The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981 Page: 6 of 32
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3ks (¡anadian RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 1981
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New fiction books at
library are reviewed
GENERAL EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT [GED]
TESTING PROGRAM
By Jim Donovan
There are varied reasons for a student to discontinue
his/her education. Some are forced to drop-out of
school because of family situations involving financial,
moving, or marriage problems. Others get discouraged
ir have personality conflicts with teachers or fellow
;tudents. Whatever the reason, these students never
eceive a diploma from a high school.
The General Educational Development (GED) tests,
if passed successfully, will achieve the goal of many: a
High School Equivalence Certificate. This certificate is
awarded by the Texas Education Agency and is
accepted anywhere in the United States. Employers,
military, vocational schools, and even colleges will
iccept the GED Diploma as an entrance requirement.
Here in Canadian, 21 people have received their
ertificates since May, 1980. Last week a family (father,
i other and son) all completed the required tests and
vill be receiving their certificates in a few weeks.
There are some restrictions on just who may take the
"rED Test. A person must be at least 18 and have been
ut of school one year or be over 19 years old. I have
dministered the test to teenagers and to grand-
nothers. The cost is $3.50 for all five tests. These tests
io not have to be taken all at the same time but can be
spread out over a week or so. For any questions
concerning the GED, please contact Mr. Donovan at the
high school during working hours.
The Hemphill Public Library
has a number of new books
which the staff feels will be of
interest to their patrons. Board
member Judy Renick has com-
piled a partial list of the new
volumes, with brief comments
about them.
This week The Canadian Re-
cord offers this information
about new fiction on the Library
shelves. Next week's newspaper
will have information about new
non-fiction volumes.
The Aviator by Ernst K. Gann
is written about the pioneering
year of 1928 in the air-mail
service, by the author of The
High and the Mighty and Fate Is
the Hnnter.
High and Outside by Linnea
A. Due, concerns the very
serious problem of teenage al-
coholism.
The Fifth Horseman is by
Larry Collins and Dominique
Lapierre, who also wrote Is
Paris Burning? In this fictional
account New York is held host-
age in the ultimate terrorist
threat, the use of nuclear wea-
pons.
Floater by Calvin Trillin Mrs.
Renick terms the "funniest book
in a long, long time". The main
character is a floater who works
for a weekly news-magazine like
Time and just floats from one
department to another. Trillin
also wrote Alice, Let's Eat.
about great eating places all
over the U.S., from barbecue to
gourmet.
Wings of Victory by Richard
Hough is an exciting novel of
RAF fighter pilots in the final
years of World War II,
Partners, by William Har-
rington, Mrs. Renick terms a
"really compelling" story of
three modern women caught up
in a murder trial. One female
lawyer accused of murder, ano-
ther defending her in front of a
female judge. "Not really wo-
men's lib, just good."
Follow the Leader by John
Logue is a thriller about the
young leaders of the first two
rounds of the 76th U.S. Open at
Atlanta who are missing and
found dead.
A new Helen Maclnnes ad-
venture, The Hidden Target
concerns a young girl who
thinks she i.« on a European tour
with like-minded young people,
but discovers she is hooked up
with well-trained terrorists. As
in all Maclnnes books there is a
little romance.
Private Sector by Jeff Miller
is a "very exciting" book about
John Harland, a top investiga-
tive reporter for The New York
Times, and his girl friend, a
reporter for CBS news. This
fast-paced book is set in Hous-
ton.
Irving Wallace's The First
Lady poses the question, "Is the
real First Lady by the side of her
husband, the President, or is it a
ringer agent of the Soviets?
Another epic by James A.
Michener is The Covenant
which this time takes up the
settlement of South Africa.
YSSSA
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Jocelyn Davey; T¡t
Walker by Dorothy J
thor of Mn,
and The Old Dlt|
Richard Lockridge,
The sleuth in
by Lillian 0'Don«n
American woman. 1
jacket of the MiciA^
ry says the youuji
"humorous enough
and desperate eoti
anxious for." Mrs.fo
this one "Very Goof
The authors of g
Vanishes, JacquetuJ
are French and hut]
a very nice mystaJ
Strasbourg. I
Murder In the Wm
a first mystery bjf
Truman, daughter iL
Truman. An eictllal
dunit", Mrs. RenidJ
Next week comma
non-fiction volumes i
here.
Joe Barnd
head St. \\
Bike-A-1
Joe Barnett has
by St. Jude's
search Hospital to hea¿l
Spring Bike-A-Thon'
in Canadian.
Clifford Damstron.
Director for the Sorii
gion. said in makisj
nouncement, "Wettj
find such a dedicated¡1
this important job.'
St. Jude Children's!
Hospital is the largest
cancer research ceo®
United States, and its
research center deW
clusively to the rfiS
conquest of causing
eases of children, sud'
other life-desflfl
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"Scientists and flj
working side by sidet
have succeeded to'
medical textbooks.
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1962. the survival!
children diagnosed
lymphocvctic leukem
than 5%. Today. ®
free survival figure W
in long-term ten*
grown to 50%-
ment procedures tw
at St. Jude are no*
to treat children thWJ
United States and in
of the world. Such p
brought world-wide
St. Jude."
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981, newspaper, February 12, 1981; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184209/m1/6/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Hemphill+County%22: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.