Show SUBURBAN SKETCHES SKETCHES' Puzzle Puzz e Man Manufacturers Manufacturer Is gs s Enigma Himself WOODS CROSS CROSS CROSS-A A Telegram reporter was left In something o oa of ofa a quandary Tuesday after fter an in interview interview interview in- in with a man who has ha caused more headaches than the night before and more profanity than recalcitrant mules The man is Alvin Ashby of of Woods Cross who spends winters winter and spare time constructing the attractive but aggravating crossword crossword cross cross- word puzzle An inspection of Mr Ashbys Ashby's laboratory would dispel any belief belief belief be be- lief that the real sufferer is the fellow who solves the puzzle The room is piled ceiling high with key books dictionaries maps fairy stories mathematics books and headache powders At It for 15 Years Mr Ashby who has been working working work work- ing at it for 15 years says he started working first for The Salt Lake Tribune Since then he has submitted sticklers to the NewYork New NewYork NewYork York Tribune Herald-Tribune and many other magazine publications The real job he explained is inaugurating a symmetrical frame that is a puzzle whose black spaces form some sort of design Then all you have to do is go ahe ahead d and make the puzzle Isn't it simple His guide to constructing puzzles puzzles puzzles is a key book which contains in the neighborhood of words These are arranged alphabetically alphabetically alpha alpha- and according to the number of letters in them Drafting Drafting Drafting Draft Draft- ing of this book alone represents many years of work it was pointed point point- ed out Every word in the English En En- glish elish lish language lan is represented in Mr Ashbys Ashby's book except the obsolete ones Also a Mathematician A mathematician Mr Ashby kept an accurate running total of five columns columns' of figures pushed at him by a friend He also displayed displayed dis dis- played short cuts to multiplication tion ion and long division Algebra A A. q cinch The whole thing in becoming a i maker of word cross-word puzzles is developing yourself he said Where it used to take me three months to invent one worthy enough to be accepted by a publication publication pub pub- I can run through a puzzle puzzle le now in eight hours The trend among contempo contemporary ary constructors is to refrain from rom using hackneyed words and insert only those that will make the he aspiring solver think just a little ittle p f fR R dF EJ ALVIN ASHBY |