Friday. November 16. 1951
Flying Auto Wheel Shatters Glass
Of Dairy Queen Building, Aberdeen
People who live in glass houses
sometimes suffer breakage even
when they have been doing no
stone-throwing, it was discovered
by John F. Hunneman, proprietor
of the Dairy Queen ice cream bar
on US 1 near Aberdeen, in a fre^
accident last week.
^ Hunneman had just left the
ront of his small, modernstic,
dassed-in building, and gone to
;he less exposed back room when
i.large round object came hurtling
hrough the plate glass wall in
ront, and flew through the air to
he opposite wall, amid a general
battering of glass.
The front wall was smashed, the
pposite one cracked and an ice
ream machine between knocked
skew, and had its switch broken
The object, which could well
ave killed or seriously injured
Ir. Hunneman had he remained
New of Books and Authors
of Interest To The Sandhills
where he was, turned out to be
the wheel off a car. Kelly Young,
of Taylortown, Negro employee of
the Dairy Queen, was just turning
in to the grounds of the refresh
ment place in a second-hand car
he had owned only one hour,
when a front wheel flew off, zip
ped across the yard, hit a curbing
and bounced into the building.
Young’s car halted without
damage. He later put the wheel
back on, finding it unharmed.
A car approaching Young’s on
US 1, driven by Bill Milner of Ra
leigh, found itself directly the
path of the wildly rolling wheel.
Uncertain of what it was going to
do, he cut to the right and took
off to the side of the Dairy Queen
with the wheel in full pursuit, un
til it hit the curb and bounced in
to the glass.
Mr. Hunneman said the damage
was covered by insurance.
Flowers ft
or
Thanksgiving
That noted citizen of Pinebluff,
Glen Rounds, has done it again.
Another of those superlative juve
niles, which he writes and illus
trates, is off the presses of Holi
day House, New York. Like the
others, "Hunted Horses" (156
pages—$2.25) is the kind of juve
nile book the grown-ups in the
family will always be snatching
from the children to read and en
joy thmselves.
This may be because Glen
Rounds, the Dakotan cowboy who
has settled down in the Sandhills,
doesn’t write “down” to children!
or be cute with them, or coyly
arch. He writes with a peculiar
directness, with sentiment minus
fancy trimmings, revealing little-
known phases of outdoor life and
aniriials and their way^; and his
knowledge of nature is authentic
and immense'?
His drawings are the same—
seemingly simple, but filled with
strong artistry and action, and his
animals have real personalities.
“Hunted Horses” is a story of
the wild Appaloosas, the owner
Rock Hunt.”
His wife was on the staff of
Harpers Bazaar for six years, and
was also for a time public rela
tions director for Norman Bel
Geddes, famed theatrical and in- '
dustrial designer. “Speaking of
Murder was published October
25 by the Phoenix Press ($2).
band’s as well as others mention
ed above. Emphasis is on chil
dren’s books. We haven’t been
able to get there yet to see what
the Country Book Shop is like,
but we enthusiastically applaud
Mrs. Rounds:—first for having a
charming and original idea, and
second, for doing something about
it!
Lenoir county farmers are
showing increasing interest in
thinning woodland for pulpwood
and other uses, says County Agent
F. J. Koonce, Jr.
Not many new authors can re- |
port, like Tom Wicker, that their
first novel sold more than 200,000
copies within the first month after
publication. This was the size of
the first printing of "Get Out of
Town," for which Tom has used
the pseudonym Paul ConnoUy,
and the book has gone into a sec
ond printing of 72,000 copies. That
is one thing about writing for the
25-cent drugstore and newstand
trade; if you click, %u click in a
big- way, and your book really
gets around.
^ It’s been disappointing that
‘Get Out of Town” hasn’t been
more available here. We’ve been
able to get hold of just one copy J
TWO WAYS
To Get
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TURKEY
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less horses who live and rove in! Hayes’. Where all those 200 -
bands in the western desert coun-|000 copies have been selling we
try. They lead a perilous life; ?^0“’t know.
snow, storm, drought, enemy ani-| Tom is sort of an adopted son
mals and the most cruel and
greedy of enemies, man, are re
curring dangers.
The story is a chronicle of one
year in the life of an Appaloosa
stallion and his band of mares,
whom he guards and guides as
best he can even when it means
a fight to the death. At one time,
when he is trapped by men and
his family is dispersed, it seems
as though all his struggles have
been in vain. Yet as the book ends
One way is to snare
th,em! The other is
to come to our store.
Give us an idea of
what you want and
we’ll have it in top
quality for you
when you want it.
This goes for any
kind of fowl for
Thanksgiving.
they are all together, with an
other winter coming—another
year-long cycle about to begin.
The author-illustrator is honest
in depicting his animals. They do
not talk, or think un-animal-like
thoughts, or suffer in the ways re
served for humans. Yet the story
of their struggle is a deeply mov
ing one; and the reader ends up
with a real feeling of understand
ing of them and their ways.
of Southern Pines, where he was!
Chamber of Commerce manager
during 1948, when he had attained i
the ripe old age of 21. “Get Out of
Town,” then tentatively titled
Copper Hard,” was in process of
being written at that time. He’s
now on the editorial staff of the
Winston-Salem Journal.
Get Out of Town” is published I
by Gold Medal Books, which has
provided it with a lurid cover
whkh has nothing -to do with the
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The issuance of a new mystery,
"Speaking of Murder," by Virgin
ia van Urk, has more than a cas
ual interest for the Sandhills lover
of who dun-its. The author and
her husband, J. Blan van Urk, of
Petersville Farm, Mt. Kisco, N.
Y., have been winter visitors here
for several years and are well
known in the foxhunting set.
This is Mrs. van Urk’s first
book. Her husband, who combines
authorship with sportsmanship
I has written several, all dealing
with hunting, in which he is an
international authority. A mem
ber of the Royal Dutch Hunt, who
has ridden to hounds with all of
the leading hunts of the country,
he was the first ridipg reporter,
j serving several years in this ca
pacity for Town and Country and
The Chronicle. His latest book,
published by Scribners last year
I was “The Story of the Rolling
a part this cover has played ini
those mounting sales we can’t
guess. Some, no doubt; but there’s!
a real story inside too.
HALF or WHOLE
Mrs. Laetfia Irwin of South
ern Pines, author of the recently-
published novel “The Golden
Hammock,” was guest speaker at
a luncheon meeting of the Liter
ature department of the Raleigh
Woman’s club in Raleigh on
Thursday of last week. Her sub
ject was ‘“Far Away Food,” and
she was introduced by Mrs. Les
lie B. Evans, Woman’s Club pres
ident.
Present
for the meeting were
members of the board of the
North Carolina Federation of
Women’s clubs.
Mrs. Irwin was interviewed bv
Mrs. William C. (Harriet) Pressly
department chairman who presi
ded at the luncheon, on her radio
program after the meeting.
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And just in time for Christmas
Margaret Rounds has started her
Country Book Shop at Pinebluff
where some books may be bought
and others may be ordered—
among them, we hope, her hus-1
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