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IV THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR Sept. 3, 1974 i 12B Collecting beer cans comes to head as pastime By ELLEN WARREN Chicago Dally Newt Industry had tea-riffic year; NAIROBI, Kenya Kenya's tea Industry had orfe of its best years last yea-, when 56,578,000 kilograms of tea were produced. Of this 51, 528,200 kilograms were exported. Tea Board a I ain P.S.T. Mirie said Kenyan tea exports to Britain where the bulk of the country's tea is exported showed a marked decline.

Overall tea imports fell from 192,109 metric tons in 1972 to 185,498 metric tons in 1973. Kenya remains the biggest tea producer in Africa. M. Traffic lights can't do it all M1NEOLA, N.Y. A study by the Nassau County Department of Public Works indicates that traffic lights are no guarantee against accidents.

Comparing accident rates at 26 intersections before and after installation of. traffic lights, the researchers discovered there had been 154 accidents in a two- to three-, year period before, and 157 after. Injuries increased from 83 to 95 and fatalities dropped from three to two. Clayton Tichelar will drink to that or would have, before a bad stomach reduced his drinking to malted milks. Tichelar, 43, Is a city fireman who started col-'lecting beer cans after reading that i a 's Meister Brau Brewery was going out of business a few years back.

"I went over to the library. Sure enough, there were 57 breweries in Chicago at one time. I got all the addresses of the different breweries from the had a rlverboat, sort of sailing out a picture frame. It was really pretty. If you'd see It, you'd fall In love with it." How does one, obtain cans for such a wide-ranging collection? "The only way I can get an old can is trade it.

If I sell it, all I've got is money," says Tichelar. Money is out. "Be a trader, not a traitor," reads the organization newsletter, which contends that money should have no part in beer-can collecting. library. Some were torn down, some of the buildings were still standing.

I've been taking pictures of them before they're torn down." "They almost look like castles," says Tichelar, who at last year's annual convention in Cincinnati was named Cone Top Quart Can King of the United States (A cone top for those not in the know-has a cap and is "just like a tin bottle," Tichelar explained with gusto.) Like most collectors, Clayton Tichelar has a dream. (While his collection is considered among the best (more than 2,000 cans filling the walls of his basement), he's still got an itch for one old U.S. beer can. ''Ooh," he says wistfully. "The one that I really would like to get? At one time I was a lithographer for Continental Can and I remember printing a Cook's Goldblume." "I remember printing it in the early '50s.

It was a cone top and it was a very pretty yellow can and it CHICAGO, 111, Beer. Specifically, beer cans. They're becoming a national pastime. Quietly without nearly the raucous gaiety associated with the brew the hobby of collecting beer cans is frothing all over the country. In the Chicago area alone, the Windy City chapter of the Beer Can Collectors of America claims 138 members.

In is either a. cone top or a regular 12-ounce can." "I love my beer," understates Frenzel, a Chicago policeman now on leave. "Definitely, definitely," he says when asked if there has been a recent upsurge of interest in collecting beer cans. "It may have to do with nostalgia. Let's face it, the art of brewing in the United States is dying We're mostly dedicated to the art of brewing and the preservation of it." ternationally, there are 3.046 members, many of them almost obsessive on the subject of cans.

ANNOUNCING OUR Denver Wright of St. Louis, one of the seven founders of the organiza tion in 1970, is one exam pie. Wright, the club histori ilstiS)lmIlII5IlIme, an, collects full beer cans only and in that respect he Try is unusual. Most members are content with empties. "I've got a personal Wright explains about his cans.

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