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From The Dual Controls      SOUTHERN STAR      Page 3

lection, a magazine for which you would like to obtain another magazine of a different date, or anything else you'd like to get, or swap off, just drop a card to 3911 Park St., Columbia, South Carolina, and we'll see that your ad gets into the second issue of the STAR.
   
   You Southern fans -- this is your magazine, and we need material from you. Send along anything in the fan line, i.e. articles, verse, fiction, anything you like,  and the more the merrier. 
     
   The policy of the STAR where material is concerned is fairly simple. Controversial material is welcome, as long as said material does not tromp on any unoffending toes. We have only three topic restrictions: Religion, politics, and sex.
     
   And the rest of you fans out there -- let us know what you think of this first issue of the STAR, won't you? Your suggestions and letters will be most appreciated. Let's hear from you -- all of you. And don't forget to send in that swap column contribution while you're at it. 

   In conclusion, we want to thank most sincerely everyone who has worked and contributed to this first issue. To the staff, to Butch Whitehead of the local YMCA for his kind loan of mimeograph equipment, to Leslie Perri, and Ted Dikty for suggestions and contributions, and to all the rest who have made this first issue possible -- thanks a million -- and remember the South's new motto: To a united Southern fandom -- Through Cooperation. 
                         
          THE EDITORS 

From The Chicago Rocket Field. Continued from Page 16. 

sue of Voice of the Imagi- Nation ((10¢ from F. J. Ackerman & Morojo, Box 6475 , Met. Sta., Los Angeles, California, and also highly recommended. JG)). 

   About a week after Charlie left us, on October 10th in fact, I received a telegram from Edward E. Smith. Doc Smith, as you all know, was guest of honor at the Chicon. After the Chicon was over he made a trip to Los Angeles where he attended a meeting of the LASFS. At the present time, six weeks after the Chicon, Doc was returning to his home in Jackson, Michigan, and wired me that he was coming into Chicago on the 11th for a few minutes to pick up the pictures he purchased at the Chicon auction, and left with me until he returned from his California trip. He stopped, thinking he would only stay for a few minutes, but when I found that out, I insisted he stay for dinner. He consented, but Mrs. Smith went downtown and we made arrangements to meet her about mid-night. We drove her downtown in the Smith's car. An item of interest is that the Smith's car was all smashed up, for while the trip from L. A. to Chicago was being made, somewhere in the wild-and-wooley west, several wild horses humped in front of Doc's car. Doc swerved in order not to hit them, for if he had he probally wouldn't've  lived to tell about it. A wild horse is enuf to crush a driver who smashes into one. Anyway in making his fast swerve he was caught in the mud of the soft shoulder beside the road, and the car turned over on its side. Fortunately no damage was done either to Dr. or Mrs. Smith, for which we can be thankful. 
 
   After dropping Mrs. Smith off downtown we went to see Palmer who had returned by then from Milwaukee. Then he, Doc Smith, and I had a swell bull session. Doc stated that he always had a soft spot in his heart for Amazing, and is thinking seriously of taking up Palmer's offer to print a sequel to the Skylark stories if Palmer doesn't edit a single word. Doc is giving this some thought, and in the next few years

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From The Dual Controls SOUTHERN STAR Page 3 lection, a magazine for which you would like to obtain another magazine of a different date, or anything else you'd like to get, or swap off, just drop a card to 3911 Park St., Columbia, South Carolina, and we'll see that your ad gets into the second issue of the STAR. You Southern fans -- this is your magazine, and we need material from you. Send along anything in the fan line, i.e. articles, verse, fiction, anything you like, and the more the merrier. The policy of the STAR where material is concerned is fairly simple. Controversial material is welcome, as long as said material does not tromp on any unoffending toes. We have only three topic restrictions: Religion, politics, and sex. And the rest of you fans out there -- let us know what you think of this first issue of the STAR, won't you? Your suggestions and letters will be most appreciated. Let's hear from you -- all of you. And don't forget to send in that swap column contribution while you're at it. In conclusion, we want to thank most sincerely everyone who has worked and contributed to this first issue. To the staff, to Butch Whitehead of the local YMCA for his kind loan of mimeograph equipment, to Leslie Perri, and Ted Dikty for suggestions and contributions, and to all the rest who have made this first issue possible -- thanks a million -- and remember the South's new motto: To a united Southern fandom -- Through Cooperation. THE EDITORS From The Chicago Rocket Field. Continued from Page 16. sue of Voice of the Imagi- Nation ((10¢ from F. J. Ackerman & Morojo, Box 6475 , Met. Sta., Los Angeles, California, and also highly recommended. JG)). About a week after Charlie left us, on October 10th in fact, I received a telegram from Edward E. Smith. Doc Smith, as you all know, was guest of honor at the Chicon. After the Chicon was over he made a trip to Los Angeles where he attended a meeting of the LASFS. At the present time, six weeks after the Chicon, Doc was returning to his home in Jackson, Michigan, and wired me that he was coming into Chicago on the 11th for a few minutes to pick up the pictures he purchased at the Chicon auction, and left with me until he returned from his California trip. He stopped, thinking he would only stay for a few minutes, but when I found that out, I insisted he stay for dinner. He consented, but Mrs. Smith went downtown and we made arrangements to meet her about mid-night. We drove her downtown in the Smith's car. An item of interest is that the Smith's car was all smashed up, for while the trip from L. A. to Chicago was being made, somewhere in the wild-and-wooley west, several wild horses humped in front of Doc's car. Doc swerved in order not to hit them, for if he had he probally wouldn't've lived to tell about it. A wild horse is enuf to crush a driver who smashes into one. Anyway in making his fast swerve he was caught in the mud of the soft shoulder beside the road, and the car turned over on its side. Fortunately no damage was done either to Dr. or Mrs. Smith, for which we can be thankful. After dropping Mrs. Smith off downtown we went to see Palmer who had returned by then from Milwaukee. Then he, Doc Smith, and I had a swell bull session. Doc stated that he always had a soft spot in his heart for Amazing, and is thinking seriously of taking up Palmer's offer to print a sequel to the Skylark stories if Palmer doesn't edit a single word. Doc is giving this some thought, and in the next few years