Playground Daily News from Fort Walton Beach, Florida • Page 37

Page6E-PLAYGROUND DAILY NEWS, Thursday Morning, June 12,1975 S. Africa Shops for N-Partners Luis Fuentes, curator of the Hemingway House in Havana, stands in front of memoribllla collected by the author. Hemingway maintained a home In Cuba PELINDABA, South Africa (UP1) Natural modesty overcomes national pride when the president of South Africa's Atomic Energy Board says his country is "among the leaders" in techniques to enrich uranium. Fellow scientists know Dr. A.

A. Roux really means South Africa has pioneered a new technique, and with her vast uranium reserves is poised to take a commanding world role in the age of nuclear energy. South Africa has an estimated 300,000 tons of uranium deposits--nearly one-third of known global reserves--and only the United States, with an estimated 340,000 tons, has larger amounts. In seven years, the Western world will need an estimated 6,000 tons of enriched uranium each year to fuel nuclear reactors. South Africa's production capacity then is expected to hit 5,000 tons, 83 per cent of requirements.

(In that other rare mineral, gold, Sou)h Africa leads the world with 77 per cent of annual marketed production.) Prime Minister John Vorster says South Africa will "go it alone" if necessary and construct the new uranium enrichment capacity by 1983. But Roux says the government would prefer to have international participation. Pelindaba is Roux' headquarters, up in the hilts behind Pretoria and about a half hour drive from the capital. From the country lane below, the complex is hardly visible. The buildings match the color of the surrounding brown, dry grasslands.

The architecture is out of science fiction. Gardeners move slowly across the lawns. They observe the premium this nuclear complex places on silence, a principle FWB Library Use Stays on Upswing embodied in its name. In Zulu, Pelindaba means "stop talking," and Roux says Uiis implies "start working." In five years and without a foreign scientist among the 160 technicians on the secret project, South African atomic experts completed their experimental A few weeks ago the pilot project at nearby Valindaba began actual production. Valindaba means "about this we do not speak Vorster announced in parliament he was "gratified" the theoretical forecasts proved to be on target.

Government officials said in an energy hungry world, South Africa now can bargain with the weight of any oil-rich Middle East state. Partly to scout for potential collaborators, Roux attended last month's European Energy Conference in Paris, and there his national pride did surface, briefly- but fiercely. He lifted a few of the heavy security wraps on South Africa's atomic development, and some delegates said the enriching process he described seemed to differ only slightly from the American diffussion separation system. The nuclear scientist, 61, born and trained in South Africa, issued a statement saying the American and South African techniques differed radically. He wasn't having his team belittled.

The systems wereas'far apart as the North and South poles, he said. The American method, built around the nuclear explosion program, is based on diffusion. from 1939 to 1960, which was turned over to the Castro government by his widow. up pj Cuba Preserves Hemingway House HAVANA UPI-Beside his favorite armchair, a tray holds the mixings for a few drinks for Ernest Hemingway and his guests--rum, Scotch, bourbon, gin, vermouth, tonic, mineral water and four plastic glasses. The chair's seat sags deeply, 15 years alter "Papa" got up for the last time to chase away the household cats with the two-foot length of broomstick still lucked under the cushion.

Those who knew the author and visited him in this house on a hill outside Havana say the feeling of his presence is uncanny. Everything is just as he left it. Hemingway's house, La Finca de la Vigia, is preserved by the Cuban government as a museum and tourist attraction. His widow, Mary, handed it over to the state in 1962 but retained an adjoining bungalow to stay in if she returns for a visit. She has not been back yet.

"The Old Man and the Sea," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, was written in this rambling, one-story house surrounded by rolling grounds and flowering flamboyan trees. The saga of a Cuban fisherman's battle against the elements was banged out on a portable typewriter on a waisthigh shelf beside Hemingway's bed. He wrote standing up because of a shrapnel wound from his ambulance-driving days in World War I that made it hard to bend his knee. "Across the River and Iplo the Trees" also was produced here, according to Luis Fuentes, 59, the museum curator. La Finca de la Vigia was Hemingway's home from 1939 to 1960, the year after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, when the author returned to the United States for medical treatment.

Hemingway, 62, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, arteriosclerosis, and failing memory, shot himself to death in Ketcham, Idaho, July 2,1961. Fuentes is suspicious of newsmen from the United States and bristles at a question about how Cuba's current campaign for female rights can'be squared with veneration for Hemingway's brand of he-man writing. Isn't it a contradiction to honor a writer noted for glorifying "machismo?" "Hemingway was loved in Cuba more as a person than as a writer," Fuentes said. "We are not interested in his literary flourishes. We're not interested in machismo either, because it is a false concept.

If it ever had any influence in Cuba, it has been wiped out by the revolution." Fuentes, a former light opera singer, once shook hands with Hemingway in a chance meeting at the beach, but said it was no special event. "Hemingway was just another Cuban to us," Fuentes said. "He wasn't a foreigner here, he was just another Cuban. He was loved a great deal in Cuba, and he loved us, too." Fuentes and his assistants keep a jealous eye on the hundreds of items of Hemingway memorabilia scattered around the house. They don't like to leave visitors alone for fear they'll be tempted to pocket a souvenir.

About 2,000 to 3,000 visitors a month, mostly from Eastern Europe and Canada, pass through the cluttered rooms and stare at the author's belongings. The items range from shotgun, rifle and machinegun shells laid out on the desk in Hemingway's den to a war correspondent's patch, captured German army medals and the author's 1959 Idaho Liquor Consumers Permit. There are humorous touches. A tiny chair in the living room, much too small for Hemingway's bulk, has a message embroidered on the seat, supposedly by Mary. It says "Poor Papa." A rubber stamp on a desk, apparently used to ward off unsolicited correspondence, says, "I don't write letters.

Ernest Hemingway." An ashtray bears the Spanish motto, "Nobody follows advice or ugly women." The house and an adjoining three-story tower are full of Hemingway's hunting trophies --20 animal heads stare from the walls, and there are 29 sets of horns from various beasts. Books are everywhere, stacked along the walls, 7,000 of them. There are even three shelves of books and a magazine rack in the bathroom. A swimming pool surrounded by fruit and shade trees is empty. Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Errpl Flynn, Ava Gardner and Marlcne Dietrich are said to have used it.

Beyond the pool are the graves of four dogs, including Hemingway's Blak. According to Fuentes, Blak was killed by a bullet from a policeman's gun when he barked at officers searching the grounds for rebel weapons while Dictator Fulgencio Batista was in power. There were no guerrilla arms, only Hemingway's hunting rifles. Use of the Fort Walton Beach Library continues to increase. Last May the library had 4,106 visitors compared to 4,405 for this May.

Last year in May total loans and services to visitors numbered this May these numbered 10,549. Adult loans were 5,408 fiction and 2,056 nonfiction books, 37 paintings, 211 records, and 11 picture files. References assistance was given to 658 of the visitors. Juvenile loans were 1,535 fiction and 607 nonfiction books and 26 records. This department's Reading Club will start a iline-week series of meetings on June 19.

The program, which includes crafts, reading, and still other activities, is shaped for those between the ages of seven and 13. The Story Hour, for children four through six, will get under way early in July. The second Kawasaki KZ-400 Special Boal inllalioiiwitha Kawasaki K7-400 Special. It's economical to run, sasy to maintain, and lots of fun, roam far Iwo. Smooth, quiet 4-sUoke 398cc engine.

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