Designers eye Carter
for ideas on posters...
CHICAGO (AP) — Pres.-elect
Jimmy Carter will make good
poster material, whereas Pres.
Ford didn't and Nixon art is gather
ing dust, say designers.
They say posters, described as
"disposable art," track the temper
of the times. Gone are those
showing Nixon, Watergate, the
environment and antiwar senti
ments.
Sales are booming for those
featuring celebrities Farrah
Fawcett-Majors, Elton John, J.J.,
the Fonz. Mary Hartman and King
Kong.
Robert Cenedella, a New York
designer who created two current
Carter posters, says Ford did not
inspire many posters, but that
'poster people will be willing to
spend more energy developing
poster ideas" after Carter be
comes president.
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Peanut seats
CHICAGO (AP) — Like some
thing different for your living
room? Try a Peanut love seat.
The Peanut, with its cushions
that look like peanuts in a shell,
was the big attraction at the winter
home furnishings show this week.
The two-seater is 89 inches long,
with a backrest on each side so
people can sit facing one another.
Commissioners make
$9,000 cut in own pay
Lane County Commissioners voted Wednesday to temporarily cut
their own salaries by almost $9,000.
The decision to reduce salaries to $20,000 a year was supported
by the commission's two newest members, Archie Weinstein and Jerry
Rust, who both campaigned on the salary issue dunng the November
elections.
The cuts become effective Feb. 1 and will be reviewed in four
months.
The commission's third member, Bob Wood, opposed the salary
reduction, charging it was arbitrary'' and not based on "good sense.
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Baseball collector Lance Shelton files his
cardboard treasures in just about every niche
of his house. What began as a childhood
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hobby for him is full grown info a 40,000 card
collection valued at more than $2,000
Collector fields ball cards
By JOCK HATFIELD
Of the Emerald
Most of us have in our early lives collected,
or at least possessed, baseball cards before
leaving them behind for more complex pleas
ures But Lance Shelton is not one of us When
he sees something good, he holds on to it
Shelton, at the age of 29, has a baseball
card collection now totaling more than 40,000
cards
He started the collection inconspicuously
enough, watching baseball games on TV as a
kid and buying 10-packs of cards for a nickel
In high school the number of his cards grew
with his enthusiasm, only to suffer a major
setback when his mother threw out a good
portion of his collection after he left for college
Three years ago, as a social studies teacher
and part-time coach at a Eugene high school,
he again began trading what was left of his
collection with his students Soon he was ad
vertising in papers, buying bubble gum packs
by the score and even ordering cards by mail
A kid's hobby made it to the big time
“I have always felt bad about those cards I
lost, especially the ones I had when I was
little,” Shelton says, remembering his high
school loss 'Those are the ones I really
wanted to get back.”
Leading the way past a full 10-foot Christ
mas tree, still beautifully lit up and green on the
Jan. 10, Shelton sheepishly enters a room and
opens a cabinet. Inside are shoeboxes of
cards, stacked rows of cards, packets of cards
— five shelves of them Boxes, unnoticed be
fore, are now seen on a table and on the floor.
They, too, are filled with baseball cards.
"I open the cupboards all over the house and
find baseball cards," says Cuyla Shelton of her
husband's hobby. "You wouldn’t believe some
of the junk he has in there. He even saves gum
wrappers!"
What drives Shelton to do this? For one
thing, he says he has always been interested
in sports, as is attested by his fit figure. “I have
always loved sports and anything to do with
them," he says. "I played on three teams in
high school and I'm coaching sports now."
In addition to carrying a picture of a player on
front, baseball cards have information on the
back detailing personal statistics about the
player. These statistics have helped make
Shelton a master of trivia. "I know statistics on
games and players from 1950 on up," he says.
Shelton also admits that nostalgia draws
him to the cards. "I guess my favorite card is
my 1954 Jackie Robinson," he reflects. "He
was my favorite player when I was growing up
and I have always had sort of an attachment to
his card "
Shelton values his collection at more than
$2,000 'There are lots of collectors in the
United States," he says "I am the biggest in
Oregon, but there are some larger collections
in the Midwest and East Baseball cards are
really a good investment," he says "Their
value is always growing."
Like most collectors, Shelton claims he is
ready to sell his collection when the need for
money comes along, but he has not yet sold
any of it.
The value of any particular card, according
to Shelton depends on its condition Cards can
range in condition from mint to fair Shelton
says “superstar" cards of players such as
Aaron, Mays and Mantle, along with sets from
particular years draw the highest price
The price of many cards has risen well
above the original five for a nickel. A 1908
Horace Wagner, for example, is worth some
where around $1,500
"They used to put the cards out with to
bacco," Shelton explains, "and Horace didn't
like tobacco, so he forced them to stop making
his cards. There are only about eight of them in
existence today."
But more important than his interest in
sports or nostalgia is the genuine satisfaction
Shelton gets from collecting According to his
wife, he often spends two hours a night sorting
his collection. "It's the hunt for the cards I
enjoy," explains Shelton “I can buy cards from
a catalog, but it's more exciting to look through
the want ads to find old collections for sale, or
even to buy the gum packages not knowing
what’s going to be inside "
Asked what his friends think of his collection,
Shelton replied, "At first they think I am a little
strange but after a while they realize that things
like electric trains have been owned and en
joyed by grown men for a long time They learn
that just because kids enjoy something doesn't
mean we can’t enjoy it as well.
Shelton hopes one day he will be able to
start a club in Eugene with other adult collec
tors, giving baseball card collecting a more
respected name He urges anyone with
baseball cards to give him a call at 345-7748.
Although Shelton has managed to carry his
childhood hobby into his adult life, the transi
tion is not complete. "I’m afraid of what the
parents in the neighborhood are going to do to
us, says Cuyla Shelton. "Lance keeps giving
away sacks of his stale sugary bubble gum to
the neighborhood kids. He won't eat it him
self."