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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1977)
Northwest city dwellers migrate to woods SEATTLE (AP) — Ever thought of giving up the frenzied pace of city life and suburban sprawl, and building your own log cabin nes tled among the trees. Well, thousands in the North west have, and they are as inde pendent about their rustic lifestyle as their forefathers who built log cabins which still dot the land scape. "Rather than living in a cracker box, we re trying to live simply,'' said Mrs. Dale Erickson, a trans planted Californian whose family now lives in Sequim. “It seems to express our own way of life better than ranch styles." The Ericksons escaped California “where everything is sterile" 3Vi years ago, and have owned up to three log cabins at one time. Some log cabin owners are adamant — “We wouldn't have anything else," says Mrs. James PRO-homo-sapiens— boll weevils and tussock moths all must die. As well as anti-homo-sapienty in any man.” PRO is optimistic about the final outcome in the struggle against anti-homo-sapienty. "We PRO homo-sapiens are the stronger of the two. We will prevail but I can't say how long before we have kil led the last anti-homo-sapient,” he says. PRO wasn't always a philosopher and, no, he wasn’t born with that name. He was baptized Erwin Wood Williams in an Episcopal Church, in rural Ohio on June 13,1904. He spent his boyhood in Virginia where he began a lifelong love af fair with history, theology and philosophy. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1925, he taught school until 1930 when he entered Kenyon College in Ohio to study for the Episcopal ministry. Three years later, in 1933, he received a divinity degree and was appointed lay vicar of St. Mark s Episcopal Church in To nopah, Nev. He married a Tonopah woman and was subsequently fired by his bishop. Unemployed, at the peak of the Depression, the couple moved to Eugene where they stretched their savings so he Hansel — but log cabin dwellers also say their rustic abodes are cheaper to build, heat, clean and maintain. Construction costs are cut more through labor than matenals, be cause one or two persons can raise a log home in a weekend, using a commerically sold, precut log kit marked by letters and num bers The Hansel’s 5-bedroom, 3-bath log home cost them could attend graduate school A few years afterward, in 1937, the couple divorced — a break that lasted until their remarriage in 1972 in Springfield. Williams, meanwhile, left Eugene for his native Virginia, and began a 14-year study of philosophy — a germination period which culminated in his proclamation of PRO-homo sapienty on July 4, 1951. Twenty years later, after a career of activism in Virginia, he moved to Springfield where he dropped Erwin Wood Williams and became, by court decree, PRO-homo-sapiens, citizen Why did he change his name? $30,000; they estimate as a wood frame it would have cost twice as much Other savings are in cleaning and home heating bills. A mother of two said, “You don t find fingerprints everywhere I just vacuum the walls every two to three weeks," another said In heating bills, “there's defi nitely no comparison,' Mrs. Han sel said. "We have two fireplaces, one in the basement and one on (Continued from Page 1) “To advertise with my name, the most powerful word in all ling uistics," he says. "PRO-homo sapiens is the holiest word in our language It tells all that is good on this planet earth." PRO is alert for identifying anti-homo-sapient public leaders In his book, "Scientific Morality, he lashes out against religious fundamentalists. “They literally accept a myth that Noah took pairs of every living creature aboard the ark There are 250,000 species of insects. Only a religous psychotic would believe Noah had 500,000 insects aboard.” Mark Hatfield is described as a "sad ex ample of a man who is inade the main floor, which keep the house warm because it's self insulating." Low maintenance costs and high resale value are other economies "We won't ever have to paint the walls," Mrs Hansel noted And because log cabins are solid wood, not plastic," they bring a high resale price, log cabin companies say, as much as 20 per cent a year appreciation, compared with about 13 per cent for conventional homes quately competent for public office because he does too much pon tificating on religion." Other favorites are Scoop Jackson: "A jughead jingo The poorest excuse for a Scandina vian;" Lady Bird Johnson: "Neither a lady nor a bird;" Anymore though, PRO is run ning out of breath He s 72 and in sadly declining health His once prolific letters-to-editors are now fewer and fewer His eyes are fail ing and his hearing is nearly gone, but his spirit remains proud and persistent Lying on a couch in his modest Springfield home he says, "I’m old and tired but wiser than any other man 300 antique 505 tawny CLASSIFIEDS (Continued from Page 11) BRENOA HAWES — Happy 21 « hav« a pool day Love Hurtbutt Hoghaon Hocbfeld Wilson and Any 121 ROCK: Keep that ftrtm* clutched •! a a* mosl over. my bee! to you as a soon to be Ch» Psi member Love aNrays Harnett 121 ANN ABEL — Hey Lewis Saturdays the day' Don ! over iNdutge' Happy Birthday Dig? Love. Your Other Roommates 1 21 ROB S. — Good luck in toe last M of the Big I Love. 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