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4 B SUNDAY. JULY IS. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON American Imagination Given Expansion by Author Faulkner (Editor'i notes U n 1 1 d Press International aikad Kenan Protestor of English C. Hugh Holman. of the Univanity of North Caro lina. Chapal Hill. N.C.. 1 notad tpacialiit In English and Amarican literature, for hit appraisal of the lata novelist William Faulkner.) By C. HUGH HOLMAN Written for United Press International William Faulkner is dead, and we are all the poorer for his passing. Yet the expansion which he gave the American Imagination is a permanent fact. We are different and better people because he took the materials of the southern United Slates and fashioned from them in love, compas sion, anger and pity a uni verse of great scope, strong purpose, and artistic integrity Between 1829 and 1938, when Faulkner's genius was al its flaming peak, he impris oned his vision of human ex perience in a group of fine ahort stories and a scries of magnificent experimental nov els, each of which sought and found a new way of expres sing his view of the human dilemma. Rest in Stories Almost certainly his perma nent fame will rest on these short stories and on "The Sound and The Fury," "As I Lay Dying," "Light in Au gust," and "Absalom, Absa lom." For they represent a seven years' achievement of startling great magnitude. His later works - notably the Snopcs Triology and the re :ent comedy "The Ricvors" - have adopted the more re laxed manner and less de minding form of folk humor, and showed a diminution of his imaginative powers. Yet even they are lesser works only when set against the magnificence of his achieve ment In the early thirties. The awarding of the Nobel prize for literature to Faulk ner in 1949 was a crowning recognition of his accomplish ment, and the last decade of his life has been spent as a major figure in world litera ture. Most Impressive Yet it Is basically appropri ate that the end of his long career came In Oxford, Missis sippi, where it began, a place whose soil and soul seeded his best work from its beginning. For startling though his command of novellstic tech niques was, unusual and com. mWv is , I J J ft I I 1 .,,?,;,. USibJL WILLIAM FAULKNER 'The Poorer for His Passing' polling though his use of rhe toric was, and almost fright ening though his ability to see into human motive and emo tion was, it was In weaving a great expression of the human spirit otit of the southern American experience that he wrought his most Impressive accomplishment. In more than 20 volumes of short stories, short novels, and novels, he recorded the south ern exnerience as It impinged upon the denizens of his irr. aginary Yoknapatawpha coun ty, in Mississippi, and in so doing presented American lit erature with a mass of work of Balzacan scope and power. Faulkner's Hall-Mark The south's experience of defeat, disaster, and lost dig nity, linked with a sense of order and human responsibil ity, were shaped in Faulkner s hands Into something very close to a cosmic view of his tory, a view that sought witn passionate Intensity for mean ings that transcend and ex plain facts and particularities. This intensity was, together with his fertile imagination, Faulkner's hall-mark-one that expressed itself In technical experiment, in impassioned rhetorical language, and in the sense of being larger than life which the citizens of his myth ical county possess. For the denizens of Yokna patawpha loom larger than life, Immense In feeling and movement. Upon them sweep howling winds from long sha dows - across their slate, (heir region, their nation, and finally their world. Basically simple earthy folks of the south, when the furies pos sess them, they lend to be come Gods and demigods. In a world ashamed of feeling, inhibited about moral com mitment, and embarrassed by rhetoric, Faulkner dared to present a cosmic dream of his tory, to picture the glory and the tragedy of man. In accepting the Nobel prize Faulkner expressed his confi dence that man would not on ly endure but that he would prevail. In this sad moment of the passing of his earthly body, we look at the living world which Faulkner's imag ination created for us and echo that confidence as a faith well merited and expressed. Garner Hamper Gives Trip Impressions (Editor's notet Initial im pressions of an American Field service summer have been sent to Medford by Garner Haupert Jr., who is spending his summer in Stor Delgum. Norway. Hau pert, the, ton of Mr. and Mrs. Garner T. Haupert, 222 Valley View dr., hat com pleted hit trip acrott the United States and Atlan tic to his summer home. Americans Abroad, AFS, it tpontoring the Med ford student's exchange. In the first letters to his fam ily, Garner describes hit journey which began June 10 in Portland.) By GARNER HAUPERT JR. I had a ball in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Edwin Durno met me at the station and I spent the day with Dr. Durno in the Capitol building. I learned a great deal about how our country is really run. I saw Congress convene, heard debates in both Houses, and attended a committee meeting. Mrs. Durno gave me a deluxe tour of the building. She and Dr. Durno were certainly wonderful to me. New York was a blastl 1 went on the circle island tour, on the lour of the United Nations, up 102 stories of the Empire Stale building, and to Times Square, of course. Times Square is really bus tling and beautiful, I was impressed with New York, in fact, it is just fabu lous. On our last night, the Oregon delegation walked down town and had Its final fling, a pizza dinner. Although I did not see much of Montreal, I was impressed by its modernness and cleanli ness. I guess that I am really an "old salt" now after several days on the high seas. Our ship is a pretty nice one. I do not know the usual size of passenger ships, but I gather that this one is not too large In comparison with the newer luxury vessels. There are only AFS students aboard. It is quite clean, and our quar ters are nice. I am in a dormitory-type room with nine other boys. The boat is German. The crew Is also German, and only a few speak English. It is quite fun to hear them jabber ing in German. Sometimes it Is rather hard to get some thing across to them, though. The dining rooms are nice, and the service Is unbeliev-1 able. The waiters do everything except chew your food for you. I think the food is fabu lous. In fact, I am getting tired of all the rich food. What I wouldn't give for a good 'ole hamburger or a peanut butter sandwich. Every night there are dances going on in the fore and aft lounges, and there is usually a movie playing. Our Norwegian chaperones are terrific. There is a man and a girl. They have taught us so much about Norway. I have one language class and two orientation classes each day. Believe it or not, my Latin really helps, especially with grammar and pronuncia tion. I am eager to get to Norway. Today Is my birthday and it turned out to be swell. At Watershed Timber Cuffing Commences With the melting of the winter's snow and opening of roads, timber harvesting has started on the Ashland Water shed in the Rogue River Na tional forest. The harvesting is part of the Watershed Management plan to remove hazard trees and snags, convert the old dy ing forest to a vigorous heal thy stand, remove mistletoe infection, and increase water storage, forest officials said. Harvesting methods vary ac cording to the type of timber and the problem that is pres ent. Some areas will be selec tively logged, removing un healthy trees, while other areas will be small clear cuts or group selection to remove focal infections or problems. Three of the small clear cuts have been located along the Ashland Loop rd. near Bull Gap. The areas were heavily infected and removal was necessary to prevent spread of infection. Careful attention is given to rehabili tation by saving of advanced tree reproduction and supple mentary planting. Management is necessary to insure a healthy ground cover and maximum supply of wa ter, officials said. VALLEY LOCKERS & MEATS Talent, Oregon - Phone 535-1382 BUDDY CARR GRANVIL BRITTSAN Custom Cutting and Wrapping Alio Pickup and 8utchering Service WE DELIVER Grain-Fed Beef, Pork and Lamb dinner all of the "will be" Norwegians stood up and sang happy birthday to me. Then Solve, our man chaperone, came in with a big birthday cake, and Kris, the girl chap erone, with a big kiss. I am not sure which I enjoyed most! I woke up early the morn ing we were to arrive in Rot terdam so I could watch the ship dock. Holland is beauti ful, just as I had pictured it; flat, with an occasional roll ing hill. Everything is green, there is much water, and many, many Holstein cattle. We did not see too many wind mills. Germany is pretty, also. I think that it is really prettier than Holland because it has more trees, but it isn't as in dividualistic at Holland. Everything over here is clean. In the town it looks like the streets have been swept every day. There is no paper in the gutters. Denmark does not seem too different from the United Slates. On the other side of Copenhagen, however, it becomes more distinctive. Arrive In North Then came something, the like of which I have never seen before, Sweden and Nor way! In these countries I un doubtedly saw the most beau tiful scenery that I have ever seen. Sweden was all green farms, and J mean green. There were roiling hills and gorgeous forests. Norway is just the same, only more hilly and rocky. You have never seen woods like these. We arrived in Oslo at 1 a.m. It was not dark. Jon, my "brother," and Asa Britt, my "sister," met me at the station. It is a two-hour drive to Stor Deglum, the farm. Jon is typ ically Norwegian, blond and tall. He is polite and intelli gent, and has a terrific sense of humor. In fact, the whole family has a terrific sense of humor Erik, my younger brother, is bigger than either Jon or I. He is about 6 feet 2 inches tall. Asa is really cool. She is what I would call my "good buddy." My mother is really sweet, and does everything she can for me. My father is a very intelligent looking man and very considerate. I am afraid he is going to be hard to get to know because he does not speak much English, and he is so busy. Go For Ride Jon and I went for a ride on his scooter yesterday and I also toured the farm. Dobloug is a fur breeder, and they have 5,800 mink and 210 blue foxes. Jon and I are quite differ ent from each other, We share some of the same interests, but he isn't interested in sports at all. Erik and I are very much alike. We both like to tinker on engines, and around the farm he likes hunting and guns. Today he and I worked all day in the fields with the farm hands. We were moving scads of rocks from the field where they will plant barley. We three boys are rather like the Cartwright boys on the television show, "Bonan za." Jon is the intelligent Adam, I am the dumb but faithful Hoss, and Erik is like Little Joe, always getting into trouble. 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