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aS Hl Page 2 Statesville Record Landmark Thursday November 12 1970 Amon? the BOOKS The Atlantic Monthly ill Response Of British irms Above Expectations how HIGH flOiWTT QQ 95" Jg RE7670 8444 Eaton gggpBBBggBBBBBBBBgggggPBoeggpBBBgpp V) I THE PALE CHIL TyEARPICTUREV hoc WARRANTY 499 95 REGULAR 34995 Mary Campbell REE DELIVERY Check Our Service Plan! on Our CONVENIENT CREDIT PLAN y( fcj! 'j l' x' 1 1 a LONDON (AP) The res ponse of British firms to an in vitation to set up operations in North Carolina been much greater than Ro bert Leak head of the industrial development REGULAR 22995 Slimline Cabi net 8310 DIAG PICTURE SAVE 15195 GET TRUE CONCERT SOUND! BUY ON CREDIT TERMS! is his fourth will make us previous and He said a team representing a British electronics assembly firm currently examining sites in the United States has been instructed by its home office to survey North Carolina as a re sult of talks in London Tuesday 6003 REGULAR 39995 ALL OR 1 PRICE! I JL Atheneum $595 Metaphors puns surrealist visions converted into sharp disturbing little narratives Not at all what is unflatteringly meant by the phrase poetic prose but only a poet and a good one could have written it SAVE 2195 B531TWA Conservation and Development echoed analysis of the people our teams talked to were really im pressed with the North Carolina story of foreign investment by foreign he said SOLID STATE STEREO COMPACT Contemporary Style CONSOLE CABINET ous amusing parody that often cuts close to the bone THE GREAT UR OPERA by Ronald Searle and Kildare Dobbs Stephen Greene $495 A of the Bay Company comic but far from uninformative with gloriously absurd illustrations by Mr Searle who can draw anything from a sad seal to Charles II thinking about money with members of the state mis sion The mission will spend a week in Germany before mov ing on to Austria and Switzer land rom there it will go to rance and the Netherlands 50 CLASSIC MOTION PIC TURES by David Zinman Crown $995 Mr Zinman out of patience with the pretentiously intellec tual books about films that have lately become the vogue has compiled a resolutely unpre tentious nonintellectual nos taligic survey of films from Golden meaning the 1930s and 40s One may quarrel with some of his choices (why the full and mis cast remake of Beau Geste rather than Gunga Din or Cap tain Blood?) and marvel at some of his omissions (Shirley Temple is not even listed in the index) and deplore his quotation of dialogue (the leg exchange in San rancisco has lost the line that made it funny) but there is no questioning his enthusiasm or his infallible eye for the best grade of tinsel There are a great many pictures and the book as a whole is undemanding fun MAM Solid State STEREO RADIO With SEPARATE SPEAKER SYSTEM HEAR THAT TRAIN BLOW! by Kelly Covin Delacorte $695 With the world or most of it preoccupied by racial conflict a novel about the Scottsboro boys seems like a good idea Trouble is aside from the authentically jarring trial scenes it is not much of a novel mission to Europe said today Leak was speaking to new smen as the mission prepared to leave for talks in West Ger many Ronald McCowen of the North Carolina Department of INTER ICE AGE 4 by Kobo Abe Knopf $595 The future arises from the destruction of the present the future is therefore essentially cruel Out of this assumption Mr Abe has constructed an odd nerve racking technolotical melodrama One need not agree with him to enjoy it PIC OUTIT PERSONAL1 SIZE 38 SO IN PICTURE PORTABLE TV SAVE $40 REG 53995 Plastic Dust Cover RD7673 amous PHILCO DELUXE TRIM STYLE PORTABLE TELEVISION 218 South Center St Tel 872 5611 Tires Batteries Seat Covers Installed ree When Purchased At Our Store Service Department At Rear Of Store Beautiful SPANISH STYLING 5 LONG CABINET as a blight is lifted and driven outward across the Phoebe Adams AST EICIENT PHILCO QUALIIED SERVICE AVAILABLE ON ALL PHILCO PRODUCTS PANASONIC 8 TRACK STEREO TAPE DECK Solid State Circuitry RS8O2 THE SUPERMARKET TRAP by Jennifer Cross In diana $595 Miss Cross demonstrates with documentation that out of every $1000 spent in your friend ly neighborhood market $233 buys packaging (and cleaning up the resulting debris) ad vertising mis takes and theft What the cus tomer retrieves in edibles is not much good either Read it and rage NO CASE OR THE POLICE By Clinton Baddeley Morrow $495 Mystery fans rejoice Clinton Baddeley looks like a live one We heard of him before Case for the But it mystery and it search for the hope for more The setting is one of those tiny quiet English towns in which a lot of people are elderly and a good measure of gossip Two men are dead months apart but both deaths presumably were accidental Pace of the book is leisurely Dr Davie a disarmingly or dinary near retirement pro fessor is on the order of Agatha Miss Marple Dr Davie pokes around tal ing to this one and that learning lots of surprising little things about various people He takes walks describing the scenery has leisurely teas thinks a lot and finally figures out what happened and of course who done it satisfying stuff for people who prefer the bright minded unhurried Miss Marple de tective to the swashbuckling Travis McGee Just our cup of tea 3 AY SAVINGS ON fhiyiuuu name rnuuuuio: Solid Slate Signal System "Color Pilot" Cool Chassis Big ront Mounted 5" Oval Speaker 82 Channel Tuning System Memory Matic Pre Set ine Tuning Contemporary Styling Cabinet 7030UWA RICH MAN POOR MAN by Irwin Shaw Delacorte $795 Twenty odd years of the doings of the Jordache clan Gretchen the beauty Thomas the brawler Rudolph the calculator provide uproar in every second paragraph Mr Shaw proves that the old three by her husband and watched decker is still afloat but he works her toward Hollywood rather than the Islands of the Blest DVflntE STORES BELLOC: A BIOGRAPHI CAL ANTHOLOGY edited by Herbert van Thai Knopf $895 The biographical notes are on the discreet side but the selections from Belloc are im passioned and interesting even when they deal with half for gotten or totally British ques tions There is not enough of the mischievous verse but could there be? Authentically Designed Cabinet ront Projected Sound System One Knob Simplimatic VH Tuning Perm Lok Control 13C52W UNBOUGHT AND UN BOSSED by Shirley Chisholm Houghton Mifflin $495 The first black woman to be elected to Congress is a gingery fighter with a blunt prose style and a habit of blurting out that which must make her warier colleagues shudder She con fides that falseness or validity of an office statement is almost never dis cussed in Washington The question political people ask is seldom he but does he expect that to get or put him up to What put Mrs Chis holm up to it is intelligent con trolled rage over by her elderly boyfriend Will Gerstenslager she has been getting along quite happily making ends meet by running a boardinghouse and later by nursing those who are too ill to resist her in the small town of Appleton Indiana She needs no karate to defend herself against the malice and gossip of her neighbors her lively mind and sharp tongue are more than sufficient But literary assassi nation is quite a different matter One of Mrs boar ders was Randy Rivers an aspiring writer whom she cared for with what she regards as tenderness and who has re paid her by projecting her as a central character in his suc cessful novel LOOK NOW MEDUSA She visits the local bookstore to see if she can identify herself while browsing and this is what she finds: of those dragons of respectabil ity in which American small towns especially abound As for sex her husband found a clamshell between those legs An ample bosom of pure granite She wore her hair in a thick plait on top of her head where it sat like a coiled adder a fit trademark and apt metaphor for one ever poised to strike the Such was the portrayal of the landlady whom Randy had christened and for whom she must have posed Mrs Wallop is not one to be horrified but she would enjoy a little revenge and fate plays into her hands when the dis tinguished author is persuaded to come back to his hometown for a lecture He braces himself too liberally for the ordeal and in mid course takes a misstep pitches off the platform and in a befuddled state is brought back to his old room at Mrs to recuperate In the situations that ensue Mrs Wallop who at times reminds me of James Mrs Bloom holds all the aces But what she is ill prepared for is a second and more vindic tive character assassination by jencies are intended to drive it her son Osgood an arty in competent who has been strug gling to write in New York She i reads this fantasy in the pres ence of Randy Rivers and the thought occurs to them both shall she take on and amplify the characteristics for which she has been defamed and ex MONKEY SHINES at spotting a bargain and of Bradford Pa will try anything if the price is right After a taste however he de cided rabbit food was none of a business Self Contained STEREO PHONO with MAM RADIO SOLID STATE CHASSIS Contemporary Styling 4 Speaker System 23S202AG SHEPHERDSCHOOL ALL ESTIVAL Saturday November 14 1970 5:00 PM Until COME OR Hamburgers Hotdogs Piesand Cakes COME ONE COME ALL Test Your Skill At Games Including Bingo ALSO AN AUCTION AT HIGH IDELITY HEADSET AWAY N0W PHILCO Solid State 295 SQ IN PICTURE HI BRIGHT COLOR TV PANASONIC 4 SPEED RECORD PLAYER 4495 Youth Killed At Roulette KNOXVILLE Tenn (AP) Johnnie Brown 17 of Knox ville was killed late Tuesday while apparently playing Rus sian roulette police said Capt Gene Huskey said young Brown was shot in the right side of the temple with a38 caliber pistol The mishap occurred in an apartment shared by Brown and another youth Huskey said after questioning several youths in the apart ment it appeared Brown died while playing the roulette game No charges have been made Turkey Shoot A turkey shoot will be held at the Central Volunteer ire Department beginning this Saturday Sponsored by the fire depart DREN by Merwin ment the turkey shoots will be held November 14 21 and 28 and December 5 12 and 19 Shotguns and rifles will be used and the hours are from 1 to 5 pm All proceeds will benefit the fire department THE INVISIBLE PYRAMID by Loren Eiseley $695 Mr eloquent and elegant style is a bit like Mil it sometimes obscures sense with sound Meaning is nonetheless there Mr Eiseley debates science and technology and the gap between what man can accomplish with them and ability to comprehend what he is doing or about to do with these new tools beings are a strange variant in nature and a very recent one Perhaps man has evolved as a creature whose centrifugal ten PHILCO DELUXE A Al AD CARRY TV WbVIl BIG 14" PICTURE 128 I4995 jBIBBJP' Electra STEREO 8 TRACK AT HOME APE PLAYER SYSTEMS Push Button Channel Selector ine tuning Balance and Tone Controls our Watt Continuous Output AC operated I ouu 7fl95 Jr WITH 101V I 1 UDC WHnnnn 1 11 1 YEAR PARTS WARRANTY REE 90 DAYS I LABOR SERVICE Jt ELECTRA 8 TRACK HOME STEREO TAPE PLAYER Stereo with AMMMPX Radio Jack Receptacles or Headphones and Phono KTR2On KtuULAK 15795 128 SAVE $30 EMERSON 1IT ORO cn IKI bl AN I picture SINCE 1929 CONSOLE TV i STEREO CONSOLE 5 DELUXE CAPETONE CHANGER 5 8 SPEAKER SYSTEM 100 WATTS in i Meeting Is Held The Union Grove Parent Tea cher Association met on Mon day night in the school aud itorium Mrs Bill Mayberry president conducted the meet ing The junior high glee club under the direction of Mrs James Speece presented the following selections: some an African olk song and the Singing a Czechoslo vakian canon Kathy Mullis ac companied the singers Mrs Ralph Howard a second grade teacher presented Rev Sidney Grimes pastor of Zion Baptist Church who gave the devotional Bryan McLain led the pledge to the American flag Mrs Parks Wooten member ship chairman reported that Mrs Pierce fifth grade enrolled the most mem bers for the association fol lowed by Mrs Hubert room Marvin class won the attendance count by having the most parents present at the meeting Rev James Speece post master at Union Grove showed some very interesting and in formative slides on of He told the group that all Christmas mailing should be done if possible by Dec 15 Druing the business session the president appointed Mrs Clay Wooten chairman for the annual ham day which is set for Dec 5 Mrs Joe Jordan was sel ected as auction sale chairman in connection with the ham day Various other committees were also named William White treasurer gave the financial report and Bill Jones principal told of the ploit them? 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