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KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS Sunday Feb 18 1851 11-1 Virginia Briefs Along The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine By LINDSAY HORTON New Books On Shelves At Library PASSPORT TO PERIL Robert Parker Rinehart Company 249 pages By WILLIAM FREEHOFF JR If Hitchcock doesnt grab up Passport to Peril and put this thrilling adventure yarn on celluloid he is missing a natural Here is a tale of high adventure interna i a 1 intrigue lovely ladies a handsome young American veteran and some very very rough Nazi and Russian villains Passport wastes no time getting to the story Just take the first paragraph for example: It wasnt until the Orient Express was nearing the Hungarian frontier about two hours out of Vienna that I found I was traveling on the passport of a murdered man And in the third paragraph the gfrl a luscious brunette Big Laurel Southwestern Virginia County fire gardens of the Virginia Forest Service held a special meeting Tuesday at Big Stone Gap to -plan fire prevention for the spring season Attending the meeting were: Clarence Branham district supervisor Big Stone Gap visor Charlottesville county wardens Delmon Mullins Wise George Bailey Lee and Bert Mc-Clanahan Buchanan representatives of timber management from the Bristol office and Wise County Forest Ranger Bill Ward of Norton with his assistants Big Laurel Wise County land owners will plant 280000 forest trees this year according to Chief Fire Warden Delmon Mullins who has just canvassed the county taking orders for forest seedlings Mullins said 75 per cent of the trees to be planted this spring win be short-leaf pine the remaining 25 per cent will be about equally divided between yellow poplar (tulip trees) black locust and white pine with a few white ash Most of the plantings will be made in the Coeburn and Pound sections on land unfit for farming Appalachia The Rev Glenn Harwood pastor of the First Baptist Church in Appalachia has resigned to take over another pastorate somewhere in East Tennessee His ryignation will take effect March 1 and will the Gat City Methodists Baptists working together take a religious census of ROBERT PARKER former war correspondent whose thrilling mystery story Passport To Peril is reviewed on this page Picture by Robert Frank steps Into the picture and the heros life You will find yourself forgetting to turn the light out when you start this and youll find yourself scouting around foe other books by War Correspondent Robert Parker If youre in the mood to take a trip be sure and get your Passport and youre vicariously on your way to one thrill after another Dedication Week Set At BSG Church Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson Ethel Bartlett Rae Robertson To Give Piano Concert Here Ethel Bartlett and Rae Rob- London Music Festival before ertson Internationally famous: World War II they had the hon- New Book Has Possibilities 4 For Movie Play few books covering subjects from art Instruction to history anfi mysteries novels and plays have been received by the Kings-pbct Public Library Mrs Anne Summers announced The new books include: Psychology Reymert Feelings and Emotions Rhodes Hypnosis Thompson Psychoanalysis ravel and Description: 'Hey-ahl Kon Tiki Powdermaker Hollywood Biography: Kelly MacArthur Mian of Action Waugh Helena Pearson 8 a postscript Hughes Complete Detective VaUentin Wells plays: Heggen Mister Roberts- Kingsley Detective Story South Pacific Inge Come Back Little Sheba Religion Goodspeed Life of Jeiius Wisdom of Confucius Gardiner The Great Books a Christian Appraisal 1 and Government Ferguson American Federal Government Green Epic of Kneicr City Government In the Art: Zaldenberg Draw Anything Book Rathbun Laymans Guide to Modern Art family Life and the Home: Palmer Book of American Clicks Harbin Gay Parties for AIJ Occasions Dalzell How to Rssnodel a House Goodrich Ndural Childbirth Bowman Marriage for Moderns Lewis Interesting Condition Fiction: Caldwell Balance Wheel Arnold Walk With the Devil Dresser Two Gun Rio KM Stuart Bonanza Gulch Wilson Brave Company Vidal Dark Green Bright Red Mysteries: Coles Dangerous by Nature Fenlsong Grim Rehearsal Gardner Case of the One-Eyed Witness Brown Murder Is The Payoff Davis Gentle Murderer Stout In The Best Families William Brown New President Of ROA Group William Brown Air Force Reserve lieutenant and World War II veteran was elected president of Kingsport Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association Friday night at the Kingsport Inn Charles Stringer veteran and Naval Reserve lieutenant was named vice president and Volberg lieutenant colonel In the Army Reserve was elected treasurer John Patrlc world traveller ami author of Yankee Hobo in the Orient" led a discussion on political ethics Patrlc was a guest of the organization or of appearing under the baton of Toscanini In this country they have played with every major orchestra The Impeccable nuslclanship always psychic accord knd delightful personalities of Bartlett and Robertson have justly won for them the title of "leaders in their field FOR YOUR REFERENCE SHELF: ROOST'S THESAURUS OF 1 WORDS AND PHRASES 1 49 WEBSTER BIOORAPHICAL DICTIONARY 7 50 Cash In On Suggestions town of Gate City Sunday afternoon beginning at 2 pm The fulleet cooperation of the citizens of the town is requested Please remain at home from two to four if at all possible so workers may get the desired information Abingdon A public hearing will be held at the Courthouse at Abingdon Thursday at 10:30 am by a Virginia Advisory Legislative Council Committee studying the operation of livestock auction markets All persons raising' selling buying or dealing in livestock are cordial ly invited to attend this hearing and make such recommends lions as they think are needed in light of present conditions Singing Convention The regular Third Sunday 81nglng will be at Copper Creek Community Church Sunday at 7:30 pm All singers are Invited to participate The program la open to the public Big Stone Gap Va (Spl) Trinity Methodist Church will observe a Week of Dedication beginning Monday it has been announced The observance will consist of special services for four nights jrith the closing night Thursday February 22 The church will be open each day for prayer and Holy Communion The minister the Rev Ted Witt plans to take communion to all shut-ins during the week Youell president of Hi-wassee College will speak on "Stewardship Monday following a dinner meeting of Methodist men Tuesday at 7:30 pm the Woman's Society of Christian Service will dramatize a presentation of the World Federation of Methodist Women The Challenge of the Cross" will be given Wednesday by the Methodist Youth Fellowship and on Thursday evening a set of slides on Korea will be shown Membership of the church win be called to prayer by the ringing of the church bells at high noon Thursday The Day of Dedication will be February 25 at which time a sacrificial offering will be received for the various mission fields at home and abroad The first $100000 of this offering Mr Witt said will go to suffering Korean Christians FUNK St WAONALLS HANDBOOK OF SYNONYMS Big Stone Gap Va (Spl) In publishing an account' of Although I spent 38 years of my the closing exercises for the last life working in a weekly news-J days exhibition at Seml- nary fn Turkey Cove Lee County Wells delivered an address A contest in oratory by a class of young men were Wolf Parsons Jas Carter John Edmonds Graham Horton Reasor Orr A Hampton A Eversole the latter winning a prize A selection of poetry was recited by little girls Joe Edmonds Jane Slemp Sally Barron Florence Reese Josle Banks Prize was awarded to Florence Reese Second class of boys in declamation were Chadwell Slemp Bob Barron James Barron Howard Bruce Addle Hyatt Banks George Edmonds Sammy Walthall James Richmond Lennle Hoge Prize went to George Edmonds First class of boys in declamation fwere Willie Edmonds Eugene Hyatt Emitt Bruce Lawrence Hyatt Thos Bruce Slemp Milton Reese Prize to Hyatt Balance of page was taken up in medicine and professional cards from Atlanta Richmond and Bristol Homestead sewing machines were advertised at $20 Anderson advertised his Farmers Hotel on Main Street at Jonesville with No 1 Feed Stable attached Woodruff hardware dealer In Knoxville had a large advertisement The Cumberland Eagle was the next weekly to make its appearance in Jonesville This issue was dated Nov 10 1888 Vol 2 No 5 which indicates only five issues in 1888 were published up to that date Grabeel was editor and proprietor It was chuck full of ads by local business firms including Richmond his stock consisting of dry goods groceries loaf sugar ooffee sugar and brown sugar Guess the only white sugar they had then was loaf In fact he had about everything as stores at that time carried a large variety of items Teas and coffee were mentioned both green and roated Also londry and toilet eoaps Cotton yarns bats harness upper soles calf and kip leather The only local news was a few short Items: President Harrison will be inaugurated April 30th Instead of March 4 as heretofore Squabble for the post office has commenced Judge Duncan is attending circuit court In Scott this week "Now keep your eye on Lee County and see it boom Track laying commenced this week on the Knoxville and Cumberland Gap Railroad From the looks of our citizens heads and faces a barber shop is badly needed In this town Elkanah Pennington of Yo-kum Station (now Dry den) one of the Eagles staunch friends and his nephew a Mr Flanary was In to see us this week Hog colery is raging in the west end of county Mrs Blankenship the amiable wife of Blankenship editor of The Republican paid us a pleasant call yesterday Mrs Hobbs wife -of Zion Hobbs of Prldemore returned this week from visiting relatives hear Beech Spring" "Miss Eva Hynes who has been visiting Mrs Sam Richmond for some weeks started today for her home in Portsmouth Va "Dr Duff our popular dentist returned yesterday from a business trip to Kentucky Balloux advertised his mammoth stock of Jewelry paper plant and was bom in Lee County I never heard befpre that a newspaper was published Jonesville other than the Jonesville Star published and edited by the Boatright brothers In the early 1900s But I had another thought coming when I came across copies of the Lee County Sentinel and The Cumberland Eagle the Sentinel being published several years before I was born and the Eagle made its appearance the same year I came Into the world Copies of these papers are on display In the Southwest Virginia Museum at Big Stone Gap and while there a few days ago went over them very closely There are so many things of Interest In this place It would require several days of anyones time to look them over Then too being a newspaper man at one time it was of more than passing interest to me and I read almost every line of news as well as the advertisements Charles Willoughby was editor and proprietor of the Lee County Sentinel the date of issue being June 1 1877 devoted to Home Industries Politics Literature News etc Most all local and personal items were in the editorial column while about 50 per cent of the space in two pages wae devoted to numerous advertisements The first Item was a list of candidates for the lower house of the legislature Lee Fulkerson William Orr John Reasor and Patrick Riley Another item read that strawberries were plentiful in the market there at 25 cents a gallon Others read as follows: Almost every person in town who could procure a conveyance have gone to Rose Hill to attend the closing exercises of the Masonic school at that place The familiar faces of friend and former townsman Capt West arid his lady are once more seen in Jonesville after a years sojourn In Lebanon Va and Raleigh Both are looking well and are welcome in Jonesville At the residence of the brides father Col John A Moore on May 23 1877 Miss Ellen Moore was married to Sam Henry Duff all of Lse County Sam Henry and his handsome young bride have our congratulations and best wishes for a long and Joyous life What is the difference between a delinquent printer and mad landlord? One tramps the track and the other tracks a tramp An old subscriber writes us that since his daughters have discarded the old style bustle his paper is no longer in ar rears The foolish man will ask a woman if her baby is not a trifle crosseyed but the wise man will take the cars to the next town and make his inquiries by postal card "Shooting Affair: David Bishop a denizen of Blackwater was arrested one day last week by Constable Miles and lodged in our county Jail for shooting at Enoch Lawson with intent to kill He had a preliminary hearing before Justice McPherson and the evidence developed the fact that Bishop and Lawson had quarreled on the morning of the shooting and Bishop threatened to kill Lawson on next sight That evening Bishop concealed himself near the road which Lawson would pass and fired upon him He will be apt to go to the penitentiary duo-pianlsts will give one of their fascinating recitals In Kingsport under the auspices of Community Concert Service next Friday at Dobyns-Bennett High School auditorium at 8 pm Ethel Bartlett a native of Essex England was only five years old when she started composing At ten years she was taken to London where she grew up Early in her career she won the Associated Board Scholarship JShe studied chiefly at the Royal Academy of Music but did some work inf Berlin with Artur Schnabel Rae Robertson was born in a small Highland village near Inverness in the north of Scotland He began playing the piano at the early age of three He began his music instruction with private lessons then enrolled at the University of Edenburgh Eventually he went to London and studied at the Royal Academy where he met Ethel Bartlett and later married her Because they were solo pianists the two artists were separated most of the concert year Finally they dedldea to try a joint recital which was an unqualified success Together -they now give more than 100 concerts a year They have toured SQUth America) Mexico Cuba South Africa and all of Europe At the last 300 THE WORLD WE LIVE IN: THE OAK RIDGE STORY 350 Robinson Jr Eastman Kodak Company men and women received a record high of $19550250 for their suggestions during 1950 a report showed today Last year also marked the 100000th accepted suggestion and passing of the one million dollar mark lp awards The 1950 figure brings to $1 16202373 the total paid to em ployes since the Kodak suggestion system one of the first In the country Avas founded in 1898 Included In last years award total Were $14234650 In original awards and $53156 In additional payments for Ideas that were rewarded originally and later reassessed Of 35475 suggestions submitted 11563 almost a third of the total were accepted for awards THE H1NOE OF FATE Winston Churchill 6 00 1951 WORLD ALMANAC 110 RAND MCNALLY WORLD ATLAS 100 FOR JUNIORS: THE BETTY BETZ CAREER BOOK I 50 A COOKBOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Irma 8 Rombauer 275 Musical Instruments and groceries Later years Mr Balloux moved to Norton I played baseball with one of his sons and have wondered many times if he is alive yet Climatic influences have much to do with the quality of cigars NMNSN MM oCet 6 Ja(h sdbout ddoob BILL 8TERN SPORTS QUIZ BOOK 100 The Book Store Cdofjeiand OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO Office Supplies Books Greeting Cards Stationery BENNETT 8c EDWARDS lac Loans Insurance Real Estate Fin National Bank Bldg Phone 2800 army to the tragedy and defeat of Manassas and Bull Run In 1861-1862 The ill-fated General McClellan was not on hand at either of these Confederate vie tories The Union General Me Dowell was at Manassas and the Union General Pope was in command at second Bull Run Doubleday did send a correction though apologizing to the shades of General George McClellan" This all goes to prove something we have long suspected that those guys who write the publicity blurbs for books dont really read them Sin Is Selling Elery Lays That Reek of Sin has already sold more than 100 copies and is attracting favorable comment Lay you will recall is the Junior High teacher who wrote this historical novel about colonial Kingsport Seven By Shaw The Book-'Df-the-Month Clubs book dividend for March is Seven Plays by Bernard Shaw The seven are Saint Joan Caesar and Cleopatra Candida Mrs Warrens Profession Arms and the Man The Devils Disciple and Man and Superman (not the chffracter In the funnies kids) Boon to Busy Housewives By BILL FREEHOFF Doubleday and Company ha published a new dictionary the Thorndike Barnhart Comprehensive Desk Dictionary (all you need Is a desk now) To judge from the reams of promotion Doubleday has mailed out plus the spread in Life and the story in Time the TBGD Dictionary must be a great adventure in lexicographical (from the Greek lex ikon meaning wordbook) history As a matter of fact the authors have gone to a great deal of care and trouble to compile a book of words which are used in every-day American conversation and writing Words such as "Veep and Dixiecrat appear In this new edition for example And another innovation is the manner in which they define a word They give the contemporary meaning first (most dictionaries gjve the historical meaning first) There are a profusion of illustrations tucked In here and From A to Zymurgy (a branch of chemistry dealing with the processes of fermentation as in brewing etc) the TBCD wordbook is full of interesting things t4 know Dowsing I Kenneth Roberts the historian has offered $100 to two mw York State scientists if they can prove that he is spoofing In his new book Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod Dowsing you know is finding water with a forked twig Mr Roberts asserts this can be done and those cynical souls who cry "humbug just dont have any faith at all Put this one on the shelf next Theres Pleasure Afoot to that book by Frank Scully on the flying saucers No Historian He For shame oh that Yankee who writes the publicity handouts for Doubleday In a recent handout describing Bruce Cattons Mr Lincolns Army the copy goes like this: tells the story of how the ill-fated McClellan who started so brilliantly made the mistake which brought him and his 1 -JingAport A Hfjost Comp lets BOOK SHOP Walking Into your own home for the first time is a thrill you can realise Our loan plan keeps total cost low spreads payments over many months You go steadily toward debt-free home owning every month Find out how today! gl'll MORNING JOURNEY James Hilton THE GROTTO Grace Zaring Stone TE WHOLE ARMOR Faith Baldwin THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS Paul Fox THE DELUGE Ian Niail THAT REEK OF SIN Elery A Lay TrtE LEFT HAND OF GOD Wm Barrett COURTROOM Quentin Reynolds BOSWELLS LONDON JOURNAL THE HELL BOMB William Laurence INFORMATION PLEASE 1951 THE WORLD ALMANAC HOW TO LIVE WITH YOUR NERVES Dr Walter Alvarez Stamp Collectors Kits $100 to $500 Stamp Albums $100 to $1100 Current Rate Of Dividend 8 Per Annans Convenient Extension Telephone Saves Steps Saves Time so An extension telephone within easy reach makes your household run more smoothly 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