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I SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1983 '' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON CairL'ScBDidbuirg Observes His U5tb S By LOWRY BOWMAN ' United Press International Flat Rock. N.C. Four stubby pencils Jut. from small frozen orange juice can. Books are everywhere Magazines, pamphlets and newspapers ranging in sub ject matter from football to international politics spill over the coffee table, desks sofa and chairs. Paintings and photographs take up what room is leu. Perched on the edge of a , grand piano in one corner is a cardboard dox laucica "rjork & beans." Inside it is oile of manuscrips, and pen ciled on its lid is the Inscrip tion "Carl to look over if time." Artistic Boxer's Hands . The old man with the pro file of Sitting Bull and the hands of an artistic boxer sat In front of a window ana listened intently to Christmas carols from a high fidelity record player. "That thing turns this old man's working room into a cathedral," he said. The man was Carl Sand burg, and ne occasion was 'the joint observance of his 85th birthday and the publi cation of his 23rd or 36th or 41st book probably not even .Sandburg could tell for sure :just how many there have been. Two of them have won the Pulitzer prize. Will Be Big Event A new volume of 77 poems at the age of 85 would be a big event In any man's life. For Sandburg, the crag-faced poet of the pairies, it is a .mark only of things still need ing to be done, and for a mo ment even the title of the Inew book slipped his mind. .His wife had to remind him. ' It has been just half a cen '.tury since the one-time sol dier, dishwasher, barbarshop porter and farmhand startled the literary world with his '."Chicago Poems." He was the 'son of a Swedish immigrant who worked for $6 a week on a railroad construction gang in Illinois, and he almost be came a general instead of a poet. It still amuses him. "I would have made a hell of a general," he laughed. What happened? Picked for Academy : "When the sixth Illinois volunteers came home from the Spanish-American war they wanted one of us to go to West Point. I was picked. Well, I flunked the mathe matics test. Made a 73, Since then I've learned to count to .10, and I know my multiplica tion tables up to 12. I've got no use for It." It was four o'clock in the afternoon. Sandburg had just arisen for the day after a night of writing In bed. Ills breakfast was half a cigar thoroughly inhaled. There would be coffee at six. Sitting quietly in his chair with an Indian blanket be hind his head he looked like a man of 83. But when he stood to pull a book from the shelf, 30 years dropped away. Twenty-three years ago when he completed his monu mental four-volume set of "Abraham Lincoln: the War Years," Sandburg resolved to call it quits and "luxuriate as a spectator in the world of books." Now at 85 he is planning a commentary on Lincoln, a volume of photographs re flecting his deep faith in man. perhaps another collection of folk songs and work songs, and "I hope someday to write the history of my days as a socialist organizer." Sweat-Stained Words His latest volume, "Ilonry and - Salt," rings with the sweat-stained words that first brought him fame when he Christened Chicago "hog butcher for the world." lis 77 poems talk of birth, love, death and work. Chaput Sees Separate Republic of Quebec "I have learned," Sand burg said, "to write all the letters of the alphabet with my right hand. I haven't yet IcHrncd how to do it with my left." He has never so much a: clicked the shutter of a box camera. But he is fascinated now by the wordless poems single picture can recite. "T h o photographers are going to have It over the painters," he said. "The pho tographers have the future. They can seize a moment as no painter tan," Had Picture With Him As the white-haired old poet talked, UPI photogra pher Joe Molloway Jr. caught the play of his words on film. By chance, Holloway had with him a news picture he had snapped in a North Caro lina cotton mill town. The picture showed a Ne gro woman looking from a shanty doorway to a grassless yard where her three chil dren played. Sandburg picked it up. He held it to the waning light from the window and studied it for long minules. The intensity on that face," he said flnnlly. "This picture to live with. Autograph it for me." Born A Johnson Sandburg was born Onirics August Johnson Jan. 6, 1878, at Galesburg, III. His father changed the family name be cause there were so many August Johnsons working for the railroad that the pay checks were always mixed up. Carl had lo go to work at 1,1 delivering milk to help support the family. He took any job he could find. After the Spanish-American war and his failure at West Point he worked his way through Lombard college at Gales burg by sweeping out the gymnasium and editing the college newspaper. CARL SANDBURG Observes 85th Birthday It was then he started writ ing poetry. "I wrote sonnets In classi cal rhyme, but rhyme didn't satisfy he," he said. "Rhyme is a hindrance. When you get a word at the end of a line that says what you want it to say, leave it there." Conviction Not Changed He hasn't changed that con viction. His latest volume says: ". , . Cod is no gentle man for God Puts on overalls and gets Dirty running the uni verse ..." Of Robert Frost, three years his senior and his only challenger for the title of America's poet laureate, Sandburg said: "He is a Re publican pool. I'm classified as a Red." After college, Sandburg entered politics in Wisconsin. He was an organizer for the Social-Democratic party in Milwaukee, and his political beliefs have changed little if at all. He worked as an edi torial writer for the Chicago Daily News, as a war corres pondent, and as a columnist for the Chicago Times syndi cate. He was almost 40 before his poems were noticed. Roams The Country Sandburg roamed the coun try in his forties, talking with the people, collecting folk songs and ballads and assem bling material for his prize- winning biography of Lin coln. When he was 58 he wrote the work that summed up his passionate faith in mankind. It was called "The People, Yes." And it said: "The peo ple will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on . , . this old anvil laughs at many broken hummers." Now, 27 years later he writes again: "There will be people left over Enough inhabitants among tlie Eskimos Among jungle folk Denizens of plains and plateaus Cities and towns synthetic miasma missed Enough for a census Enough lo call it still a world , , ." Leave Skyscrapers Sixteen years ago Sand burg and his wife sister of the noted photographer Ed ward Strcichcn left the sky scrapers and the prairies and bought a 242-acre farm in the North Carolina mountains. They live there in an old house with four white col umns, 34 blooded Toggen bcrg and Nubian goats, a don key named Pico and an aging dobcrman named Garth. There is a frozen pond be low Picos pasture. Ancient while pines frame the porch which looks out on Sugarloaf mountain. It is quiet and re mote, and there is no road side sign or mail box to tell who lives in the house. . Sandburg obviously loves Ihc place, but he has no in tention of becoming a poetic spokesman for the mountain people as he was and is for Ihc miner and the millhand. Leave it for Others "I will leave that for oth ers, he said. Jesse Stuart h a s done it wonderfully well." He is. however, displeased that no poet has sung of Man hattan or San Francisco as he did of Chicago. There are songs there to be sung, he insists, "and when a poet comes along who has some thing to say, the world will listen to him." And as for Sandburg? "I will be working on my deathbed. I will die with a yellow lead pencil in my hand." By DENIS O'BRIEN United Press International . Montreal-(UPIi-"In my opin ion, the Sovereign State of Quebec ought to be a republic and democracy. Thus wrote Marcel Chaput in his book, Pourquoi Je Suis Separatiste (Why I am t Separatist), while still an em ployee of the government of Canada - of which Quebec is the second largest province. Chaput, 44, wants a sover eign independent republic spanning the St. Lawrence river - the gateway to the heart of the continent. Such a republic, besides controlling access to the St. Lawrence seaway and Great Lakes sys tem, would isolate the rest of Canada from her four At lantic provinces. ' At year's end, the stocky, ruggedly handsome former chemist for the Defense Re search board announced for mation of a new political party, the Republican Party of Quebec. His platform is to reverse 200 years of English domination of the French Ca nadians by creating an inde pendent Quebec. Forsakes His Job How serious is Chaput? He was at least serious enough to forsake his job and a promising career with the DRB Research agency. When his duties conflicted with his political activities - too much time away from the office -he quietly resigned. Chaput is no violent revo lutionary. Political activity, he says, is the "ideal tool" for the achievement of his objectives. Has he a following? Not -for the moment at least - in terms of numbers. Before Chaput formed his political party there were three sepa rate "secessionist" movements with a total membership of less than 5,000. Be Rallying Point Now Chaput hopes his new Republican party will be a rallying point for all Separa tist elements in the province. However, he had little suc cess in the recent provincial general election. He ran as an Independent - but avowed Separatist - in the Montreal district of Bourget and polled fewer than 2,500 votes. Why then is he taken seri ously? There is no evidence of any appreciable support for an outright Separatist movement in Quebec. But there is a great deal of discontent and resent ment among French Canadi ans about their place in the confederation. This stems from historical, economic and cultural factors. When Canada became a na tion in 1867 French Canadians numbered nearly half of the three million inhabitants of the original four provinces. French Canadians have al ways insisted that the British North America act was a "compact between two races" and not an a g r e e m e n t be tween several provinces. Today Canada is a nation of 10 provinces with a popu lation of 18.5 million scatter ed over half a continent. The population of Quebec stands at 5,225,000. The French Ca nadian dream of "La Revan che du Berceau" (The Re venge of the Cradle) has not materialized. While the English-speaking population has been swollen with a steady tide of immigrants (over two million since the end of World War II) French Canadians have had lo rely on the nat ural increase. Most newcomers - if they have to learn a new language prefer to learn English. For these reasons French Ca nadians have always felt a genuine fear that their eco nomic and cultural life are in constant danger. It may have been a coinci dence, but it certainly was significant that on the very day Chaput announced forma tion of his new party in Mon treal, Lester B. Pearson, lead- On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE The myth of the Abomina ble Snowman of Tibet will be featured on "Wild Kingdom," a new scries beginning today at 3:30 p.m. on KMED-TV. Marlin Perkins, famed nat uralist and director of the St. Louis Zoo, and Jim Fowler, expert on predatory birds, will show films of wild ani mals and primitive peoples taken in the dense jungles, re mote islands and polar wastes of the world. In today's episode, "Myths and Superstitions" about ani mals, Mr. Perkins will pre sent films and data debunk ing the story of the Abomina ble Snowman as a result of his trek into the Himalayan Mountains with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1961. He will also explode some long-held concepts about the horn-playing snake-charmers of India. A visit to a snake charmer's school at Molar Bund, India, reveals what ac tually enables them to "charm" snakes. "Wild Kingdom" promises lo be another show like "Dis covery" and "Exploring" which presents Interesting facts in a fascinating manner. HOMES COLLAPSE - This general view shows two do j molished homes that collapsed due to landslides at limit ' wood, Calif. Both .'-omci had been evacuated. The earth is estimated to he slipping at the r.ile of two feet an hour and fears are expressed fur an additional 111 homes which are loratcddownhlll on l)e street below. (LTD NFL PLAYOFF BOWL, 11 a.m. Sunday KBES-TV. The Detroit Lions meet the Pitts burgh Steelers in the third annual NFL Playoff Bowl game at Miami. NEW FACES OF CON GRESS, 4 p.m. Sunday KMED TV. Fifteen newly elected Senators and Repre sentatives of the 88th U.S. Congress will be interviewed regarding their political phi losophy. Frank McGee will be anchorman of the program. UPDATE. 5 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. The effect of new member countries on the United Nations, the Ameri can Labor Movement and how it has changed over the years, and Ihc emotional extremes experienced by a squad of cheerleaders during a basket ball game are topics. TWENTIETH CENTURY. 6 p.m. Sunday KRES-TV. "Zero Hour in Greece'' will docu ment the violent civil war in Greece, resulting from the first attempted take-over by the Communists after World War 11, and the brutal Ger man occupation which preced ed it. MEET THE PRESS. 6 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. N Y. Re publican Sen. Jacob K. Javits will be Interviewed. STARLIGHT CONCERT, 8 p m. Sunday K-llOY KM ra dio. Music from Dehbes' "Cop nelia" ballet: "La Traviata " tor orchestra: "Harold in Italy" by Heilioz; and Carl Sandburg singing ballads. PROJECTION '63. 10 p m. Sunday KMED-TV. A round up of the important news events of '62 by NBC corre spondents from London, Paris, India, Berlin, Hong Kong, concluding with each corre spondent forecasting a major news event for '63. WINSTON CHURC HILL, 6:30 p.m. Monday KMED-TV. The Italian government sur renders and declares war on Germany after the Allied invasion. GARRY MOORE, 10 p.m. Tuesday KBES-TV. Allan "My Son, the Folksingcr" Sher man, Eydie Grome and Doro thy Loudon are guests. CHET HUNTLEY REPORT ING 10:30 p.m. Tuesday KMED-TV. Huntley visits the Malmstrom, Montana, Air Force Base, which is the first operational Minuteman Mis sile installation in the United States. WAGON TRAIN, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday KBES-TV. Singer actor Tommy Sands guest stars as a youth whose arm is amputated following a wagon accident. THE VIRGINIAN, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday KMED-TV. Broad way musical comedy star Tammy Grimes portrays a dance hall singer who claims her life is threatened when she befriends the Virginian. PERRY COMO, 0 p.m. Wed nesday KMED-TV. Jane Pow ell and Peter Ustinov join Perry. cr of the opposition Liberal party in the House of Com mons, called for a major re view of the role of French Canada in the life of the na tion. "It is now clear to' all of us . . . that French Canadians are determined to become di rectors of their economic and cultural destiny in their own changed and changing socie- eral leader implied that Anglo-Saxon Canada had not liv ed up to the spirit of confed eration and said the country had yet to achieve a true na tional unity based on a recog nition of its two cultures -French and English. What sparked Pearson's "Two Canadas" speech was growing discontent that French Canadians were not proportionately represented in the life of the nation, were disbarred from top executive posts in the civil service and other federal government agencies and were inadequate ly represented in business and industry. Donald Gordon, president of the government-owned Ca nadian National Railway (CNR) had said a few weeks previously that he could not find qualified French Canadi ans for top posts in the rail way company. This led to widespread charges of dis crimination in the French Ca nadian press and a probe into government promotion and employment practices. The facts revealed that none of the CNR's 13 vice presidents was a French Cana dian. Only 13 per cent of its top executives were represen tatives of Canada's "other na tion." A similar pattern was found in all ranks of the civil service and the picture was far worse in business and in dustry - even in Quebec where French Canadians form 00 per cent of the population. Burned in Effigy Gordon was burned in ef figy in several Quebec com munities for saying he could "not find" enough qualified French Canadians for top jobs. One demonstration in Montreal nearly turned into a riot. A final indication of French Canada's disenchantment and disillusion was displayed in last June's general election. Quebec, which holds 75 seals in the 265-seat House of Com mons, has generally voted for the Liberal parly, but seldom has either major party - Con servative or Liberal - been able to form a government without solid Quebec support. In 1958, the province went massively for Conservative Prime Minister John Diefen bakcr. But last June, in what was generally interpreted as a protest vote, Quebec sent 26 members of the radical, far right Social Credit party to the House of Commons. The party didn't stand even an outside chance of forming the gov ernment. Both major parlies got the message and if Pearson's "Fair Deal for Quebec" speed. vas ideologically inspired, it also made sense politically. The British North America act (1867) guaranteed to French Canadians preserva tion of Ihcir language, civil law, religion (Roman Catholic) and customs. Confederation was to be a "partnership." Chaput and his followers want to break up the "marri age" but there is little evi dence that the movement has any serious appeal to the ma jority. It seems rather the extreme expression of gen uine discontment. The real leader of the new Quebec is Premier Jean Le sage. Lcsage, a 50-year-old Montreal lawyer and former Federal cabinet minister un der French Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, came to power in June, 1960, with a pledge to revitalize tlie economy, rid Quebec of an inward-looking and corrup tion ridden administration and bring the province into the full stream of national life. In mid-November this year he sought and won a fresh mandate and authority to ex propriate the province's pow er resources, in order to achieve the "economic libera tion" of Quebec. So armed, he plans to take over 11-pri-valely-owned power compa nies at an estimated cost of $800 million. He has launched a program of educational re form - Quebec's system leans to the classics and humanities - in order to give the people the scientific skills and tech nical know-how to control their own economy. Once a predominantly agri cultural province, manufac ing now accounts for two thirds of Quebec's economy. Don Denman Opens Law Office Here . Donald K. Denman recent ly returned to Medford to begin law practice. Denman, son of Mrs. Ken neth G. Denman and the late Mr. Denman, was to be asso ciated with his father in prac ticing law in Medford, but upon Mr. Dcnman's death in September, assumed his own law practice. His law office is located in room 10, in the Brffphy building, Medford. Denman is a graduate of Medford High school, Oregon State and Willamette univer sity college Of law. He served three years in the United States Air Force as a first lieutenant in the Strategic Air Command as a navigator. Denman is married to the former Sandra Kerr Daley of Bath, Maine, who is teaching in the home economics depart ment of McLoughlin Junior High school. The province has an abundant source of hydro-electric pow er. Its pulp and paper, refin ing and smelting industries are booming. And it is rich, in iron ore and other min erals. Say Unrealistic Quebec's real leaders dis miss Chaput and his move ment as unrealistic. But they are determined to preserve their heritage and no longer at the expense of economic subservience. French Canadians do not expect every citizen of th8 dominion to be fluently bilin gual. But they resent the fact that French should be a han dicap for high office - some times in their own province. Their civilization has survived 200 years of English domina tion but they are no longer content with mere survival. They want partnership which is seen as a two-way process. Lesage, the symbol of tlia new Quebec, speaks both lan guages fluently. Chaput, al though fluently bilingual, re fuses to speak English - eveit to reporters. Therein lies the difference in their viws ot whither goest Quebec. Get Wards 24-hr. installation fT 52 Gal. a ELECTRIC ' WATER HEATER n $6995 v nr m mi w r in . Fully automatic controls, fiber glass insulation and ruslproof, glass-lined tank. RED CARPET TREATMENT . . . That's what you'll receive from your creditors when you consolidate your bills with a loan of up to $1500 from Crater Finance. MONEY FROM CRATER FINANCE IS UKE MONEY FROM HOME. $ CRATER FINANCE TWILIGHT ZONE. 9 p.m. Thursday KBES-TV. "The Thirty Fathom Grave." While cruising off Guadalcanal a U.S. Navy destroyer picks up strange unaccountable sounds on its sonar system. CHALLENGE GOLF, 2:30 p.m. Saturday KBES-TV. Arn old Palmer and Gary Player meet two of golf's most prom ising young players. Jack Nicklaus and Phil Rodgrrs, at the Los Angeles Country Club in the premiere match of ABC's new golf scries. DAVID BRINKLEY'S JOURNAL. R p.m. Saturday KMED-TV. The South Ameri can country ot Paraguay and the art of beginning a speech arc featured. MOVIE. 9 p.m. Saturday! KMED-TV. Ernest Heming way's "The Sun Also Rises." Tyrone Power. Ava Gardner. Mel Ferrer. Errol Klynn and Eddie Albert star in a tragic love story of the "lost genera tion'' of Americans in Europe alter World War I. ATTENTION DOG OWNERS! Jickson County dog owners mey apply and receive their dog licenses and tags by simply filling in the form below and mailing with the required fee to E M MADDEN, COUNTY CLERK, COURT HOUSE, MEDFORD, OREGON, license feet are as follows: Male dogs $2.00; spayed female dogs $2.00, female dogs $3 00 PIEASE SEND ONtY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER WITH YOUR APPLICATION! Your license and tag will be meiled to you immediately upon application end remittance. If you heve more then one dog, please use other forms of this nature or attach separate schedule with the required information. INAl DATE FOR PURCHASING A DOG LICENSE WITHOUT PENALTY IS MARCH 1. 1963. ; 1 1963 Application for Dog License I Date I "OIL TO BURN" S & H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. 772-2111 Owner Address Indicate sex of dog by encircling one of the Following MALE SPAYED FEMALE Dog's Name Color Amount of Money Enclosed FEMALE Breed Signature of Applicant
