You‟D Think, After Some 70+ Years of Searching and Collecting, the Hobby Would Surely Have Rooted out All Existing Navy Ship Covers by Now

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RMS BULLETIN NO. 561 March/April 2013

by Mike Prero

You‟d think, after some 70+ years of searching and collecting, the hobby would surely have rooted out all existing Navy Ship covers by now. But, the discovery of several unlisted navy ship covers within the last 18-24 months, including a Pre-War DQ, prompted me to wonder how many other hitherto unknown ship covers might still be out there, somewhere, waiting to be discovered. Of course, if they‟re as yet undiscovered, we can‟t really tell how many there are. Still, we can speculate...so...

As near as I‟ve been able to find, the U.S. Navy+Coast Guard had some 1,000 ships in service on December 7, 1941 [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-alpha.html]. Compared to that, the Pre-War Navy Ship listing lists, or soon will list, known covers from 423 ships, including US Maritime Service). Cross- checking both lists, here are known Pre-War ships for which no covers have yet been found:

-USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) -USS Alcor (AG-34) -USS Antaeus (AS-21) -USS Abbott (DD-184) -USS Alcor (AR-10) -USS Antares (AKS-3) -USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) -USS Aldebaran (AF-10) -USS Aquamarine (PYc-7) -USS Accentor (AMc-36) -USS Alden (DD-211) -USS Argonne (AG-31) - USS Acme (AMc-61) -Alert (WPC-127) -USS Argus (PY-14) -Active (WPC-125) -Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34) -Ariadne (WPC-101) -USS Acushnet (ATO-63) -USS Algorab (AK-25) -USS Aroostook (CM-3) -USS Adamant (AMc-62) -USS Algorma (ATO-34) -USS Ash (AN-7) -USS Advance (AMc-63) -USS Alhena (AK-26) -Aurora (WPC-103) -USS Affray (AMc-112) -USS Allegheny (ATO-19) -USS AVC-1 (AVC-1) -Agassiz (WPC-126) -USS Allen (DD-66) -USS Avenge (AMc-66) -USS Agate (PYc-4) -USS Aloe (AN-6) -USS Avocet (AVP-4) -USS Aggressor (AMc-64) -USS Amber (PYc-6) -USS Bagaduce (ATO-21) -USS Agile (AMc-111) -USS America (IX-41) -USS Ballard (AVD-10) -USS Albatross (AM-71) -USS American Legion (AP-35) -USS Bancroft (DD-256) -USS Alchiba (AK-23) -USS Amerthyst (PYc-3) -USS Barbet (AMc-38) continued on p.3 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 2

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-USS Barker (DD-213) -USS Chewink (ASR-3) -USS Elder (AN-20) -USS Barnett (AP-11) -USS Childs (AVD-1) -USS Elliot (DMS-4) -USS Barracuda (SS-163) -USS Chimango (AMc-42) -USS Ellyson (DD-454) -USS Bass (SS-164) -USS Chinquapin (AN-17) -USS Emmons (DD-457) -USS Bateleur (AMc-37) -USS Cinchona (AN-12) -USS Endurance (AMc-77) -USS Bay Spring (ATO-60) -USS Clemson (AVD-4) -USS Energy (AMc-78) -Bedloe (WPC-128) -USS Cockatoo (AMc-8) -USS Escanaba (WPG-77) -USS Bernadou (DD-153) -USS Colhoun (APD-2) -USS Eucalyptus (AN-16) -USS Betelgeuse (AK-28) -Comanche (WPG-76) -USS Ewing (WPC-137) -Bibb (WPG-31) -USS Condor (AMc-14) -USS Exultant (AMc-79) -USS Biddle (DD-151) -USS Conner (DD-72) -USS Fairfax (DD-93) -USS Biscayne (AVP-11) -USS Conway (DD-70) -USS Faunce (WPC-138) -USS Bittern (AM-36) -USS Coral (PY-15) -USS Favorite (IX-45) -USS Blue Jay (AMc-23) -USS Cormorant (AM-40) -USS Finch (AM-9) -USS Bluebird (AM-72) -USS Corry (DD-463) -USS Firecrest (AMc-33) -USS Bobolink (AM-20) -USS Cotinga (AMc-43) -USS Flamingo (AMc-22) -USS Boggs (DD-136) -USS Courier (AMc-72) -USS Flicker (AM-70) -USS Boggs (DMS-3) -USS Corlan (AMc-44) -USS Flier (SS-250) -Bonham (WPC-129) -USS Courser (AMc-32) -USS Flusser (DD-368) -USS Bonita (SS-165) -USS Cowell (DD-167) -USS Flying Fish (SS-229) -Boutwell (WPC-130) -USS Crane Ship No. 1 (AB-1) -Folfax (WPC-133) -USS Bowdoin (IX-50) -USS Craven (DD-382) -USS Foote (DD-169) -USS Boxwood (AN-8) -USS Crawford (WPC-134) -USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) -USS Brambling (AMc-39) -USS Crescent City (AP-40) -Frederick Lee (WPC-139) -USS Branch (DD-197) -USS Crosby (DD-164) -USS Freedom (IX-43) -USS Brant (AM-24) -USS Crossbill (AMc-9) -USS Frigate Bird (AMc-27) -USS Breckenridge (DD-148) -USS Crow (AMc-20) -USS Fulmar (AMc-46) -USS Breese (DM-18) -USS Crusader (ARS-2) -USS Fulton (AS-11) -USS Bristol (DD-453) -USS Cumberland (IX -8) -Galatea (WPC-108) -USS Broome (DD-210) -USS Cummings (DD- 365) -USS Galaxy (IX-54) -USS Buckeye (AN-13) -USS Curlew (AM-69) -USS Gamble (DM-15) -USS Buckthome (AN-14) -USS Cuttlefish (SS-171) -USS Gannet (AVP-8) -USS Bullfinch (AM-66) -USS Cuyahoga (AG-26) -USS Gar (SS-206) -USS Bulmer (DD-222) -USS Cuyahoga (WPC-157) -USS Gato (SS-212) -USS Bunting (AMc-7) -USS Cyane (WPC-105) -General Greene (WPC-140) -USS Butternut (AN-9) -USS Daphne (WPC-106) -USS Genesee (ATO-55) -USS Cachalot (SS-170) -USS DCH-1 (IX-44) -USS George E. Badger (DD-196) -Cahoone (WPC-131) -USS Deactur (DD-341) -USS George E. Badger (AVP-16) -USS Calypso (AG-35) -USS Defiance (AMc-73) -USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) -USS Canary (AMc-25) -USS Demand (AMc-74) -USS Gillis (AVD-12) -USS Canopus (AS-9) -USS Dent (DD-116) -USS Gillis (DD260) -USS Caracara (AMc-40) -USS Despatch (IX-2) -USS Gold Star (AG-12) -USS Cardinal (AM-67) -USS Detector (AMc-75) -USS Goldcrest (AM-80) -USS Carnelian (PY-19) -USS Develin (AMc-45) -USS Goldfinch (AM-77) -USS Casco (AVP-12) -USS Diligence (WPC-135) -USS Goldsborough (AVP18) -USS Case (DD-370) -USS Dione (WPC-107) -USS Goldsborough (DD-188) -USS Catalpa (AKS-1) -USS Discoverer (ARS-3) -USS Goshawk (AM-79) -USS Catbird (AM-68) -USS Dix (WPC-136) -USS Grackle (AM-73) -Cayuga (CGC-54) -USS Dolphin (SS-169) -USS Grampus (SS-207) -USS Chachalaca (AMc-41) -USS Dominant (AMc-76) -USS Grayback (SS-208) -USS Chaffinch (AM-81) -USS Doran (DD-185) -USS Grayling (SS-209) -USS Chandler (DMS-9) -USS Drum (SS-228) -USS Grebe (AM-43) -USS Charles F. Hughes (DD-428) -USS Du Pont (DD-152) -USS Greene (AVD-13) -USS Chatterer (AMc-16) -USS Ebony (AN-15) -USS Greene (DD-266) -USS Chenango (AO-31) -USS Edsall (DD-219) -USS Gregory (DD-82) -USS Cheng Ho (IX-52) -USS Edwards (DD-265) -USS Grenadier (SS-210) -USS Chestnut (AN-11) -USS Egret (AMc-24) -Gresham (WPG-85) -USS Chew (DD-106) -USS Eider (AM-17) -USS Gridley (DD-380) 4 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

-USS Griffin (AS-13) -Kimball (WPC-143) -USS Mount Baker (AE-4) -USS Grosbeak (AMc-19) -USS Kingbird (AMc-56) -USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) -USS Grouse (AMc-12) -USS Kingfisher (AM-25) -USS Napa (ATO-32) -USS Guadalupe (AO-32) -USS Kite (AM-75) -USS Narwhal (SS-167) -USS Gudgeon (SS-211) -USS Kitty Hawk (APV-1) -USS Nautilus (SS-168) -USS Gull (AM-74) -USS Lamberton (DMS-2)\ -Nemaha (WPC-148) -USS Gum Tree (AN-18) -USS Lamson (DD-367) -Nemesis (WPC-111) -USS Hambleton (DD-455) -USS Lanikai (Yacht) -USS Nightingale (AMc-18) -USS Hammondsport (APV-2) -USS Lapwing (AVP-1) -Nike (WPC-112) -USS Hamul (AK-30) -USS Larch (AN-21) -North Star (WPG-59) -USS Hannibal (AG-1) -USS Lark (AM-21) -Northland (WPG-49) -USS Haraden (DD-183) -USS Laub (DD-263) -Nourmahal (WPG-122) -Harriet Lane (WPC-141) -Legare (WPC-144) -USS Nourmahal (PG-72) -USS Hartford (IX-13) -USS Leonard Wood (AP-25) -USS O-10 (SS-71) -USS Hawk (IX-14) -USS Limpkin (AMc-48) -USS O-2 (SS-63) -USS Hazel (AN-29) -USS Linnet (AM-76) -USS O-3 (SS-64) -USS Heath Hen (AMc-6) -USS Locust (AN-22) -USS O-6 (SS-67) -USS Henry T. Allen (AP-30) -USS Long (DD-209) -USS O-7 (SS-68) -USS Hercules (AK-41) -USS Long (DMS-12) -USS O-8 (SS-69) -Hermes (WPC-109) -USS Longspur (AMc-10) -USS O-9 (SS-70) -USS Herndon (DD-198) -USS Lorikeet (AMc-49) -USS Oaho (PR-6) -USS Heron (AVP-2) -USS Luzon (PR-7) -USS Olympia (IX-40) -USS Highland Light (IX-48) -USS MacKenzie (DD-175) -Onondaga (WPG-79) -USS Hilary P. Jones (DD-427) -USS Mackerel (SS-204) -USS Ontario (ATO-13) -USS Hogan (DD-178) -USS Maddow (DD-168) -USS Onyx (PYc-5) -USS Hogan (DMS-6) -USS Magpie (AMc-2) -USS Opal (PYc-8) -USS Holly (AN-19) -USS Mahogany (AN-23) -USS Oriole (AM-7) -USS Hopewell (DD-181) -USS Mahopac (ATO-29) -USS Orizaba (Ap-24) -USS Hornbill (AMc-13) -USS Mallard (ASR-4) -USS Ortolan (ASR-5) -USS Hovey (DMS-11) -USS Manhasset (AG-47) -USS Osmond Ingram (AVD-9) -USS Howard (DD-179) -USS Manley (AG-28) -USS Osmund Ingram (DD-255) -USS Howard (DMS-7) -USS Manley (APD-1) -USS Osprey (AM-56) -USS Humboldt (AVP-21) -USS Marabout (AMc-50) -Ossipee (WPG-50) -USS Humming Bird (AMc-26) -Marion (WPC-145) -USS Ostrich (AMc-51) -USS Hunt (DD-194) -USS Markab (AK-31) -USS Otus (AS-20) -Icarus (WPC-110) -USS Marlin (SS-205) -USS Paducah (PG-18) -USS Ingraham (DD-444) -USS Mason (DD-191) -USS Paducah (IX-23) -USS Isable (PY-10) -USS Maumee (AO-2) -USS Palm (AN-28) -Itasca (CGC-50) -USS McCalla (DD-253) -USS Palmer (DD-161) -USS Iuka (ATO-37) -USS McCook (DD-252) -Pamlico (WPG-57) -USS J. Franklin Bell (AP-34) -USS McCormick (DD-223) -USS Panay (PR-5) -USS J. Fred Talbott (DD-156) -USS McFarland (DD-237) -Pandora (WPC-113) -USS Jackamar (AMc-47) -USS McKean (DD-90) -USS Paramount (AMc-92) -Jackson (WPC-142) -McLane (WPC-146) -USS Parrakeet (AMc-34) -USS Jade (PY-17) -USS Meade (DD-274) -USS Parrot (DD-218) -USS Jasper (PYc-13) -Mendota (CGC-49) -USS Partridge (AM-16) -USS John D.Edwards (DD-216) -USS Meredith (DD-434) -USS Paul Jones (DD-230) -USS John D. Ford (DD-228) -USS Miantonomoh (CM-10) -USS Peacock (AM-46) -USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) -USS Mindanao (PR-8) -USS Peary (DD-226) -USS Jouett (DD-396) -USS Mockingbird (AMc-28) -USS Pecos (AO-6) -USS Kalk (DD-170) -Modoc (WPG-46) -USS Pelias (AS-14) -USS Kalmia (ATO-23) -Mojave (WPG-47) -USS Pelican (AVP-6) -USS Kaula (AG-33) -USS Monadnock (CM-9) -USS Perch (SS-176) -USS Kent (Ap-28) -USS Monssen (DD-436) -USS Permit (SS-178) -USS Keosanqua (ATO-38) -USS Montcalm (ATO-39) -USS Perry (DMS-17) -USS Kestrel (AMc-5) -USS Montgomery (DM-17) -Perseus (WPC-114) -USS Kewaydin (ATO-24) -USS Monticello (AP-61) -USS Phoebe (AMc-57) -Kickapoo (WPG-56) -USS Moonstone (PYc-9) -USS Pigeon (ASR-6) -USS Kildeer (AMC-21) -Morris (WPC-147) -USS Pike (SS-173) RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 5

-USS Pillsbury (DD-227) -USS Roller (AMc-52) -USS Seminole (ATF-65) -USS Pintail (AMc-17) -USS Rosewood (AN-31) -USS Semmes (AG-24) -USS Pipit (AMc-1) -USS Ruby (PY-21) -USS Semmes (DD-189) -USS Pleiades (AK-46) -USS Ruff (AMc-59) -USS Sepulga (AO-20) -USS Plover (AMc-3 -Rush (WPC-151) -USS Shark (SS-174) -USS Plunger (SS-179) -USS S-1 (SS-105) -Shawnee (WPG-54) -USS Pollack (SS-180) -USS S-11 (SS-116) -USS Shubrick (DD-268) -USS Pompano (SS-181) -USS S-12 (SS-117) -USS Sigourney (SS-81) -USS Pope (DD-225) -USS S-13 (SS-118) -USS Silversides (SS-236) -USS President Adams (AP-38) -USS S-14 (SS-119) -USS Simpson (AG-97) -USS President Hayes (AP-39) -USS S-15 (SS-120) -USS Skimmer (AMc-53) -USS Prestige (AMc-97) -USS S-16 (SS-121) -USS Skipjack (SS-184) -USS Procyon (AK-19) -USS S-17 (SS-122) -USS Snapper (SS-185) -USS Prometheus (AR-3) -USS S-18 (SS-123) -USS Southard (DMS-10)] -USS Pruitt (DM-22) -USS S-21 (SS-126) -USS Spearfish (SS-190) -USS Puffin (AMc-29) -USS S-22 (SS-127) -USS Spindrift (IX-49) -Pulaski (WPC-149) -USS S-23 (SS-128) -USS Squalus (SS-192) -USS Pyro (AE-1) -USS S-24 (SS-129) -USS St. Augustine (PG-54) -USS Quail (AM-15) -USS S-25 (SS-130) -USS Stansbury (DD-180) -USS R-1 (SS-78) -USS S-26 (SS-131) -USS Stewart (DD-224) -USS R-2 (SS-79) -USS S-27 (SS-132) -USS Stingray (SS-186) -USS R-3 (SS-80) -USS S-28 (SS-133) -USS Stockton (SS-73) -USS R-4 (SS-81) -USS S-29 (SS-134) -USS Stratford (AP-41) -USS R-5 (SS-82) -USS S-30 (SS-135) -USS Sturtevant (DD-240) -USS R-6 (SS-83) -USS S-31 (SS-136) -USS Sunnadin (ATO-28) -USS R-8 (SS-85) -USS S-32 (SS-137) -USS Suwanee (AO-33) -USS R-9 (SS-86) -USS S-33 (SS-138) -USS Swan (AVP-7) -USS R-10 (SS-87) -USS S-34 (SS-139) -USS Swanson (DD-443) -USS R-11 (SS-88) -USS S-35 (SS-140) -USS Swasey (DD-273) -USS R-12 (SS-89) -USS S-36 (SS-141) -USS Swordfish (SS-193) -USS R-13 (SS-90) -USS S-37 (SS-142) -USS Sylph (PY-12) -USS R-14 (SS-91) -USS S-38 (SS-143) -Tallapoosa (WPG-52) -USS R-15 (SS-92) -USS S-40 (SS-145) -USS Tambor (SS-198) -USS R-16 (SS-93) -USS S-41 (SS-146) -Tampa (WPG-48) -USS R-17 (SS-94) -USS S-42 (SS-153) -USS Tanager (AM-5) -USS R-18 (SS-95) -USS S-43 (SS-154) -Taney (WPG-37) -USS R-19 (SS-96) -USS S-44 (SS-155) -USS Tapacola (AMc-54) -USS R-20 (SS-97) -USS S-45 (SS-156) -USS Tarazed (AF-13) -USS Rail (AM-26) -USS S-46 (SS-157) -USS Tatnuck (ATO-27) -USS Rainier (AE-5) -USS S-47 (SS-158) -USS Tattnall (DD-125) -USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) -USS S-48 (SS-159) -USS Tautog (SS-199) -USS Ramsey (DM-16) -USS Sabine (AO-25) -USS Tern (AVP-5) -USS Rathburne (DD-113) -USS Sagamore (ATO-20) -USS Thatcher (DD-162) -USS Raven (AM-55) -USS Sailfish (SS-192) -Thetis (WPC-115) -USS Redwing (ARS-4) -USS Salamonie (AO-26) -USS Thomas (DD-182) -USS Redwood (AN-30) -USS Sapelo (AO-11) -USS Thornton (DD-270) -USS Reedbird (AMc-30) -USS Sapphire (PYc-2) -USS Thrush (AVP-3) -USS Reliable (AMc-100) -Saranac (CGC-52) -Tiger (WPC-152) -Reliance (WPC-150) -USS Sardonyx (PYc-12) -USS Tillman (DD-135) -USS Rhea (AMc-58) -USS Sargo (SS-188) -USS Topaz (PYc-10) -USS Rhodolite (PYc-19) -USS Saury (SS-189) -USS Tourmaline (PY-20) -USS Richard Peck (IX-96) -USS Sculpin (SS-191) -USS Transfer (IX-46) -USS Rigel (AR-11) -USS Sea Otter I (IX-51) -Travis (WPC-153) -USS Ringgold (DD-89) -USS Sea Otter II (IX-53) -USS Triton (SS-201) -USS Road Runner (AMc-35) -USS Seadragon (SS-194) -Triton (WPC-116) -USS Robert L. Barnes (AG-27) -USS Seagull (AM-30) -USS Trout (SS-202) -USS Robin (AM-3) -USS Seal (SS-183) -USS Truant (PYc-14) -USS Robinson (DD-88) -USS Sealion (SS-195) -USS Tucker (DD-374) -USS Rodgers (DD-254) -USS Selfridge (DD-357) -USS Tuna (SS-203) 6 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

-USS Turaco (AMc-55) -USS Vireo (AM-52) -USS Widgeon (ASR-1) -USS Turkey (AM-13) -USS Wainwright (DD-419) -USS Willett (ARS-12) -USS Turquoise (PY-18) -USS Wake (PR-3) -USS William B. Preston (AVD-7) -USS Tuscarora (ATO-77) -USS Wakefield (AP-21) -USS William P. Biddle (AP-15) -USS Tutuila (PR-4) -USS Wandank (ATO-26) -USS William Ward Burrows (AP-6) -USS Twiggs (DD-127) -USS Warbler (ARS-11) -USS Williams (DD-108) -USS Umpqua (ATO-25) -USS Ward (DD-139) -USS Williamsburg (PG-56) -Unalaga (WPG-53) -USS Wassuc (CMc-3) -USS Winooski (AO-38) -USS Undaunted (ATO-58) -USS Waxbill (AMc-15) -Woodbury (WPC-155) -USS Uranus (AF-14) -USS Welborn C. Wood (DD-195) -USS Woodcock (AM-14) -USS Vagrant (PYc-30) -USS Welles (DD-257) -Yeaton (WPC-156) -USS Valmarie (IX-47) -USS West Point (AP-23) -USS Zane (DD-337) -Vigilant (WPC-154) -USS Whipple (DD-217) -USS Zane (DMS-14) -USS Viking (ARS-1) -USS Whippoorwill (AM-35) -USS Zeilin (AP-9) -USS Vileehi (IX-62) -USS Wickes (DD-441)

Whew! That‟s well over 500 ships for which we have no covers. Of course, not all of these ships would have had covers. All but the larger Coast Guard ships, for example, were probably too small to expect covers from. Also, in spite of the surprisingly large number of submarines, only a small handful are known to have covers. Why? Well, I would think that in such close confines, with relatively primitive air circulation equipment, smoking would have been at least discouraged...but keep in mind that I‟m ex-Army, so what do I know!

In any event, it‟s more than reasonable to surmise that there must be more Pre-War Navy Ship covers ...just waiting to be discovered. Do you have covers from any of the ships listed here? If so, please send me a scan so we can get them listed.

RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 7 -During the 1970s, an innovation in matchbox

production was realized and involved the implementation of a technique that had been known earlier but not used. This was the printing of the label and strike surface directly onto the Did You know? III outer box instead of making the box first and then

applying the label. This was only possible with - In World War II, during the siege of Leningrad, cardboard. However, by printing directly onto the the Soviet Union issued labels urging the people box, the quality of the printing could not be as to resist. high as printing onto a paper label due to the high speed needed in production. This therefore also -Gustav Erik Pasch, at theJ. S. Bagge match marked the demise of the highly ornate matchbox factory in Stockholm, in 1844, invented what is label as it was no longer feasible to maintain the now called the „safety match‟. It involved taking same level of detail on the cardboard boxes as had out the phosphorus from the head of the match appeared on the paper labels. and putting it on a strip on the side of the ______matchbox which left the match head containing potassium chlorate but no phosphorus, the two Why Did They Name It That? chemicals needed for ignition. Therefore, only by Jimmie Close when the match head was struck against the strip on the side of the box would a small amount of Rough and Ready, California: The founder of phosphorus mix with the potassium chlorate and, Rough and Ready, a community in the gold catalyzed by the heat of the friction, ignite. This country of northern California, had served in the protected the consumer from accidentally igniting military under Zachary „Old Rough and Ready‟ an entire box of matches. Pasch also substituted Taylor and named the town in honor of the the white phosphorus with the newly discovered General. red phosphorus, which was practically non-toxic and far less volatile. This removed the possibility Rough and Ready of using matches as a poison or causing the seceded from the United horrific phossy jaw. This is how the term „safety States in the mid-1800s match‟ originated. because of opposition to a federal government tax on -Match magnate Ivar Kreuger was featured on the all mining claims. (One cover of Time Magazine in 1929. person I talked to said that the decision was because the U.S. post office would not recognize the town as named and demanded a change.

The Republic of Rough and Ready was dissolved after only a few months, presumably because the citizens felt left out when nearby communities began preparing for 4th of July celebrations.

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Camp Swift

Camp Swift is bordered by U.S. highways 95 and 290 twenty-eight miles east of Austin and seven miles north of Bastrop in Bastrop County. It was built in 1942 on 55,906 acres and initially had 2,750 buildings designed to accommodate 44,000 troops.

The camp was named after Eben Swift, a World War I commander and author. During World War II it reached a maximum strength of 90,000 troops and included, at different times, the 95th, 97th, and 102d Infantry divisions, the 10th Mountain Division, the 116th and 120th Tank Destroyer battalions, and the 5th Headquarters, Special Troops, of the Third Army.

Swift was the largest army training and transshipment camp in Texas. It also housed 3,865 German prisoners of war. After the war, much of the site was returned to former owners. The government retained 11,700 acres as a military reservation. That land housed parts of the Texas National Guard, a medium-security federal prison, and a University of Texas cancer research center. Environmental- impact studies and development plans for the mining of extensive lignite deposits under Camp Swift began in the 1970s.

Opposition by environmentalists and former landowners resulted in decades of litigation. In 1996 the site received a Texas Historical Marker. By 2000, the Formerly Used Defense Sites program (FUDS) was involved in cleanup measures for Camp Swift, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers planned for ordnance removal. In the early 2000s, Camp Swift continued to provide training for the Texas Army National Guard.

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French 2012 Currency Box Set

The sets contains 12 boxes with pictures from Euro paper money and France paper money. The packed label is standard and used for different older sets too. [Special Thanks to Hans Everink, Netherlands] 10 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

Matchcover Enigmas #4

The Self-Extinguishing Match

Now, come on. How many commercial products can you think of off the top of your head that are purposely designed to be self-destructive? Not my washing machine. Not my car. Not my computer. [Well, OK, I sometimes wonder about the latter] But, the self-extinguishing match is!

Yes, I know. It‟s a safety feature so that your cute and cuddly little grandson won‟t burn the house down when he plays with matches. But the flip side of that is that intrepid Arctic explorer is going to freeze to death because he can‟t start a fire using self-extinguishing matches; that lovely young (and dare I say, scantily clad) woman marooned on a desert island is never going to be rescued because she can‟t light a signal fire with those darned self-extinguishing matches; and, worst of all, it‟s practically impossible to light my pipe with a %$!(*&^ self-extinguishing match! [It often took me 3 or 4 such matches to get my pipe lit. I‟ve since solved that problem, however. Now, I simply bundle 2 or 3 such matches together and light them all at once...I just have to make sure that my eyebrows are well out of range]

The self-extinguishing match goes all the way back to 1916, and by 1929 the Bureau of Standards had already developed such at the request of a particular congresswoman. Since then, there have been quite a few patents for such a match type. Of course, in a more cynical perspective, this could be a dia- bolical business strategy to get the match user to use several matches when, ordinarily, one would suf- fice. Still, the whole idea is something of an enigmatic paradox.

[Note: Atlas‟s Stop Lite self-extinguishing match, pictured here, is only one type of many that exist]

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Wake Up...

I only know of one collector who collects Roses, specifically...Surprising! It seems to be such an attractive category, having a number of things going for it. For instance, it has so many emotions and values attached to it in our society. It symbolizes love, tenderness, caring, commitment, and so on. If you give roses, others see you as a suitor, a loving spouse, generous, thoughtful, etc. We name places and events after it: Roseville, the Rose Room, the Rose Bowl. Stella Williams, OH, has 1,060 in her collection.

The father of Botany, Theophrastus (371-286 BC) first classified and identified plants. In his classic books Enquiry Into Plants and De Causis Plantarum (The causes of plants), he wrote about a "hundred-petaled rose" and called it centifolia (literally: hundred petals). Roman Emperor Nero liked to shower his guests with fresh rose petals. According to the legend, the dense rose-petal cloud nearly suffocated some of the guests.

In the Middle Ages, it was customary for the wealthy to put rose petals and rose oil in their baths. Many noblewomen carried bouquets of fragrant flowers to cover body odors. The early Christians saw a correlation between the five petals of the Rosa sancta and the five wounds of Christ. The red rose stood for Christ's blood, while the white rose for the Virgin Mary. It was in the 17th century that French explorer Samuel de Champlain brought the first cultivated roses to North America.

The oldest garden rose is the Rosa Gallica Officinalis, the apothecary rose. The oldest garden rose classes include the Albas, Centifolias and Damasks. The first patent ever registered for a plant was a patent for a hybridized rose, which gave "ever-blooming" characteristics to the climbing rose. It was issued by the United States Patent Office on August 18th to Henry F. Bosenberg for his "Climbing or Trailing Rose".

The largest rose ever bred was a pink rose measuring approximately 33 inches in diameter. It was bred by Nikita K. Rulhoksoffski from San Onofre, California. The world's largest rosebush is a white Lady Banksia

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And Smell The Roses!

located in Tombstone, Arizona. It's original root came over from Scotland in 1885. From a single trunk, which is nearly six feet in diameter, it spreads over an arbor that covers over 8,00 square feet, enough to shelter a crowd of 150 people.

The world's oldest living rose is believed to be over 1,000 years old. It grows on the wall of the Cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany and its presence is documented since A.D. 815. According to the legend, the rosebush symbolizes the prosperity of the city of Hildesheim; as long as it flourishes, Hildesheim will not decline. In 1945 allied bombers destroyed the cathedral, yet the bush survived. Its roots remained intact beneath the debris, and soon the bush was growing strong again.

The largest private rose garden in the world is in Cavriglia, Italy, and holds over 7,500 different varieties of roses. The only rose known to have only four petals is Rosa Sericea, brought to Europe form the Himalayas at the end of the nineteenth century.

The oldest representation of a rose is a fresco in the palace of Minos in Cnossos, Crete. It depicts a five-petaled pink rose; dated to about 1450 B.C.

The first rose to leave the earth was as miniature rose called "Overnight Scentsation" that had been cultivated by Dr. Braja Mookherjee for experiments in space. The rose needed to be small to fit inside the middeck of the space shuttle. The purpose was to measure how low-gravity would influence the rose's smell.

Today, 150 million rose plants are purchased by gardeners worldwide each year. 60% of the roses grown in the U.S. are produced in California. The rose is the favorite flower of 85% of Americans. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Rose] 14 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 15 2013; Canadian Club Whiskey Sets; More Great A Peek At Other Bulletins [based on current issues on hand as of this writing] Die-Cuts; Mount Vernon; ads, auction

-Angelus MC: [Jan/Mar 2013] 15 pp.+insert, -Southeastern MC: [Jan/Feb 2013] 8 pp., full- club business, Quarterly Combo, Who Did That?; color (e-version), club business, Racing in Confessions of a General Collector; auction, Florida, Armed Forces Recreation Centers, raffle, drawing, ads Checkered Cab Company

-Denver Strikers MC: [Jan/Feb 2013] 4 pp., -Tobacco Club: [Jan 2013] 9 pp (1 color); club club news, Happy 2013; The Four-Left Clover; business, Misc. Finds The Flip of a Coin; The Stethoscope; Mayonnaise; The Broom, The Fuller Brush Man And The -Trans Canada MC: [Dec 2012] 8 pp., full- Vacuum Cleaner color, club business, ebay; Montreal Expos Matchbooks; Memories of Martin‟s Sportstown -Empire MC: [Feb 2013] 6 pp.+color insert, club Grill, What‟s New, auction business, More Great Die-Curs, Barnucle Bill‟s, Southern Swapfest registration form -Tri-State Cardinals MC: [Jan 2013] 10 pp. w/ color inserts, magazine format, club business, -Garden State MC: [no date] 6 pp., club RMS Convention info, Largest Collections, business, Chanaukah & Christmas, New Year‟s auction Day, auction -Windy City MC: [Jan/Feb 2013] 7 pp., full- -Girlie MC: [Jan 2013] Club business, Singles color, club business, New, Views, & Etc., Windy listing supp. #5270-5341, Features supp. #F-236- City Sports F242, Sets supp., ads, auction Southern Swapfest! -Huggable Bears MC: [Jan 2013] 8 pp., club [NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGES!] business, Misc. cover finds, Bear peripheral items Dates - March 19-23, 2013 -Liberty Bell MC: [Feb 2013] 8 pp., full-color. Club business, Empire/Garden State Holiday NEW LOCATION! - Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Party, Current Events & Issues, Creamy or Springs Chunky? Another Great Divide, The Good Earth Rate - $75 per night -Lone Star MC: [Jan/Feb 2013] 8 pages, full- color (e-version), club business, The Shanghai; Activities - same as planned before - auctions, Chestnuts Car Set; Theatres; Reese‟s!; USS free lunch, banquet, cigar box trading, etc. Antietam; What‟s Goin‟ On Elsewhere; ads Hotel has complimentary parking, fitness center -Long Beach MC: [Dec 2012] 8 pp, club with sauna, WiFi in rooms, free transportation up business, The 12 Days of Christmas, Elves, to 3 miles from hotel, 2 in-house restaurants Chimney Sweeps, Sleighs, auction, drawing Those who reserved at the original Hampton -New Moon Club: [Dec 2012] 11 pp., full-color Inn must cancel reservations and make new [e-version], club business, Heartland Brewery, reservations at (800) 678-4380 or call the hotel Misc. Box finds direct at (407) 830-1985 - must mention the Southern Swapfest for the group rate - reserve -Sierra-Diablo MC: [Feb 2013] 8-pages, club before 2/19/13. We reserved a block of 25 business, full-color (e-version), Trees!; AMCAL rooms per night. 16 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

Cars Of

What is it about old cars? Whatever it is, new cars don‟t have it...nope! New cars might be sleek, and fast, and loaded with gadgets [my daughter talks to her car...and it responds!], but they just don‟t have that allure of old cars. Besides, new cars can‟t be classics... whereas every guy knows that all old cars are classics!

Maybe it‟s nostalgia more than anything else. I started off with a „50 Ford when I was 16. Then there was the „57 Ford convertible; then the Chevy Impala (another RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 17

Yesterday

convertible); „67 Mustang. Then I got married, and it was all station wagons and vans! [They don‟t tell you that when you get married, by the way]

The Hudson‟s, the Nash‟s, the DeSoto‟s, the Studebaker‟s, and so many more...not made any more, but it doesn‟t matter. They still live on in matchcover art...and besides, they‟re classics!

[All the covers shown here are courtesy of Loren Moore, CA] 18 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 [Please check the Mail Box column for answers on last issue‟s query on ]

UNION WIRE

ROPE CORP.. SERIES

Anyone have numbers and names on these?

Series I: black & white. I have three: The Acme Foundry & Machinery Co. H.T. Cutlip W.M. Hales Company

Series II: red & black. I have eight: Emmett Shaughnessy H.M. Humphrey Harry L. Kennedy Industrial Equipment Company J. Dee Lewis Marine Mart, Inc. Rogers-Bailey Supply Co. Union Wire Rope Corporation

Novelty Covers/Boxes

These are unusual covers or boxes, usually produced by advertising companies (i.e., felt covering over cover, other foreign objects affixed to cover, etc.). Not particularly popular within the hobby, but often kept simply because they‟re „different‟. The one shown here is covered in felt.

Some, if not many, of such covers are made by individuals after the cover, itself, has been issued. That may or may not make a difference to you if you are going to collect such. I have, for example, a number of Christmas covers which were actually issued as blanks, but someone has attached very attractive Christmas stickers to (I don‟t include such covers in my normal collections, though).

And some Novelty covers have, of course, become categories in and of themselves—Diamond‟s Golf-Tee covers, for example, which have actual golf tees attached to the cover.

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ebay Follies Long Beach Matchcover

Club

Billijo Piper, KY: Billijo sent this one in.

Feb 5, 2013

Antique Matchcover

Asking Price: California‟s Long Beach Matchcover Club was $3.99 founded 1957. Its first meetings were held in Houghton Park in North Long Beach. A few original members, such as Loren Ross, still belong. Today, it‟s the largest regional club in the hobby.

Long Beach usually meets on the first Sunday of designated months. In December and July, the club has its Holiday and birthday meetings respectively at announced locations. It also holds Error Corner an annual swapfest in October.

Here‟s another exam- The club bulletin, 'Matchcover Beachcomber,' ple of a production er- comes out ten times per year. Each issue is 8 ror. This is a Superior pages long, which includes two pages of auction cover with a smeared material. The club also runs the Jewelite List. Any striker. Sometimes you member is encouraged to send along articles for may see a partial publication. Ads are free to members, and there‟s striker, where the ma- always a drawing and raffle with each issue. terial prematurely Current officers are: ends, as if it ran out too so, but on this one - President: Steve Rohrer there‟s actually too - Vice-Pres: Bob Hiller much striker material. - Sec/Treasurer: Emily Hiller - Editor: Ellen Gutting Have any Error covers, yourself? Send me Dues are a mere $5, and that can be sent to scans, and I‟ll run se- Secretary/Treasurer Emily Hiller, 2501 W. lected items as space Sunflower, H5, South Coast Metro, CA 92704- permits. 7503. Also, you can contact Emily (714-540- 8220) for information on specific meeting dates and further details.

1020 RMS Bulletin RMS September/October Bulletin March/April 1995, 2013 No., No. 456 5 61 classroom, but it‟s nothing like the one pictured The Mail Box here (it has two rows of interlocking „claws, and it tends to dig „holes‟ in the paper. Mike Schwimmer, MA: Mike found this Ed Wright, CAN: With reference to the article matchbook jigsaw puzzle on “Alligator Match Co., St. Louis‟ on pg. 23, last on Amazon. The maker's issue, I have to say that it existed for sure and the name is White Mountain attached scans will explain my reasoning along Puzzles. Cost is about with the source of my information. $15 or $16. [Ed. note: there were more scans and text than shown here]

Mike Schwimmer, MA: Re: your article on stripping covers in the last bulletin, I am surprised that collectors don't seem to know about the Bostich Staple Remover. It is by far one of the most important stripping tools that I know of. It has a thin, rounded "point" that -- used with care - - will not tear covers at all. I'm attaching a scan of the one I've been using for years along with a scan of the current model which one can get at Amazon for around $5. I highly recommend this little tool.

Also, I find that clipping the raised staple points with a small wire nipper makes the staple easier to pry up as there is less resistance.

Ed. Thanks, Mike. I use a staple remover in the RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 21 Frank Denzler, FL: In connection with your the 1940's and it was experimental. It does also article re: stripping covers, Many years ago, when not have any identifying trademark and if they I first got interested in matchcover collecting hadn't said anything on the outside you would just (many moons ago!) and attended my first pass it up. It has a matte white finish and, yes, it swapfest, I purchased a tool at an auction that I does still glow in the dark. was told is used for stripping the matches from matchbooks (see photo). It may very well be a simple staple remover but it has been very useful to me over the years for opening up the staple from the back of the matchbook and pulling out the staple from the front. I have never seen a tool like this since that first swapfest.

Steve & Nancy Bailey, MN: We read with interest your Hobby History in the January/ February issue bit about the 'Firefly' covers by Arrow Match Corp. I also have not seen one, but we do have a "Glow in the Dark" 40 strike from Diamond Match Co. The person that we got it from was a salesman in the 60's & 70's and he didn't know much about it other than it was from 22 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

Hobby Glossary

Bits & Pieces Lion Match Co. (I) - Chicago-based company; 1917-1993.

Lion Match Co. (II) - South African-based Does anyone actually company. remember when you could go to the movies Lion Safety First - see Safety First (Lion) for 15¢? It was already up to 75¢ when I was a Lions - category for covers issued by Lions kid in the „50s. 15¢.... fraternal organization. David Barbieri, CT, had sigh! 125 as of 9/05.

Badger State MC has Liquor Stores - category for covers issued by folded. That‟s the 5th liquor stores; John Bachochin's, OK, collection club since 1999 to fail. numbered 1,587 as of 11/10.

AMCAL 2013 auctions Lists - listings of actual known covers within are going to be open to specific categories (i.e., DQ list, Girlie catalog, absentee bidders and all etc.); each cover is assigned a catalog number. auctions lots are in the process of being posted Lite King - Pacific Match Co. box trademark; ?- on line! You can pull by 1964. them up on your cell phone! Wow! See Lite-Rite Match Co. (I) - defunct MN-based announcement on p. 11 company; dates not available; 17 covers currently

listed.

Answer to Last Issue’s Lite-Rite Match Co. (II) - defunct Canadian company; dates not available. Matchcover Mystery Little Star - old Diamond box trademark; 1897-c. “Oscar Friedman received the first patent for 1920. what on January 11, 1916?” Loco-foco matches - early matches which were Answer: First reverse-striker pieces of pine dipped alternatively into melted brimstone and a phosphorous compound

Matchcover Mysteries: Lone Star Match Co. - short-lived San Antonio- based company; 1955-1956. 60 covers currently # 103 listed.

“What did Brown & Bigelow call its Pearltone- Long Beach Matchcover Club - Southern like covers?” California-based club; 1957-present.

Los Angeles Match Co. - Los Angeles-based [Stay tuned for the answer in our next issue] company; dates not available. 10 covers currently listed. RMS Bulletin January/FebruaryMarch/April 2013, 1996,No. 5 61No. 458 19 23 24 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

Segregation In [Adapted from Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., The Armed Forces Before 1940 Progress toward equal treatment and opportunity in the armed forces was an uneven process, the result of sporadic and sometimes conflicting pressures derived from such constants in American society as prejudice and idealism and spurred by a chronic shortage of military manpower. The democratic spirit embodied in the Declaration of Independence, for example, opened the Continental Army to many Negroes, holding out to them the promise of eventual freedom.

Yet the fact that the British themselves were taking large numbers of Negroes into their ranks proved more important than revolutionary idealism in creating a place for Negroes in the American forces. Above all, the participation of both slaves and freedmen in the Continental Army and the Navy was a pragmatic response to a pressing need for fighting men and laborers. Despite the fear of slave insurrection shared by many colonists, some 5,000 Negroes, the majority from New England, served with the American forces in the Revolution, often in integrated units, some as artillerymen and musicians, the majority as infantrymen or as unarmed pioneers detailed to repair roads and bridges.

Again, General Jackson's need for manpower at New Orleans explains the presence of the Louisiana Free then of Color in the last great battle of the War of 1812. In the Civil War the practical needs of the Union Army overcame the Lincoln administration's fear of alienating the border states. When the call for volunteers failed to produce the necessary men, Negroes were recruited, generally as laborers at first but later for combat. In all, 186,000 Negroes served in the Union Army. In addition to those in the 149 segregated combat regiments and the labor units, thousands also served unofficially as laborers, teamsters, and cooks. Some 30,000 Negroes served in the Navy, about 25 percent of its total Civil War strength.

Military needs and idealistic impulses were not enough to guarantee uninterrupted racial progress; in fact, the status of black servicemen tended to reflect the charging patterns in American race relations. During most of the nineteenth century, for example, Negroes served in an integrated U.S. Navy, in the latter half of the century averaging between 20 and 30 percent of the enlisted strength. But the employment of Negroes in the Navy was abruptly curtailed after 1900. Paralleling the rise of Jim Crow and legalized segregation in much of America was the cutback in the number of black sailors, who by 1909 were mostly in the galley and the engine room. In contrast to their high percentage of the ranks in the Civil War and Spanish-American War, only 6,750 black sailors, including twenty-four women reservists (yeomanettes), served in World War I; they constituted 1.2 percent of the Navy's total enlistment. Their service was limited chiefly to mess duty and coal passing, the latter becoming increasingly rare as the fleet changed from coal to oil.

When postwar enlistment was resumed in 1923, the Navy recruited Filipino stewards instead of Negroes, although a decade later it reopened the branch to black enlistment. Negroes quickly took advantage of this limited opportunity, their numbers rising from 441 in 1932 to 4,007 in June 1940, when they constituted 2.3 percent of the Navy's 170,000 total. Curiously enough, because black reenlistment in combat or technical specialties had never been barred, a few black gunner's mates, torpedomen, machinist mates and the like continued RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 25

The Military: I Armed Forces 1940-1965, Washington, DC, 1985]

to serve in the 1930's.

Although the Army's racial policy differed from the Navy's, the resulting limited, separate service for Negroes proved similar. The laws of 1866 and 1869 that guaranteed the existence of four black Regular Army regiments also institutionalized segregation, granting federal recognition to a system racially separate and theoretically equal in treatment and opportunity a generation before the Supreme Court sanctioned such a distinction in Plessy v. Ferguson.

The Spanish-American War marked a break with the post-Civil War tradition of limited recruitment. Besides the 3,339 black regulars, approximately 10,000 black volunteers served in the Army during the conflict. World War I was another exception, for Negroes made up nearly 11 percent of the Army's total strength, some 404,000 officers and men. The acceptance of Negroes during wartime stemmed from the Army's pressing need for additional manpower. Yet it was no means certain in the early months of World War I that this need for men would prevail over the reluctance of many leaders to arm large groups of Negroes. Still remembered were the 1906 Brownsville affair, in which men of the 25th Infantry had allegedly fired on Texan civilians, and the August 1917 riot involving members of the 24th Infantry at Houston, Texas. Woodrow Wilson's promise to make the world safe for democracy was forcing his administration to admit Negroes to the Army. Although it carefully maintained racially separate draft calls, the National Army conscripted some 368,000 Negroes, 13.08 percent of all those drafted in World War I.

Black assignments reflected the opinion, expressed repeatedly in Army staff studies throughout the war, that when properly led by whites, blacks could perform reasonably well in segregated units. Once again Negroes were called on to perform a number of vital though unskilled jobs, such as construction work, most notably in sixteen specially formed pioneer-infantry regiments. But they also served as frontline combat troops in the all-black 92d and 93d Infantry Divisions, the latter serving with distinction among the French forces.

Established by law and tradition and reinforced by the Army staff's conviction that black troops had not performed well in combat, segregation survived to flourish in the postwar era. The familiar practice of maintaining a few black units was resumed in the Regular Army, with the added restriction that Negroes were totally excluded from the Air Corps. By June 1940 the number of Negroes on active duty stood at approximately 4,000 men, 1.5 percent of the Army's total, about the same proportion as Negroes in the Navy.

Civil Rights and the Law in 1940 The same constants in American society that helped decide the status of black servicemen in the nineteenth century remained influential between the world wars, but with a significant change. Where once- the advancing fortunes of Negroes in the services depended almost exclusively on the good will of white progressives, their welfare now became the concern of a new generation of black leaders and emerging civil rights organizations. Both the New Deal politicians and their opponents openly courted the black vote in the 1940 presidential election. NAACP urged Roosevelt to appoint a commission of black and white citizens to investigate discrimination in the Army and Navy and to recommend the removal of racial barriers. Nothing immediately came of that, but World War II was looming on the horizon. 26 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561

Editorial Baby Boomers a Boon?

The Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, may just prove to be an unexpected, but much needed, boon to the hobby, it seems to me.

How so? Well, for starters, this is a hobby that is time-consuming, space- consuming, and is practiced indoors. Those are all factors that point to more mature individuals. Also, older people, as a group compared to younger people, grew up in a time when, I believe, collecting (anything) was at its peak. I know, when I was growing up as a kid, I, and all my friends, collected baseball cards, comic books, and a variety of other items.

But, as a teacher, I‟ve noticed over the last 40 years that fewer and fewer of my seventh grade students are collectors of anything, boys even more so. In the early years, I always used to have many students who were coin collectors, stamp collectors, etc; not so anymore. Now they‟re all too busy with their I-phones, I-pads, texting, etc. It would be great if the hobby could come up with some way to tap into that electronic interest, as far as young people are concerned, but I can‟t think of anything that would apply, and I don‟t see it happening.

Now, as we‟re all aware, this is a hobby where children are virtually absent and young-to middle- aged adults are the exception. This is a hobby that is demographically dominated by seniors! In 2007, I surveyed RMS members as to their age, and the average was 62. It‟s probably even somewhat higher now, as the hobby‟s population has dwindled and almost all of the „looky-loos‟ are gone, leaving the hobby pretty much the senior veterans.

So, all of this sets the scene for the Baby Boomers. In 2011, the first of the Baby Boomers started turning 65, and, as this generational wave continues to pass through the society all the way through 2029, we‟ll be having an unusually high number of people becoming 65 and older. And, by and large, all of those people will be retirees, with lots of leisure time, established in their own homes (space), with a higher percentage of resources, etc. etc. Those are also the very same people who grew up in the golden age of collecting. Although, it should be noted that with the economic woes of the last few years, many of those would-be retirees are putting off retirement a few more years.

Still, we have the perfect circumstances for this „bulge‟ passing through the hobby, as well, resulting, hopefully, in an influx of new people coming into the hobby and settling down as serious collectors. Of course, once the bulge finishes passing through, then those very same collectors will be gradually passing away, and the hobby may be back where we are right now...or even worse, since we‟ll have lost a goodly number of our present members by then. So, all this wouldn‟t represent a permanent solution to our dwindling membership, but it would be at least a temporary boost where there may not be any other.

Well, will my prediction here come to pass? Who knows? Where will the hobby be in, say 2040? I have no idea. I‟ll have to write a follow-up editorial then. [I better make a note of that on my calendar. I‟ll be 95 in 2040, and my memory may not be what it used to be]

RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 27 “Which, if any, FANCY categories do you collect? (i.e., Cameo, Foilite, Christmas, etc.) [January - 63 responding]

[All:] 6 * There was some interpretation as to what “Fancies” actu-

ally includes. I excluded categories such as Sticky-backs, Christmas: 27 Pull-Quicks, Animatches, Safety-Tabs, etc, as I think those Uniglo: 12 are more „unique‟ than „Fancy‟. [and with that argument, I Cameo: 12 probably shouldn‟t have included Displays and possibly Jewelite: 12 one or two other of those listed here.] Atlas Foil 12

Matchorama: 11 * I lumped all types of Features into the one category. Features: 11

Foilite: 9 While most responders certainly collected at least some Filigree: 9 types of Fancies, I was surprised that a full third of an- Jewels: 9 swering collectors didn‟t collect any at all—surprising be- Odd-Strikers: 9 cause these are the most colorful, eye-appealing covers to Contours: 9 be had. Full-Lengths: 9

Rainbow: 8 Of those Fancy categories collected, Christmas was, by Matchtone: 8 far, the most popular. Metallics were the least popular. [I Other Die-Cuts: 7 think I‟ve only seen one collector in my hobby career, Jute Foil: 7 other than General, that has specifically requested Metal- Florentine: 7 lics in trade. They do qualify as Fancies, though, since Displays: 7 they have that shiny, reflective surface that is non-standard Woodies: 7 among covers in general. Silktone: 6

Satin: 6 I also find it surprising that Matchoramas didn‟t do sig- Other Full-Color Photo: 5 nificantly better. They‟re sooooo nice! Metallics: 2 None: 21

AMCAL 2013

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We have most of the “vices” in close proximity. Gambling at Thunder Valley, wineries from Auburn to Napa Valley, shopping mega destination complex, Roseville Galleria 1 mile away, Lake Tahoe, ab- solutely stunning, 1 ½ hours drive. And, food choices from casual to gourmet. You're in the middle of a diner's paradise with literally hundreds of choices in a three mile radius.

To be prepared, show up, register, be ready to soak up information and fun exploring the area. Go to: http://www.matchcovercollector.com/mc/index.cfm to check out the auction lots for each three big auctions! This year we are excited to test out absentee bidders for the AMCAL auction! Download the Registration Packet for all information on absentee bidding.

FMI: Loren Moore [email protected] Sierra Diablo 2013 AMCAL Host 28 RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 LOOKING FOR: a complete list of the RMS sets of matchbooks, all sizes and the Supermarket sets. How about exchanging Shell, Perkins AM. low phone # and Hillbillies ? George Cosentini, 12421 Banuelo Cove, San Diego, CA 92130-2277 (858-259-1564) [email protected]...... M/A 13 RECENT RMS AREA AWARDS: -Casino MC - Marc Kamm THE TRI-STATE CARDINAL MATCH- -Badger State MC—Jerome Trendle COVER CLUB is open to all who want to have -AMCAL - Tom Meek fun in the hobby. Seven, well attended meetings a -San Diego MC - Chester & Cheryl Crill year with auctions, raffle, and more. Five 10 page newsletters with color and a mail-in RECENTLY ANNOUNCED RMS CONVEN- auction. FMI, contact JoAnn Wieghaus, 513-741- TION DISPLAY AWARDS: 1127 or jwieghaus@ hotmail.com...... M/A13 -Southeastern MC - Best Florida Display -Hallmark Club: Best Hallmark Display (Hallmark SIERRA-DIABLO MC wants to give you a great Cards) bulletin, the best regional club auctions in the -Denver Strikers MC: Most Different display hobby, and a steady flow of collecting information...information that makes your CORRECTION FOR p. 24-25, LAST ISSUE: collecting efforts sooooo much easier! Join us. Those beautiful die-cuts were sent in by Marc Just go to http://matchcover.org/Sierra...... M/A13 Murphy, not Marc Pelletier.

NEW RMS CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS AVAILABLE. If you would like a copy, just let Terry Rowe know (for hard copy) or the Ed. (for e-mail copy).

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WANTED TO BUY OR TRADE in your YA’LL COME ON IN! Lone Star Matchcover categories: Single feature combs or damaged Club invites you to join the only club in Texas books with at least one row. Minnesota small and the only club waiting for you right now. Visit towns and Palm Springs, CA. John B. Mathot 760 our web site at http://matchcover.org/LoneStar. 322 5263 or [email protected]...... M/A13 Everything you need to get started is right there...... M/A13 WANTED: Dated auto traders. Have over 400 20's, 30's, 40's to trade. Tom Valachovic, 555 EVERY WEEK more RMS members are Benedictine Terrace, Sebastian, FL 32958 561- switching to the e-bulletins—convenient, 388-2936 ([email protected])...... M/A13 delivered right to your computer, easy to archive for later reference, full-color. If you‟re still getting WANTED: Marlboro covers-[five black on red those old, black and white hard copies, just [30 strikes] with one letter on front of each contact the Ed. to switch over...... M/A13 spelling out [P-A-R-T-Y]. [Back says Party at the Marlboro Ranch]. Also Andrew Jackson Error I WANT TO BUY your North Carolina dupes! cover only: Set #1 (1941) Wilton Mason PAYING TOP DOLLAR! Any category in large [email protected] 318-39-4297.M/A13 or small amounts; please call or e-mail if you have matchbook covers for sale. Mike Morris; 2655 TRADE PRESIDENTS SUPERMARKET Bowden Drive, Creedmoor, NC 27522-8811; Ph SETS: full listing of all 14 sets available in 919-528-0558 ([email protected])..1/14 exchange for helping me with my needs. Write or email: WAYNE EADIE, 38 Fairmount Road, Classified ad are free to members on a space Goldens Bridge, NY 10526 or available basis. Just send them in to the Ed. and [email protected]...... M/A13 I‟ll try my best to get them in. 3022 RMS Bulletin RMS November/December Bulletin March/April 1995, 2013 No., No. 457 5 61 "The Army has a program that focuses on MATCHBOOKS IN THE credentialing and licensing, a program much like LAW BOOKS: PART 84 what you discussed off the matchbook cover." [173] by Kenneth H. Ryesky, Esq. Congressman Snyder passed up the heavy ======equipment course and instead applied his G. I. Bill Ken Ryesky (RMS # 9003), member of the New privileges to attend medical school, but there are York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bars, thousands of veterans to be found behind the practices law in East Northport, NY and teaches controls of the cranes, bulldozers and backhoes Business Law at Queens College of the City that build our American infrastructure, all on University of New York. He can be reached account of the G.I. Bill. Many, no doubt, at P.O. Box 926, East Northport, NY 11731 or by responded to matchbooks such as this one from e-mail at [email protected]. my collection.

======[To be continued] The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known in the common parlance as the "G.I. ======Bill," is one of the best investments America ever made in itself. The G. I. Bill made many [173] Record, Hearing before the House Armed educational opportunities affordable to military Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight members and veterans, who thereby have and Investigations, 111th Congress, 2nd Sess., provided and continue to provide for their own H.A.S.C. No. 111-178, pp. 22 - 23 (22 September prosperity and that of their country. 2010).

But the educational and technological environments have evolved over the past six decades, and in 2010, the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing to investigate whether the military was receiving the best bang for the buck in administering their G.I. Bill educational programs.

Congressman Vic Snyder of Arkansas presided over the hearing and, in query of Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Robert L. Gordon III, said,

"I had dropped out of college after two years to join the Marine Corps. And while I didn‟t smoke, somehow I ended up with a matchbook with an offering for a heavy-equipment operator school. Sadly, I probably got it in a bar. But anyway, I ended up with this matchbook, and I called them up. And I thought, 'I could drive a Road Bear.'"

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Anthony J. Stamilio shortly thereafter told Congressman Snyder, RMS Bulletin March/April 2013, No. 561 31

RMS MEMBERSHIP REPORT - MARCH/APRIL 2013 SPONSOR

NEW MEMBERS (*=will trade) 9771*-Richard M. Calvette, 7232 Grosbeak Trail, Roscoe, IL 61073-7836 .. RMS Web Page COLLECTS: Girlies, WWII, Beer, Tobacco, Liquor & Features. Email: [email protected]

9772*-Dusty Paquin, 124 S. Redwood St., Waconia, MN 55387-1222 ...... RMS Web Page COLLECTS: Golf Clubs, Country Clubs and anything golf related. Email: [email protected]

9773--J. Bradley Creed, 1380 Kendall Place, Homewood, AL 35209 ...... RMS Web Page COLLECTS: Texas, Alabama, Small Towns, Breweriana & Universities/Colleges.

ADDRESS CORRECTION 3302-David Pophal, 6645 Wood Cir., W., Middleton, WI 53562-2835 6880-Michael Peter S. Woodard, 344 Old Lake Shore Rd., Lot 15, Gilford, NH 03249-6537 7720-Jene E. Lyle, 8423 Admiral Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80908 8077-Nancy L. Adcock, 1105 Red Coach Ln., Algonquin, IL 60102-3998 9700-Edward A. Talley, 2167 Goldmiller Rd., Bunker Hill, WV 25413 9749-Tom Moubray, 160 Chessington Road, North Chesterfield, VA 23236

DECEASED 8169-Pat Muster (10/20/12) UNITED EASTERN SWAPFEST UPDATE

June 4-8, 2013 - Ramada Plaza Hotel, 1718 Underpass Way, Hagers- Respectfully submitted, town, MD, (On west side of Hagerstown, off I-81, just north of I-70), (301) 797-2500, or (800) 732-0906. Rates are $65.00 Double/Double, Terry Rowe $75.00 King, $105.00 Suite, all plus tax. Reservations are due by May 15, 2013. FMI: Linda Wolfe, 13 Creekstone Dr., Mont Alto, PA 17237, (e-mail: [email protected]), or Shirley Sayers, 1290 Corporation St., Terry L. Rowe Beaver, PA 15009 (e-mail: [email protected]), or call her at 724-728 ------4671. Auction lots (max of 15 lots per person) per Marc Edelman. Ban- quet choices are Prime Rib, Crab Cakes, or Stuffed Pasta Shells. Banquet If you would like to receive the reservations should be sent to Shirley Sayers. Please contact her by May RMS bulletin by email, in full 30th, and definitely no later than June 5th. color, right to your computer, please contact the RMS Editor Some of the display categories will be: Bears; Old Beer covers only; at [email protected]. Birds, no water fowl, no albums; Sugary Sweet Things (candy, ice cream, ______etc), no albums; Canadian Transportation; Cartoon Characters, covers only; Windmills; Maryland, no albums. Did you miss the announcement that the new RMS Constitution BIRTHDAY CLUB: The following club members will be celebrating & By-Laws are available? If birthdays on the dates indicated. Please check your latest roster to get current you want a hard copy, contact addresses and categories: Wally Mains (4/11); Denis Bouchard (4/24) Terry Rowe. If you want it via e If you‟re interested in receiving 200-300 covers or boxes during your birthday -mail, contact the Ed month, send an SASE #10 envelope to: Wally and Pat Mains, 105 Roger Ln., Florence, KY 41042-2334. NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

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Sep/Oct: “Shadow Years Revisited” SOUTHERN SWAPFEST 2013: March 19-23. Hampton Inn, 151 N. Douglas Ave., Altamonte Springs, FL, 407-869 -9000. $75 room rate. Loads of activities. FMI: www. Get Your southernswapfest.com Latest Convention/Swapfest Info! AMCAL 2013: April 25-27, Heritage Inn, 201 Harding Blvd., Roseville, CA, 800-228-4747. $45 room rate. FMI: AMCAL Convention: http://www.matchcovercollector.com [email protected] RMS Convention: “Convention Central” at http:// UES 2013: June 5-9, Ramada Plaza Hotel, Hagerstown, www.matchcover.org MD. Rooms: from $65. FMI: Linda Wolfe, 13 Creekstone Dr., Mont Alto, PA [email protected] Southern Swapfest: at http://southernswapfest.com/ default.aspx RMS CONVENTION 2013: August 18-24, in Erlanger, KY. Convention Chairpersons: Pat Mains, 105 Roger Lane, Florence, KY 41042-2334 (859-525-0588); Bob ADVERTISING RATES Borton, 2583 Wexford Rd., Columbus, OH 43221-3215 (614-486-3964); Betsy Spoff, 503 Underbrook Ct., Display Ads Westerville, OH 43081 (614-846-5728). See Convention Full-Page = $55.00 Quarter-Page = $17.50 Central on RMS web site for all the latest details, names, Half-Page = $30.00 Eighth-Page = $10.00 (N/A for and places. Make your plans now! businesses) Classified Ads

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