The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Tliurtdv. January 3, IMS THE McHENRY PLAWDKALER McHenry Library Comer Main and Oreeo Streets HOURS Datlyfindttdlng Saturday: ' 2 to 5 p.m. Friday Evenings: 7 to 9* pjn. NEW AUILT BOOKS "PROMISES TO KEEP", by Agnes W. Dooley. This account of the life of Doctor Tom Dooley has been written by his mother, Mrs. Agnes Dooley. It is the story of a man whose background was typically American, but whose development, life work and final destiny were anything but typical. The text and pictures cover young Tom Dooley's growing up in St. Louis, his education in local schools, including St. Louis University high school, his first year at Notre Dame, "boot" training in the Navy, transfer to the Marines, return to college, study at the Sorbonne, entrance into St. Louis university school of medicine, and commissioning as a U. S. Navy officer. The steps, some of them accidental, by which the young unknown Navy doctor was at this point catapulted into national prominence are recounted by Mrs. Dooley. It happened in 1954, when Lieutenant (junior grade) Dooley found himself ordered to Haiphong with a few Nave corpsmen to give medical aid to the hundreds of thousands cf refugees who took the "Passage to Freedom" out of northern Viet Nam. Dr. Dooltv's subsequent role as "Thanh Mo America"^working among the people of Laos, his phenomenal expeditions raising money and medicine throughout the country, his many lectures and broadcasts, the preparation of his three books, his fatal illness and tragic end are related by his mother who, after all, was the person who knew him best. ' Iny his thirty-four years," CardinM Spellman said at the time of his death, "Doctor Dooley has done what very few have done in tire allotted Scriptural lifetime." "Promises to Keep" is a permanent record of the maginificent legacy of idealism which Dr. Dooley has bequeathed to the young people of America. "AGAINST THE AMERICAN GRAIN-' essays on the effects of mass culture, by Dwight Macdonaid Dwight Macdonaid focuses on the American pursuit of 'culture and its ambiguous results. The usual approach to mass culture had been sociological; Mr. Macdonaid turns to the subject as a man of letters. "I am concern*! not ao much with the dead sea cf mass cult," he writes, "as with the life of the tide line where the decisive struggles for survival take place between higher and lower organisms." In trying to level down the best, Mr. Macdonaid argues, our democratic society has usually succeeded in leveling up the worst, so that high and low culture merge in a swampy middleground where second-rate Writers are acclaimed as geniusei? first-rate writers retreat into private worlds, and the. language itself begins to decompose. " A g a i n s t t h e A m e r i c a n Grain" ranges over many topics: the new versions of the Bible; the careers of such her roes (and victims) of modern culture as Mark Twain, Jam^s Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and James Agee; the national obsession with facts and with how-to-do-it books; the fifty volumes of "Gxeat Books of the Western World"; the new unabridged dictionary; the superiority of English "amateur journalism" to our own professionalized and compartment talized kind; the sudden inflation and subsequent deflation of such highbrow best sellers as "By Love Possessed" and "The Outsider"; and the decline of the English laguage. It is a conservative and in some ways a reactionary book whose thesis may be summed up in its author's words: "A people which loses contact with its past becomes culturally psychotic." It brings together tht major essays that Dwight Macdonaid had written ov^r the past ten years. "YET SHE MUST DIE", by Hugh McCutcheon. John Meredith wanted to eat his cake and have it too. He arranged to have his wealthy wife murdered so that he could marry his beautiful French mktrait and retain control of his wife's money. But that was before the mistress decided she preferred to marry another man and before Meredith, attacked^and robbed in Tangier's Kasb&h, lay foi days in a ccma, helpless to lirevent the murder, that he no longer wanted. "THE UNQUIET SLEEP", by William Haggard. William Haggard's talent for writing about the ethical and sometimes criminal lapses of a few members of the higher echelons of business and the Establishment is never better displayed than in this suspensefilled novel of international smuggling and narcotics. Actually the product in question was not considered a narcotic. Its respectable manufacturer called it "Mecron", and the less reverent referred to it as the "Executive's Friend." You took the tranquilizer, lgy down for an hour and got up ready to make a fi-es-h start on an evening of fun or work. But one day a research chemist found hf had made a demented addict of a monkey with these pills, and other strange reports began to filter into London's Security Executive about this supposedly harmless tranquilizer. Discreet investigation uncovered highly placed connections with the matter. A fascinating puzzle is skillfully revealed and solved here by an expert in this sort of i>e- Hind-the scene machinations where the acquisition and retention ot power leads to desperate measures. The states of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming cover 7 times the area of New England, but have fewer people than New York City. Advertise - It Pays! WCRE NOT KIDDING -- WE WANT TO CLEAR THIS MERCHANDISE IT WOULD BE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO HELP US OUT!!! 20V40%-60% DISCOUNTS SOME ITEMS WILL ACTUALLY BE SOLD AT DEALERS COST!!! (All appliances will still carry our same Excellent Guarantee) • TOP QUALITY FURNITURE • R.C.A. COLOR T.V. • R.C.A. STEREO • RECORDS • R.C.A. WHIRLPOOL REFRIGERATORS • R.C.A. WHIRLPOOL WASHERS & DRYERS 1 • R.C.A. WHIRLPOOL RANGES • R.C.A. BLACK & WHITE T.V. V A FEW EXAMPLES... Finest Nylon Fabrics -- All with Zip Out Cushions Values to $359.06 3 and 4 PIECE" SECTIONAL SOFAS FronT$210.00 Finest Upholstered Values to $289.00 SOFAS and MATCHING CHAIR SETS From $149.00 r Walnut -- Mahogany -- Blonde A END and COCKTAIL TABLES, All Shapes and Sizes From $5.95 ea. Chest Dresser -- Mirror -- Bookcase Bed Values to $229.00 4 PIECE BEDROOM SUITES From $109.00 Upholstered - Chase SWIVEL ROCKERS From $58.00 YOUR WFFIf I V WW Wm WkM MM, mm I VISITOR A bright, interesting, informative visitor arrives in over 5,100 McHenry area homes each week He presents necessary news and information which allows residents to become knowledgeable, participating citizens, as well as providing countless values to help save important family dollars. If you have forgotten to guarantee his regular presence in your home for the next full year, be sure to fill out-the following coupon . . . your whole family Nwill ihank you for it. ORDER BLANK Enclosed find my check for $4.00 for 1 year's subscription to the McHenry Plaindealer Name Street City .. State *** " fc* < . ' & . ' y &****. y:- t» » «. $#£**** , ** ' W saw***. * ..w» * -v «.->* • • sv-.svi.v " , ixl srs> ^ . *» -" 'T if.-- •»"is Decorator --- Upholstered Values to $249.00 SOFAS From $150.00 1 FREE L.P. RECORD AND BRASS RECORD RACK W PURCHASE OF ANYUPHOLSTERED FURNITURE OR MAJOR APPLIANCE MUST GO! W h i r l p o o l A p p l i a n c e s M U S T G O ! WASHERS -- DRYERS -- REFRIGERATORS -- RANGES -- DISH WASHERS -- DE-HUMIDIFIERS All Priced Slightly Above Dealers Cost!! \J (Most are 1963 Models) Our Inventory on these Items Must be Reduced to Almost Nothing; to make Room for More TelevWo® Mfl Furniture. LARGE SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM -- WE DEFY YOU TO BEAT OUR PRICES -- COLOR TV. SALES and SERVICE our SPECIALTY -- MANY TO CHOOSE FROM -- "HERE IS AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE" R.C.A. Victor Danish Modern Oiled Walnut Lowboy Console, $ Firmest Cabinet Made,* 2 Speakers, Reg. List $850 Only 580 w/tJ Our Overall Knowledge of Color T. V. 1h the BaeJtbone of Our Business. Other RCA Black and White Specials Hard Rock Maple Karly American Extra Special -- List $i50,60 3 Way Combination AM - FM Radio -- 23" T.V. -- 8 Speaker Stereo $525.00 w/i„. Oiled Walnut -- Danish Modern 3 Way Combination AM - FM Radio -- 23" T.V. -- 6 Speaker Stereo .. Walnut or Mahogany 3 Way Combination AM - FM Radio -- 23" T.V. -- 6 Speaker Stereo .. Walnut Console ' 23" T.V -- MANY OTHERS -- List $750.00 $569.00 w7t List $64^.00 $479.00 vr/t List $319.00 $229.95 w/i f RCA STEREO BARGAINS Antiqued Wa'nut --- French Provincial --- R.C.A.'s Finest AM - Stereo FM -- 6 Speaker Stereo Con solo Oiled Walnut AM - FM Danish Modern 4 Speaker Stereo Console Hard Rock Maple Karly American AM - FM Stereo -- 4 Giant Speaker Ster eo Console Reg. $499.00 Only $359.00 Reg. $259.00 Only $189.00 Reg. S42&Q0 Only $298.00 PRICES ALSO SLASHED ON PORTABLE STEREO YOUR McHENRY PLAINDEALER EASY TERMS - NO $ $ $ DOWN 24 MONTHS TO l'AY -- NO PAYMENTS TILL SPRlMi OPEN EVERY EVENING TILL 9 P.M. FLOORS OF HOML FURNISHINGS" COUNTY TV FURNITURE, & APPLIANCE, CENTER 3312 W. ELM ST. 385-0170 IN T^IE HEART OF McHENRY ON7RT. 120 3413 W. Rl. 120 (Elm St.) For Prompt. Expert Service On All Makes And Models Of TA-, lLulia, Plu>no.._ 385-4020 LOOK FOR THE FLASHLNO LIGHTS" McHewry* BJinws