Wednesday, March 24, 1976
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Philatelist's motives vary
By PATTY TOBIAS
Staff Writer
A stamp collection often relects the interests of its collector.
On the third floor of Snow Hall, for example, there is an exhibit of stamps decorated with pictures of butterflies and moths. The stamps belong to Christopher Starr, Ottawa, Canada, graduate student in entomology.
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Charles Wyttenbach, professor of physiology and cell biology, who said yesterday he had always been attracted to Iceland from England or from Iceland and Canada in his collection.
Both Wyttenbach and Starr are quick to point out that their collections aren't limited to insects or stamps from northern countries.
MANY COLLECTORS start with a general collection, including stamps from foreign countries or perhaps stamps handed down from relatives.
Stamp collecting is as old as stamps themselves. It began shortly after postal usage. The idea was to create a stamp collection.
time, stamps weren't used to pay for postage.
Philatelic societies sprang up so the collectors could trade with each other. Philately" comes from a Greek word meaning "to trade that has been franked, such as a stamp."
Collectors have many places to get their stamps. Some take them from letters. Others prefer stamps that haven't been used.
FOR THOSE WHO want mint, or unused stamps, the United States Postal Service sells commemorative stamps through its local post offices. Each year, 15 to 20 types of stamp that commemorate people and events are sold.
In honor of the bicentennial, sheets of
stamps with pictures of all 50 state flags were
issued.
According to Donald Wetzel, manager of customer relations for the Lawrence Post School, he is a "mindful listener."
All of the 100,000 stamps that were ordered, were sold in about 10 days.
"They just disappeared, zip—like that," Wetzel said.
Entry deadline established for book collecting contest
Closing date for entries in the 20th annual Svnder Book Collecting Contest is April 16.
The contest is open to University of Kansas students, and is divided into two sections, graduate and undergraduate. Each entrant must submit a proposal outlining the purpose of his collection and a plan for use of the materials, at least ten of which must be annotated.
Prizes of $100 for first place and $50 for second will be awarded in each section. These are in the form of tokens redeemable at the Kansas Union Oread bookstore.
The Lawrence Police Department has begun a new program to combat the rising number of citizens band radio thefts in the area.
Lawrence police will mark CB's
About 200 citizens have taken advantage of this free service so far, he said.
Detective Ted Crady said Monday that CB owners could come to the police station and have their social security and driver's license in addition to having them in addition to the radio's serial number.
Within a month, windshield stickers stating that the equipment has been marked will be available to participating owners, Cradv said.
The information engraved on the radio and the owners' addresses will be kep t on file cards to help police quickly check and trace stolen radios.
Crady said that police departments in other cities, such as Kansas City, Mo., had a problem with the cops.
"A thief is more likely to walk away from a car with a sticker showing the equipment used."
Sponsors for the contest are Elizabeth Snyder of Kansas City, herself an enthusiastic book collector, and the Oread bookstore.
This year the contest is being organized by librarians Jacqueline Howlett at Watson Library and Ann Williams at Spencer Research Library.
WILLIAMS SAID yesterday that the contest was judged mainly on the quality of the proposal. She said the judges didn't look for an expensive collection of "first editions." Past winners have used paperbacks. The purpose of the competition, she is to encourage students to build up their own collections and to realize it could be fun.
Howlett said nine entries had been received so far. There are usually between five and ten entries.
E. J. James Helyar, curator in graphics at Spencer, said that although the number of entries had declined over the years, the number of recent entries had been impressive.
FINALISTS WILL be judged April 23 by William Albrecht, professor of English; William B. Hancock, professor of biology and cell biology; and Charles D. Michelena of the "Adventure" bookstore at Hillcrest.
Subject matter isn't limited to any field, and past entries have reflected a wide range.
In last year's competition, the graduate division was won by Susan Lee Pentin, who chose the topic "Hitler's Germany and the Second World War." The undergraduate division was won by Jaqueline Veltch for "C. S. Lewis: Myth, Allegory and Gospel."
A "Book Collectors" display in the Archives Gallery of Spencer, arranged in conjunction with the contest, shows some book collections from the past.
Wetzel mentioned two other stamps that have been sold for the bicentennial. The first, sold in October, depicted the Liberty bell.
THE SECOND, a set of three stamps called 'The Spirit of 76,' shows a picture of the Revolutionary War drummer, fife player, and flare bearer.
Some people also collect mint definitive stamps, which are the ones normally used
Stamp magazines and journals tell
collectors about what will
appear on their wallets be available
New stamps aren't the only ones attractive to some collectors, Chris Caldwell, University of Kansas alumnus, has a collection of Confederate stamps.
"AS A CHILD, he was extraordinarily well-organized," he said. Caldwell knew a stamp dealer in Kansas City and others in New York on Nassau Street, where many stamp dealers work. He bought the stamps he was interested in from them.
Caldwell's interest in his collection comes and goes. Many other collectors find they don't have as much time to devote to their collections as they would like.
According to Wyttenbach, many collectors don't keep their stamps in stock.
"I knew with some precision what I wanted," he said.
"This is where the time comes in," he said.
INSTEAD OF ALBUMS, the collectors sometimes put stamps in drawers, planning to use them for collections.
Natalija Kuzmanovic, *Lawrence sophomore*, has been collecting stamps for about six years. She originally found an advertisement selling stamps in a magazine and later received several packets of international stamps and found herself on a mailing list.
Stamp collecting is a long-term hobby that can involve friends and relatives.
"It started out as my idea," she said, "but as I lost interest, it turned into a family event."
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Kuzmanovic said the economies of several countries were based on revenue from taxation.
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Kuzanovic said she isn't concerned with the value of her collection.
"I do it for aesthetic enjoyment," she said.
Starr said he spent about two work days a year on his collection.
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BECAUSE COLLECTORS have different interests, their collections are different in content and style. Starr isn't interested in mint stamps. He said he preferred stamps that have "brought people into communication."
"I have an album that has the stamps I really dig," he said. "I try to keep it down to
People who have thoughts about the end of the universe might as well turn out the rights, because University of Kansas doesn't say that it's nothing to lose sleep over.
Cosmology, the study of the origin and evolution of the universe, is an extremely difficult subject to talk about, mainly because none of the evidence is conclusive.
One of these, the big-bang theory, says that the universe will continue to expand faster.
The other two theories are rooted in the belief that an explosion 15 to 20 billion years ago produced a supernova.
Three theories exist for the explanation of the evolution of the universe. One, the steady-state theory, has been discredited as it was believed to be treated out of nothing, a virtual impossibility.
Larry Kelsey, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said yesterday that a good analogy was the throwing of a baseball into the air.
He said that when one throws a ball into the air it comes right back down to earth, a duplication of the oscillating theory. If one could throw a ball so that it would overcome the earth's gravitational pull and continue falling toward it, he would be estimating the big-bang theory. Kelsey said.
THE OTHER, the theory of an oscillating universe, says that this expansion will gradually come to a halt, and then all the galaxies will come back down together.
"Most of the more recent estimates of how much mass there is in the universe indicate that there is not quite enough to stop this expansion," he said.
Kesley said, "The question is 'Did the original explosion have enough force to kind of cause this matter to continue expanding forever?'"
Kelsey said that he favored the big-bang theory because most of the recent evidence has supported it rather than the oscillating universe theory.
HE SAID THAT the explanation depended on how much mass existed in the universe.
"THE SUBJECT IS so bloody complicated," he said, "that you can give two different people the identical set of data and the interpretation that it's going to come out of it may very likely differ between the two of them."
Universe origin still unknown
"The evidence is not conclusive one way or the other," he said, "It's just kind of hairline. You an intercept it your way or you can intercept it his waw."
Stephen Shawl, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said that the nature of the universe is such that we don't understand it.
Shawl said that it all hung on the interpretation of observational material.
Kelsey said that there wasn't a violent disagreement among astronomers as to whether the universe would continue to expand or gradually stop.
"There is nothing saying. This is the way to interpret it," he said.
KELSEY SAID that there are two new theories, one involving an enthraler and the other involving a non-enthraler.
of galaxies. He said that he was skeptical of both because they are new and have no observational basis other than that of their originators.
"As far as I can tell," he said, "it looks
in the universe will just continue to expan-
late."
Kelsey said that if the oscillating theory was true that it would be another 15 to 20 billion years before it would make any difference on the earth.
"The sun would burn out before the universe would start contracting." he said.
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