The Prohibition Trust Fund is looking for an institution interested in
taking over an extensive collection of Prohibition Party campaign artifacts
(buttons, banners, tickets, posters, etc.). If you know of any library,
museum, political science department, or other likely candidate, please
contact:  Russell V. Hallock, Treasurer, Prohibition Trust Fund, 51 East
Main, Washingtonville, New York 10992 (tel. 845-496-3326, 0800-1500 hours
only).
  The Trust Fund does not own the collection, but it has been a major
financial backer of acquisitions, and it has become dissatisfied with the
private individual who is storing the collection. Directors of the Trust
Fund are drawn from the International Organization of Good Templars, the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the United Methodist Board on Church and
Society, and the Prohibition party.
  The Chairman of the Prohibition Party, who is a dealer in political
memorabilia, has built the collection as a personal project over the past 30
years, with financial assistance from the Trust Fund. Recently, he sold the
office where the collection had been displayed, packed everything into
boxes, and stashed it here-n-there, in-and-around his personal residence.
This situation is unacceptable to the Trust Fund.
  The Trust Fund will pay to have the collection shipped to another
location, and it might also contribute something annually toward curating.
Legal ownership of the collection is murky, but the Trust Fund and the
Prohibition Party will deal with that problem. All that this announcement
seeks is suggestions on who might be interested in receiving the collection.
  Send all comments to Mr. Hallock; I am only publicizing the issue.
  James Hedges, Secretary, Partisan Prohibition Historical Society, Inc.,
Box 212, Needmore, Pennsylvania 17238.

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