Page Six b Wilhelm Continued from page 5 who are especially concerned with the permanence of prints and negatives Print and film permanence requires photographs have a thorough washing to rcmove all excess chemicals. and Wilhelm’s washers are designed as imr provements on conventional ones, The East Street Gallery film washer (brand name Al'- chiral) is similar [0 other washers and has some im» provements on them, The print washers are oi a completely diiierent design than conventional washers; they allow its own separate compartment, and therefore avald chemical contamination from other prints and wash water Modern Photography magazine described the East Street Gallery print washer in a recent issue as “a beautifully finished rec- tangular prism oi gleaming Plexiglass. an ingenious device.” A number of well known and respected institutions and photographers have bought print washers irom the Gallery, in eluding the National Archives in Washington,D C., the MlTphoto labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the director of photography oi the Museum oi Modern Art lll New York, N. Y., the Herbert Hoover Presidential library in West Branch, 1a., and Sumner Photography in Grinnell, lowa. The Gallery oegan producing and selling the washers only last year, and the business has been accelerating so rapidly that Wilhelm and Krystyna Nouman can hardly keep up with it. in the last hall of last year, when they iirsl started selling llie washers, they grossed 55,000. since then, they have increased their sales For example, Alt» man's. the largest photographic distributor in the Midwest, has dropped other lines or tilin washers and now Carries Al‘s chiyzil I'illn washers exclusively it would probably he im- possible to determine what the opinions oi townspeople at large are towards Henry willielni. Krystyna Neunian. and the East street Gallery. The 3&3. making no pretense oi including all shades oi town opinion. or even For School or Typewriter Supplies Grinnell Office Supply GRINNELI. imam Across (rent the Fest om:- thatr an accurate cross section, asked a number oi townspeople their opinion oi llcnry Wilhelm and l\'l‘t'lylla Nettman and the reaction oi tlicir triends and associates towards them, No one. needless to say, was without an opinion ltir. lrving It, Howell, owner oi Bates Flowers in Grinnell, told the Stu; tllzil he thought his opinions and the opinions oi most townspeople towards Wilhelm could be summarized very easily. “He ought to leave town," Mr. Howell said; “He causes nothing but problems.” Wilhelm, Mr. Howell indicated, is a serious problem to town businesses “we can’t even identiiy ourselves with tor each print to he Washed in r. the College any more because oi Henfiy wllhelm and his type," he explained, Howell also pointed to a problem which others had mentioned: the activities oi Wilhelm and others make the money raising task or people in .the College’s development otiice much more diiiicult. “We just can’t understand why kids act this way. we just can’t unr derstand it,” he concluded, liir. Paul Brink. a local businessman and a long time resident of Grinnell said that he is not iamiliar with the con- troversy as it surrounds Wilhelm and the college. He said that his ideas and attitudes have changed as he has noticed that “many at the townspeople who are shocked thy Wilhelm) seem to he the same people who aren’t shocked by our activity in Vietnam, and who are not concerned with our racial problems.” Mr. Brink said that relatively low townspeople do actually know willielin, their knmi ledge is what they hear ot him and what they read in his /. SCARLET AND BLACK paper. According to Mr, Brink, the issues or t>tcrotiactyl which he saw were ”quite boring." “We are in a strange soctcly," he continued. “We get uptight about minor or superiicial things, but we let the important issues slide by.” One local resident. who has been in several businesses in Grinnell and did not wish to be quoted by name, expressed a view which was iairly typical oi those people contacted by the 5&8. He said that he thinks Wllhelm‘s thinking must be “kind oisic l' and that “everybody tin townt that knows something about him wishes that he were in Russia." He said that he un- derstands Wilhelm's Situation 7 that he is not a student — but that some of his friends are not that well informed and tend to associate him more closely with Grinnell College Chief of Police Bill Peters seems to be less upset about Wilhelm than most townspeople. Chief Peters, whose only real SUNTAN LOTIONS (muyb BU‘l' ihe Sun Will Shine! Try us for a Large Selection THARP Pharmacy term w... ems . to. Wllctl the Song of spring is love, sing it in this charming skimmer With regatta him, In gold with navy and white trim or blocbott‘oii with pccchice and willie trill: X it‘s another way to Communicate spring. From John Meyer. 3lzfi‘lohn meyer specks your language Poynter's 4+h Ave. Grind. Fashions Iowa official involvement with willielm recently was in the zoning case, said. “He thlllelm) doesn't worry me; the only thing that worries me is the product that he puts out " He told the 5&1; that, as tar as he knows. Wilhelm is not now producing tfilm and print washers), hut that iiat any lime he thought he was, tChlef Pclersl would prosecute. Peters said that although he doesn't agree with Wilhelm, there are things about him that have surprised him He said that he has not had many cons versations with Wilhelm, but whenever he has had occasion to talk to him, Wilhelm has never said a disrespectiul word to him Mrs. Ferne H. Norris, owner and manager oi Grinnell Travel Center, told the 5&8 that she believes that every society, “for Friday. April t7, [970 its own good, needs rebels; " thus, she is Willing to let Henry and Krystyna “rebel in their own iashion,“ She said, however, that whilc she is in sympathy with some oi the results oi ring group actions, slle hopes that they do not succeed in “what seems to he their major aim, destroying our current social and govern- mental system." “An un- structured society, though it sounds iiiic in piperdreams,” she continued. “just would not work. We would be soon be saddled with a much worse system twtthl probably much less individual treedoin, Look at how Haight Asbury turned out." Mrs, Norris said that Henry and Krystyna have done a great deal oi harm to the image at the College across WILHELM- Continued on page 7 THE POL. SCIENCE MAJOR SAID DICTATORIALLY: MILLER MAKES IT RIGHT! SEND US YOUR ADVVERBIAL puns ABOUT COLLEGE MAJORS. IF ruBLisHED, WE’LL SEND YOU A REFRESHING REWARD COLLEGE Box 482 o MILLER anew co. Mle, WIS. moi