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Seminole (Gkla) Producer Sunday March 20 IDafl Page 7 Host of Celebrated Writers To Attend Book Award Dinner (M Edited By MRS REX SOMMERVILLE Vote Set Tuesday OKMULGEE March Okmulgee voters will be asked to authorize the board of education to levy an additional 15 mills for school support at the annual school election Tuesday Cat Comes Back ALBANY Ga R) Charlotte cat disappeared one night and came back for breakfast seven years later Guest Review What They're Reading NATIONAL BEST SELLERS WATCH REPAIRS enturies-Old Book Scheduled For Publication by OU Press NORMAN March 25 (Special) The first book produced by the Western Hemisphere appears in English for the first time today The centuries-old -Popol or sacred book of the ancient Quiche Maya civilization of Central America escaped destruction by the Spaniards at the time of the Conquest but only now four hundred years later becomes available to English-speaking peoples throughout the world The book is released by the University of Oklahoma press The Quiche nation in the highlands of present-day Guatemala New Faculty Members Listed in 'Who's Who' NORMAN- March 25 Biographies of 42 University of Oklahoma professors and staff members are listed in the 1950-51 edition' of Who in Three new Sooner names were added this year They -are Dr Fayette Copeland director of the journalism school Dr Carl CRis-ter research professor of history and Dr Gustav Mueller professor of philosophy Other OU faculty members named range from architects to zoologists Flood Control Project Okayed For Sallisaw SALLISAW March Tlie Sallisaw chamber of commerce unanimously passed a resolution to support a proposed flood control project on Brushy and Greasy creeks The action resulted from a request by Sen- Elmer Thomas for' petitions supporting his fight to secure federal funds for the project when it comes up before a senate committee in Wash- I ington I Oklahoma ranked first in seed- ling pecan pioductinn in the United States in 1947 1 More than 100 of America's best known authors will attend the book industry's first annual National Book Award dinner Thursday at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York city At one of the most impressive gatherings the literary world has ever seen the heads of all the leading book publishing houses editors designers booksellers and book manufacturers will be joined by many of the foremost literary critics and representatives from allied fields in paying tribute to the three authors of the most distinguished books of fiction non-fiction and poetry published during 1949 Over 1000 persons are expected to participate in the ceremonies Senator Paul Douglas Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and Frederick Lewis Allen will speak Clifton Fadiman master of ceiemonies will announce the three winners selected by three specialized boards of judges and confer the National Book Award gold medals Entertainment during the evening will be introduced by the famous radio team of Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg Comedian Abe Burrow will sing and play Helen Howe monologue ai-tist author of Circle of the Literary Guild selection for June will pci form Senator Paul II Douglas whose record during his first year in Washington has stamped him as one of the most able members of the Senate is a professor on the faculty of the University of Chicago and the Author of many books He will talk of the place of writers in the national scene Eleanor Roosevelt author of the recently published volume I Remember" and many others is United States representative to the Fourth General Assembly of the United Nations and has served as chairman of the Committee on Human Rights She will speak of the power of books to create a true United Nations The fifteen judges who choose the authors to receive the National Book Award are Elmer Davis John Kieran Henry Steele Commager Fairfield Osborn and Norman Cousins for non-fiction Mary Colum Glcnway Wescott Max GissinW Rogers and Malcolm Cowley for fiction and Auden Louise Bogan Ba-bett Duetsch Horace Gregory and Louise Untermeyer for poetry Some of the celebrated writers who have already indicated that they will attend the NBA dinner are: Franklin Adarrts Joseph Auslunder Van Wyek Brooks Pearl Buck Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Carl Curmer Bennett Cerf Ilka Chase Edna Ferbor Robert Frost Lewis Gannett John Gunther II Kaltenborn Emily Kimbrough Faith Baldwin Also Helen Machines Van VVyck Mason Bill Mauldin Fulton Oursler Perelman Emily Pest Erich Maria Rumerque Mary Roberts Rinehart Anya So-ton Max Shulman Betty Smith Allen Smith Irving Stone Jesse Stuart Agnes Sligh Turn-bull Carl Van Doren Kathleen Winsor and Max Wylie The most delicate watch movement is like on open book in our hunds SWEANEY JEWELRY IKE SWLANEY Owner Lobby Commercial Hotel Phone wa the most powerful tribe of the Maya whose flourishing population lived in great cities which are now among the most majestic ruins It was here -that the of the was composed corresponding to the Christian Bible dating back perhaps ns long as a thousand years btdore the discovery of America The ancient Maya language except for its calendar and mathematical parts continues to baffle archaeologists but a chance copying of the by the parish priest of Chiehicastenango at the end of Ihe seventeenth century preserved the document in Latin characters I rom this verson Adrian Reci-' nos an expert in the modern Quiche counterpart of the Maya language made a direct translation In developing the English edition he was assisted by the late Sylvanus Morley the foremost authority on Maya civilization and Delia Goetz author and translator of the State Department THE THE OLD HOUSE AT COATE by Richard Jefferies (Cambridge: Harvard University Press $375) Edited by Samuel Looker Illustrated with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker A pleasingly varied edition of essays by the English naturalist and journalist Richard Jefferies celebrated the hundredth anniversary of his birth It presents his reflections on the matters that teased his active brain for a half century: his boyhood farm home in Wiltshire with its stone orchard wall and blue doors hasped open and rattling through starry nights farm labor pioblems the noble physical proportions of the Englishman the ill landscaped London suburbs with their obnoxious plane trees and the yearnings of a soul for ultimate truth worth has been enhanced of late by Reginald appraisal to As an eyewitness of nature Cook places Jefferies beside Thoreau because of a lyrical rapture that associates the beautiful forms and motions of bird sky and landscape with greatest spiritual langes This new collection of Jefferies papers partly of previously unpublished manuscripts will therefore gather readers from nature-book lovers as well as from those addicts of autobiography who in salad youth thrilled to the sentiments in of My More than Isaak Walton more than Gilbert White the cheerful writer of letters full of outdoor curiosities more than Burroughs Muir Fabre or even Hudson Jefferies rivals Thoreau in nature love It madd them better able to live a town life because they connected nature with man and their souls Lack of design in buttercup more golden blooms than any man needed for delight proved to Jefferies the divine un-tances is an limitedness of nature Man he exciting story of her subsequent said must continue to reach be-Indian slavery and release Pink by Nelia Gardner White is the story of a lame girl who comes to live with her sister and is overshadowed and ignored by her handsome and active cousins How she makes a place for herself is the irnain thread of the story The book before this was the popular Trumpet Before yond what his infinite mental capacities embrace in any moment first he wrote was the existence of the soul the second its immortality the third the Deity Give me to make a fourth discovery beyond these There is something through the earth and sun on the other Samuel Looker and the Harvard press by rediscovering the note I JEST Fiction 1 The 2 The 3 The abarger 4 The Wall Hersey 5 The Mouth Carey 0 Gentian Hill Goudge 7 Jubilee Trail Bristow 8 Mary Asch 9 A Rage To Live 10 One on the House Lasswell General 1 The Mature Over-street 2 This I Remember Roosevelt 3 The Baby 4 Prme Sweet Zoo Baines 5 White Collar Zoo Barnes The Peabody Sisters of Salem Tharp 7 I Leap Over the Wall Baldwin 8 Decision in Germany Clay 9 Mr Jones Meet the Master Marshall 10 The Road Ahead Flynn From a list published in the New York Times Book Review CITY LIBRA Rl FAVORITES Fiction 1 Mary Asch 2 Jubilee Trail Bristow 3 One on the House Lasswell 4 The Egyptian Waltari 5 The Mouth Carey 0 A Rage to Live 7 Raising a Riot Toombs 8 Mingo Street 9 Red Cloak Flying Widdemcr 10 Women on the Wall Sten-ger General 1 A Guide to Confident Living Peale 2 This I Remember Roosevel: 3 The Peabody Sisters of Salem Tharp 4 Water Color Painting Dehn 5 Complete Book of Poetry Kenney 6 Furnishing in Style Storey 7 Love Story McKenney 8 The Romantic New Orleanians Tallant 9 Louis Pasteur Dobos 10 Pastel Painting Davis From a list compiled by Mrs Bruner city librarian' BY MRS BRENER City Librarian Strange by Ned Calmer is set in Europe from Paris to the Siegfried Line in the autumn of 11)44 It is the story of 12 Americans whose destinies are fused in six days of war The author is the Columbia Broadcasting system commentator who was active as a war correspondent during World War II My by Nancy Wilson Ross is the story of Philip Stewart who is told byv his psychoanalyst that contemporary American culture has brought him to the breaking point He seeks an answer to his problems on a island off Seattle where his father-had sought peace over the years This is an unusual novel of a man who finds the courage to question his life and to do something about it In Dale Van Emery follows Shining with another novel rich in Indian lore and customs during Revolutionary days along the Ohio frontier Through this primitive battleground Morah Blake 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