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MfcDKOKLt MAIL TKlBUMi, MEDKOKD, OKKUON Dresbach Continues His Crusade Against 'Phony' U.S. Poetry n nnorDT rv nncv ... ... .. . .1 ... .... . . IHl HftDAV. .SEPTEMBER 12, 1963 By ROBERT D. CAREV United Press International EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (UPO A frail, aging man con tinues a life-long crusade against the "phony" in American poet try from a hillside house in northwest Arkansas' "Little Switzerland." Glenn Ward Dresbach, who has been called one of America's best living lyric poets by a num- Rabies Confirmed In Portland Area PORTLAND (UPD-The first case of rabies confirmed in the Portland area in nearly 20 years has been reported by the Oregon Board of Health. The board said a 6-year-old Hillsboro girl was bitten this week by a pet skunk found to be rabid. She was being treated by the family doctor. Board of Health veterinarians and county health officials im mediately announced a survey of the hilly area west of Port land to see if they could find any more infected animals. The board also said two rabid bats were found in Deschutes and Jackson counties earlier this week. ber of critics, adopted the crag gy terrain of Eureka Springs more than 30 years ago. The tortured turns of the city's streets are as sharp as his con tempt for what he calls the "eccentric exhibitionism" of the lost generation and the beat generation. His credentials as a ranking American poet are impressive. Eleven volumes of his poetry have been published, and selec tions of his verse have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, Scribners Magazine, Century, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and the New York Times among others. Named A Life Fellow He has been named a life fellow in the institute of arts and letters and won the George Sterling Memorial prize, Poetry World prize, Hamlin Garlin Me morial prize, American Literary association prize and the Poetry Society of Texas award. For a generation after World War I, when the spokesmen of the lost generation wove defeat ism and resignation, the voice of Dresbach almost alone pro tested for the creation of beau ty, truth and hope. Today's "beat" poets are the curren target of his contempt. "I don't believe that obscurity and incomprehensibility in poe try is modern or anything else," Dresbach said. His frail body snapped out the remarks filling the rooms. "This eccentric exhibitionism that calls attention to something that doesn't need attention is no more than a hen squawk. I resent it," the old man said in a tone that booked no ques tions. Dresbach always has shunned the "haunts" of the poet. For him no lost wanderings with the avante garde in Paris, no turtle neck sweater and beard disguise to go with a Greenwich Village address. Plane Makers Enter Contest on Design WASHINGTON (UPD-Three of the nation's big aircraft manufacturers have decided to enter competition for design of a 2,000-mile-an-hour American su personic transport plane. The Boeing Co., the world's largest manufacturer of jet transports, announced in Seattle that it definitely would be a contender. North American Avi ation and Lockheed also were reported to have notified the government of their intention to participate. Tuesday was the deadline for interested companies to inform the Federal Aviation Agency whether they would compete for the prime contract for the air frame design of the supersonic transport. What about T. S. Elliot and Ezra Pound? "That's what I mean," he cracked like a rifle shot. "That's where it all started. The critics put words in the mouths of the poets. That isn't poetry. It's anti-poetry." Then he settled bacK in his chair and the hard exterior melted quickly. He smiled benignly in a grandfather man ner. "I have always lived in the world," he said quietly, "meet ing life on its own terms. I have always subsidized myself." Always a part of the day-today life and work that char acterizes most of our lives, Dresbach was reared on a farm, went to college, and served as an accountant, and an executive accountant for several large firms. He was born in Lanark, 111., 74 years ago, and his early life on the farm reappears in the lines of many of his poems. During World War I, he was commissioned in the army, worked as an accountant and was discharged as a captain. Dresbach found nothing in congruous in being both a poet and accountant. "Shakespeare was an actor and business man ager for a theatrical company. Chaucer was a comptroller, Kip ling a working journalist there are many others." Dresbach, lute James Mich- ener, believes that a writer wno is not read, has not written. "Absolutely," he barked. "That goes for music too, and plays and painting. There must be an audience. It's all non sense, this hiding-hole business, this studied obscurity." Quiet agam, tie leaned for- about poetry, boy. Lyric poetry must be an organized part of a whole. It must be a comprehen sive development of some theme that is important to our times and our people and it must reach them." Then, speaking with the final ly of the hills outside, he said, ward. "I'll tell you something I "That, is poetry." P5j Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Reglttfr and Tribunt Syndicate ',96 J) Dogs Too Feel Loneliness When They're Left Behind It amused the family that the little dog "acted so" when it found itself at the boarding ken nel, its home away from home, while its family was going away for a month's vacation. Now that the family can look back at the incidents preceding the last trip preparations, they realize how very peculiar the dog be haved. Suspecting a radical change in the family living. Buff, the cocker spaniel, tried to hide her self behind the davenport. 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But to the little dog the bottom had fallen out of her world. For the first time in her life she was confined to a cage. There were other dogs near; she could hear them and sense their presence, but still she was alone. She failed to respond to the kind voice that told her it was all right and in a little while she would be home again. Emotions, even in a dog, are not very well understood. We have never developed a machine or a method to measure grief, love, loneliness, or worry. There is no way of tcllinc Uie deDth of feeling in either an animal or a human. Funnv. too. for we have been able to measure many uiings. Measuring Devices We have machines so finely adjusted and so accurately made that they can weigh a tiny section of a human hair. Some scales actually jump, like a man touched by an electric spark, when a cobweb is dropped on them, and some can weigh a dust mote. There are measur ing devices so intricately cali brated they can measure the thickness of the ink on this page. We can measure liquids, gases, the amount of hay in a stack or the bushels of grain in a bin or the gallons of water in a tank of any shape or size. We can measure height, horse-power or miles per hour. An experienced man with a slide rule can come 7 950 Students Are Expected at Pacific FOREST GROVE-More than 950 students from 27 states and foreign countries will register fro classes at Pacific univer sity for the fall semester, 1963, according to Gerald Reese, di rector of admissions. Of the 350 incoming freshmen, 110 came from California, 109 from Oregon, 50 from Washing ton, and 31 from Hawaii. Other states well represented are Minnesota, New York, Alaska, and Massachusetts. Twenty-three new foreign stu dents will represent seven countries: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Cuba. Of special note are 10 Cuban stu dents who will move with their families to Forest Grove to study in the school of optometry at the university. NABBED BY POLICE Thomas J. Storff, 45, a truck driver from Leonia, N. J., holds his hand to his head after he was arrested in New York on charges of making obscene telephone calls to Cynthia Cramer, 20, daughter of a tobacco company executive. Storlf was also questioned in the recent stabbing deaths of Janice Wylie, 21, and Emily Hoffcrt, 23, in their Upper Manhattan apart ment. (UPI) up with all manner of correct deductions and where he leaves off, the electronic computer can take over from there and go on and on. You might even deceive your self into believing we can meas ure anything or everything of any importance but we can t, for emotions are terribly import ant. We have no yardstick or scales or machines that can even estimate the depth of love a mother has for a child or the degree of grief a bereaved per son feels at the death of a loved one. There is a loneliness akin to actual sickness; a feeling of to tal abandonment that can upset the mental processes of the emo tionally inclined, whether that individual is a human or a lone ly little dog that cannot under stand why the folks he loves have gone away and left him Sinatra May Lose Gambling License CARSON CITY, Nev. (UPD Singer Frank Sinatra today faced loss of his 10-year-old Nevada gambling license on charges by the state gaming control board that he continual ly associated with a top nation al hoodlum. A complaint filed with the state gaming commission Wednesday by board chairman Edward Olsen claimed that Si natra and his staff at the Cal Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoc gave "red carpet" treatment last July to Sam Giancana, 54, Chi cago. Giancana was identified in Jr.e complaint as one of the 12 ovcr lards in Cosa Nostra, a group which allegedly runs the nation al crime syndicate. 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