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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1963)
Yanks Buy Junk Antiques From Old English Castles By TOM A. CUU.KN LONDON (NEAi-The British are learning (hat many a rubbish heap conceals a gold mine, and that fortunes are to be found at the bottom of dustbins, now th,it the antique boom is on in America. Thanks to the American craze for the old and the scarce, the British are cleaning out their at tics and their cellars. As a result. Britain is enjoying a thriving ex port trade in junk with the Unit ed States. I T7 - IT: 'w !1 S , if -1 . r-TiMr-maii .VP' I CASH FOR TRASH Britons are learning that Ameri cans will pay cash for their trash. Here crates are being filled from the "boneyard" with English junk. Once the English had to pay the junkman to haul the stuff away, now they have found that the Americans will pay for the rubbish and handsomely, too. Atomic Stockpile Plan Backed By Cuban Events GENEVA iL'Pli - The United States told the 17-natinn Disarma ment Conference today recent events in Cuba prove the neces sity of adequate verification to prevent stockpiling of rockets and other nuclear weapons. U.S. Ambassador Charles 0. Stelle said the fact the Soviets had successfully hidden rockets in Cuba "Is the best proof that if a state was determined to engage in secret deployment of strategic weapons, it could also do so un detected, at least lor a certain period of time, in the proximity of another stale which would he the potential victim." "How much easier this would be in the distant and inaccessible heartland of some other state." Stelle said, in a clear reference tn Soviet missile sites in Central Asia. The American negotiator used the Cuban example in appealing tn the Soviet Union at today's 129th plenary session of the con ference for more details of an al leged "compromise" proposal on retention of nuclear weapon de livery vehicles. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Udalillrges Coast Park WASHINGTON iUPI Interior Secretary Stewart Udall today urged Congress tn turn a 40 mile strip of land along the Oregon coast into a national recreation area. I dall testified before a Senate Public Lands subcommittee in be half of a bill offered by Sen. Mau rine Neuberger. D-Ore . In create the Oregon Dunes National Sea shore. I dall urged quick congressional action because "land values with in the area are increasing at about 10 per cent a year. As de velopment continues the area suit able (or public use shrinks pro portionately." Private land within the area is now valued at 7 S million, he said. The area includes about -U.1" acres of sand dunes, seashore forests and fresh water lakes. Mrs. Neuberger told the com mittee her hill is the product of many conferences among congres sional committees, federal, stile and county officials. She said its management and development policies are "aimed at achieving the maximum of public enjoy ment and recreation " Gromyko put the proposal before the United Nations General Assem bly last Sept. 21 and since then the Russians have refused any more details. "We now know hardly anything more about the proposal than when it was first introduced." Stelle said todav. "Americans pay cash for trash," is the byword in London's Portobello Rd., which is the heart of junkland here. Take chamber pots, for ex ample. These items ere once kept carefully hidden from view. But American tourists bought 5,- 000 chamber pots in Britain last year fqr use as punch bowls. Or take Victorian pianos; Lon doners once had to pay rubbish men to cart them awav, but now there's a demand for them, pref erably minus their guts. Ameri cans turn them into liquor bars, or put hi-fi sets inside. Tin bathtubs of the variety known as "hip baths" are now being rescued from refuse dumps, and sold to Americans who plant flowers inside them. Disembowelled grandfather clocks, apothecary jars, mous tache cups, stuffed birds all are readily snapped up in the United States. As one antique dealer pointed out to me. "If this keeps up America will turn into a vast dumping ground for British rub bish." A man responsible for the" re vival of the junk trade here is j Brooklyn-born George Knapp. 62, who likes to think of himself as a pioneer in the field of the low. priced antique. Knapp numbers among his sat islied customers Jacqueline Ken nedy. who bought tour copper coaching horns from him last year to give away as Christmas presents. "I have two shipments a monlh going to Sew York and one to California," Knapp told me. "Last vear mv trade was worth more than a million bucks." The Brooklyn dealer, who chain-smokes cigars, was quite candid as to his sources of sup ply. "I get practically all my stuff for America from trash heaps." he explained. "Men called tot ters have arrangements with rubbish men and demolition men. They sell the junk they get to 15 runners whom I employ. Someday they may erect statue in Portobello Rd. to George Knapp of Brooklyn, as the man who brought antiques to the masses. EVERYTHING GOES Antique man, George Knappl, right, shows a prospective customer an antique Victor ian monkey. Americans will buy anything, he says "If I am short of items to fill the cases I am sending to Cali fornia I find something to add from a room I've called the boneyard. California is two years behind New York so they take almost anything." In addition to the totters and the runners. Knapp does business with men called knockers, who go door-to-door urging housewives to rid their pities and cellars of old junk. "The knockers are usually well educated, and they concen trate on country villages that have not already been picked over." Pointing to a pile ol tarnished silver meat covers which he had bought from a ship that was being scrapped. Knapp de clared. "You wouldn't think that anyone would want those lids, would vou? But some American will take them, polish them up and plant (lowers in them. Amer jeans will buy anything as long as it is priced fairly. OSU Library Remodeling Advocated SALEM lUPH-ln a talk that pinpointed some of the building problems of higher education, Oregon State University President James Jensen presented a case Tuesday for remodeling the old OSU library. He spoke to the Ways and Means Education subcommittee. which is deciding how much mon ey the legislature should approve for college buildings and where it should come from. A new library currently is un der construction at Oregon State Jensen said the university would like $730,000 In turn the old one into a modern language labora tory, a mathematics department, a closed-circuit television center, 87 offices and 26 classrooms. However, he said, with $100,000 the university could make use of the building for a modern lan guage laboratory, 16 offices and 6 classrooms. What is the thinking behind the university's building request? -Jensen said OSU might be able to attract Peace Corps train ees with the modern language laboratory. The mathematics department should be near the new computer center the university is acquiring through federai and national sci ence grants. The computer will be near the old library. With a little more work, closed circuit television might not only become a supplement to live teach ing, but also relieve some of the growing teaching load. Classrooms are needed for growing student populations. And offices are needed so that the professors will have a place to study, research their work and meet w ith students. The subcommitee recognizes these needs. But it also recog nizes that similar needs exist on all the state campuses, and the state is painfully short of funds. Said Rep. John Mosser, K-Bea-verton: "Existing space is van ishing." He questioned whether the small sums available should be spent for remodeling, or for new buildings, or both. The committee continued to con sider how to finance buildings. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, Kay 9, 1963 PAGE 7-A The I960 U.S. census showed a total of 1,622.000 elementary and secondary school teachers in the country. To Mothers-to-Be with love A Gift from the LaPointe's Maternity Fashions Business Space FOR RENT Corner 4th & Klamath Phone TU 4-9254 ALAMEDA NURSERY On TKt loitliJ OFFERS YOU THE FINEST IN BEDDING PLANTS Thtr tMrdeiw ready eleirt. Coiw ur Pmci! Potted Plants & Roses for Mother's Day Wonderful Mom! 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