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rial
Pulitzer Prize Poet Carl Sandburg
Enjoys Music By Hi-Fi, Good Cigar
By LOWRY BOWMAN
FLAT ROCK, N.C. lUPD-Four
stubby pencils jut from a small
frozen orange juice can.
Books are everywhere. Maga
zines, pamphlets and newspapers
r.'jging In subject matter from
football to international politics
spill over the coffee table, desks,
sofa and chairs. Paintings and
photographs take up what room
it left.
Perched on the edge of a grand
piano in one corner is a card'
board box labeled "Pork
Beans." Inside it is a pile of man'
uscripts, and penciled on Its lid
is the inscription Carl to look
over if time."
The old man with the profit
of Sitting Bull and the hands of
an artistic boxer sat in front of
a window and listened intently to
Christmas carols from a high 11-
delity record player.
"That thing turns this old
man's working room into a ca
thedral," he said.
The man was Carl Sandburg,
and the occasion was the joint
observance of his 85th birthday
and the publication of his 23rd
of 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.
; Book Of Poems
. A new volume of 77 poems
the age of 85 would be a big
event in any man's life. For
Sandburg, the crag-faced poet of
the prairies, it is a mark only
of things still needing to be done,
and for a moment even the title
of the new book slipped his mind,
His wife had to remind him,
It has been just half a century
since the one-time soldier, dish
washer, barbershop porter and
' farmhand startled the literary
.world with his "Chicago Poems,
'. He was the son of a Swedish lm-
I migrant who worked for $8 a
Iweek on a railroad construction
; gang in Illinois, and he almost
became a general instead ot a
poet. It still amuses him.
"I would have made a hell of
a general," he laughed.
What happened?
"When the Sixth Illinois Volun-I
leers came home from the Span
ish American War they wanted
the of us to go to West Point.
J-was picked. Well, I flunked the
mathematics test. Made a 73.
. Knee then I've learned to count1
16 10, and I know my multiplies
Hon tables up to 12. I've got po
Use for it."
Rises Late
-;lt was four o'clock In the aft
-Am
CIGAR FOR BREAKFAST Despita his odd habit of workinq all night and sleeping
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon with cigar for breakfast and coffee at 6, Carl Sand
burg it still hala and heady at 85 UPI Telephoto
Sale Of Red Manufactured
Goods Restricted By City
COLl'MMl'S. Ga. lUPI-Vhen
tlie u lustlea blew at midnight De
tvmticr 31 that was the signal
not only for the start of the new
year but for merchants here to
clear their shelves of all Communist-made
goods.
On that d.ite, this southwest
Boating
By I'nltrd Pime International
Many small boating craft these
iluvs carry as much, or more,
electronic gear (rem a stand'
point of versatility as early
World War II destroyers.
This fact was pointed out re
crnlly by an electronics expert,
Waller P. Rhea, marine manger
for the Bendix Corp.
R'lea attributes all this to the
tiansistor, the war-developed
peanut-sized device that has taken
the place of vacuum tubes and
made possible a reduction in the
size and power drain of such
radiotelephones, radar and other!
marine safety equipment.
Another thins that helps along
this set up, Khea points out. Is
the alternator generator, which
keeps charging a battery at
any speed, even when the engine
is idling.
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REFLECTS ON TIMES Seated in his cluttered
fleets on hit life and times.
ernoon. Sandburg had just arisen
for the day after a night of writ
ing in bed. His breakfast was
half a cigar thoroughly inhaled.
There would be coffee at six.
Sitting quietly in his chair with
an Indiana Blanket Demnd nis
head he looked like a man ol
85. But when he stood to pull a
book Irom the shell, 30 years
dropped away.
Twenty-three years ago when
he completed his monumental
four-volume set of "Abraham Lin
coln: The War Years," Sandburgi
(eorgia city became pernaps
the first municipality in the na
tion to virtually ban by restrictive
ordinance the sale of Red-made
goods.
While merchants may seli such
goods, they must first purchase a
special business license th.it cost
Many small sports cruisers to
day, Rhea says, have the same
electrical power system as the
family car a 12-volt system sup
plied from a battery and kept up
to "par" by a generator that's
operating when the motor is run
ning.
"A small sports cruiser, for ex
ample." Rhea said, "mav have
a complete lighting system, indud
ing inboard and navigation lights
a refrigerator, lans and blowers
a depth recorder or fish f.nder,
an automatic direction tinder, a
radiotelephone and even radar."
Actually, Rhea said, eleitroni
engineers l.ave hardly got started
in the marine field, and the boat
ing enthiinasts ho visit Uu
year's boating shos will see
equipment "that was not even
imagined to years ajo '
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Tufi fn t ft f M rmv
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worksh
op,
He'll be 85 on Jan. 6.
resolved to call it quits and "lux
uriate as a spectator in the world
of books."
Now at 85 he is planning a
commentary on Lincoln, a volume
of photographs reflecting his deep
faith in man, perhaps another col
lection of folk songs and work
songs, and "I hope someday to
write the history of my days as
a Socialist organizer."
Kinging Words
His latest volume, Honey and
Salt, (Harcourt, Brace & World.
Inc. $4.75) rings with the sweat
V'
Sl.fxio. They al mmt display a
sign reading "Licensed to Sell
Communist products."
All stationery and hill heads of
such businesses must have printed
on them the Information thai they
sell Red-made goods.
So far, no one has applied for
license and officials say they
don't expect any applications.
Technical Wording
A section of the ordinance,
adopted Nov. 5, savs it "is de
signed to afford adequate po
lice protection and regulation o
such businesses which sell pro
ducts produced by laborers whose
political philosophy is the over
throw of our form of govern
ment."
Just IS davs alter the Columbus
city fathers passed the prohibitive
license fee. the countv of Mus
cogee, in which Columbus is lo
cated, adopted a similar ordi
nance.
The idea may spread to ether
localities throughout the country.
Letters are pouring in at the
city clerk's of (ice. til of which
priase tlie commissioners for pass
ing the ordinance. A sample of
the letters that arrived as ol Nov
14. showed postmarks of San
1'ieco, Calif: Ka'smaroo. Mich:
Ocean Springs. Miss ; Houston.
)f iff J M HIS' I
poet Carl Sandburg re-
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stained words that first brought
him fame when he christened
Chicago "hog butcher for the
world." Its 77 poems talk of birth,
love, death and work.
He has never so much as
clicked the shutter of a box cam
era. But he is fascinated now by
tlie wordless poems a single pic
ture tan recite.
the photographers are going
to have it over the painters." he
said. "The photographers have
the future. They can seize a mo
ment as no painter can."
As the white-manned old poet
talked, UPI photographer Joe
liolloway Jr. caught the play of
his words on film. By chance.
Holloway had with him a news
picture he had snapped in a North
Carolina cotton mill town.
The picture showed a Negro wo
man looking from a shanty door
way to a grassless yard where
tier three children played.
Sanhurg picked it up. He held
to tlie waning light from the
window and studied it for long
minutes.
"The intensity of that face," he
said finally. "This is a picture
to live with. Autograph it (or
me."
Live On Farm
Sixteen years ago Sanburg and
his wife sister of the noted pho
tographer, Edward Stcichen left
Ilia skyscrapers and the prairies
and bought a 2-t2-acre farm in
the North Carolina mountains.
They live there in an old house
with lour white columns. .14 blood
ed Toggenherg and Nubian goats.
a donkey named Pico and an ag
ing Poberman named darth.
There is a f rozen pond below
Pico's pasture. Ancient white
pines frame the porch which looks
out on Sugarloaf Mountain. It is
piict and remote, and there is
no roadside sign or mail box to
tell who lives in the house.
Sandburg obviously loves the
place, but he has no intention of
becoming a poetic spokesman (or
the mountain people as he was
and is for the miner and the
nullhand.
I will leave that (or others."
lie said. "Jesse Stuart has done
it wonderfully well."
He is, however, displeased that
no poet has sung of Manhattan
r San Francisco as he did ot
Chicago. There are songs there to
he 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 he working on my death
bed I will die with a yellow lead
pencil in my hand "
Tex ; Duarte. ' Calif ; Boise.
Idaho; Arlington, Va : Savannah
Ga : Baldwin, Ga : Taylors. SC.;
Ontario, Calif : Memphis. Tenn ,
Orlando. Fla ; Alexandria. La.;
Greenville. S.C.; Green Bay. Wis
Los Angeles and Richmond. Va
Furnitire store owner Sam
Persons. SO. requested the city
commissioners to pass the ordi
nance. Worried about the tnfluv
of Communist-made goods. Per
sons said he felt something should
! done about it en the local
level.
NEW
United Press International
THE SAND PEBBLES, by
Richard McKenna i Harper It
Row $5.93): A remarkable first
novel about men under stress by
an unorthodox author Richard
McKenna, a regular Navy veter
an who retired after 22 years'
service, went to college and start
ed a second career. The "peb
bles" of McKenna's title are
crewmen of the San Pablo, a gun
boat so ancient and ludicrous that
the Navy keeps it tucked well
away in Chinese backwaters. The
time is the mid-1920's and, at
first, duty on the San Pablo is
about as pleasant as service life
ever gets, with comfortable quar
tcrs, first-rate food and coolies to.
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In Cameras
By BART KINCH
United Press International
Tlie recent Japan Camera Show-
held in New York dramatically
underscored the advancement in
cameras and other photographic
equipment manufactured in Japan!
and sold in this country.
Through the efforts o( the Japan
Camera Inspection Institute and
the skill and ingenuity of design
ers and manufacturers, camera
products from Japan now rale!
among the best in the world.
The fact that such names a.
Yashica. Iticho. Mamiya, Canon
Nikon and Fuiica are common
place among camera enthusiasts
testified to the popularity of Jap
anese cameras.
Among the many displays at the
how was a new model Mamiya.
the C .1. This is the world's only
twin lens reflex camera with in
terchangeable lenses.
The new model accepts the
same lenses as the C-2 hut now
is equipped with a high speed
film winding crank, color-coded
focusing scale and automatic
double-exposure prevention.
Nikon showed a sincle-lens re
flex with an f-3 S zoom lens cover
ing all focal lengths from 43 mm
to as mm
The Yashica people, with an eve
on the evergrowing market of
yxxing camera fans, has prepared
a primer on how twin-lens reflex
cameras operate and the differ
ences between the full-size and
the small size (vpes.
Tie pamphlet mav be obtained
by writing to Yashica Inc. 50-17
Queens Blvd., Woodside 77, N Y .
Dept. 7.
The brochure includes a cut
away drawing explaining the fea
tures ot a typical twin-lens reflex
and how it works. It also includes
samples of the large size and the
small size formats w ith details on
tlie uses of each
Kinji Moriyama. chairman of
the board of the Japan Camera
Institute, noted that one third of
Japan's camera production is
sold in the I'nited States.
RECORD TONNAGE
MVRSFU.I.KS. Prance 'I'Pl
A rn-nrd S3 million tons of cargo
passed throuch the pert of Ma
seillcs during VM'C. according to
an official announcement here.
It said 2 million passengers also
et a port record, but attributed
it mainly to the influx of refugees
liom Algeria.
BOOKS
do the dirty work. All that ends
with the coming of Chiang Kai
shek's Kuomintang, spouting the
hysterical hatred of the United
States now taken over by
Chiang's communist successors.
McKenna's hero is Machinist's
Mate Jake Holman. who is will
ing to tolerate military routine
because it gives him the chance
to work with the engines he loves
Two tender love stories provide)
a counterpoint to the main plot
trie novel is an impressive
achievement, particularly in its:
portrayal of its complex central
character.
SAN FRANCISCO SAY IT
ISN'T SO, Edited by Walt Daley
iNourse Publishing Co., $3.95 1:
There's no city like San Francis
co, in the opinion of most persons
who live here. The most rabid of
these (ans usually are the city's
newspaper writers. But Walt Da
ley asked a number of Golden
Gate reporters to write a chapter
on his lor her I pet peeves. Herb
Caen, columnist (or the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, who loves the
city beyond words, complains that
the face of the city is changing,
that all the old landmarks arc
being torn down. Sports colum
nist Prescott Sullivan of the Ex
aminer wrote a chapter on sea
gulls and pigeons and what they
do to people down below. Jack
Rosenbaum has a column on the
city's miserable weather: Arthur!
Caylor complains about the cable
cars; and Count Marco about the;
lack of fashion among San Fran
cisco women;
Society Editor Millie Robbins
says there really isn't much left
to San Francisco society, Paul
Specgle says that theater is nol
much in the city and Fred Storm
complains that the night life in
the town is too tame.
Price Drop
Plagues U.S.
Chemicals
By LEWIS A. WEBEL
NEW YORK I UPI i - The na
tion's chemical industry failed to
be impressed by its record $33
billion sales in 19T2.
For despite this in per
cent jump over 19fil, the industry
continued to be plagued by de-i
clining prices and increasing
costs, resulting in lower earnings
And prospects for the future ap
pear to be tor much ol Die
same, according to a survey by
the Manufacturing Chemists As
sociation.
More than half the chemical
producers responding to the sur
vey expected sales would increase
during the second half of 1962
from the first half total of $16.4
billion and nearly three-fourths
also believed this upsurge will
continue through 13.
Predict Drop
However, about half of these
producers foresaw a drop in earn
ings both this year and next with
the remaining 50 per cent about!
equally divided between a small
improvement and no change.
Another cloud in the chemical!
industry sky is that labor, raw
materials, transportation and dis
tribution costs increased from 1
to 5 per cent during the second
half of t!W2 from the first part
of the year. Sixty-three per cent
of those surveyed expected a sim
ilar cost increase in 196;).
Despite continuing overcapacity!
in many chemical product lines.
industry leaders are continuing!
their capital expenditure expan
sions on schedule.
About 7 per cent of those tak
ing part in the survey reported
their expansion programs have
not been completed and their long
term plans are continuing. Nearly
81 per cent advised that the ma
jor portion of their 1962 capital
expenditures w ill be (or new plant
and equipment rather than for
improvements in existing equip
ment. Capital expenditures are esti
mated to reach $1 65 billion in 1962
ompared with $17 billion in 1961.
according to the V. S De
partment of Commerce and the
Securities k Fxchanse Commis-
ion.
Expansion Plan
DuPonl, the nation's largest!
hemical concern, has announced
plans to invest $350 million in
construction o( new and improved
plant, laboratory and other facili
ties in 196,1, a substantial increase
over the $i!40 million spent
in 1962.
The company also said authori
zations for new projects in the
final half of 1962 were more than
double those made in the last
half of 1961.
Almost without exception
chemical industry leaders believe
enactment of the investment tax
credit in the administration's 1962
tax bid would have little impact
upon new plant expenditures this
y ear and in t96,l.
Although chemical producers
feel a general reduction in
the I' S. corporate tax rates would
have a greater impact on
business expansion, a majority of
those questioned said they wouhi
he unwilling to see a tax cut
thout a subsequent reduction in"
federal expenditure.
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BeautyUse
Here is a ranch design that
symbolizes the coordination of
beauty and utility into a home
planned for outstanding comfort
and convenience!
Note how skillfully the over-all
length has been accented by the
overhanging roof and horizontal
lines of the exterior.
Consider the efficiency of the
room . arrangement small entry
hall provides excellent traffic cir
culation plus prevents direct in
trusion into home.
Front-to-back living-dining area
is spacious ideal for family
living plus cnlertaining guests.
Fireplace at the front end adds
warmth and comfort to this room.
Kitchen is roomy and designed
to save the homemaker steps in
preparing and serving meals
whether indoors or out on the
terrace. Easy accessibility to
basement and garage too.
Library could be converted to
a guest bedroom. Or, if the need
presents itself, a professional man
could use this room as an office
due to its unique location. A
small lavatory services this area
Bedroom wing has privacy and
ample closets. Full bath is lo
cated between these two rooms
for convenience. Note two-way
linen closet which is accessible
from both bath and hall.
Garage has exits direct into the
house as well as to the backyard
This plan conforms to general
FHA, VA and Building Code re
quirements. You can obtain the
building plans with specifications
and material list see order
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Anniversary
Card Kidding
Falls Flat
NEW YORK l'PI - You can
kid Mom about almost every
thing, it seems. F.ven kitchen
drudgery.
But don't ever do it on an an
niversary card, says a man who
should know.
He's W. R. iBobi McCloskey ol
Kansas I ity. Mo., a once serious
artist who now finds himself the
trainer, the confidant and the
guardian of some 30 gag-happy
artists and writers for the off
beat greeting card.
McCloskey pointed to one dis
mal card as proof that an anni
versary is time for re-living the
honeymoon, nol jokes about kitch
en chores. "To my favorite labor
saving device," the card said to
mother. It went over like a stack
of dirty dishes, said McCloskey
His company iliallmarkl has
just compiled an elaborate car
toon book of cards that fared bet
ter.
"Vnt iss? You Haf New Baby.
Comrades?" asks a mustachioed
commissar pn one popular card
Ve invented dem. you know."
And so it goes, right down to
the reassuring pronouncement
that "Yes. Virginia . . . there is
a mad bomber."
Every week, McCloskey said
around five and a half million
cards in this style and spirit are
mailed to people everywhere in
the U.S.
Taboo subjects, McCloskev
said, are any references to death,
jokes about the Kennedy family.
profanity, minority groups and
the direct insult.
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Banner Year Recorded
By Auto Firms In 7962
DETROIT I UPI i The auto in
dustry had a banner year in 1962
Because of record demand for
the new 1963 models, it looks like
production and sales this year
were second only lo the record
year of 1955.
Factory sales and assemblies!
will likely total around 7 million
cars, compared with the high of
7.9 million in 1955. Registrations
the number of cars delivered to
customers, mav run about S B mil
lion, against the 7.2 million in
1955.
Ruvers made a shambles out of
industry sales records when the
1963 cars were introduced about
Oct. 1. More cafs 728.000 were
sold in October than ever before
in auto history.
Chevrolet led the w ay
throughout I9R2. It became the
first auto firm to sell more than
2 million cars in one year reach
ing that mark Dec. 6 H routed
arch-rival Ford in their tradition-;
al battle for sales leadership.
Ford, running 400.000 sales be
hind Chevy at mid-year, tried to
recoup hy appealing more to the
young buyers. The firm entered
racing in a big way as Board
Chairman Henry Ford II aban
doned the Industry's anti-racing
resolution.
Compact Convertibles
The new cars shown in the fall
by Ford and the other firms had
more horsepower than ever be
fore. More cars came equipped
with bucket seats and four-speed
floor-mounted transmissions. The
compact Falcon. Comet and Val
iant cars had convertible models
Most 1963 models were basically
a face-lift of 1962 versions. Chrvs-
ler had the biggest overall stylingj
changes It apparently helped be
cause the firm's disappointing 9
per cent share of the market
climbed to nearly 12 per cent with
the new models.
The only truly new models in
the industry were the Buick Riv
iera 'General Motors' , answer to
the Ford Thunderbird, the Cor
vette Sting Ray i Chevy's sports
car which is so popular there's
now a four-month waiting list',
and the Avanti a Studebaker
"personal car" like the T-Bird'
In addition. Willys the "Jeep"
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maker came out with a station
wagon.
The industry generally held the
line on prices. A few cars went
up in cost. Some optional equip
ment was a factor in the higher
price. A few cars like Chrysler
lowered prices.
The industry offered some new
engineering features on select
models. Depending on the car,
you now can get a transistorized
ignition system, disc brakes,
supercharged engine, tilting steer
ing wheel or lOO.OdO-mile lubrica
tion system.
linger warranties
Chrysler started a trend on
longer warranties, offering a five
year. 50,000-mile guarantee on
major power components like en
gine and rear axle. Other firms
countered by boosting their blank
et 12-months, 12.0OO-mile guaran
tee to 24-monlhs or 24.000 miles.
All the new cars were displayed
at the 44th National Automobile
Show held during October in De
troit's Coho Hall. Tlie 10-day dis
play of 400 new cars drew 11
million persons, second only to
the record 1.4 million who came
in 1960.
One car which caused a lot of
lalk during the year was never
seen at the show, That was the
Cardinal, Ford's answer to the
German Volkswagen. The firm
decided not to produce the Card
inal here bcrause it felt buyers
once again wanted larger cars, a
theory American Motors home
of the compact Rambler hotly de
nied.
At year's end. the industry was
hopeful the booming sales pace
pace could be continued. It hoped
January-March of 1963 would not
repeat the early 1962 trend when a
record fourth quarter in 19S1 did
not continue through the spring of
1962.
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