European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                03st both by Bob Hoyer is Munich Bureau junk As its own entity can be quite j exciting. If to i Don t believe it. Ask mrs. Joyce Volpes for the words belong to  Walls of her Home in Munich. Germany contain evidence which sup ports her claim. Mrs. Volpey is an artist and junk is just one of the tools she uses to express  piece of wire screen affectionately and laboriously extracted from a log found along the Rhine River in an example of what the imaginative mind can do with junk. The wire resembling fish Bones in design now is part of a collage in the Volpey living room. Individual pieces of Drift Wood sus Pended from the Selling and an old Anchor taken from wait ill Beach in Honolulu join the collage As decorations in a Corner of the  throughout the Volpey Home arc filled with paintings and clocks. In deed Wall space is a precious item so much so thai mrs. Volpey and her Hus band. Maj Jack Volpey. Are constantly battling for  major an obstetrician at the Munich army Hospital i a highly skilled Wood finisher. His specially is clock cases24 clocks adorn Volpey Walls. An other of his efforts is a coffin lop Coffee table. A compulsive Painter mrs. Volpey has set up a studio on the second floor. Painting is something i must do. It s been this Way with me since i was a child of i. 1 sold my first painting in High school and i be been going at it Ever since she said. Reared in the san Francisco area mrs. Volpey studied at the Academy of arts in Honolulu and the san Antonio Art Institute where one of her instructors was English Painter Peter Lanyon. Last Winter she took up life drawing in schwaben a Munich s Art District. She turns out some 50 paintings and draw Ings a year. Some come easy and others take up to six months she said with a Little shudder. Sometimes a painting can almost drive you crazy. It s us ways u Lille disconcerting to have someone Como and say of you re so talented just at the moment you re ready to put your fool. Through the  when there s an idea inside you. It must come out. You must  Driftwood Obue from i Iii creator mrs. Jack Volpey Arluin with Unk. Having Sheie Pel goats helped Barbara Phelen become Queen of kooks by Patrilla Mccormack up staff writer Barbara Phil in losses up to being an incorrigible  Only if i m a legitimate Kouk 1 ought to fess Down to the fact instead of up she said in an interview adding us kooks always do everything Dif  take what happened when miss Phelan picked up her sheepskin at the College of new Rochello in the town of same name outside new York City. The native of Bristol. Conn., tingled with the Prospect of making Money in Stead of grades to she went to work far a Magazine that was plugging voluntary poverty Al the below min Mun Volun tary poverty salary of 125 a week. As a result she Diin t gel Rich. She became d sync hunted. Whit s More Hen there was a Knock on her Rooming House door in the Middle of the night. She opened it and there stood the House Mother clutching her shawl and saying i be been thinking. You re a writer. Maybe you could use this twile of  that was stretching voluntary Pov erty a bit much miss Phelan said. What i needed was u new typewriter  when the dark of night about Volun tary poverty struck the self vowed Kook did other unlikely things like studying ceramics in Italy working As a Potter in Greenwich Villas Labouring As a farmhand and buying two outs with the thought til having a Herd of same some Day. In i Cloween she inured Europe for two years on a motor Xii Ter hut Only bitter she poured Purl of stir up in an ancient Rolls Royce which Slie said a de so Iii Ich noise you could t Liefer the flock ticking. You learn to improvise when you re a professional Kook. Did you know for example that if you Cut the top off a pair of Blue jeans the legs that Are left make perfect Saddle bags for the front part of a   i answered limply. Well they  she said. But you have to be prepared for a certain amount of ridicule when you walk into a hotel lobby with the things Over your shoulder. The unknowing ones wonder what you did with to rest of the  miss Phelan. Who matured in psychology at school this year is sort of a Queen of the kooks. The p. Lorillard company annually stages a Kook Hunt for u Spring cigarette girl who can go about the country and Light up interest in  endeavours. When applicants for the title arc inter viewed they Aro asked Odd  have you Ever cd Nripal re own he Mississippi without a paddle or climbed the Alps barefooted is your yen for adventure in Sallalee As a part of the Kookie arrangement the Winner miss Phelan in this Case gets an All expense paid 16.000 mile tour of the Highlands and lowlands of Yankee Doodle land then Thuro it Tho gift of clothes. A full wardrobe but Only Fea Turing three colors blue., Green and White. But the Kon Klest thing no All miss Chelan said is that you Wear Spring clothes All year round. It gels Chilly in november in Spring clothes. But a Kook Musi expert the in expected. Anyway i look Al it. This is better than the voluntary in Overly Campaign. I pm lived of Peanut butter  my. Volpey finishes a painting against background of Art clock treasures. Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday october 18, 1964