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a a a a a a a a a Book Briefs and Best Sellers A TIME FOR MEN Just Her Own Self Tim Murphy, young net in the tense year of 1775, couldn't see much of importance in town folks' ways until his eye fell on Marian Greene, the squire's daughter. He would spend one more season trapping, he figured, and thus earn enough to set up housekeeping with Marian. She seemed willing -so willing he was on fire in remembering it. Until much later he wasn't to know, or let himself believe, how rather general her willingness was spread about. Folly brought her to Indian torture.

Tim Murphy was to bury her broken body hurriedly, John Brick's fourth novel, The Rifleman, isn't primatily the tale of a colonial New York couple. It's a tale of a part of the Revolutionary war that historians don't explore, It's a tale of the Kentucky rifle and the wonders the marksmen performed with it. It's the tale of Timcthy Murphy, buckskin-garbed woods-runner and soldier of George Washington, whose temper overrode his better judgment and whose intestinal fortitude went unquestioned among men. Tim Murphy was real; his name is a legend in upper New York state. Tim's courtship and marriage to Margaret Feeck is a story well -known in Schoharie county today.

LIBERTY "It's only a puff of wind in the air at firal-and then it's rising gale. It blew through the crooked streets of Boston and the farmlands of Pennsylvania and the rolling Virginia hills. 'Liberty! We'll stand up for It drifts in and out of the cabins of the frontier and the riflemen nod and You don't have to tell us about liberty. We have it. We aim to keep "It is tapped out on a drum where men march and drill in secret: 'Come all ye sons of liberty, unite like freeborn "It's a tide rising and a wind blowing and drum tappingtapping out the years that are past and the years to Vincent Benet, quoted in The Rifleman.

Author Brick, in building from the dimming records and legends, explains: "Timothy Murphy was a private soldier. It is unlikely that he was the confidant of any of the great men of the Revolution. He would have left the problems of grand strategy and military science to the generals and their staffs So have 1." In the first winter of the story Tim's traps and furs are stolen by three young Senecas and his marriage with Marian thereby stymied. Tim starts out on succession of adventures lovemaking, roistering, revenge. on the Senecas- before finally joining an outfit of Pennsylvania riflemen who marched on Boston to fight the redcoats.

In the years that followed Tim was to play a man's part, an important it seemingly minor part, in winning the war for freedom. Famous figures are encountered but the story remains Tim's. John Brick has learned his craft well. This is how he learned it: "When I got back from the army I decided I wanted to be a writer and 50 I went to Columbia, taking writins, courses, It was just like found there were only a few of us in all the writing courses who did any more than talk a good game. Only a few were willing to put in the hard work, night after night, while working for a living." The great amount.

of research evident in the new novel proves Brick's capacity for work. The Rifleman -By John Brick. 349 pp. New York: Doubleday Co. $3.75.

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Accused In Indian Land Deal Pleads Guilty PORTLAND (U.P). Clyde W. Flinn, one of three men indicted by a grand jury in February in connection with an Indian land fraud, was free on $3000 bail today pending sentence after pleading guilty to all three indictments in which he was named. Flinn yesterday entered his plea of guilty before U.S. District Judge Claude McColloch here just as court opened.

He had pleaded innocent to all three charges when arraigned earlier this month. Flinn, along with Fred Marsh, Lebanon logging operator, and John C. Blanford, was named in two indictments charging conpsiracy and giving 1 false information to the government. The former land officer for the Indian bureau here was named alone in a third indictment for giving false information to the government, A fourth indictment charged and Marsh with giving false information. The indictments followed investigation of Indian land sales including sale of 800 acres near Gold Peach.

Presumably Flinn would be prosecution witness when Blanford and Marsh go on trial June 2. Picnic Slated for Child Evangelism Classes All child evangelism classes of Albany and vicinity will hold a picnic and rally Saturday at Eleanor park in Albany. The program will continue from 2-4 p.m, All Jay club members, their friends and parents will be invited to attend. The Rev. Paul Turnidge, Crawfordsville pastor and amateur ventriloquist, will be on hand to provide entertainment.

Wes Henkleman, director of Youth for Christ, will lead in singing. The Child Evangelism Fellowship organization is an interdenominational group sponsored by various churches in and around Albany. PENCILS FOR EUROPE STARKVILLE, Miss. (U.P) -The chapter of the Future Teachers of America at Mississippi State College began collecting pencils for European school children after hearing that many of them have never seen a pencil. Spring TUNEAvoid Summer Trouble and Operating Costs! Prepare your car now for summer use! Also, we are fully equipped to offer complete motor overhaul.

Prices reasonable! Only in the Service Dept. of an Authorized Dealer can you be certain that the know-how and correct procedures, equipment and materials will be used. Try us! When you stop in meet our shop foreman, Buck Davis, who will be happy to discuss your automotive problems. "Your Chrysler-Plymouth Dealer For Linn County" Drown AUTO Phone 134 1674 Men to Give Program At Morning Star Hall MILLERSBURG -Men of Morning Star grange will put on the program at the meeting Saturday evening of this week with Lester Liles in charge. Mrs.

Floyd Fisher will accompany the community sing. Two skits will be given and Robert Groshong will give harmonica numbers. Ice cream will be furnished. Women are being asked to bring cake. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Groshong and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Grenz make up the kitchen committee, Mrs. Walter Shelby, in charge of the display tables, is asking members to bring articles from foreign countries for display, Crowfoot grangers, who will be visitors at this meeting, will demonstrate introduction of guests.

Judging of house dresses for Pomona and state grange contests will be done by Mrs. Gerald Mrs. Marion Hoefer and Mrs. Lial Hammack of Albany. A grange quilt for the national contest is about half finished at the home of Mrs.

Lucy Arnold. The Home Economics club of the grange will meet at the home of Mrs. L. W. Drager Tuesday of next week for a 1 p.m.

covered dish luncheon. Mrs. Lester Tib-15 bits will be co-hostess, The scrap iron drive, chairmaned by Lester Liles, reports a take of $104,66 to be used to improve the grange hall. GADGETS HELP SIGHTLESS The American Foundation for the Blind of New York offers many devices to help blind homemakers. egg separation there is a small funnel that retains the yolk while letting the white slip through.

To identify vegetables or soups there is brailled scotch tape that can be affixed to cans. June Haver Greets Cardinal Spellman by Charles Alexander Indian ever had plus every bad trait to be learned by such an assiduous student as Joe in the foreign parts he has visited. Here, rightly, Dan Cushman's story starts. Big Joe, Uncle Sam, the Champlains, firewater, white women and all go to make this modern western the Book of the Month club choice for April. Cushman has a sharp and pointed style that suits the mood -of the yarn.

This is a kind of western readers can stand more of. Stay Away, Joe -By Dan Cushman. 249 pp. New York: The Viking Press. $3.

Talk About Books TAnne Scott-James says she is telling all in her In the Mink, a top-flight editor's account of her years on a fashion magazine. uncovering the world of the plunging-V and the double-X. The book, a Dutton $3. production, is called a "heady dash of champagne and caviar in a world where husbands are kept on a leash but a pet Pekinese comes to the office." In addition to this and more, it's about women who make the clothes in a world where clothes make the woman. Macfadden tells, if not all, then quite a lot in Dumbbells and I Carrot Strips (Dutton $3.95) about her ex-husband, Bernarr.

It's a closeup of Mactadden The Body, who sired physical culture, a publishing empire, and eyed the White House. He swore by icecold baths and beet juice and celebrated his 84th birthday by parachuting from a plane. redoubtable Ben Hecht Daughter have delivered to Simon and Schuster the first 600 pages of his autobiography, A Child of the Century, scheduled for fall publication. It promises to give Hecht's side of Hecht the Chicago reporter and Hecht the Hollywood writer-director-producer, as well as Hecht his darling daughter's father. WEEK'S FIVE FASTEST Fiction: Desiree, Selinko; The Silver Chalice, Costain; Golden Admiral, Mason; East of Eden, Steinbeck; Steamboat Gothic, Keyes.

General: Annapurna, Herzog; The Power of Positive Thinking, Peale; The Silent World, Cousteau and Dumas; Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version; This I Believe, Murrow. XAVIER, Kan. (U.P) June Haver, who abandoned her career as a movie actress to enter a convent here 10 weeks ago, was one of 67 novitiates of the Sisters of Charity who greeted Francis Cardinal Spellman here yesterday. The cardinal paid two-hour visit to St. Mary's college and the Sisters' Mother house.

Mother Superior Mary Ancilla said Miss Haver was presented to Cardinal Spellman "exactly like all the other novitiates." "She wasn't singled out in any way," she said. It was Miss Haver's first public appearance, since Students she at the entered college the said she "looked very different," Sodaville Native Dies at Portland SODAVILLE- Funeral services for Earl LaForge, a native of the Sodaville community, were held Monday at the Mt. Scott mortuary in Portland with Mrs. Edna Brock officiating, assisted, by the Rev. Harold Kurtz.

Cremation followed. Mr. LaForge, proprietor of a barber shop in Portland, died April at the Good Samaritan hospital, He was born March 15, 1898, in this community and attended the local school. Survivors include' his widow, Mae; two children, Earl LeRoy and Delores Gabriel, both of Portland; three brothers, H. L.

LaForge, Sodaville, Clarence LaForge, Salem, and Elmer. LaForge, Albany; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Blunt, Sacramento, Mrs. Algia Snider, Lebanon, and Mrs. Amy Pierpont, Salem; also three grandchildren.

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Budget Terms. Test Typing trials arranged, Duedall-Potts Stationers 231 Broadalbin Phone 1813 ARDYTH KENNELLY, who broke Democrat-Herald when she was all of herself into her work- -such LADY, her novel published OUTLET FOR A POET "My foot in the, stirrup, the reins In my hand Good morning, young lady, my horse he won't stand Ardyth Kennelly's third novel, second. to be a Literary Guild selection, bears out the early promise of the sensitive, searching girl who lived in North Albany and among the stars of fancy. Her Good Morning, Young Lady, published Thursday, is the inevitable questing poet finding outlet in prose the best use to make of imagery. Not that Ardyth is highflown or purple Not that kind of "poetry." She is, understand, an artist.

But when she gets into it, her spirit sings. The singing lifts her lines: "The only trouble, his face is sometimes like the blur a whirling top makes at the height of its spin, as though one was staring at a photograph in which the sitter had looked in another direction just at the crucial moment. If she didn't know for sure, for positive, for absolutely, that it was he, there would be moments when his smile, the flash of his brown eyes, would puzzle and bewilder and make her think it was somebody else. But of course there was nobody else it could be, except "Let her look closer and she will tell! Alas, the closer she looks, the more of a haze, the more misty and dim his countenance, though his arms are real enough, his beating heart is real enough. 'Changed, have "No.

Oh, no." There it is, in a random scene at a random opening of the long book. Ardyth Kennelly has put singing heart into it. GIRL Clutching she thinks that him, his famous horse could go even faster and she would not be afraid, although it is a long way down to the swift moving ground of river and blue-eyed grass. If they suddenly soared through the air, she would not be afraid. She lays her cheek against his solid back and shuts -her eyes.

Not to sleep. She does not shut her eyes to sleep but only to think of. him the better. a and think of love -From Good Morning, Young Lady. In Good Morning, Young Lady Ardyth has returned to Salt Lake City, scene of her first novel, The Peaceable Kingdom.

But unlike Kingdom, Good Morning is not Mormon story It's the story of Dorney Leaf, who comes Salt Lake City as girl of 14 live with her much to older sister Madge and Madge's spoiled daughter. Dorney manages to transform the daily drudgery of her life into dream world where anything would not be too much to expect. She lives for the imagined day when the outlaw Butch Cassidy will come and carry her off on his black horse. Dorney is more than another Cinderella; she is her author's very own child. Her story is fiction, but Butch is a character in the history of Utah, an outlaw in the tradition of Rabin Hood.

His legend needed a Dorney, and every Dorney must have prince, however ragged. In her foreword Ardyth warns: "He lived, all right. Still does, maybe. "You are told this so that should his image amid feigned and fictive here Alike actor Grosthe smith at Madame Tussaud's one day fooling the customers) all a sudden give a wink and begin to poke his hand out to you smiling, you will not get scared out of seven years' growth." By some standards, principally, one suspects, male, Good Morning into print with a poem in the a girl in Norch Albany, still puts as GOOD MORNING, YOUNG Thursday, a Literary Guild selection. is longer than need be.

But a swift skimming of the pages doesn't reveal right where to cut. It is crammed with the daily doings, the earthy minutiae of life. So are the days of the audience the book is for and about. We don't think Ardyth Kennelly will write too many books she must put herself in them, a timetaking and wearing work. Her books, clearly, are the other side of her, not the manufactured product of a deliberate, trained workman, As a result her books will always be worth more than one passing reading.

Good Morning, Young LadyBy Ardyth Kennelly. 468 pages. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. $3.95. NEW, IMPROVED WESTERN Dan Cushman's yarn, Stay Away, Joe, is a western right enough, but not the kind of western that follows formula.

Except for background, it owes nothing to the Owen Wister tradition. And it doesn't "owe" the background, for Dan Cushman is a native Montanan who writes naturally of Montana. His cast is headed up by Big Joe, son by an earlier wife of Louis Champlain, a breed who manages along on what once was a ranch, with Annie his Gros Ventre second wife. Their striking 19-year-old daughter works in a bank their two wild sons, Little Joe and Louis, ride like the devil was in them but cause no particular hell for anyone. And there is Chief Two Smokes, the grandfather, who lives alone in a tepee, counts back 105 years, and dreams the days away, his endless moments filled with butfalo herds and war parties.

They are dirt-poor and don't know it until a government agency takes an uplifting hand in affairs. Nineteen fine heifers and a bull are wished on Louis Champlain and he seems destined to become a well-to-do Injun in spite of himself. At this tragic point home comes Big Joe home from Korea, bringing a blackhaired scalp for Two Smokes, every bad trait an SPRING SPECIAL PABCO FREE ONE FOOT OF A PAINTS STEPLADDER With the Purchase of One Gallon of Any Paint at Our Regular Prices CO RE For instance For four gallons I purchased, you will receive free a 4-ft. complete stepladder. Each gallon purchased receives an additional foot or credit on a larger stepladder! But Hurry Offer Good Only, For a Limited Time! REMEMBER Plan to see our booth in the Home BE A SHARP Show Thursday, Friday, Saturday, THE LUMBER April 23, 24, 25th SHOPPER SHOP NUMBER SCHARPF'S Phone 1480 760 E.

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