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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 1, 1961
Ex-Abilenian Ranked Hi
for Abby’s
Hate A
nes
Years
1 — Mr and
Jallinger rev
ling anniver-
home.
at the home
its, the late
Warren, in
1 1910. Mrs.
Ada Warren.
1 Hill County
02 and came
He was em-
Day Gin for
rs, and also
in A. Son in
business be-
by the Hum-
n 1916
made their
Booster Sta-
nt in 1948
', Jchn Billy
Ante-Bellum Er
In Colorful Book ======
GONE ARE'THE DAYS: Am I-prints that reflect the spirit of slumbrous locale with a haze of
lustrated History of the Old the early days. The author's text warm, dim beauty over a valley
South by Barnett T. Kane. E. is a lively account of how the or a distant plain, the enjoyment
I M. Button and Co., New York South came to be what it was in of casual and easy fellowship.
Whatever else 1961 may have In “ He tells of the coming of Pounce happy conversation . In a swilt-
store, it will certainly be the year de Leon. Ortiz and De Soto — the ly changing world might these not
during which Americans undergo slave ships, the Mississippi steam- be values worth cherishing?" —
[ almost total mobilization for the ers, and the great plantations that LEE RANDOLPH
100th anniversary of the War Be- grew cotton, tobacco and sugar------———
tween the States. The annual flood He portrays such romantic fig A Body
of Civil War books, which reached ures as Virginia Dare, Pocahoo-, roses some
a high water mark of 250 this tas, Dolly Madison, Old Hickory Interesting Problems
[ year, is expected to slosh over Little Eva and the Arkansas Trav-
, the levees in 1901. eler KILLING COUSINS by Fletcher
This reviewer is partial to Har- This book of Americana (South- Flora The MacMillan Co., New
I nett T. Kane s picture book of the ern style) is not onlya political. York. 153 pp., $2.95.
1 Old South for it fits in well as a history but brings back bygone Howard had been dull, but when
1 prelude to the coming centennial, days in a nostalgic detail that Willie, his innocent - looking wife,
I as it depicts the region from the transports even the most sophis-Put a slug into his heart he was
I days of early exploration up to ticated reader with its intimate the cause of considerable excite-
the outbreak of the tragic war, glimpses of the social life the ment.
I This famous southern author - Old South Willie and Quincy, Howard’s
in a lavishly illustrated and mag- At times Kane's text is pure cousin, cooked up some nice
1 JOHN EDWARD WEEMS * nificent book — has captured the prose poetry — “On the outcome methods of getting rid of the body,
a fourth novel which will be pub • moving to ton essence and spirit of the Old South of the terrible hostilities the Old but some things just don't turn
lished by Holt, Rinehart -and %6P ' as few others could. For a decade. South staked its future. Perhaps out like they are supposed to. But
Winston, Inc., of New York, year by year. (This is, of course,ranother survivor of x the Maine he has traveled over the South inevitably, it lost, and the trend would you want to bet on Willie's
Attended Campus School a continuing publication. There'll who lived in Wisconsin, near Mil- gathering old lithographs and of the American experiment was chances of going to jail.
€ somuit Weems attended the ACC ele-be a 'Cumulative Book Index' for waukee but . ettla Tor inter - 1
. - ---------- satuauvus wiuen -ugn remind mentary school from 1931 to 1937,1960, Then for 1961, etc., just as Viewing Him instead of
science supervisor for the Spring one of "Teahouse- - what does it moving to Los Angeles when his there have been volumes for past going there For these personal
Branch Independent School Dis- matter? : father went to George Pepper-years.) Then 4 go through the interviews 1 a and record
trict. Houston, spent 25 yearscol- .__dine College as Stack mentor. He magazine articles I find on my* arc a.tare record
lecting, his information, and hes History is people, if you'll par- graduated from George Washing- subject: these are listed year by down notes while talking to the
doesn’t ev er stop talking about don the grammar, and it is sel-ton High School in 1942 and was year in "Reader’s Guide." Then persons and its'more accurate e
a tree or shrub, until he covers dom that one man can capture a freshman at the University of I look up information on the sub-! Mam ] Teva .
is entire range, even if that 15 the full flavor of history for a Texas before going on activeject in newspapers. -, 4A testdea of trove been
far from the Southwest. territory Sor even a town, without duty with the Navy from 1943- "In the case, of the battleship involved. For Race for the peer
Field identification. flowers, a considerable amount of “outside 46. He served the last two years.'Maine,’ for instance. I re-lfor example I traveled as fol.
fruit, leaves, twigs, bark, wood, help” in the form of .quotes or at on sea duty in the Pacific and re-ferred to newspapers published in lows: to Washington D C where
rance, propagation, medicinal us‘ least research into the works of turned to graduate from the uni-1898- that told of the explosion I spent a wen e thrmiah'
es if there are any. and. a num- others. Iversity with a bachelor of journal-(which occurred in February, the material in the National Ge
berr of other interesting bits of ln’ Fpr the American Vista Series: ism degree" in 1948 and a mas- 1898'. After that. 1 interview per-graphic Society library, then sev
formation are included. Drawings The Midwest. "LAND OF THE ter’s decree-in 1949 A former sons still living who witnessed the eral more days going through
show how the leaves and fruit LONG HORIZONS," edited by newspaper reporter and wire edi-event, had relatives involved” in material in the Nave Depart
looksand the text tells the re- Walter Havighurst (Coward-Mc. tor, Weems worked, on the Tem-the event, or were in some other ment Library Library of cons
mainder. from scientific name on Cann. ,n‘” N Y. 437 pp. $1° “’ P‘e Daily Telegram, San Angelo way closely connected to it. In ress, and National Archives: to
. If this isn t literature, we would Jan. 1, 1961) the ^j^ often chose Standard -Times and The Dallas the case of 'A weekend in Sep- \ew York
say it comes close to being art. 5 - ** * . * * . *
The First “H” Among Non-Fiction Writers
By BOB PHILLIPS
Book Covers Southwestern Plant Life;
More Humor From 'Teahouse' Author
John Edward Weems, son of a
former Abilene Christian College
track coach, is moving to the top
in the nation's literary circles.
Weems, whose father, J. Eddie,
was track coach and English pro-
fessor at ACC from 1925 through
1937, has recently had his third
Strictly speaking, a book devot-laround the "Nakashima Islands," best selling non - fiction book pub-
ed to listing, and going into detail where the residents have been lished. It is "Race for The Pole,”
about the attainment of the ,North
Pole in 1909 by Adm. Robert E
* about, over 1200 species of plants under foreign rule for 340 years,
found in five southwestern states Given a chance to choose their
might not be considered litera-own kindof government, they re-
ture, but, we know, one which de-call the last king they had and
serves a place on any area book- vote for a monarchy.
CREES SHRTRS N Their king-elect, so to speak,
w. 000 VINES OF SOOTP Carpens too be going to Cambridse
WEST" by Robert A Vines, illus. an American shtatular Oh and the 1900 Galveston flood and "The S
- trated by Sarah Kg hiden Arendale ne sesseris.and Fate of the Maine,” about the “
(University of Texas Press, Aus-noun home ( cant of co th hand battleship that exploded in Ha- ,
tin. 1104 pp. $25) is a book that of vermnent to great Peins vana Harbor in 1898 and helped
should get a lot of attention from ' . bring on the Spanish - American 4
botanists, naturalists teachers, ■ •. War. | M
gardeners'— and anyone else m- The net results, as American The 36 . . Austin
=---=% A "HO LIMEO NS reN-n i. —fly working on
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma lands, the king’s grandmother and
and Texas; some other people try to solve
, . the problems of the new kingdom
Vines, who spent 15 years as make, interesting, and humorous
director o the Houston Museum reading. And if there are some
of Natural History, and now, is situations which ‘might
Peary and the ensuing contro-
versy with Dr. Frederick A. Cook
1 about which man actually got
there first. .
Weems’ other works are “A
Weekend in September,” about
are an-
i Clara ,
Foster -
ek is a
aduated
one Ar-
made defi
fe work, or
how to get
career guid-
you.
on prepare
al, account
tant posi
bout earn
ime - saving
service.
N’S
i E
J South First
the words of those who had seen Morning News before he was tember,’ I interviewed scores of material in the New York Public
The book was published with history lived throughout the Mid- called back into the Nayy during persons who were in Galveston Library: to Bowdoin College
, nccietance “ .1— Dinonci west, from missionary to Ameri- the Korean conflict, - when the hurricane bit. Brunswick, Me, where the li-
can playwright. | After Korea, Weems received In the case of "The Fate of the brary has a large collection per-
. No one man could have written a master of arts degree from Maine’, I discovered and talked taining to Robert E. Peary, who
i. Those citizens, who s chuckled, it all, for there are many and di- Florida State University in 1954:' with four men who were aboard was a Bowdoin alumnus (also in
laushed anil guffawed over The verse points of view about the taught journalism and was head the Maine when the ship explod-Brunswick, Me., 1 interviewed
1 ■ eahouse or the August Moon, Midwest and The various types of cataloger in the Baylor Univer- ed Md who were still living in Pean's daughter): to Dartmouth
can get ready for another round people who have lived there and sity library from 1954-57; taught 1958) when I was doing research College. Hanover, N. H., where
temni ecers., THE KING in the past and who now inhabit journalism one semester at the for the book. These four men I spent several days going
- BCG Put “the land of the long horizons.” University of Alabama and since lived in Keyport, N. J.; The through pertinent material in the
, Son, ' ew 101 315 PP - - February, 1958, has been assist- Bronx, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa.: Stefansson Collection (the arctic'
, „ Frank H Wardlaw, director of ant to the director of the Univer- and Binghampton, N.Y. I, trav-library) : to Buffalo, N.Y., to in
This light-hearted tale isaroven the University of Texas Press, is sity of Texas Press, as eled 10 those four cities to inter- terview Dr. Cook's daughter- and
president-elect of the Association Writing non _ fiction historical view them. 1 later heard about to still other places."
==================--
" During the 10 years that Ward! „ Research Procedure 1
law has been director of the Uni- Here is the procedure for his
research on his past three works:
"First, I go through the cata-
the assistance of the Dan Danci-
ger Publication Fund.
Early Printing
Had Its Perils
versi y of Texas Press be bas
made that organization one of the
........naLue NE , . _____i___________..., ,..oue log .cards in the library to find
this Barnett. World Publish- in the nation, with a publishing pro- every book 1 can that pertains to
ing Co.. Cleveland Ohio 2.M gram which includes art portfo- the subject, even remotel—I also
lios and periodicals, as well as 80 through a reference tool titled,
’Cumulative Book Index,’ a huge
Before coming to Texas Ward- publication that lists title, author.
CAXTON’S CHALLENGE by Cyn- most important university presses
Y of “Plan-
gation
Dr pp. S3.95 (Ages 12 up)
Caxton. of course, is none oth- books.
er-than William Caxton, English _
master printer and the challenge law was director of the University and subject for every book pub-
is the attempt to get his printing of South Carolina Press. ........-
business going properly. =====
the story revolves aroupd.
Bendy, whose father is a scriv-• ■
lished in the United States —
Age
ener, but who sees the possibili-
ties of printing and, in due course
of events, apprentices the boy to
Caxton over the objections of the
boys older brothers
’ Matthew, one of the brothers, is
- also a scrivener, and has a sort
. o' production line for turning out
"cheap" books To him, print-
ing is a hated word, and he does
what the can to slow; Caxton's op-
era ions.
Finally, Bendy and another
youth are propelled into adven-
tures, which include a cricket
head .for the hero — and natural-
ly it all comes put all right
Behind the lively story, with
its excellent illustrations by the
author, there is considerable' re-
search which helps bring out the
c lor and feel, the dress, clothes
and customs of an important pe-
-------Tied in • English history.---------‘
Printing, long ago or today, is
a fascinating business
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MY SIXTY YEARS ON THE
PLAINS by W. T. Hamilton.
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________Norman. Okla—184pp., $2.00.
—- No. 15 in the Western Frontier
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_ per____- .
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The major portion of the work
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■ been well covered by the writings
. of any other man in the area at
the time. • ,
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