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By: Ashton Chapman
FATHERS AND DREAMERS.
This novel by Dallas Miller is
about the impact of global con
flict on the conflicts of a small
town, especially on two Ameri
can familes.
SISTERS AND BROTHERS.
This novel by Janet Stevenson
is a powerful story of the les
sons learned today when north
ern whites venture into the
South to "help’' the Negro.
BAY LEAVES. Reprints of the
prlze-winn ng poems submitted
in the annual contests sponsored
by the Poetry Council of North
Cacolna, 1950-1961.
PRIZE STORIES 1967: THE
O. HENRY AWARDS. This is
the 47th annual volume in thitf
dst ngu<shed series. Like its
predecessors, the present collec
tion includes work by establish
ed writers and relative un
knowns.
HELMETS AND WASPS. Tn s
novel by Michael Mort is the
story of the dramatic events
which reveal to a German sold
ier in World War 11 what kind
of man he truly is.
SOLDIERS' REVOLT by Hans
Hellmut Hirst. An extraordinary
novel about the officers' attempt
on H tier’s life. The pace is re
lentless, the tension extraordi
nary, the characterization in
c'sive.
THE HERETIC by Alison Mac
leod is the story of Anne Askew
as it m : ght have been told by
the maid who was w'th her at
the I me she met death at the
stake. It is English history under
the reign 202 f Henry VIII,
illumined by imagination.
TRUMPETS OF JUBILEE by
Constance Roarke is a colorful
witty study of five of the most
popular figures of the mid-nine
teenth century. Henry Ward
Beecher, Harr'et Beecher Stowe,
Lvman Beecher, Horace Greeley
and P E. Bamum.
THE COURTESY OF DEATH.
This gripp'ng novel by Geoffrey
Household pits one man’s ingen
uity aga'nrt superior numbers,
dedication and cunning.
THE VIRGIN OF SAN GIL.
In this novel by Paul Olsen men
of innocence and nature are set
aea nst the corrupted over civi
lized forces of the c'ty, bringing
new ins ght to the natural man’s
incredible simplicty and purity.
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THE SEASONS HEREAFTER
This haunting novel by Elizabeth
Ogilvie is the story of Vanessa
and Owen Bennett's love, accent
ed by accidents of nature
storms and almost m'raculoos
runs of fish—on the Ma : ne coast.
INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA by
John Gunther. Here in one rich,
eye-opening book are all the
majesty, muddle, romance and
misery of a great continent; al
together new; a firsthand report.
THE SUM AND TOTAL OF
NOW. This novel by Don Rob
ertson is nostalgic, funny, full
of warmtr and power and an
abid ng rightness.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER
by Jon Cleary. With action at
every turn, this novel moves
with complete assurance from
sa’.-n to conference table to
furt ve meeting place. A superb
entertainment, it is also a know
ing picture of the contemporary
world—and underworld.
THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN.
Tb s novel by Paul Scott is laid
in India. The large cast of char
acters bring an entire heterog
eneous society to life, and the
technique of the narrator is such
that the reader to know
that society in the context of
both 1942 and today.
WYATT’S HURRICANE. The
scene of th ! s novel by Desmond
Bag’ey is a lush Caribbean is
land, whose rebel leader, una
ware of its approach, is mass r ng
his forces for an attack on the
city. As the wmd and the war
increase Wyatt becomes the one
w*io <-an save the island
from destruction, the inhabitants
from death.
THIRTEEN STORIES BY BU
DORA WELTY. Memorable stor
ies selected by Ruth M. van de
Kleft, who also wrote the infro
duction.
THE MODERN RESEARCH
ER by Jacques Barsun and Hen
ry F. Graft, An instructive and
urbane manual on liow to gath
er and organize facts, check
their accuracy and report the
f ndings, simply, clearly and
gracefully.
THE GOLD IN THE SEA.
Thirteen short stories by Bryan
Friel about .the young and the
old, the gay and the sad, the
hopeful and the disillusioned, set
in present-day Ireland.
DON QUIXOTE, U. S. A. Un-
der its comic and. satire dis
gu:ses this novel by Richard
Powell ,invest'gates the ways in
which good intentions can be
come thwarted in th’s bad old
fascinathg world, and the ways
in which right can triumph in a
rather wrong way.
SATURDAY THE RABBI
WENT HUNGRY by Harry Kem
elman is more than a superb
mystery story; i» is a fully
structured novel filed with de
lightful characterizations and
penetrat'ng ins'ghts into compar
ative religious attitudes toward
suicide, drunkenness, civil rights
—even what to name a baby;
THE TEMPER OF OUR TIME
by Eric Hoffer dissects the chief
forces work'ng to remake our
world. It is a vigorous, provoca
tive statement by a man willing
to grapple with the painful pro
cesses of original thought.
LABAN’S WILL. Dealing, liter
ally, with the matter of death
and death-:n-life, this is an in
vigorating and thougrtful novel,
by albert Lebowitz.
THE FOURTH GIFT. An h!s
torical novel, by El zabeth Bor
ton de Trevino, set in the state
of Jalisco, Mexico, in a time
when decrees designed to de
stroy the Catholic church drove
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YOUM AUTO STIISJNC:
WANTT Craftsmen And Leaders
Distuss Co-op
The craftsmen of the W.A.M.
Y. area moved a step closer to
the formation of a Co-op at a
meeting at which Mrs. Jarnce
V.’hitener, Crafts Specialist, pre
sided in Newland on May 11.
Mrs. Whitener expla’ned that
a Board of Directors should be
appointed so that Incentive
Grants for incorporation cos's,
fees, operating expenses, etc.,
could be sought; also for inves
tigating capital needs' and su't
able craft assembly points in
the four count’es.
The craftsmen then divided
into groups by counties to elect
three members of a temporary
Board of Directors from each
county. Those elected were, Wa
tauga; Mrs. Asa Reece, Mrs.
Iva Lee Harmon and Mrs. WII
Cook; Avery; Mrs. Ann McCoury,
Mrs. Pearl Norwood and Mr.
Dewey Harmon, with Mrs.
Sm ; th Hannon as alternate;
men, women and children to
violent guerilla warfare *n de
fense of their faith.
THURSDAY, MAY 25. 1967
Mitchell: Mr. Robert S'.atz, with
two others to be named later;
Yancey: Mr. Lloyd Wilson, Mrs.
Lo's McKinney and Mrs. Betty
McMahan, with Mrs. Cora Mc-
Whirter as alternate. <-
Mrs. Whitener then introduced
Mr. Ruffin Tucker, W.A.M.Y.
Marketing Specialist, who ad
vised that he would be working
with the Board of Directors in
its task of making proposals to
the membershiD Ur t u ® "rpani-
Eational structure in making rg.
ccmmendat.ons for capital needs
to the Co-op.
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