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Show riTjrii'ir'yifif Home Is Writer's Topic ' By KATHY CRACROFT Deseret News Staff Writer . - The writer never leaves Kane Sweet (or not so Sweet) Home, an Ogden and Salt Lake native who is now a novelist said Tuesday at the University of Utah. ina. Explaining the writers bility to cut this umbilical cord to the place where he up was Richard grew Scowcfoft, professor of English and director. Stanford Creative Writing University Institute. i Scowcroft spoke on Writers Dont Leave Home in a session of the 21st annual U. of U.; Writers Conference. 1 'Poet Galway Kinnell will ; lo$e the conferences series of public lectures Thursday at in the Mark H. Greene $p.iri. ' Hall. 'He will deliver the annu- -' 1 Benjamin E. Grey Memorial iLecture and will speak on Death and 'Personality, ; Poetry." A critic who reviewed Scowcroft's fifth and most recent novel, The Crdeal of Dudly Dean, set in Salt Lake City, wrote to him, You cant go home again, can you? The novelists terse reply was, What do you mean, I cant go home again? I never left home. three Although of Scowcrofts books have been set outside Utah in imagiSan Francisco, Madrid and Lisbon the protagonists all come from Utah-istowns, he said. Writers all write about he explained, themselves, and an unavoidable part of the self is the place where the writer grew up. Scowcroft asked two quest- nary cities, h ions-; WHY LEAVE? If a writer doesnt leave and home psychologically why does he emotionally, leave physically? I call Utah home when I left her in 1937 after 21 years and have since lived in Palo Alto. Calif., 22 years? Answering the questions, he cited the difference between the formative and the formed years. He added that Why do in staying away from home, if he "got far enough Community Gets Land For Park own The community of Washington, Washington County, has received 40 acres of land from the U.S. Bureau Land Management (BLM) for a city park. of Utah-center- novels, the author If Deseret is a Garden of Eden, for me it was a garden where I discovered a Tree There he of Knowledge. learned human motives, he said, and when I write about Utah, I try honestly to put into shape only what I learned but what I about Utah, learned in Utah, too. Scowcroft is an East High City officials paid $100- for the tract at $2.50 per acre under provisions of the Recreation and Pubiic Purposes Act, according to Robert D. Nielson, BLM state director. said, away, he could more easily use people and events from home as metaphors for the things I want to say. Quoting Southern novelist Flannery O'Connor, To know one's self is to know ones Scrowcroft said all region, novelists are regionalists. SEE BEST He cautioned, however, that "writing regional novels can get one into trouble. Some think you should only see the best in that society. He recalled that some readers have criticized his books, no such telling him that people exist in Utah. "ngn1 trr 'V 'iy if 'yr i gy -- iri gr 'lypr ry i Tr t Plans submitted by city officials with their application indicated that ball diamonds, tennis courts, rest rooms, picnic facilities, parking areas and landscaping are planned for the park with a scheduled completion in five years. graduate and received his B.A. degree in 1937 from the University of Utah. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. gy Wednesday, July 16, 1969 Postal Clerk Voices Opposition To Proposed Corporation Bill The nations organized postal clerks are mustering active opposition in Congress against the postal corporation bill for what it fails to do, a Salt Lake postal union official said today. William D. Harris, legislative vice president of Local 6, United Federation of postal listed three Clerks, AFL-CImajor objections to pending legislation whicii would con- vert the postal service into a government corporation: 1. It fails to give employes the right to strike even though they would no longer have Civil Service status. 2. It fails to give them unilateral access to binding arbi- tration. 3. It fails to establish true wage comparability with private industry prior to the transfer of employes into the corporate structure. Harris said, It would definitely make employes piiblic scapegoats by tying postal rates to every future salary increase. He said the unions national leadership reached the decision after "fruitless consultation with top postal officials in Washington and a thorough study of the legislation. The postmaster general has failed to consider that even with the 4.1 per cent pay increase effective in mid-Julpostal clerks are still more than $800 a year behind their counterparts in private try, Harris said. indus- Stamps Stolen Stamps valued at $35 and cash were stolen from the offices of H. J. Vander-veA Associates. 8 E. 3rd $10 in er South, police said today. , , J ?Z his f 'tyyfi DESERET NEWS, Scowcroft reminded the audience of the virtue of disloyas novelist Graham alty. Greene called it, that gives to the novelist that extra dimension of sympathy. About iiii'iiii - JNT- - dDOD(fe(iDQ!MQIB0B n ' i11 : ,0 NEW POLYESTER SHAG OR KODEL Sheer luxury under foot the look of tomortwo-torow wanted by the homemaker today coloration make decorating easy while helping to reduce toil. 14 EXCITING, NEW DECORATOR COLORS made to sell for 15.95. Plain or NOW ONLY ne V'f," ' - . r L "Yj'W v ' ,T'f m 4 : f . W kx V t 'A Salt Lakers at Hansen Planetarium applaud as Apollo 1 1 ? O FREE PAD & LABOR lifts off. Planetarium Appropriate Spot For Viewing Launch By PAUL SWENSON Deseret News Staff Writer " A burst of nervous applause broke the tension at 7:32.4 'a.m. today, as 65 Salt Lakers the beginning of watched mans moon adventure from I the appropriate shadow of a huge world globe. The setting was the lobby of '.the Hansen Planetarium, 15 S. "State St., where businessmen, chilhousewives, teen-ager- dren and grandparents gath-ere- d in knots around two color "television sets. AU the free doughnuts had consumed been nervously "more than 15 minutes before flame of the the Apollo 11 launch appeared on the TV screens, and some of the viewers could have used a tranquilizer or two. But the crowd was still sipe juice in ping paper cups, served by the Planetarium hosts, when Walter Cronkite brought on the applause four seconds after liftoff with the announcement, Oh boy, it lories good. We thought it would be a e particularly interesting in which to watch the said Mr. and Mrs. Haunch, 'Fled Schwendiman, 1665 E. 9th South. "There has been a question in my mind as to whether the space program is worth it, but enough wise men seem to think it will be of benefit to Schwenfuture generations, blue-orang- e orange-pineappl- atmo-'spher- diman said. The refreshments for the public at die Salt Lake planetarium coincidentally simulated the astronauts breakfast today in me Apollo cabin, detailed for planetarium patrons in an "Apollo 11 Flight Information Kit, handed out to the viewers. In a pink leaflet titled, "What the Astronauts Will TV watchers the Eat, learned before the launch that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin breakfasted on orange drink, grape drink, peaches, bacon squares and strawberry cubes. Another' handout informed FOUR Continued from Page die viewers that the astronauts medical kit contained 72 aspirin, 12 nausea pills, 600 decongestant tablets and 21 sleeping pills among other medicinal compounds. "This is so magnificent, said Michele Moulton, 18, daughter of J. Heber Moulton, Bountiful, who stopped off at the planetarium on her way to work with girl friends Marcia Woodbury, 18, and Jolene Allred, 18, both Bountiful. years ago when the pioneers were coming into Salt Lake City fat those old oxcarts, Michele said. "Now were going to the moon. Its more than I can compre' hend. after . James L Barker Jr., com- pleting his first. Primary elections, if required, will be Oct. 21. Registration days are Oct. 7 and 14 to vote in primary and Oct. 28 to vote in municipal elections. Final election is Nov. 4. 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