European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Page 9 collection evaluated at Zweibruck photo by Floyd Harrington Kalser Shtern Bureau chief Germany sits collecting May Only be a Token Hobby for some but collecting tokens is a Hobby for Russell Daisley of the 26th Security police so the tokens he collects were made and used in the during two periods of the 1800s when there was a drastic shortage of coins in the first Daisley was during the jacksonian the second look place during the civil during the jacksonian said merchants had to make change one Way or initially they started making slips or postage Stamps some kind of counter to give then they started having tokens times tokens most of those now called hard times were cast by Scofield of Daisley said about 200 Vani ties were some advertised the company who gave them in change others had inscriptions which related to president Andrew Jackson and his fight against the world they were normally Worth a said most of them dont say one they not one cent for tribute Means for he added that while some of the tokens were coined in most were 5 during the civil coins for change disappeared people thought the Metal Content of the coins was Worth More than their face value so they hoarded Daisley nearly varieties of tokens were used in 23 states on both sides of the Mason Dixon said were coined with patriotic slogans others featured government the native said he switched to collecting tokens nearly is years before that he had collected he it got to the Point that what i needed were key coins that were Way out of my Means to so i started collecting hard times later he added civil War and in 197s he began collecting Bicentennial commemorative medals and Daisley has now about pieces in he arc Back in Russell Daisley checks one Side of a 19th Century bookmakers hard limes the states in a his collection includes More than the rest Are foreign wooden Money and commemorative the value of his tokens depends on their rarity and How anxious a collector is to add one to his tokens Are rated on a scale that runs from 1 to a rarity of 1 Means More than 500 were a rarity of 10 denotes there is Only one Token of that kind known to at May list for just a few but a rarity number 9 38 known to exist May list for up to if you can find then when you do find the Book Price might be but the Guy who has it May want for said besides buying or swapping tokens with other he also Hunts for Good in antique shops and Flea he recently found such a buy at ram i bought four tokens if the Guy finds out about this hell probably kill me from a dealer at a Flea Market one was a pattern piece made by John Wilkin its Copper and was made in Wil Kinson was like Paul Revere in the Copper said the four tokens Cost him he believes the Wilkinson piece to be a Neofa kind rarity with a Grin on his face he estimated its value to be Well Over he Ive never seen or read of one Daisley said that it want unusual for a Coin collector or dealer to be unaware of a tokens he explained that Coin refer ence books usually devote Only one or two pages to tokens and few Coin enthusiasts Are interested in researching them else May spend 3040 hours researching the history and value of a single he corresponds with other collectors and is a member of the civil War Token society and the Token medal Socie both societies publish Cata logs which list the value and rarity of All know the Cata logs list new finds and offer histor ical data on tokens and he also is a member of the american numismatist the dedicated wooden Money and the american Bicentennial commemorative through these organizations he keeps up to Date on the interests of other the Swap system theres a German collector up near Frankfurt who collects nothing but tokens or medals with ships on if i find something Hes interested he May have a hard times Token i can Swap him there Are other collectors who have Only Hitler stuff or collect things with just hot air balloons on i have a lot of that stuff i keep to Trade said dais his latest collecting Bicentennial is Well under he has amassed nearly 900 medals made from Wood and various one of his favorite Bicentennial medals has the likenesses of presidents washing ton and Nixon on one it was put out shortly before Nixon retired and is one Troy ounce of pure he Daisley estimates his tokens Are Worth about but says their monetary value is secondary to the enjoyment he gets from researching pieces or finding new his Only complaint i dont get the time to work with the collection id like yank teenager in Affens his love for music Nyji Colonna staff writer Athens Sis seventeen Earo Tanner Parsons has found the Ideal Way express his love for music on the i arts radio Parsons has his own saturday rav show geared for the Athens teenage listen ing from 12 is to 1 weve had a radio station for said Larry station but we didst have a show aimed at the High school about three and half years ago we decided to hold auditions to get one of the students to do a the kids know More what the kids want than anybody High schooler Mike Sickell was selected and got the show when Sickell Parsons was selected to replace they advertised and one of my friends said i should try out since i have a big Parsons so i they were really just looking for someone with a Clear none of us was any but i was whose father Robert is a Cap Tain with the 2140th comm has been doing the show for about 18 its at first i listened to each of the tapes of my show and thought they were pretty now i go Back Over some of the old tapes and want to in i go Back Over some of the newer ones and want to in still learn he Ive gotten a re to really Woi Fedj beg be getting my voice kept Fellip through my stuck Tinct paper up my nose you dont Parsons said he tries to follow the top 40 for the audience As much As but throws in some oldies now and then and also sneaks in some harder in an Alice Cooper his two favorite accomplishments on the which is titled school Days during the school year and summer Days during the were musical collages of Cooper and Elvis i really worked hard on i think they were pretty Parsons says his greatest problem now is trying to stay away from the radio Sta the people Here Are pretty neat and i like to work 1 dont like the Only thing that could get in the Way of my radio show for me is baseball deep Down inside i want to be a professional baseball the youth has survived his first year and half As a disc jockey and has lived through the nightmares of live i do some live stuff and some i try to read announcements about whats happen ing around the school and one show wan a total 1  read any my biggest problem is speaking tvs so bad that after announcements 1 just by on the air and no i try to keep things Parsons is scheduled to leave Athens in the Spring and plans to take the test for a third class radio in still not sure if i want to go into radio professional its a lot of but like i i want to be a baseball the is that even though i do pretty Well the Competition in the states is really i dont know if in a Good enough Pitcher to make it in the if maybe Tanner who says hell never grow up because he loves base Ball and can become a baseball that a Good my two goals in life Are to play baseball and meet Alice maybe hell meet baseball players and play Alice Cooper records Carter flight Cost Washington up the Cost of flying air Force one is per military aide which Means the total air fare for president Carter and his party during his seven nation trip was nearly