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Beautiful & Favorite Stamps Whole number 165 January 2012 Christmas PotPot----LuckLuck y all accounts the Christmas hope that all have survived B dinner was a success. If you I New Year’s Eve celebrations were absentabsent————tootoo bad. We still and are prepared for the new had a great time but it may have year. The club’s new year will been even better had you been consist of having all of you paying 9 - 11 ̴ WE WILL NEVER FORGET in attendance. your dues ASAP, having you 2011 Club Officers Which brings us to attendance. spend a little time supporting Club meeting attendance to be club activities and, perhaps, fill President precise. I’ve pleaded with you a post of the club’s officers. James Sauer . 408.445.2694 On the pot-pourrie page I’ve [email protected] and threatened you in trying to increase attendance at meetings. initiated a new monthly feature Vice President Well, no more. While I want all of of favorite and/or beautiful stamps. David Occhipinti . 408.723.0122 you to attend, I’m not going to I have many, but I want to know Secretary say anymore about it. I will give some of yours. It won’t take much, David Gilman . .408.264.1953 the club another year to come up just give me the Scott number [email protected] with new officers for the club and and why you like it and I’ll do Treasurer a new editor for the newsletter. the rest. Please take a moment Richard Clever . 408.238.0893 Filatelic Fiesta has a very bright and share your choice with the [email protected] future as the present committee membership. Also, I need Covers Newsletter Editor is very active and energetic. The of the Month and I KNOW you must have at least one that is James Sauer . 408.445.2694 SJSC on the other hand has a very [email protected] dismal future as the membership special. Thanks. As mentioned previously, I’m Filatelic Fiesta General Chairman is very lazy. No one wants to serve as an officer nor will you going to start having coffee and Steve Schumann . 510.785.4794 [email protected] do anything else to help. This hot water for tea at the meetings. however can be changedchanged————it’sit’s There’ll be some kind of munchies Exhibits Chairman up to the membership. of which I will supply for January. Dr. Edward Laveroni . 408.356.7561 Think about it, we’ve had the The club has no money to speak Bourse Chairman same officers for over a decade of to reimburse so I’m asking that Wayne Menuz . 408.265.5539 with exception of VP and that someone volunteer in January would not have changed had to supply February’s treats, and Visit our website at: Jack Brady not passed away. At so on through the year — and that we went without a VP for no cheap stuff! many months. filatelicfiesta.org Chuck Fissel So, no more. No more asking, Founded 1927, Club show since 1928 ststst rdrdrd begging or threatening. Really t was great seeing Chuck at Meets 7:00 PM, 1 & 3 Wednesdays rdrdrd no more caring whether or not the Christmas pot-luck and Hilltop Manor in 3 floor dining room I 790 Ironwood Drive, San Jose, California the club improves or not. At the hope to continue seeing him at Driving instructions on the website. end of 2012 it will have gotten the meetings. For those that Annual dues: better or it will cease to exist. don’t know, Chuck lost his wife, Adults/families $12 ~ Youths $6 On a brighter note, I wish to Vicenta, after a long illness for APS chapter # 02640264----025791025791 This run of the newsletter thank all of you that attend the which we offer our sincerest commenced January 1998. club meetings regularly. You’re condolences. Vicenta was a Correspondence to: the reason we’ve survived this sweet lady who will be missed P O Box 730993, San Jose, CA 95173 far. Perhaps I should just be by all that knew her. We wish her Contents thankful for those that attend and God Speed and Rest in Peace. just not concern myself with those PotPot----pourriepourrie . 2 that don’tdon’t————itit would likely lower Leica and the Jews . 3 my blood pressure too. Francis DeSales Ouimet . .4 For those that do care, we will Covers, Cards, Stamps, etc. 7 schedule programs for this year Show Calendar, Want ads . 8 at the second monthly January meeting. ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Northern California Trivia Tinian Q What town was once known as Mud Springs? From an article by Steve Pendleton in McKeel’s, April 10, 2009. A El Dorado. ost of us that lived through WWII remember M Tinian, but the memory is very likely fuzzy Q In what California town did the famed butcher and faded. A small island near Saipan (many will Phillip D. Armour run a butcher shop? find that island but a faded memory also), it was A Placerville. once foremost in the American mind. From Northern California Trivia by Ernie & Jill Couch Today it’s probably best known by the Japanese tourists who visit there on package tours. For a "How prone all human institutions have been to brief period in 1945, it was known for an island decay; how subject the best-formed and most airfield from which airstrikes on Japan were wisely organized governments have been to lose launched. In August of 1945, it was the base for their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it the famous ”Enola Gay”, and other bombers, has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, which carried the atomic bomb to to the Japanese to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It could be said impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of that this isolated, little known speck of land in despotism." — James Monroe the Pacific Ocean was the stage for the opening Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 scene of the so-called modern era. Before WWII, Tinian was little known. With an area of 101 square km. it was the second largest Beautiful & Favorite Stamps island of the Marianas group. It was for the most part populated by the original Chamorros. It had long been a possession of the Spanish, then the Germans. No evidence of a post office there has been found. The Japanese took possession from the Germans in WWI, colonized the island and established a post office. One pictorial postmark known used during this period shows two towers to the left with a forested island in the distance. During 1944 the invasion of these islands took place. Both Tinian and Saipan were the scene of bloody battles. Tinian’s advantage was it’s amount of flat land that was suitable for airfields. There were numerous U.S. military post offices on Tinian during 1944-45. Within a short time after WWII, Tinian faded from the public view. The airfields now only service the occasional commuter flight to Saipan, with even more occasional military flights from Guam. About a 1000 inhabitants work on a ranch, in the tourist industry or grow crops. ’m kicking-off this new monthly feature with The first and only U.S. civilian post office opened I Spain, Scott 1250, one of a set of 14 different May 1, 1965 in San Jose village. This is the island’s ships issued to honor the Spanish Navy. This one only ‘urban’ area, located on the southwest coast. with an engraved image of the Santa Maria, the Since its opening there have been more than a flagship of Christopher Columbus’ fleet. I would dozen postmarks recorded. The first ones all listed appreciate your submitting a favorite or beautiful the name of the post office as “Saipan Marianas stamp to be shown here. Islands San Jose Br.” Later the zip of 96950 was There are any number of stamps out there that added. A new post office opened in 1984, and the fill the bill and I wouldn’t have any trouble finding zip was changed to 96952. More modern postmarks for this spot, however, I really would like to know have been seen with the island name changed to your favorites and why. Please participate , tell Tinian, with the word Rural added. us about a favorite stamp of yours and submit a Today, commercial mail from Tinian is scarce very short article telling us why. Thanks — ed. with “Enola Gay” covers out of the question. Page 2 San Jose Stamp Club Newsletter January 2012 Leica and the Jews Keeping the Story QuietQuiet———— he Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. It is a The "Leica Freedom Train" was at its height in T German product—precise, minimalist, and 1938 and early 1939, delivering groups of refugees utterly efficient. to New York every few weeks. Then, with the Behind its worldwide acceptance as a creative invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Germany ver had. had. ver had. ver tool was a family-owned, socially oriented firm closed its borders. had. ver had. ver that, during the Nazi era, acted with uncommon By that time, hundreds of endangered Jews had grace, generosity and modesty. E. Leitz Inc., escaped to America, thanks to the Leitzes' efforts. designer and manufacturer of Germany 's most How did Ernst Leitz II and his staff get away with it? famous photographic product, saved its Jews. Leitz, Inc. was an internationally recognized And Ernst Leitz II, the steely-eyed Protestant brand that reflected credit on the newly resurgent patriarch who headed the closely held firm as the Reich.
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