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Lost In By ROBERT E. FORD Associated Press Writer Went to Fort Worth the other day for what was called an Luncheon. And we can tell you, Texas typewriters are smoking hot today! W'hat it was, was a convention of the Texas Council of Teachers of English, and program chairman Maxine Inteso of Tyler rounded up 33 authors, mostly from Fort Worth eastward and then south to Nacogdoches. know there were that many authors in Texas, much less in that limited section. Some of those at the table are well known to newspaper readers, such writers as A.

G. Greene, Jimmy Banks, Wayne Gard and Marshall Terry. Others have gained fame in special fields such as poetry, scholarly works, textbooks, religion, advice and metaphysics. The Texas Council of Teachers of English may not have known it, but there was one frightened author at that table who had produced a war novel called The writers were in the center of the room, absolutely surrounded by English experts. At any moment, this writer expected some teacher to walk up behind him, point an accusing finger, and say in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear: split an infinitive on Page Expressed this fear to a fellow across the table who is an English professor-author at East Texas State University.

he said. it. W'e teach English that way Talk rippled among the authors like flickering neon lights. are your British sales going? my Dutch publisher is bringing out a paperback edition My latest is in 12 languages now Makes the owner of only one book published in only a couple of languages feel pretty insignificant. There was considerable grumbling about publishers.

Writers and publishers get along very well, although neither could do without the other. There is a saying among book publishers. only good author is a dead Yet know where they would get their manuscripts. The reason several of the authors are not well known as Texans is that their books be identifit'd with this region. Like Grace Niles Fletcher of Fort Worth, a tiny woman who had poetry published when she was 7 years old.

Now she has a dozen books in many languages. She has traveled all over the world particularly for research about women. Or take a person like June Hayfield Welch of Dallas. This individual probably feels like the of Johnny Cash's Boy Named For June is a boy. very much so.

In addition to writing nine books, he lias or is a secretary to I.yndon Johnson, a Washington policeman private lawyer, attorney for various cities and school districts. university professor, professional musician, was in the Merchant Marine, a sergeant in the Army and major in the Air Force. Bet never heard of J. Mason Brewer of Commerce. Well Brewer probably is the most distinguished writer of Negro folklore in the world.

He probably has penned more black folklore stories than anyone 366 by latest count. They have appeared in 14 anthologies as well as in seven books of his own. Brewer has had just about all the scholastic honors a man can have. He is a professor, lecturer and editor as well. One of the products of all this writing probably on display in any book store at the moment.

Its title is the and was written by Ann Forman Barron of P'ort Worth. She was 6 years old when she turned out this opus. She wrote for the pulp and confession magazines, turned to the slick-paper publications, and went to hard-back mysteries. Then she discovered the pretty hard to find a definition of novel. Best way to describe it is that it has a large number of pi'rsons wandering in danger through an old, creepy house.

It must have a romantic interest, of course, but suspense is the key. It is the big thing in publishing at the moment. Take the case of poor Tom E. Huff. He.

too. began writing as a virtual infant. Huff spent his lime in junior high school classes scribbling novels in his notebook. Yvonne De Carlo, thinly disguised, was the heroine of each. After teaching a few years, he quit to devote full time to writing.

His first books, as he says, were trenchant, meaningful novels full of emotion atid They sell. Then he discovered the Gothic and found he could get money for as many as he could turn out. But he also discovered one of oddities of the publishing busitiess. You write a Gothic novel under a male name. So if you see a novel under the authorship of Edwina Marlow or Beatrice Parker, his pseudonyms, you know they were written by the husky Tom Huff.

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Around Tell THE CHILDRESS CHILDRESS, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1973 ART EXHIBITION EDMONTON. Alta. (AP) The Edmonton Art Gallery is planning a series of art exhibitions as part of its 50th anniversary. The 50th anniversary exhibition will trace the history of art in Alberta. HOI SIN(i STI DIEU EDMONTON.

Alta (AP) A study by the city's social services department has found that housing for welfare recipients is generally good. But 29.4 per cent was in only fair condition, about 3 per cent in poor condition and 16 per cent in poor condition and judged unfit for human habitation BY AUBREY TESTERMAN Index Special Correspondent Mrs. J. A. Stinnett visited at Estelline with Rev.

and Mrs. C. C. Lamb. Mr.

and Mrs. Merrell Conn visited at Katy with Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Scott and attended the school where Mr. and Mrs.

Scott teaches and heard the choir of Mrs. also. They visited Mr. biology class and attended the Katy parade and FFA stock show and attended the church with them. They visited in Houston with Mr.

and Mrs. Teddy Abbott and family and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pierce who have just moved to Houston from New York and also with Mrs. Selma Bailey of Grand Prairie who was visiting there with her daughter.

They visited at Hearne with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Conn and boys then in Temple where they went through Scott and White Clinic. Mr. and Mrs.

Willard Williams and Jerry of Childress visited Mrs. Jewell Glover. Miss Grace Powell and Miss Nell Rogers of Childress visited Mrs. J. A.

Stinnett. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0.

Keel, Mrs. Raymond Rowell and Mrs. Laverne Mikeal were in Amarillo to be with the Keel grandson who had eye surgery. They also visited at Claude with Mrs. Louise Malluer enroute home.

Reverend and Mrs. Don Collom of Childress visited Mr. and Mrs. Merrell Conn. Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Edwards of Big Spring Mr. and Mrs. J. D.

Cox and Vicki, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Garrison, Tom and Shawn visited Mrs. J. A.

Stinnett, Mrs. Laverne Mikeal and Tammy. Mrs. Lorene Bower of Sylmar, visited Mr. and Mrs.

Earl Moran. Mrs. Glenn Smith visited in Amarillo with Mr. and Mrs. Gary Conner and family and with Mrs.

Joe Barnes of Houston. Mrs. Orville Morris of Amarillo is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Moseley and Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Wygal and in Childress with Mr. and Mrs. J. D.

Atkisson. Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Cooper and Julia of McAllen are spending the weekend with Mrs.

J. A. Stinnett and Mrs. Laverne Mikeal and Tammy and in C'hildress with Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Smith and Mrs. J. B. Stinnett Sr. visited in Lubbock with relatives.

Mr, and Mrs. Rayford Jones were in Stephenville on business and visited in Mineral Wells with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lanham. Mrs.

Troy Boykin visited in Paducah with Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Love. Mrs. Hall Burton, Mrs.

T. H. Burton. Mrs. Less Grayson and Kathy in Vernon and Altus shopping.

Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Garrison, Mrs. J. A.

Stinnett and Mrs. Joe W. Cooper were in Amarillo on business. Wayne Lowry and Tanya of Turkey, Williams of ('hildress visited Mrs. Jewell lover.

Mrs. Oliver Hightower, Tommy and Rickey visited at Tularosa, N. with Laymon Hightower and family. Mr. and Mrs.

J. B. Wyatt of Carey visited Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Bryant and family. Mrs. Ethel Laningham and Mrs. Ethel Seigler visited at Hollis, with Mr.

and Mrs. Jim Visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Browning were Mr. O.

M. Browning, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Browning, Mr. and Mrs.

Bob Browning of Paducah, Mrs. Jimmy Grimes of Lub- lK)ck. Randy and Terry Love of Paducah, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Harrison.

Brad and Sally of Paducah, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Love of Cee Vee, Larry and Julia Browning of Tarleton vState College at Stephenville. Mrs. Jewell Glover and Mrs.

Willard Williams, were in Amarillo for Mrs. Glover to have a medical checkup. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Moran visittKl at Grand Prairie with Mr.

and Mrs. Troy Manuel and l'K)ys, at Arlington with Mrs. Bettie Moran, at Houston with Mr. and Mrs. J.

H. Roddy and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hightower Smith, Mr.

and Mrs. Joe M. Keel and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Merle Keel and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Merrell Conn and Mrs. J. A.

Stinnett and Mr. and family of Panhandle, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hightower and family of Groom, Mrs. Jay Bumpus, Ginger and Stephanie and Fred McCain of Childress, Gary and Ricky Alexander of Glazer visited Mrs.

Oliver Hightower and boys and Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Hightower and family. Mr, and Mrs. Dalton Reese and Aimee of Hereford visited Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Liles. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wyatt and family visited at Estelline with Mrs.

Nell Abram and family. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weir, Debbie and Tony, Sammie Weir and Cynthia, Ronald Weir and Terri of Childress visited Mr. and Mrs.

George Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Henderson visited in Amarillo with Mr.

and Mrs. Bob Hamilton and Michael. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rea visited in Lubbock with Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Howard and Niki. Mr. and Mrs. Roy W'ygal visited at Claude with J.

D. Wygal and in Amarillo with Mrs. Orville Morris, Mrs. 'Morris came home with them for a visit and to visit her sisters and friends. Mr.

and Mrs. Donald Weir and Debbie and Tony of Childress visited Mr. and Mrs. W. O.

Keel and Cindy. Treston Mabry and Debbie Boren of Lubbock visited Mr. and Mrs. Truman Mabry enroute to Houston. Mrs.

M. Privitt of Childress visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rea. Mr.

and Mrs. Arch Gibson of Plainview visited Mr. and Mrs. Merrell Conn. Mrs.

Truman Mabry was in Amarillo where she received medical treatment. She also visited in Hereford with Mrs. Wanda Verscheldeand Tammy. Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Wygal and Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Keel visited in Pampa with Mr.

and Mrs. R. and Mrs. Arch Gibson of Plainview attended the singing convention at the Building in Childress. Mrs.

Teresa Mabry and Tracy of Lubbock visited with Mr. and Mrs. Truman Mabry. ESTELUNE news By MRS. FRED NIVENS and the GROWL Mr.

and Mrs. Nathan Ade of Kansas and Mr. and Mrs. Zink Calton also of Kansas visited with Mrs. Ada Jones this week.

Mr. and Mrs. F'rank Fory of Lake Charles. Louisiana, visited with Mr. and Mrs.

L.A. Tucker and Ada Jones this week. Mr. and Mrs. Don Proffitt and Brad visited in Baton Rouge.

Louisiana this week with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Worth Pardue and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.

Jethro Stigall and Cecil Stigall of Quinlan visited with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pope and Mr. and Mrs. Dude Merrell this week.

Mrs. Jess Hudlow and Mrs. Leon Phillips and Mrs. Fred Nivens shopped in Childi'ess Saturday. Several of the teachers from here attended the Teachers Meeting in Wheeler Monday.

Ada Jones was surprised Monday (it being her birthday) in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F'red Nivens. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Eddins. Sal Couth, Ada Jones, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nivens. Mrs.

George Fromme and children of New Braunfels visited in Estelline and with her grandmother, Mrs. Lillie Bagwell, who is in the Cousins Home. Mr. Stout of Memphis visited with Mrs. J.H.

W'right Monday. Mrs. W'alter Bailey, formerly DR. JACK POWER, right above, and his wife are visiting his grandmother, Mrs. A.

Power here. Dr. Power is a medical doctor at the Hopi Indian Reservation and they live in Reams Canyon. Ariz. They have been there for eight months and plan to remain for a full two years or more.

His wife, a native of Puerto Rice, is a teacher at the Reservation for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (Staff Photo) of Estelline, died Wednesday in a nursing home in Childress. She was brought back to Estelline for burial. Bobbie Fowler, Patti Lou Nivens. Rita Gibson, and Rita Hedrick shopped in Amarillo Monday.

Mrs. Lena Curtis and Mrs. Hena Spradlin of Vernon visited with Sal Couch and Mr. and Mrs. Lura Marcum Sunday afternoon.

A Son Born To The E.V. Leles Dr. and Mrs. E. V.

Lele announce the birth of a son at 6 p.m. March in Childress General Hospital. The infant weighed seven pounds at birth. WORLD ALMANAC FACTS SEARCH GOES ON EDINBURG, Tex. search for a new athletic director and basketball coach for Pan American University goes on although Oklahoma City liniversity Coach Abe Lemons says he would lake the job.

is the basis of the term A a diminutive of the French or $2 bills still issued? Discontinued due to lack of interest. constellation named for an insect? A IS The beginnings of chess are unknown though many scholars believe it originated in northern India from a Hindu game called about A.D. 500. Its name is derived from the Persian word meaning king. Checkmate is from meaning the king is dead, The World Almanac says.

When the Arabs conquered Persia in the 600s they learned the game and brought it to Europe. liK'ht 'pain pri.se As.sn. READ THE CLASSIFIEDS OPEN FOR BUSINESS Hflviiis ffiitnoLy iim ISl West-Comer Oaklane A REGULAR VISITOR to the Bloodmobile here is LaNoal (aslleherry, left above. Preparing him for the is Bill Rothwell. The BhxMlniohile visit here Tuesday netted 97 pints.

the largest number in several years. There was only one rejection which was a record. (Staff Photo) Cars Washed Greased Pick-Up Delivery -S Green Stamps- NEW PHONE 937-2672 Brian Alon Born To The Ted Jones Mr. and Mrs. Ted Jones announce the birth of a son, Brian Alan, at 2:28 p.m.

March 20 in Childress General Hospital. The infant weighed eight pounds, 13 and a half ounced, at birth. Dairii Queen a SATURDAY MARCH 23 A 24 PLAYERS FAYE'ITEVILLE. Ark. (AP) The Arkansas Kazorbacks opened 20 days of spring football drills Wednesday with coaches trying to acquaint themselves with the players.

This is the most inexperienced squad since ('oach Frank Broyles has at ArkaiLsas. He said his staff just put all the 20-year-olds in one group and all the 19-year- olds in another. ONION RINGS W. S. Porter, better known as 0.

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