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Library Acton library was years old July the dale or its opening to the public in the hall lo the right of Council Chimbers and within sniffing distance of the cells where lawbreakers were accommodated overnight During the Depression transients were permitted lodge in the ceils an arrange mint that sometimes discomfited old time librarians who had to pass through the little corridor in order reach the telephone According lo the Acton Free Press July 1898 The library is evidently filling a A number of books been read and exchanged and kind have been made relative the character of the books and heir interesting contents Laird is proving herself well qualified In every respect for the position and the patrons gentrally ap preciate her prompt and obliging service Over members enrolled that first week Eighty years later the membership ex ieeds5000 although not all of this total are active patrons If the shades of Actons first library members happen to be lurking around the year old centennial building on Street they will be double taking every Inch of especially when they peer into the junior depart It a space age theme Close Encounters Of the Kind Planets and produced by the skilled hands of junior librarian Margaret arc In orbit over the heads of kid readers including those enrolled in the summer spaceage reading club Back in citizens had lo be 14 lo join the library Whether the vanguard library board mistrusted youngsters is not recorded Even gifted with farsight ihcy could not have drastic changes in library rules and service Nor in their wildest flights of fancy would the original board members have pre dicted the sweeping changes in moral and literary stand ards It amuses this staffer sometimes to picture the reaction of village to certain novels on our shelves Certainly If they had been available SO years ago the books of and John for example would have been flung on the nearest bonfire especially lit for the occasion Not that Harold Rabbins athletic heroes and heroines would be too much of a loss in this reader humble opinion Even librarians have lo admit that a lot or garbage is being written published sold and rend the latter two operations thanks to costly promotional campaigns Therefore it gives library staffers a thrill of honest pleasure to be able lo recommend books like Hungry As the Sea by top- ranking story teller Wilbur Smith Hungry as the Sea Is action packed thriller about a deposed captain or a salvage tug who rescued a cruise liner in some of Ihe most terrifying weather on this planet Whether writing about Africa favourite locale or the Antarctic Smith never misses Start one of his novels and chances are you will not put it down until the end One litcrar critic Wilbur Smiths scenes as something bet ween Maclean Nicholas Olher Smith novels in the library are Cry Tiger The Dark Of The Sun Gold Mine and A Sparrow halls Another prolific favourite with local readers is Catherine whose latest novel about socalled born loser portrays a man in search or hlmseir The Cinder Path begins in Edwardian rural Nor Ihumberiand and carries the reader into the holocaust of Ihc Western Front in the first World War Cinder Path is well up to Cookson exacting standards of reilism and drama Miry of Where the Children fame has written mother shocker Stringer is Watching teed be read at one sitting A different type of thriller is Josephine Bell Sueh a Nice Client Edmund Crispin in the Sunday times has this to say about her writing Miss Bell s cool clinical style is a delight Physiotherapist Lucy Summers on her first visit to year old Mr Lawrence spotted the old man in his wheel chair in the garden trying to filch crusts off the bird table Wis he senile or w is he being starved lo death by his daughter in law Before she found answers lo these and other questions I had several frustrating encounters with a social worker the worst kind of blinkered dogooder Without eel crating ones flow of Such a Nice Client is a rend Olher Bell books on hand ire The Death of A Con Man Jacobean No Escape Over The Seas The Witch and Victim Jacobean Adventure and fhe The Acton Free Press Wednesday July 12 1978 B7 Many people are married lo people who have been married to other people who are now married to still others to whom the first parties may not have been married but to whom some body has likely been married How that for a sentence It a quotation from article Omni gamy The New Kinship System in the July issue of Psychology Today Author Lionel Tiger claims that our society Has shifted towards i pattern of serial polygamy In which people experience more than one spouse if only one at a time Tiger suggests Ommgomy as the name of a new and imprecise system in which each will be married to ail July articles in this magazine J re Science- Fiction Fanlasy and the Brain Slopping Up The Search tor Early Man Origins Of Mind The Not Quite Stepmother and Why Some People Seek Revenge Against Doctors Library nature notes a library duck who nested somewhere along the school creek hatched three babies and after a week or so Mom convoyed her family down creek to Fairy Lake Before she departed to the Big Water Ma Mallard caused ulceration amongst the staff by taking her little brood on foot across busy No 7 high way On at least two she stopped traffic on both sides while watching library patrons held their breath and prayed One afternoon staff bird watcher a frantic squawk Dashing outside in sock feet she saw Mom being pursued by joyous black dog galloping not swimming after her in Ihe shallow creek As narrowly escaped pooch Jaws the bird watcher also began to gallop and shout rude commands whichthedog understood He loped out of the water was grabbed by his collar and trotted home Just one hitch his master was not within In desperation bird watcher hauled him back across Ihe road to the office of veterinarian It G Trenton whose staff provided afternoon lodging until duckchasing canine was unitcdwithhismastcr 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