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Sr. rip urn Cahaniss Ole Miss History Reprinted: First 100 Years .1.1 Thorough Probing Of C-5A Boondoggle In Detailed Study JcerY THE UNIVERSITY OF MIS-SISSIPPT: It's First Hundred Years, by Allen Cabanlss (University and College Press, Southern Station, Hattiesburg, Miss. $7.95) BY BILL COPPENBARGER Despite assaulta which would have long since destroyed an institution of less true character, The Univerity of Mississippi stands and continues to progress in the way any master of dignity and designate of history should. "The University of Mississip Fiv rointi, Unction of Baxter, Worth and Park Nu York, N. e.

1629. EARLY ILLUSTRATIONS AND VIEWS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE, compiled by Edmund V. Gillon Jr. (Dover Publications, offers a wide view of life in the 19th Century in the United States, seen through 742 line cuts of houses, stores, churches, village streets and general views. In spirited renderings by contemporary draftsmen, here's a cross-section of what Americans saw when they went into their markets, their streets, industrial area and countryside.

The drawings range through 249 cities in 27 states. TI1E C-5 SCANDAL, by Berkeley Rice. (Houghton Mifflin Company, $5.95) By BILL COITENBARGFR The C5-A Scandal is a book that started out as a chapter. It's author, Berkeley Rice, a free-lance writer who has specialized in military-industrial affairs since 17, says of his book dealing extensively and in depth with the giant 'military cargo transport built by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, it illustrates all of the problems of the entire defense procurement program. Since the C-5A is now again very much in the news with the recent grounding of practically all ol these monsters because of suspected defects, The C-5A Scandal deserves more than casual treatment.

Rice says that nearly everything that "could possibly happen to a major defense program happened to the C-5A; political pressure, gross mismanagement, enormous waste and confusion." There were congressional hearings on the $2 billion cost litical cover-ups, intimidation of extent of which brought out political cover-ups, intimida'in witnesses before U. S. Senator Proximire's committee probing the program, and brought Lockheed perilously close to bankruptcy. The story involves 15 chapters of detailed investigative hearings, testimony and much opinion on the means and manner of spending taxpayer money termed "incredibly sloppy," By virtue of this exhaustive expose, Rice indicts the Pentagon for its manner of regularly managing "to conceal the enormous cost overuns." The book also claims to show the Pentagon manages to suppress internal criticism, and further "shows that most of those in Congress responsible for guarding the public's investment in defense are either uninformed or uninterested in lomg so, and that some of them actually contribute to the waste." Rice goes into detail over Proxmire's investigations, shows correspondence and notes from the Pentagon affecting testimony of Ernest Fitzgerald, Pentagon official closely involved with cost estimates and cost figures on the C-5A. Rice sums up this alarming story by saying "its troubles had little to do with the plane itself.

Rather, they are the natural result of the military-industrial-congressional sysrem that produced it." "Unfortunately," he concludes, "most of what happened to the C5-As will continue to happen unless the public demands a change in the system." Rice is a free-lance writer and has written articles for many of the top magazines as well as a number of books. He is a graduate of Amherst College, and received an X.M.A. from Columbia University. BOOKS AND THE ARTS pi, Its First Hundred Years by Allen Cabaniss," first Issued in observance of the University's centennial anniversary is now out in its Second Edition, covering the years The edition, printed by University and College Pres of Mississippi at Southern Station, Hattiesburg, remains essentially the same as the first, except that additional statements have been added, some corrections and an up-dating of the University and its role in Mississippi academic development. The au- thor Is presently at work on a companion volume to cover the years 1949-73.

Dr. Cabaniss deals with the not-always serene growth of this University, which had lust begun to flourish when closed by the War Between the States. iFrom its resumption of academic life, the University has been beset by pressures, sometimes politic, sometimes economic, by always weathering its tribulations for greater goals. It has grown despite three major wars, and the intervening squabbles of military nature, and has also fought through what has amounted to major upheaval in state movement. Dr.

Cabaniss goes from the beginning of instituion's establishment, through the bewildering years of jockeyed pressures during the Bilbo years, to the more recent years of pre-civil rights recognition. The book is not considered as taking the place of an historical cataglogue, but supplementing it. It also is not considered a collection of remninscences, but is based on documents, minutes of the Board of Trustees and those of the faculty. This history of the University of Mississippi will not only give students, graduates and students contemplating entrance here an insight into the character of the University, but will fascinate the ordinary reader, Mississippian and out-of-stater alike. Cabaniss is research professor of history and has been a member of the faculty of the Unversity of Mississippi since 1946.

degrees are impressive his academic back-gn-nc' of depth. He has a number of other books to his credit, ranging from Liturgy and Literature to life and Thought of a Country Preacher. 18 Oc Clarioti'Lcogcr Jackson daily news SECTION Sunday, October 17, 1971 hotel at ZanesviUe, Marktt and Second Zaneville, Ohio. OF ART AND ARTISTS Pinning Author To Place Dangerous Game By LOUIS DOLLARHIDE OXFORD Living in a place which daily draws people from many parts of the world to see the Faulkner house and the town made famous as Jefferson in his Yoknapatawpha series, I lege at one end and the hospital for the mentally ill at the other. We drove from the college, with its beautiful English chapel and forceful statue of Churchill, to the hospital at the other.

There was no denying this description from the novel. We also drove out past the old young man. The landmarks were were unmistakable. So perhaps much more of the speculations about character and places in "King's Row" are true. Perhaps.

It Is still a dangerous game. "King's Row," Dr. Bella-mann's fourth or fifth novel. death), because he left Fulton as a young man and never lived there again, and because his reputation can never equal that of Fulkner, there Is less interest in King's Row than in Jefferson. But the interest is there.

NOT ACCEPTED Although the Bellamanns They like to gossip about the key figures in the novel, but they enjoy most showing visitors about the town. From the way they discussed the characters in the novel I had the impression that if one looked in the cemetery he would find their grave markers. While there, we visited Westminister College, which Dr. Bel- ALCORN HISTORIAN was more than a little inter ested in playing the same kind ice house, over Town Creek and enjoyed a great vogue in the were not accepted by the proper Autograph Party! of game last week in King's nSLVTn ZhL frX t.l. 1 Fultonians even when Dr.

Bella- early forties. It has been pur the railroad, back up a small I 7. Ll a mann became a very famous lamann attended. It fronts on a road to where Parris Mitchell chased twice for films and made into a television series. It street which is described in lived in the novel and where King's Row" as having a col- Henry Bellamann lived as i still is read widely in England.

For Mrs. Dunhamtr I rppinn of the frarks tr Fiiltnn. Missouri, to interview people mm Iky V-J If jr vsV who had known the Bellamann family and see the town set into fiction, first as Cameron, then as King's Row. The country through which we passed on the way up there, we had to agree, was as beautiful as much we had seen in Europe. Fall had already reached Northern Missouri.

It was cold. And the hardwood trees were beginning to paint every hill and mountainside in unsurpassed brilliance. But faithful to our own lesser hills around Oxford, we also agreed that fall here is perhaps even more beautiful, more intense. A game played in Oxford with more concentration than it is evidenly played in Fulton is the attempt to spot a region, a house, or even a person whom a writer in this instance William Faulkner may have used in a novel. People come to Oxford with such questions as, "Which LCRMAN The author of the "Centennial History of Alcorn College" will be honored at an autograph party in the cafeteria of Alcorn College, October 25, 1971.

Mrs. Melerson Guy Dunham, retired professor of history at Alcorn College is the author of the work, published by University and College Press of Mississippi. The autograph party will be held in th main Dining Room at Alcorn College, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Books autographed by the author will be available for $5 plus tax, a reduction of $2.50 from the regular price of $7.50.

This book gives a description of changes involved in a college born twenty-nine years before the turn of the century. It tells the story of scholarship, of the competitive spirit of the quest for fulfillment and leadership which is the heritage of the Alcorn citizen. 1 1 jfK PSfWSflCl kl fffifffiff' I I DUNHAM Durham was done at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and Tulane Uni versity New Orleans, Louisiana A member of the Methodist Is the Cmpson house?" "Which One hundred years of service Church, Mr's. Dunham is listed to Mississippi, the nation, and who's Who in Methodism and the world is the guiding thought I has often been a member of the "Who was the prototype for Joe Christmas DANGEROUS This is a dangerous game, envisioned by the sixteen pres Methodist Jurisdictional and General Conference. She was a idents.

The past history of Alcorn College is revealed to hetp inspire students to do even better and go to even higher realms in the scale of attainments as the school begins a second century of history. This book shows Alcorn in athletics, the classroom, in the laboratories and in the area of writers being the untrustworthy characters they are. But because of Faulkner's great reputation, his long residence in Oxford, and his many novels dealing with the area, the game has been played for years. The writer himself would never tell, not specifically. And although Henry Bella member of the historic Uniting Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren and the Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, 1968.

i The author is involved In many activities. She is a past president of the Seventh District Federaton of Women's Clubs, past vice president of the State mann claims that King's Row is public life facing the soft and a fictional town, people in Ful ton can (and do) show visitors piiimhi i iwwiii lyiiwiuiwiiri mill 1 iniiiiiir-pnpminiTTM Federation, biaiisiician oi uic Southeastern Federation and Member of the Credentials Committee of the National Federation. Mrs. Durham is a member of thp Mississinni Historical Soci the houses where certain fictional characters lived, the creek where Parris Mitchell glowing sunrise oi a tuture unparalleled in collegiate history. Mrs.

Dunham, a native of Walthall County received her early training in the county schools. Her Bachelor of Arts from Rust College of Holly Springs was followed by the Master of Arts degree in history from Indiana University. Advanced study by Mrs. swam as a boy (utterly polluted now), and other landmarks. Because Henry Bellamann as a novelist wrote only one King's Row novel sequel was completed by his wife after his ety, Mississippi Folk Lore, and Southern Historical Association.

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