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Fiction: Airport, current best-seller by Arthur Hailey, author oi “Hotel". Lie Down in Darkness, acclaimed as one of the great American novels written since World War II, by William Styron author of another best seller and Pulitzer Prize winner, “The Confessions of Nat Turner."

A selection of novels b> Pearl Buck, A. J. Cronin, Nevil Shute, Theodore Dreiser Samuel Shellabarger and others have been added tc other works of these authors.

Non-Fiction: American Copper and Brass by Henry J. Kauffman whom we enjoyed as speaker at the Historical Society in May. Between Parent and Child by Dr. Haim G. Ginott, known to many by his appearances on nation-wide television as authority on child psychology and parent guidance. The Big Spenders by the noted journalist Lucius Beebe, an historical account of •the ways of life of our American families of great wealth, also a national best-seller. Children on vacation are especially urged to come to the Library and enjoy the fine selection of children's books. Hours: Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday from 10 to Noon.

Look but Don’t Touch

Young Wildlife

Wildlife babies are best left in the woods where they are well equipped to survive, advises the Virginia Game Com mission. In spring and early summer, young wild animals begin to appear in profusion in accordance with nature's plan. These youngsters, not so wise as their parents, are much more prone to come into contact with man. Their lack of fear and seeming helplessness tempts humans to adopt them as family pets, but most persons are not properly trained or equipped for a role as a foster parent for a wild animal.

Once removed from their native element and subjected to captive conditions, most wild animals can never return to nature. They require special ized quarters and diets, they are nervous and usually become mean before reaching adulthood so they don’t make good pets. Most die early in their captivity because of improper care. Those that survive and are later released usually run afoul of humans, dogs, cats or wild predators and, lacking their natural fear are soon dispatched. Although young wild animals often appear to be abandoned, the wild mother is usually hid ing nearby too timid to approach humans to defend her young. Sometimes even handling the young will so contaminate them with human scent that the mother will abandon them. Capturing and holding a wild animal in captivity is a crime of the same magnitude as kill ing it, in the face of the law. Game wardens are empowered to confiscate such

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