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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1962
Page
5
A commemorative Dag Hammarskjold stamp copy shows an error with an off center inverted yellow background. The United Nations building appears on a white field and the yellow shading intrudes from the left, with Maplewood New Jersey cancellation marks visible on the lower stamp.
Ben Gelman discusses stamp errors such as inverted and off center designs including the Dag Hammarskjold issue and the 1992 Philippines Pagsanjan Falls stamp. He notes how printing mistakes trigger fierce debate in philately and cites U S and international examples.
The Valier Board of Education voted to discontinue the 34 year old Valier High School due to enrollment dwindling to 65 students, with 11 attending Christopher and Benton high schools. The town, once a coal town tied to Old Ben 22 mine, faced population decline after the mine closed in 1960, forcing graduates to seek work elsewhere.
Brownsville, the first county seat of Jackson County, lies buried under a cornfield near Murphysboro. A burned log courthouse, floods, and a distant river site led to its decline after 1843, leaving only tilting tombstones, rock remnants, and two old wells on the Thomas A. Worthen farm along Route 144.
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