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PAGE 10A HERALD AND NEWS, Klanutb Fll. Ore. Wedntuliy, Aufint T. U6J . y f 4 t 1 Glassmaking Still Centuries Old Artistry For Skilled Swedes t 1 J J. LO-S-i v.4 - ' - GLASS All til RY A craftsman at Orraforj Glais Factory near Kalmar, Sweden, wofiu'"3 trw at arHst's ctvign at right, etches a figure into a glass vase. -. UPI Telephoto French Begin To Fear Possibility They Will Wind Up Being Isolated PARIS (UPI) "It fear of j partners by continuing to veto "isolation" is beginning to haunt many Frenchmen. They are asking whether Pres ident Charles de Gaulle's go-it-alone policies are not leaving France far out on a limb. De Gaulle has turned down the partial nuclear test ban agree ment which was signed by the United States, Great Britain and Russia in Moscow on Monday. He has rejected bluntly Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's pro posal for an East-West non-aggression pact. There will be an empty chair again France's chair in Moscow this week when U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, . British For eign Secretary Lord Home and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko get together to dis cuss a lot ot cold war issues somo of them issues in which France is vitally interested. The word "isolation" for De Gaulle's present "include-me-ouf foreign policies was used by one of the Fourth Republic s most re spected politicians last week for mer Premier Reno Pleven. Pleven did not take De Gaulle too sharply to task for it. In fact lie suggested that "isolation" might be good tactics if you know ust when to come in off your limb. But his use of the word betrayed anxiety. The right wing newspaper L'Aurore voiced considerably more concern. It pointed out that, in addition to boycotting the Mos cow nuclear pact and the talks that follow it tills week, De Gaulle still is in difficulties with his European Common Market Britain's admission. Now, Aurora said, De Gaulle also faces the prospect that his great and good friend West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and, even more likely, Aden auer's successor, Ludwig Erhard, may side with the United States and Britain rather than with France on such issues as nuclear testing and integrated defense forces in the North Atlantic Alli ance. De Gaulle himself has held his jtn 'in teas NO MONEY DOWN on your lot. or our tales mtn con ted you how to havo your"dram homo" now with only 3 down It you don't own your own lot. See our medl homo ot 1035 Apple wood, at Eatt and of Reclamation. J No Closing Costs J 100 Financing J Payments Like Rent CALL FOR DETAILS ECHO PHONE TU 2-0126 Modol Home 1035 Applewood Open 9-5 Six Days a Week Open 12:00-6:00 Sunday peace in the face of these expres sions of concern. He has withdrawn behind the tall brick walls of his country home at Colombey-les-deux- Eglises for the month of August, leaving the world and his fellow Frenchmen to speculate where he is headed. One thing he did make clear, however, in his news conference last week that he would not sit by and let the United States and Britain make a deal with the So viets involving the future of Eu rope, and particularly of Ger many, without his consent. By GAY PALXEV I'PI Womra'e Editor KALMAR. Sweden (UPII-An art centuries older than Christi anity shaped that prized crystal vase in your living room, the tumblers or wine glasses brought to the dinner table on special occasions. Visit glass factories in south east Sweden, most of them with in less than an hour's drive o.' this coastal town, and you come away with a whole new appreci ation of glass which today we take for granted in its numerous forms from the water glass to the mirror to the picture window to fine crystal to sculptured works in museums. Mechanical means now make possible mass production of much of the glass which goes into the world s markets. But in many parts of Europe and a lew cen ters in the United States notably at Corning, N.Y., where the fa mous Stueben crystal is made Solons Get Test Treaty WASHINGTON (UPH Presi dent Kennedy told Democratic congressional leaders today that he expects to send the limited test ban treaty to the Senate about Thursday. This schedule was relayed to reporters by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont after the President's weekly breakfast session with the Demo cratic congressional leadership group. Mansfield said that the Presi dent had indicated that the treaty, signed in Moscow Monday would be submitted to the Senate about Thursday for its ratifica The Senate leader said the for eign relations committee tenta tively planned to begin hearings on the treaty next Monday with State Department witnesses. He said the tentative schedule called for testimony from the Joint Chiefs of Staff Tuesday and from the Atomic Energy Commission the next day. the hand-produced product still reigns supreme. Swedish glassmakers produce an types o: glass, but it is their crystal which has become known world-wide. Much of it is export ed to the United States. Combination Of Skills The chemist, the artist and the craftsman all combine their skills to produce that heavy crystal with its brilliance and bell-like ring when an edge is tapped sharply with the finger. The origin of glassmaking lies with the ancients. The Swedish Glass Manufacturers' Association at Vaxjo, in the heart of the fac tory area, says it began as early as 5,000 B.C. But for 5.000 years it was used as a flexible mass. much the same as clay, to make decorative items. At about the time of the birth of Christ, the industrious Phoenicians had learned how to blow glass. Glass- makers of Alexandria and later of Byzantum and Venice perfec ted the methods. In Sweden, glass first was melt ed in 1556. Forty of the 46 glass factories of Sweden now center in the southeast part of the coun try where wood and water two vital items for its production- are plentiful. The oldest factory is Kosta founded in 1742. It was one of three works I toured the others, Orrefors and Strombergshylta. All are known tor high quality of workmanship and design. Sand Basic Ingredient Sand is the basic ingredient of glass. Sand melted with soda ash and lime produces the common flint glass. A finer quality re sults from use of potash instead of soda ash. The finest ervstal consists of a melting of sand, pot ash and red lead. The lead gives weight to the crystal, but the red color disap pears during the melting. Sub stances such as saltpeter and ar senic, the latter a highly poison ous substance used only in min ute quantities, are also added to improve the melting and purify ft D a C3 I 111 I RVUUUIUU Bfl ill I PASTEURIZED If j V'W I AND BOTTLED 11 I FOR YOU FRESH lU V Y&l rial" HERE in SI i Yvl KtAMATH FALLS Bfl 3 tap Ny ', .. . '. ' HAUOAUONCAtlON) ! tJ0 y Weyerhaeuser Company Ml CAIION On'I'ON FRESHNESS IS SO IM fORTANT IN DAIRY FOODS. the glass. Different types of metal oxides added to the "batch" the factory term for the sand mixture produce differ ent colors. Cobalt oxide, for in stance, gives a blue tint; zinc oxide, a red hue. Paradoxically, most of the in gredients used by the Swedes are imported the sand coming from Germany and Belgium, the potash and soda ash coming from Germany, Belgium or France. But the lakes and rivers provide the water, basic to the moulding and cooling process, and the forests the wood to stoke the furnaces. Most of the tools for hand- blowing glass are the same to day as they were 2.000 years ago pipe, lorming blocK, snears, pliers, and wooden moulds. Skill And Lung Power The class is given its shape by the skill and lung power of the blower, who blows inlo the pipe as if he were producing soap bubbles, bv the sizzling wood moulds into which the glass dipped occasionally, by one! hand padded with thick layers of! wet newspaper gently moulding! while the other hand twirls the pipe, by the forming block, and by the crude-looking shears send ing slithering strings of glass to the floor as the worker cuts the molten mixture if the product is to be open at one end. If a stem and foot are to be added, an assistant takes a small amount of class just from the furnace, drops it onto the al ready shaoed class and shearsi off the amount needed. The stem and foot then are shaped with the same tools. When a piece is finished, the foreman quick-cools a rim along its base with a pair of water- dipped pliers and then, a sharp blow with the plier handles and the piece breaks off cleanly. It now is ready for the coolingi chamber. It is fed by convcyon belt into a long, tunnel-like oven heated by electricity. This oven 01 lchr, holds the glass from from three to four hours and re moves the thermal stress. Other processes in handling the cooled glass include smoothing rough edges of such as wine glasses by another heat process a flame from a gas jet burner licks the edge of each glass as it moves along a conveyor. Cutting and engraving are other finishing touches. Cutting is done in stages and the design on, say, glasses for table use is maru'd first bv a red line in I tlie hands of another technician. One exiiert does a rough cut ting first, with sand and iron disk. Cutting wheels get liner as the glass moves to the linisnerj stage. Constant Collaboration Knsravers work from the de sign of artists, but between blow er, engraver and artist, there is a constant collaboration. As Mrs. Kric Stromberg, widowed owner of Strombergshyttan and its chief designer put it, "the furnace is the heart of glass. It is from there that all must work." Engraving is done with the aid of copper wheels fed with oil and emery powder and can be any-l thing from a simple figure cut into a cigarette box to elaborate carvings. At hosta, 1 walcned one engraver cutting the intricate shape of a polar bear on an ice floe into a free form block of glass. The block was tuined on its side and he was using assorted size drills working from the bot tom. Upright, the bear looked encased in the block. The tech nicians said such an engraving took him about one full day. At Strombergshyttan, its owner displayed a pair of sculptured horses of which she was extreme ly proud. 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