘s answered my ad,‖ but there are simply far fewer collectors today qualified to answer those ads. Still, ‗nothing ventured, nothing gained.‘ Advertising can‘t hurt, and classified ads are now free, so....

Complaints about the bulletin? Surprisingly, I‘ve gotten few over the years. With reference to bulletin content, There were two, both early on, and both having to do with emphasizing older covers too much. While not ignoring newer issues, I probably still do that, but my reasoning has always been that 1) older covers comprise the majority of the covers that have ever been issued; 2) older covers are just nicer; and 3) older covers have the nostalgia factor that strikes a chord in so many people, collectors and non-collectors alike.

Oddly enough, it was another complaint that eventually lead to the present 32-page format. When I first became editor, I was so intent on cramming the bulletin with information that I did my first couple of issues in 10 pt. font. Well, that didn‘t go over too well, and I remember at AMCAL the RMS President took me aside and explained that older readers were complaining that they couldn‘t read the bulletin because the type was too small! I explained that I needed more room, and either I asked for more pages or I was offered more pages...and voilá! Our present 32-page bulletin became a reality.

The advent of e-mail and the internet has made the e-bulletin possible. I‘ve talked at length before on the advantages of the e-bulletin, but one of those advantages is a format change that‘s appropriate for our discussion here...e-bulletins are in color! What a difference color makes in the bulletin! When I think of all the beautiful covers I‘ve run over the years only to be eventually seen in drab black and white, I just want to cry! And, depending on how the printer runs off those bulletins, those drab black & white photos are often too dark or too light. Not a problem with e-bulletins!

Thus, the bulletins have evolved and adapted over the last 73 years, and I‘m sure they will continue to do so. As long as there are covers, there will be collectors, clubs...and bulletins. 6 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

2014 From Bangladesh I couldn‘t begin to tell you the name of this set! 8 boxes, each featuring a snack. [Thanks for these to our special overseas correspondent, Hans Everink, Netherlands]

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ebay Follies

MATCHBOOK @@ SHERATON HOTEL & MOTOR INNS @@ WORLD WIDE @@ FRONT STRIKE @@

January 1st, 2015. $5.95 was asking price for this common, struck, national matchbook.

By the way, what‟s the most overused word relating to ebay matchcovers? ...... “Vintage”

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Approved Match No. 7 Footer

John Mathot, CA, sent this in, noting that all the Approved Match No. 7‘s he‘s seen have a SAFETY FIRST footer. This one has Close Cover Before Striking Match.

Ed. According to Bob Oliver‟s listing of Diamond manumarks, there are three types of No. 7‟s:

Type #5 has no footer. Type #6 has Close Cover Before Striking Match as a footer. Type #7 Close Cover Before Striking Match with SAFET FIRST as a footer. ______Would You Eat At This Restaurant?

Cliff Denniss, CT, sent in the cover to the right. ______

More Internet Follies

Here‘s a bobtailed Kaeser & Blair Spur Cola cover offered at http://www.ydstore.com.

Asking Price：$199.83

NO.:418328

Date: January 19, 2015 8 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 United States Navy

Los Angeles Port of Embarkation

Today, yhe Port of Los Angeles (also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT L.A) is a port complex that occupies 7,500 acres of land and water along 43 mi of waterfront. The port is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles south of downtown LA.

The Port of Long Beach is adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles. The two ports compete for business, but cooperate regularly on various areas including security, infrastructure projects and environmental programs. Combined, the number of cargo containers shipped through the two ports rank as the world's sixth busiest port complex.

During World War II, the United States Military operated the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation in Wilmington, from which soldiers and sailors were sent abroad to battle zones. The LAPE was controlled by the San Francisco Port of Embarkation from its inception in 1942 until late 1943 when it became autonomous. The California Shipbuilding Corporation, famous for building victory ships during the war (although usually associated with Terminal Island), operated in Wilmington, as well.

78.58 acres was acquired by fee and permit for the LAPE Station Hospital, an off-post hospital facility that was used to care for Army personnel and their dependents. The medical buildings later became Los Angeles County Harbor General Hospital.

This black and white photograph shows a ship filled with returning soldiers and sailors from the South Pa- cific at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation in Wil- mington, California. The Port received over 100,000 returning servicemen in December, 1945. RMS Bulletin September/OctoberMarch/April 2015, No. 1996, 573 No. 462 9 9

American Snapshot: 1939 10 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

Whatever Happened to Aeroflot?

Remember Aeroflot? The rather ominous airline of the Soviet Union. What happened to it? Well...

Aeroflot is one of the oldest airlines in the world, tracing its history back to 1923. During the Soviet era, Aeroflot was the Soviet national airline and the largest airline in the world. Following the dissolution of the USSR, the carrier has been transformed from a state-run enterprise into a semi-privatized company which ranked 19th most profitable in the world in 2007. Aeroflot is still considered the de facto national airline of Russia. It is 51%-owned by the Russian Government. As of September 2013, the Aeroflot Group had 30,328 employees.

In February 2010, the Russia announced that all regional airlines owned by the state through the holding company Rostechnologii would be consolidated with the national carrier Aeroflot in order to increase the airlines' financial viability. The merger was completed in late November 2011 in a deal worth US $81 million. Aeroflot's sister company Aeroflot-Finance became the major shareholder of Vladivostok Avia, Saravia and Rossiya Airlines, and the sole shareholder of both SAT Airlines and Orenair.

In June 2013, during the World Airline Awards which took place at the 50th Le Bourget air show, Aeroflot was awarded the international prize as the best air carrier in Eastern Europe. In October, the company introduced an affiliated low-cost carrier (LCC), Dobrolet. It started in June 2014; it ceased on Why Did They Name It That? 4 August (owing to EU by Jimmie Close sanctions over launching flights to Germfask, Michigan: Over one years ago, there was a Crimea. In late place the locals referred to as the dump because it was August 2014, Aeroflot where loggers ‗dumped‘ logs into the Manistique River announced the launch before floating them to mills on Lake Michigan. Eventu- of a new LCC to ally, eight founding fathers met to establish a town. replace Dobrolet; the From the beginning, it had been decided that The Dump new LCC, named was not an appropriate name for a place to raise families Pobeda, started in and to conduct commerce. However, since each of the December 2014. founders felt so strongly about his own choice of what the name of the town should be, no consensus could be In March 2014, as a reached. response to 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Finally, there was a compromise. It was decided that the company the first letter of each founder‘s surname would be used announced rerouting to name the town, and ‗Germfask‘ was born. No one their flights to avoid could tell how it was determined that John Grant‘s name flying over the territory should be represented first in the new town name. of Ukraine.

RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 11 12 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 Chinese Restaurants RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 13 ....courtesy of Loren Moore, CA 14 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

AA

In post-Prohibition 1930s America, it was common to perceive alcoholism as a moral failing, and the medical profession standards of the time treated it as a condition that was likely incurable and lethal. Those without financial resources found help through state hospitals, the Salvation Army, or other charitable and religious groups. Those who could afford psychiatrists or hospitals were subjected to a treatment with Barbiturate and Belladonna known as "purge and puke" or were left in long-term asylum treatment.

The Oxford Group was a Christian fellowship founded by American Christian missionary Dr. Franklin Buchman, a Lutheran minister who had a conversion experience in 1908 in a chapel in Keswick, England. As a result of that experience, he founded a movement called A First Century Christian Fellowship in 1921, which had become known as the Oxford Group by 1931.

In his search for relief from his alcoholism, Bill Wilson, one of the two co-founders of AA, had joined The Oxford Group and learned their teachings. While Wilson later broke away from The Oxford Group, their teachings influenced the structure of Alcoholics Anonymous and many of the ideas that formed the foundation of AA's suggested twelve-step program. Later in life, Bill Wilson gave credit to the Oxford Group for saving his life.

As AA grew in size and popularity from over 100 members in 1939, other notable events in its history have included the following:

>1944 in June, AA Grapevine magazine was published containing first-person stories of AA members. Its slogan "an AA meeting in print" was adopted after receiving supportive letters from AA members in overseas military. >1945 AA adopted the AA Grapevine as its national journal. In 1946 in April, AA Grapevine first published the Twelve Traditions as Twelve Points to Assure Our Future. They were derived by Wilson from group letters to AA headquarters asking how to handle disputes over such issues as finance, publicity, and outside affiliations, and were intended to be guidelines on group conduct and avoiding controversy. >1949 AA Grapevine became the international journal of AA. >1949 A group of recovering alcoholics and AA members founded Hazelden Farm, a Minneapolis refuge and treatment center. Since then, 93 percent of alcohol rehabilitation clinics use AA concepts in their treatment. >By 1950, there were about 100,000 AA members. >1953 The Twelve Traditions were published in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. >1953 Narcotics Anonymous received permission from AA to use the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in its own program. >1955 estimated 150,000 AA members. >1971 Bill Wilson died. His last words to AA members were, "God bless you and Alcoholics Anonymous forever." >2001 estimated 2,000,000 or more members in 100,800 groups meeting in some 150 countries around the world. >2010 The TV movie When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story portrays the story of Lois and Bill Wilson, founders of Al-Anon and Alcoholics Anonymous. [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Alcoholics_Anonymous] RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 15 Club business. Cal-Neva Tahoe; Casinos; Found it A Peek At Other Bulletins [based on current issues on hand as of this writing] on ebay; auction, ads.

-Angelus MC: [Jan-Mar 2015] 12 pp+raffle and -San Diego MC: [Winter 2014] 8 pp. Club AMCAL Convention flyers. Club business, business. The Santa Monica Pier: Part I; The AMCAL 60; Wham Bam Thank You Ma‘am; Summit Inn: ―Top of the Cajon Pass;‖ Scenic Collecting Mark Twain; The History Detective; Highway U.S. 395; AMCAL 60. Auction, two raffles -Sierra-Diablo MC: [Feb 2015] 8-pages, full- -Denver Strikers MC: [Jan-Feb 2015] 4 pp., color (e-version), club business. Calendars; Port club business. Extra! Extra! Read All About It!; of Stockton; SS United States; Mermaids; Mt. Pine Cones; Fisk Tire Boy. Washington‘s Cog Railway; ads, auction.

-Empire MC: [Feb 2015] 8 pp., full-color. Club -Southeastern MC: [Winter 2014] 10 pp., full- business. A tribute To The King; What‘s New color (e-version). Club business. Meet the From The Planet Hollywood Hotel; A Very Collectors (Carol Ziegler); Southern Swapfest Interesting Disney Related Box; Cape May‘s Registration Form; Know Your Army Set; Know Congress Hall; Southern Swapfest Registration Your Nay Set; Know Your Marines Set. Form; AMCAL 60 Registration Form -Tobacco Club: [Jan 2015] 8 pp.+color insert+3 -Garden State MC: [Feb/Mar 2015] 8 pp. (2 covers. Club business. Misc finds. color). Club business. What‘s In Your Name?‖; President‘s Day; Valentine‘s Day; Saint Patrick‘s -Trans Canada MC: [Dec 2014] 10 pp., full- Day color (e-version). Club business. Cirque due Soleil; ebay; Canadian Grocer Ads; Hamilton -Girlie Club: [Jan 2015] 12 pp. Club Street Railway; What‘s New; Swapfest business+catalog supplements, auction. Singles Registration form; auction. supplement to #5803. Tri-State MC: [Mar 2015] 10 pp.+roster, -Huggable Bears MC: [Jan 2015] 8 pp. Club magazine format (2 color pages). Club business. business. Misc bear finds and bear cartoons Names To Describe Various Collectors; Dear Heloise. Auction -Lone Star MC: [Mar/Apr 2015] 8 pp., full-color (e-version). Club business. The Ahwahnee; -Windy City: [Jan/Feb 2015] 4 pp, (2 color) Handshaking; Dice; Serpent In Paradise; USS +roster. Club business. News, Views, & Etc.; Canberra; What‘s Goin‘ On Elsewhere, ads Catfish.

-Long Beach MC: [Dec 2014] 8 pp., club Classified Ads Available business. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year; On RMS Web Site Magazines; auction, raffle, drawing Only $10 will get you a 6-month classified ad -New Moon MLC: [Dec 2014] 9 pp., full-color on the RMS web site...literally worldwide expo- (e-version). Club business. Www. sure for your collecting wants, etc. Let people matchbooktrader.com; Milwaukee/Chicago know what you have and what‘s you‘re looking Boxes; Canadian Tobacco Boxes; box lists for. update; misc. finds. Send text and check (made out to RMS) to the -Pacific Northwest MCC: [Nov/Dec 2014] 8 pp. Ed. 16 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

Before the development of clearly defined ports, mariners were guided by fires built on hilltops. Since raising the fire would improve the visibility, placing the fire on a platform became a practice that led to the development of the lighthouse. In antiquity, the lighthouse functioned more as an entrance marker to ports than as a warning signal for reefs and promontories, unlike many modern lighthouses.

Lighthouse keepers may have added combustible liquids to reduce the expenditure on fuel and keep the light steady during gales, but little information exists from the time. Eventually, the light was protected from the wind by glass windows, and large mirrors assisted in projecting the light beam as far as possible. It is likely that lighthouses would have required considerable labor for transporting the fuel and maintaining the flame.

During the Middle Ages, Roman lighthouses fell into disuse, but some remained functional, such as the Farum Brigantium, now known as the Tower of Hercules, in Spain. As navigation improved, lighthouses gradually expanded into Western and Northern Europe. One of the oldest working lighthouses there is Hook Lighthouse at Hook Head in Ireland.

A century later, in the Late Middle Ages, a 40-foot tower was built by Edward the Black Prince at Cordouan near the Gironde estuary. One hundred years later, in 1581, a new one was built, finally completed in 1611. It RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 17 symbolized French maritime power and prestige. The interior had sumptuous king's apartments, decorated pillars and murals. Its upper level was rebuilt in 1788, and the lighthouse has remained active since.

Lighthouses have always had a special place Americana. The first lighthouse in what is now the US goes back to 1715, so the story of American lighthouses spans the entire history of the United States. Used as the setting in countless novels and films, lighthouses have come to represent romance, independence, and hardiness, although, because of their isolated locations, they have become a favorite setting for monster stories, as well.

The United States has had some 1,000 lighthouses. Michigan has the most of any state, with over 150 past and present. Since 1939, most lighthouses have been built and maintained by the Coast Guard. As their importance has declined (with the use of radar, etc.), and public interest declining as a result, the Coast Guard has been handing over ownership, and in some cases responsibility for running them, to other parties, mainly the National Park Service under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000. [en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/lighthouse]

Kathie Williman‘s, MD, collection numbered 807 as of October 2014. 18 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 [Please check the Mail Box column for answers on last issue‟s query on Lyle Douglas]

Hollywood

Canteen Set

Joe DeGennaro, NY: I have three different; each has a dif message from a star on the inside. I have: -Charles Ruggles -Joan Crawford -Jack Benny

Have you got any idea on how many different ones there were?

Ed. I‟ve never seen these before. Can anyone help us identify anymore of these celebrity covers? If anyone has a definitive answer, please let us know....And, if you have a question about a set or series, send in a clear pic and details, and we‟ll see what information we can garner from our readers.

Lion 1929...Canada - This was an old Lion Match Co. manumark. 792 covers are currently listed. These covers are typically well-made with crisp text and nice graphics. You won‘t see any hand-applied, slanted strikers here. Also, many, such as the cover pictured here, have no footer (no Close Cover Before Striking).

The ‗1929‘ date in the manumark, by the way, gives me the opportunity to clarify another point. A date in a manumark does not date the particular cover. Such a date only dates the copyright. Typically, cover production with that manumark proceeded at a later date. For example, there are nine Lion...1929 covers listed that are actually dated, and all those range from 1933-1941.

Similarly, Diamond‘s ‗Patented Sept. 27-1892‘ covers were actually produced from 1896-1909.

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Trans Canada Matchcover Club

The Trans Canada Matchcover Club is Canada‘s only remaining phillumenic organization. It was founded in 1962 in Hamilton, Ontario (south- eastern Canada). Canada was also home to the Phillu-Quebec, a club based in the province of Quebec that produced a bulletin printed in French but that club ceased operations in 2013.

The club meets once a year at its Swapfest that is annually held in May. An offshoot of the club (the Southern Ontario Matchcover Club) holds monthly meetings from September to Error Corner April (except in December) on the third Sunday of the month in Hamilton, Ontario.

The Trans Canada Matchcover Club has sponsored 5 RMS conventions: 1967 in Montreal, 1985 in Hamilton, 1993 in Kitchener, 2004 in Toronto and 2012 in Niagara Falls. In addition, our club is well represented at most match events in the United States. Annual dues are: Canada - $18, USA- $22, Overseas - $25 and $5 for internet membership. Its quarterly bulletin, the Saddle and Striker, is dedicated to the promotion of Canadian matchcovers. The bulletin features a mail auction, a ‗What‘s New‘ page, an ebay page and many topical Canadian stories that are deemed match related.

If you‘d like more information on the Trans Canada Matchcover Club, or would like to join up, contact: Larry Ziegler, President, 4019 Weimar Line, RR#3, Wellesley, ON, N0B 2T0 or Robert Bush, Vice President, 22 Abbotsford Trail, Hamilton, ON, L9B 2X8 [email protected] 1020 RMS Bulletin RMS September/October Bulletin March/April 1995, 2015 No., No. 456 5 73 interested in tackling the job? Are you coming The Mail Box to the convention? Very time consuming tasks, and we certainly don't have funds to pay people to Marc Edelman, PA: do the job, so naturally it comes down to Ref Bob Adsit‟s letter in volunteers. the last issue re RMS auctions...The biggest Back to the less people issue. Reserve bids, I problem we face with believe, were done earlier in RMS auctions but an dispersal is less people issue arose - that being, if an item with a reserve and more stuff - bid doesn't sell, should RMS not deserve the 20% obviously. And just consignment fee? Many balked at that idea. RMS because we like a certain theme or item doesn't is a conduit to sell, but does it not deserve that fee mean others will or do. When you say you for its time? collected without regard for monetary value, it seems you do now. I don't have an issue with that The Pacific Northwest club has run its club - it'd be nice for our collections to at least pay for auction on ebay for many years. I'm not privy as themselves. I'm not sure what you've put in to its success. The last time AMCAL was auction, or how it was presented. Themes often sponsored by Sierra-Diablo, advance bids and run hot & cold. When I came to RMS in the mid web-viewing were tried. Again, I don't know the 1980s, Holiday Inns were still a big item. Now success rate. But in either case, you need people you can buy boxes of them for peanuts. Another to do the work. No easy answers here, and maybe issue is the simple problem of less match more questions, but I understand you're thoughts production for new material to keep the current and frustration. interest of collectors. Loren Moore, CA: [Ref Mar Edelman‟s letter For many years now, I've gone to many club above] I can relate to Bob and Marc, but very meetings, shows, auction and markets looking for little is going to change. The hobby is focused on stuff - it's what I do 50 weeks out of the year. I'm #1-Conventions and #2-Freebie tables. Auctions aware of the large auction houses like Heritage only happen because a very few people are willing and how they do business. Heritage is a 1st class to put forth the effort. It‘s a lot of work for organization - but it is strictly a business. RMS pennies. on the other hand, is a volunteer organization. It's never been run like a business. There's never been In terms of AMCAL‘s on-line exposure, the few a cohesive attempt to do so, and most members collectors that participated loved it. The only care to use it as a venue for what they can get percentage of collectors participating was out of it. There's no interest in building a strong extremely low. Not worth the effort for the central core, like the Philatelic organization which enjoyment/benefit of so few. currently has its headquarters in an old match factory, of all places. To do so would mean more So where is everybody in the hobby...... What do funds and people to do the work. It's tough they want? Don‘t know the answer to that one, but enough trying to set dues at a level that would let acknowledging and putting an effort to preserve our club do outreach or any kind of permanent the history, culture and art of America in the 20th home base. God forbid we try to set dues at a level Century that matchcovers has highlighted does not which would accomplish this. We run like the appear to be a priority...... By individuals or RMS. post office in this regard - just cover printing and A sad situation.....We have everything...... and postage. nothing is being used. Kinda of like Marilynn Monroe being celibate. OK, not germane to the auction question. The largest problem is someone doing the work of Randy Waite, OH: Regarding your "error taking mail, phone or internet bids. Would you be RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 21 corner" in the last bulletin [p.19], I don't really Ed. Here are the stats: think that Swift and Company included a spelling error, if you are referring to "Employes' Day." Per 1942 - 64.9% 1986 - 22.3% 2004 - 23.6% every dictionary I've checked,a worker bee can be 1951 - 34.4% 1987 - 18.8% 2005 - 26.0% either an employee or an employe (in fact, my 1952 - 35.3% 1990 - 17.5% 2006 - 31.2% spell checker didn't flag employe). When I first 1957 - 23.9% 1998 - 23.2% 2008 - 20.9% started working for a Fortune 50 company in the 1962 - 31.5% 1999 - 21.5% 2009 - 27.5% 1970s,our accepted spelling was employe. So, the 1969 - 15.3% 2000 - 23.4% 2010 - 23.4% plural would be employes, and the possessive of 1973 - 18.4% 2001 - 18.9% 2011 - 31.0% the plural would be employes'. Did I miss 1981 - 23.1% 2002 - 21.3% 2012 - 22.5% something else on the cover that was misspelled? 1985 - 18.6% 2003 - 29.8% 2013 - 29.5% 2014 - 21.7% Ed. Yep! You‟re right. In all my years, I had never Ed Wright, CAN: Re article on page 21 of RMS seen the word spelled like that and so didn‟t bulletin # 570 about Sirio Match Co. The bother to check the dictionary! Serves me right! company filed a trademark "SIRIO" for matches in the U.S on Feb. 28, 1916. It was in fact Duane Ready, PA: As regards the Convention registered on June 13, 1916. In the actual attendance issue - I would be interested to see a published reference it states that the word "Sirio" comparison over the years of total RMS was in use since Aug. 1911 so yes cover could be membership to convention attendance - Is there a issued well before 1920. smaller percentage of members attending now or not - or is the decline in attendance directly Ed. Thank you, Ed. related to the decline in total membership.

RMS 2015 – The Basics

Best Western Plus Lehigh Valley, 300 Gateway Dr., Bethlehem, Pa. 18017 (610) 866--‐5800 The room rate is $89.00 US+tax, Double non-smoking or King non-smoking. Specify RMS or Rathkamp. Each room includes a full hot breakfast, buffet style, for two. All rooms have a microwave and refrigerator. The hotel is pet--‐ friendly (additional fee.) Guest check--‐in begins 4:00P.M. Checkout is Noon. The whole facility is Wi--‐Fi. Baggage storage is available. Airport shuttle from & to Lehigh Valley International Airport (www.flylvia.org) is by the hotel, free, and should be reserved in advance with the hotel. The cut‐off date for group reservations is July 17, 2015–Reserve early! This is a 2-story hotel with 96 rooms on each floor but there are NO elevators. The hotel will work to place RMS members on the 1st floor but we cannot stress enough the importance of booking early. Most Double rooms (about 85) are on the 1st floor, most King rooms are on the 2nd floor. The hotel will not guarantee your room placement when you reserve, they can‘t tell the future and obviously 20 peo- ple won‘t get kings on the 1st floor – they don‘t have the numbers. But you should request a 1st floor room if you need one. I (Marc) have a meeting set up a couple weeks ahead of the convention to make sure those who absolutely need 1st floor rooms will receive such.

Convention Co-Chairs Marc Edelman [email protected] Robert Lamb Jr, [email protected] 8822 Hargrave St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19152--‐1511 308 Mill Rd., Langhorne, Pa, 19047 (215)969--‐6258 Auction Master: Pat Shappell. 109 Wood Ln, Reading, Pa.19606-2446. RMS members may enter up to 15 lots. Convention donation depot: RMS c/o Longenecker 1007 Old Philly Pike Kempton, Pa. 19529-321 Program book ads to Marc Edelman, address above. To encourage participation, we‘ve cut prices - rates as follows: Full Page $27.50 Half Page $17.50 Quarter Page $10.00 Patron ads, with Name and state $5.00. The 1956 program book had 3 pages of patron ads – can we do better? Come celebrate 75 years of collector’s memories! 22 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

Hobby Glossary

Bits & Pieces Old Pal - Cleveland Match Co. box trademark; c. 1920s.

Olympics - category for covers issued from, or Well, I’m getting old, advertising, various Olympics; Mike Samuels, and even I don‘t DC, had 506 as of 1/99. remember being able to go to the movies for Organization of African Unity Set - 1974 Strike 25¢! It was 75¢ when I -Rite set of 42 diff. African countries. was a kid. Orient - old Diamond box trademark; introduced A Brand new Hard c. 1914. Rock Casino opened up at Lake Tahoe on Oriental Restaurants - see Restaurants, Oriental January 28th. Might we hope for new covers? Orleans - Monarch/Superior trademark for its [They‘re really bucking Filigree-type covers; introduced 1972, but you‘ll the trend as traditional never see the actual trademark on the covers casinos are having a themselves. hard time from all the competition by Indian Overruns - extra matchbooks over and above casinos. Several large what was ordered; these covers are usually farmed casinos have closed in out to middlemen or discounted to the original Atlantic City, for buyer. example. Owname - Owname trademark; 1925-1940s.

Owname Renewable Matchbook Co. - NYC- Answer to Last Issue’s based company; later changed to Owname Products Corp.; makers of a rather unique type of Matchcover Mystery covers: 30-strikes with the striker held in place by the staple; many are dated on the inside/some are “What‟s probably the most well-known label transparent/ at least 1 is made of copper; 1925- brand in the world?” 1940s. 362 currently listed.

Three Stars, by Swedish Match, first P registered in 1887 [http://www. swedishmatchindustries.se/en/Products/Our- Pak-Jac - An early Adverap-type product; Pac- trademarks/] Jac Co., Wooster, OH.

Matchcover Mysteries: #115 Pacific Match Co. - Tacoma, WA-based company; 1924-1964. 15 covers currently listed.

“When was the first newspaper ref to matchbooks?” Pacific Northwest Matchcover Collectors Club - Seattle/Portland-based club; 1991-present.

Tough one! Answer in our next issue! RMS Bulletin January/FebruaryMarch/April 2015, 1996,No. 5 73No. 458 19 23 History 101 Pere Marquette

...Priest, missionary, explorer, founding father of more than one city, Father Jacques Marquette S.J. (June 10, 1637 – May 18, 1675), was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan. In 1673, the exploration team of Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.

Jacques Marquette was born in Laon, France, on June 10, 1637 and joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen. After he worked and taught in France for several years, the Jesuits assigned him to Quebec in 1666 as a missionary to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. He showed great proficiency in learning the local languages, especially Huron. In 1668, Father Marquette was redeployed to missions farther up the St. Lawrence River in the western Great Lakes region. He helped found a mission at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in present-day Michigan; and at La Pointe, on Lake Superior near the present-day city of Ashland, Wisconsin. Here, he encountered members of the Illinois tribes, who told him about the important route of the Mississippi River. They invited him to teach their people, whose settlements were mostly further south. Because of wars between the Hurons at La Pointe and the neighboring Lakota people, Father Marquette left the mission and went to the Straits of Mackinac; he informed his superiors about the rumored river and requested permission to explore it.

Leave was granted, and in 1673, Marquette was joined by Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer. The Jolliet-Marquette expedition traveled to within 435 miles of the Gulf of Mexico but turned back at the mouth of the Arkansas River. By this point, they had encountered several natives carrying European trinkets, and they feared an encounter with explorers or colonists from Spain. They followed the Mississippi back to the mouth of the Illinois River. They reached Lake Michigan near the site of modern-day Chicago, by way of the Chicago Portage. In September, Marquette stopped at the mission of St. Francis Xavier, located in present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin, while Jolliet returned to Quebec to relate the news of their discoveries.

Marquette and his party returned to the Illinois Territory in late 1674, becoming the first Europeans to winter in what would become the city of Chicago. In the spring of 1675, Marquette traveled westward and celebrated a public mass at the Grand Village of the Illinois near Starved Rock. A bout of dysentery sapped his health. On the return trip to St. Ignace, he died at age 38 near the modern town of Ludington, Michigan. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Jacques_Marquette] 24 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

The Never-Ending Allure Of Black & White Photos

A picture is worth a thousand words! Words are one thing, but pictures give us a more exact knowledge of the subject, and black and while photos, which tend to be significantly older than the colored ones, are literally windows to the past...and, of course, the older the better.

You‘re certainly liable to see anything in these covers, but I especially enjoy seeing the older fashions—hair, hats, suits, hem lines—and the older machines—washing machines, radios, etc.

When it comes to people, there‘s something of a sentimental noslgia connected to them, I think. The older ones, especially, have long been forgotten, even by their own families perhaps. But here, here there‘s a lasting record of their existence that hasn‘t been forgotten in some agency computer. Bill Retskin, NC, had 2500 in October 1988. RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 25

26 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), was a major battle in which the US fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.

The Japanese positions were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km of underground tunnels. The Americans on the ground were aided by extensive naval artillery and the Navy and Marine Corps aviators had complete air supremacy. This invasion was the first American attack on Japanese home territory, and the Japanese soldiers and marines defended their positions tenaciously with no thought of surrender. The Japanese general in charge never considered surrendering to the Americans to save his men, and he and his officers had vowed to fight to the death.

Iwo Jima was also the only battle by the U.S. Marines in which the overall American casualties (killed and wounded) exceeded those of the Japanese, although Japanese combat deaths were thrice those of the Americans throughout the battle. Of the 22,000 Japanese soldiers at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner. The rest of the Japanese soldiers on the island were killed or missing and presumed dead.

Despite the bloody fighting and severe casualties on both sides, the Japanese defeat was assured from the start. The Americans possessed an overwhelming superiority in arms and numbers. These factors, coupled with the impossibility of Japanese retreat or reinforcement, ensured an American victory.

The battle was immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the U.S. flag on top of the 545 ft Mount Suribachi by five U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy battlefield Hospital Corpsman. The photograph records the second flag-raising on the mountain, both of which took place on the fifth day of the 35-day battle. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Battle_of_Iwo_Jima] RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 27 “What do you do with flats?” [January - 98 responding]

Well! This was certainly a surprise to me. Given -Put them in my regular collections 34 RMS‘s official stand on flats, I thought most collectors -Keep them until I can replace them 16 threw them away. No so! 76% keep them! And, 35% -Give them away 14 put them in their regular collections as they would -Keep them as a Flats category 15 regular covers. -Throw them away 6 -Toss them in a box 5 I‘ve always gotten rid of mine, but, as a result of this -Keep the rare/old ones 4 poll, I think I‘ll start a FLATS category and keep them, -Don‘t have any 1 but not to use in my regular collections. After all, most -Trade them 1 are pristine and typify what we collect. -Only work with full-books 1 -Have never gotten any 1 Here are a few appropriate comments received:

―Put them in a box earmarked for future freebie tables. Would never put a flat in any of my albums.‖

―Why would you treat it any differently than a match cover, that's what it is. We put them in the category book they belong with.‖

―save flats. I consider them comparable to proof coinage and postage stamps which are not put into general circulation but are collectible. The idea of discarding them as junk material is absurd!‖

Many thanks to all that participated and made this poll possible. 28 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 LISTING: 2,334 listed, $15; MILITARY LISTINGS: Army (3,601), $15; Navy (2,259), $15; Air Force (1,578), $10; Marines (516), $5; Misc (914) $8. Many more at http://matchpro.org ([email protected])...... M/A15

Recently announced RMS Convention Display FREE: Stripped foreign boxes, skillets, covers. Award: Hundreds from: Singapore, (Bali), Indonesia, -Forest City MC - Best Radio and Television Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Stations and Related Material Malaysia , China, and more. Also have European. -Liberty Bell: Best Diamonds display (any kind) I will pay for the postage from Australia to America. In return all I ask you is return the Recently awarded RMS Area Awards: stamps as I use them for Church charters. contact: -Liberty Bell: Sherry Sisson [email protected].

Club officers: Please take a look at your club‘s SIERRA-DIABLO MC is looking to buy listing in the Clubs page of the RMS web site and categories or collections. Contact Dan Bitter, 405- send me an update if anything needs to be 340-3815 or [email protected]...... N/D15 changed.

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WANTED: U.S. States -Supermarket Sets 20- stick Universal Match. Need. AZ, CA, FL, MN, MT, NY, and TN. Appreciate any help. Wayne Eadie, 38 Fairmount Rd., Goldens Bridge, NY 10526.

DQ LISTING: 4,010 listed, $15; DATED LISTING: 17,515 listed, $15; KING MIDAS LISTING: 915 listed, $10; COLLEGES RMS Bulletin November/DecemberMarch/April 2015, No. 1995, 573 No. 457 21 2 9

U.S.S. Carolina?

There is no U.S.S. Carolina! Walter Erwin, a collector outside of the hobby, pointed this out to me, and, upon thinking about it....I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen anything about this seeming discrepancy.

I checked the Ship listings, Pre and Post, plus the internet, and there is no U.S.S. Carolina. I‘m thinking it should be ―U.S.S. North Carolina‖.

Anyone have any further information on this? ______]

1902 Pabst Matchbook?

A non-collector sent this in and wanted to know the age. There is no manumark on the outside, but on the inside is: THE DIAMOND MATCH CO., U.S.A. VOLUME 1

That mm doesn‘t match any I have listed for Diamond, but the only two Diamond mm‘s listed in the late Bob Oliver‘s listing of such that used ―Volume 1‖ were issued from 1896-1909.

Plus, the inside txt says to send in twelve two cent stamps. First class postage was two cents from 1885-1917.

In 1902, Pabst ordered 10 million matchbooks from Diamond. So, my guess for the age of this matchbook is c. 1902. Is my reasoning correct? 3022 RMS Bulletin RMS November/December Bulletin March/April 1995, 2015 No., No. 457 573 enacted one of the more restrictive anti-smoking MATCHBOOKS IN THE ordinances in the nanny state of California. LAW BOOKS: PART 96 Among other things, the Ordinance provides that "No owner, operator, manager, employee or other by Kenneth H. Ryesky, Esq. person having control of a restaurant shall place matchbooks on tables or otherwise make ======matchbooks or matches available to patrons; Ken Ryesky (RMS # 9003), member of the New provided, however, that upon request a York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bars, promotional matchbook may be provided to a practices law in East Northport, NY and teaches patron only when departing the restaurant" [189]. Business Law at Queens College of the City University of New York. He can be reached The Rainbow Bar & Grill, on Sunset Strip at P.O. Box 926, East Northport, NY 11731 or by in West Hollywood, is a popular watering hole for e-mail at [email protected]. notable celebrities from the rock music and entertainment industry. It has an upstairs bar ======known as Over the Rainbow. The Municipal There are many ironies connected with the Code of West Hollywood prohibits them from regulation of smoking and tobacco. For starters, placing matchbooks like the one illustrated here though the tobacco trade in America was out for the taking, but, if following your repast developed by, and a significant segment of, the there, you politely request one, they are legally colonization policies of King James I, the King permitted to give it to you if management is so himself vehemently opposed smoking. In the inclined and has an adequate supply on hand. concluding sentence to his 1604 manifesto entitled A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco, His Majesty Thanks again to Mike Prero for the characterized the smoking habit as "[a] custome illustration. lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, [To be continued] and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit ======that is bottomelesse." [189] City of West Hollywood, CA, More than three-and-a-half centuries later, Ordinance No. 11- upon the initial instigation of Surgeon General 863 (23 February Luther Terry, the Federal Trade Commission set 2011), enacting out on a campaign to limit tobacco use, even as Chapter 7.08 of the the Department of Agriculture carried out policies West Hollywood to support tobacco growers. Municipal Code.

No less ironic is the regulation of smoking JOIN THE by the City of West Hollywood. From the 1890's BIRTHDAY onward, what was then the town of Sherman steadfastly resisted annexation by the City of Los CLUB! Angeles specifically to avoid intrusive overregulation of its various businesses, legitimate Brighten up your and otherwise. In 1984, the community, long own birthday as known by then as West Hollywood, incorporated well as others‘. itself into a city of its own. Contact Pat Mains: MAINSWP@FUS In 2011, the City of West Hollywood E.NET RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573 31 RMS MEMBERSHIP REPORT – MARCH/APRIL 2015 SPONSOR

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More members are signing up for e-bulletins! You get them early; they‘re in full color; they‘re never too light or too dark; and they don‘t get lost in the mail. And, if you ever do need a replacement copy for some reason (grandkids wiped it off the computer!), you don‘t have to wait days for another copy. It‘s already right at your fingertips. BIRTHDAY CLUB: The following club members will be celebrating Jump on the bandwagon! Just birthdays on the dates indicated. Please check your latest roster to get current contact the Ed. and say that you addresses and categories: Wally Mains (4/11); Bill Scott (4/12); Denis Bouchard wish to transfer from hard copies (4/24) to e-bulletins. Take advantage of If you‘re interested in receiving 200-300 covers or boxes during your birthday what the world has to offer you! month, send an SASE #10 envelope to: Wally and Pat Mains, 105 Roger Ln., Florence, KY 41042-2334. NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME. 32 RMS Bulletin March/April 2015, No. 573

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