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Show 5;2. L ;·fe)1 Mas·a Z/ . i /1~tJ / 11 MILLION STAMPS =3 BUSES TilE STAMP BOOKS I'll AT GOT ST. FRANCIS ITS l'iEW BUSES (REAR) MAKE A PICTURE Il'i THE iI "1.-'2-- '- Fe):;, :6, 1900 For four years, St. Francis Parish School ill Provo, Utah managed to keep its venerable school buses going only by endless patching and tinkering .. But one day Father Colloly, the parish priest, was riding in a bus "hell a fronl whcell'olla)J~cd . Glumly, Fatllf'r Colloty realized that what he needed 111)\\ "a< Iwl a mechani c but a miracle. His miracle manifested ibelf ill an odd up-to-date form. Hearing a\,oul a man "ho gut himsel f a new car fur trading stamps, Father C(OlIot)' "rol(' Ihe Guld Sirike Trading Slam)J Co. and asked if the company would trade a ne" school bus fur Iheir stamps. ]\;0 buses ,'ere 86 S~OW I~ FRONT OF THE SCHOOL. AT RIGIIT IS FATHER COLLOTY listed in their catalogue, replied the company, but this didn ' t matt er. For 3,148 books of ] ,200 stamps each it would proyide a $9,000 bus. The parish mothers promptly began besieging friend s and the stamps poured in. Along with Gold Strike stamps came green S & H s tamp~ and Father Colloty decided to try his luck there. Sure enuugh, S & H was willing: two buses for 6,-l24 books. The mothers began writing parochial schools all oyer the U.S. and in four months had ma5sed a total of 11.5 million stamps. Heroically, the muthers pasted them in bu(Ok s and this winter St. Francis students are riding to sc houl in style and on schedule. |
