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TI{E CALIFORNIA LI]MBER MERCHAD{T I".k
Dionne,
Shope of Things to Come?
"By the end of the century, in less than 40 years,60/o oI the world's population will be living in surroundinss difierent from what they are now."
This startling guote comes from a man who heads one of the world's largest city planning and architectural firms.
He is Constantinos A. Doxiadis, a man who knows whereof he speaks. His Athens, Greece firm is currently developing a 500,000- refugee satellite community in Karachi, -and a '2,5-00 o.." ,"development area in Philadelphia which is the largest of its kind in this country.
As a seer of future living patterns, he sees the time when we all will live in a ooUniversal City", or Ecumenopolis as he calls it. It will be a sprawling, densely-populated colleciion of human settlements that will spread across the face of the United States with no apparent distinction or separation.
j:Wgl:: already seeing the beginning of this Ecumenopoliso', he said. "We see these cities already taking shape here, along the Atlantic seaboard, in Europe and elsewhere.,' His views coiicide with locally voiced opinions that the coast of California will be one city stretching from San Diego to the Oregon border.
4. u planner of the future he is concerned with the present. He feels that o'what we plan and build today will shape the pattern for our cities for generations."
Dr. Doxiadis, founder and chairman of the board of the Athens Technological Institute, is a master in Ekistics, the science of human settlements. He teaches the subiect to students who come from all over the world to study.
The Ecumenopolis that he envisions will be made up of elongated superblocks, or, as he prefers to call them, "human communities." They will be self-contained and will have everything from- shopping centers to schools and may house as many as'2,00d people.
He believes, unlike many of his contemporaries, that the automobile will play a major part in this universal city. He thinks it is unrealistic to plan on sealing off parts of a city from auto traffic as many planners have suggested.
In This lssue
Spring has came, Winter has went, It was not did by accident The birds have flew, As vou have saw, And Spring has came to Arkansas.
If you drink wine you'll walk in winding ways, if you carry much beer, the bier*will .:on "T.tt:u. *
If you like brandy punches, you'll soon get handy punches.
And if you get the best of whiskey, whiskey will get the best ofYou' * * * * *
"It is of eloquence as of a flame; it reguires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and itlrightens as it burns."-Tacitus.
I recalled the above words of Tacitus years ago after listening to the wonderful speech that Douglas MacArthur made to the United States Congress. It was one of the superb orations o{ Americanhistory. * * * * *
Such men as Britain's Churchill and America's Douglas l{acArthur arrive in this world all too seldom. *
. Along the shores of the sea we sometimes find a giant, gran'te boulder, standing like a sentin.r*on *:urd. *
The bellows and waves of countless years have failed to rncvc
Invincible it stands, defying the winds and ma::king well the ancientboundary. * * r n +
Now and then as we walk through li{e, we find a man whc reminds us of that granite pillar.
BY JACK DIONNE
He stands uhere his God and his destiny placed him. revering his flag, his country, and its Constitution; honorable- clean, a Christian gentleman who cannot be moved by the high tides oi ignorance, or by the calumnies heaped upon him by the pygmies and liliputians of the world. ****
The tidal waves of the mad times in which we live, affect him not. Unafraid, he holds to the old faiths and fights for the proven thines.
Such men are Winston Churchill and **** t Douglas MacArthur. *
On such qualities as they possess the future of this world Iargely depends.
Changing abruptly from the sublime to the light'hearted. they tell the story about the school teacher, who on Lincoln's birthday displayed a picture of Lincoln to her class of youngsters- and asked if they knew who it was' Little Johnny, in the front rou'. said: "Sure. teacher. that's Mitch Miller."
And the story goes around that President Kennedy" in a dream saw Abraham Lincoln, and told him his troubles. When he asked Lincoln for suggestions as to what he should do, Lincoln replied: "I would suggest you go to the theater."
Pope & Tolbot in Goin
A 1962 net profit of $533,000 or 55 cents a share, contrasted with a 1961 net loss of $153,000, has been reported by Pope & Talbot, Inc., Il4-year-old San Francisco shipping, lumber and real estate company.
The 1962 earnings include $191,000 from non'operating sources, president George A. Pope, Jr., said.
He said that the company has sharply curtailed its non-profitable shipping business and now has only four vessels pending final dis' position. He stated that construction of a hardboard plant to utilize some of the firm's sawmill waste in the Pacific Northwest is under "active consideration.o'

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