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.
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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
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