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Evening star., 1960-01-17
THE PASSING SHOW
Chekhov Pictures
A Society Adrift

Of these. Neither, let it be
said, did Konstantin Stani-
slavsky and his Moscow Art
Theater players who con-
cieved Of THE Cherry Or
chard" as pure tragedy while
Chekhov was insisting its
mood was comedy.
Performances Striking
Neverth h e less. from the
amplitude Of the play, Arenas
production extracts one Of
the seasons richest evenings
Of theater. Among its ele-
ments are a number Of no.
tably striking performances.
1t is a pleasure to note, for
instance, the return of Doro-
thea Hammond as Arenas
Nine. Ranevskaya. Madame
is a feather-brain, a fading
beauty concerned with pre-
serving her physical self at
the price Of letting the fam
lily estate 60 to the auction
block, and to the son of her
one time serf, Lopahin.
Because Chekhov refuses to
take sides, Philip Bosco is
permitted to make as warm
a figure Of the latter as Mrs.
Hammond is to make a
pathetically giddy aristocrat
Of Madame. His Lopahin
wants no harm to come to
his former masters family.
He undertakes rather to
awaken it out Of q dream that
paradise is self-preserving,
that social and economic or
derS are beyond change.
Trofimoff in Scale
1t is an altogether agree
ably modulated performance,
as is that of Michael Upton
as Trofimoff, the student
prophet Of Russia's tomor.
row. In post-revolution Rus
sia this apostle Of a new day
Is the principal character in
productions of THE Cherry
Orchard" In Arenas, he is
kept adroitly in scale as
Chekhov pictured him, the
youthful visionary who sees
his elders and their values
as obsolete.
There are some corking
Chekhov portraits among the
lesser Cherry Orchard"
characters. AS the knowing,
tight Tipped, unreconciled
adopted Ranevsky daughter,
Gwyda Donhowe, gives the
best Of her Arena perform
ances. Alan Oppenheimer is
another standout as the up
start butler, Yasha, whose
whitening estimate of his
homeland as a rustic ruin
makes him long to return to
Paris. 1t is a matter of in
difference to Yasha that the
Ranevsky return to France
will be on the level Of bank
ruptcy.
Robert Prosky, another
Arena regular, is a true
Chekhovian as Pishtchik, the
bibulous, bumbling neighbor-
ing landowner Of the Ranev-
skys, and Norman Barrs, a
newcomer, is a properly pal
lid male remnant of the
aristocracy sharing the Ra-
nevsky fate.
AS Chekhov's fascinating
creatures, they will be at
tractive performers to have
around for another three
weeks.
Evening star., 1960-01-17
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

1t was thoughtful and con-
siderate of Anton Chekhov to
have written THE Cherry
Orchard" back there in 1904
in such a way that it would
be timely in 1860.
Also, it is praiseworthy Of
Arena Stage to have produced
Chekhov's greatest play as its
midseason offering, and to
have done so with its usual
excellence.
It was a far different world
of which Chekhov wrote his
immortal play, a half-amused,
half-sad twilight song for a
way of life. Nevertheless, 1t
was with the perception of
genius that he knew some
thing that would keep his
play always timely. namely
that if social systems disap-
peared and classes with them,
the nature of humans re-
manned only too constant.
A Withering Whittier
The pathetic Ranevskayas,
or Ranevskys, Of whom he
wrote were humans drifting
toward doom. 1t requires no
labore1 effort Of the imagina-
ton to relate their plight to
the one that humanity fears
today. Indeed as compared
with today's unanswered, II
not unanswerable, questions,
those of the Ranevskys were
relatively uncomplex.
What the Ranevskys did
not know was their next ad-
dress when and if their
beautiful cherry orchard
were to be sold for debt.
What today's heavily mort
gagged, heavily taxed citizen
fretS about is whether he
will linger around in need
of an address.
The Cherry Orchard" is a
play of multiple beguilementS
for the theatergoer. It's mood
could not be gentler in its
wisdom, its humor and it's
compassion. Chekhov could
be equally amused by and
feel pity for the brittly bred,
ariStocratic Ranevskys who
had only the vaguest COM
prehension of what was
happening to them. That
they could only wait help
lessly for doom filled him
with no intolerance, nor did
it make him a disciple of
change.
Playwright RecOnciIed
He wrote as one reconciled
to the rise Of the peasant
class, represented by the
dynamic Lopahin who could
have bailed out the RanSv-
skys, and would have done
so had they not forced him
to buy them out instead.
In presenting "The Cherry
Orchard" in such an absorb
ing production, Arenas COM
pany passes another one of
the most exacting tests. No
play is more deceptively
simple on the surface, none
more subtle in its values,
more meaningfully vague in
its portraiture, or delicately
pointed in its relationships.
Director Alan Schneider
and his sensitively respon-
sive acting company have not
captured the essence Of all
Evening star., 1960-01-17
SCREEN

ANIBASSADOR-"The Purple Gang" Barry Sullivan Rob-
ert Blake starts January 81.
CAPITOL-"Story On Page One; Rita Hayworth, Gig
Young, Anthony Franciosa.
MacARTHUR-"The Bridal Path; Bill Travers; starts
Thursday -~'-
METROPOLITAN-"The Purple Gang; Barry Sullivan,
Robert Blake: starts January 27.
ONTARIO-Bolsho "Eugen Onegin"; starts Thursday.
PALACE-"The Gazebo'; Glenn Ford, Debbe Reynolds
PLAZA-"Heroes and Sinners; Curt Jurgens.
TOWN-'A Woman Like Satan; Brigitte Bardot.
TRANS-LUX-"Suddeny Last Summer; Elizabeth Taylor,
Katharine Hepburn; starts Wednesday,
Evening star., 1960-01-17
BROADWAY
Harry BeIofonte Seeks
The Delicious 'Chore

tended through the end Of
April.
With an annual income of
an estimated S750,000, he
stands at the top of his pro-
fession, but he regards such
fortune as a means of doing
things tomorrow rather than
an end to immediate graft
f1cation.
New Levels" Sought
mo speedboats or any
thing like that for me" says
Harry. I'm not going to
surrender the intensiveness
Of artistic endeavor."
Looking for new levels of
expression" he has freed
himself of long-term COM
mitments, put the brakes ON
moviemaking until he can
find precisely what he wants.
This attitude developed
when I came back from a
tour of Europe last fall" he
notes. "At this point I don't
want to do anything that is
not of a certain artistic salts
faction, the really delicious
to do.
Il think every artist goes
through a period of appren-
ticeship, until he comes to a
level of maturity which places
a responsibility upon him.
That is how I look at those
10 years, as that apprentice
ship phase. Along the way
there were certain landmarks
as we'll as Illustrations.
1--WE played where Negroes
had never been. did things
Evening star., 1960-01-17
TODAY'S SCHEDULES
STAGE

ARENA STAGE-"Three Men a Horse; free-wheeling
farce played with spirit: 1870 pm
NATIONAL-Dark. Mary Stuart" opens tomorrow
Evening star., 1960-01-17
STAGE: A ROYAL CONFLICT IS DRAMATIZED

CotswOrth, in the background, are Importantly
involved in the dark dOings of Friedrich Schil-
ler'S drama. 1t has been staged in this Phoenix
Theater production by Tyrone Guthrie, with
settings and lighting by Donald Oenslager.
Evening star., 1960-01-17
COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE

ARENA-"The Caine Mutny Court Martial; starts Feb
ruary 9.
NATIoNAL-"The Visit" with Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontaine.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26
KODIAK MIRROR

low tide. Crab such as dungenesS
can be picked up or dug out from
beneath 3he sand. Purple musselS
are obtainable. Cookies lie just
under the sand at low tide, butter
and little neck CLANS are somewhat
deeper, and the razor clam is larg-
est of all and lies deepest. Shrimp
may be taken in traps or by net
in tidal pools. The latter are taken
commercially in large quantities.
For the true sportsman who
hunts or fishes for his table, Kodi-
ab offers a combined means of
testing bis skill and providing
winter kong eating. AS sDnaeuaIe
said: ''The years lived in Kodiak
we're lihe being @n a gear-rauad
vmcati@m.'
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26

Kodiak as a SpOrtSman'S para.
disc, Is perhaps most famous for
it's bear. But for the sportsman
who does not limit his field of ac-
tivity to trophy hunting, there is
an almost unlimited field in which
to follow his favorite outdoor sport.
Bear are numerous, of course,
and make an enjoyable hunt. They
attain weights upward of 1000
pounds. The world record was kill
ed by a local resident in the Koai-
ak area With a hBrroWed rifle. Hutn-
tiers from adj over the @0r1 make
trips here annually 10 their quest
for bigger trophies.
But to the resistant hn@mtaf whw
is not interested in tr@ehy, hat
in meat that he can put ON the
table, Elk hurting that is better
than average anywhere in the U.
S. is his ON nearby Afognak IS
land. The Fish and Wildiife in
trodured these fine animals as an
experiment some years ago and
the herd has gr@wn to approximate
by seven hundred and fifty animals.
Sitkan deer are prevalent now,
also having been introduced by the
Fish and Wildlfe Service about
no years ago. These are small com
pared to the mule 6Ger halt make
excellent talhle fare. Goat and rein
deer are present on the Island but
are protected and cannot he hsnt-
ed at this tinae.
PtarmigaA, duck, geese and
otlasr wik6aaa are plentifal and
afford every type @ shooting for
the shotgun enthusiast. Trapping
for commercial purposes includes
otter, hRaver, muskrat, aaad fox.
Ra@bltS are generally r4e9MlfHl.
Salmea are plemtiful elass to
shore and in thu streams Salmon
are plentiful close to shore and in
the streams at certain seasons
Black sea bass are plentiful and
tasty. For the lake and stream
fishermen there are steelhead,
and at certain seasons
dolly warden trout. Many fisher
men find veritabe para
disc in a spruce pro e C t.
ed stream in the summertime.
Many lightrod man finds a true
in the steelhead which
may be found near the stream
mouth at certain seasons.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26
Fishing and Hunting UnequaIIed

In the waters off Kodiak are the
finest halibut banks in the world.
The halibut, big cousins of the
founder and the sole, attain
weights of several hundr d
pounds: They are fished both com
mercially and by sport fishermen.
An annual Halibut Derby is staged
by the Kodiak Outdoorsmen, To-
cal sportSman's club. Also in deep
6qater will be found Goldfish.
Prize among tho SslDHfish is
found the King crab, a giaut crust
ocean which may measure six feet
ilA spread ana obtain a Weight Of
thirty or m0re pounds. King crab
fram tbas area is supplisd to dis
corning gaMrmetS from San gran-
cisco to New York.
Other denizens of the deep in
clude seal, porpoise, sea lion, killer
whale and sperm whale.
There are many edible formas of
sea life which can be obtained at
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26
Highland Cattle
Best Says Breeder

Kodiak is slowly being recogniz-
ed as cattle country, though at
present the industry is in it's in
fancy.
A breeder of the Scotch High
land cattle, Robert C. Rodruck, of
the R. and F. Ranch at Chehalis,
Washington, is seeking to intro
duce his fine breed of purebred
Highland cattle, stating that they
are ideal for this country. Sum
mer or winter" he says, High
land cattle will thrive and prosper
where others less hardy and less
adapted breeds will fail. Western
Washington and Oregon, with
cold winter rains, is ideal for the
Highlander. They need no barns
or sheds to protect them from eli
matte conditions"
Highland cattle we're grazed be-
fore the Shorth0rn vas kHDwn,
and the Aberdeen-Angus unheard
of.
The hair of the Highlander is a
sort of coat and vest arrangement.
The undercoat is soft and very
thickly planted, the outer coat
is long, with a suggestion of gloss.
This arrangement provid Is the
utmost protection against cold,
SnoV, Sleet and rain.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26
Prospecting For Gold Yields Little
Coal; Timber, Other Resources Found

Scheele, Henry Nespeth, George
Cornelius and other associates
These applications are said to com
pletely cover the island west OF
Sitkinak lagoon.
By various land orders, the IS
land of Kodiak has been divided
into two areas of restricted min.
ing or oil leasing. In the area west
of a line from Viekoda Bay to
Kiliude Bay, Oil leasing is permit
ed with 20 mining; in the area
east of this line, mining is permit
ed and oil leasing prohibited Phe
area vest Of the Viekoda-Kiliuda
Boy is a Kodiak Bear refuge.
Timber Resources
The distributor of timber in the
Kodiak group of Islands is peculiar
in that the northern part of Kodiak
Island and all the islands north Of
it are we'll clothed with Sitl4a
Spruce trees up to about 1,00O feet
or less above sea level, whereas
south of Viekoda, Kizhuyak and
Chiniak Bay spruce is almost coAn-
pletely absent. Within a mile or
50 Of the edge of the spruce forest
fine trees 3 to 4 feet in diam@eter
are common. The absence of tim
Der in many areas where cag1di-
tions appear favorable for its
growth is an Inheritance from the
time when glaciers completely
erased plant life frem the region;
the re-establishment of the forest
is now underway but far from COM
pletion. The edge of the spruce
forest has invaded the untimbered
areas to percegtible degree and
is advancing at the rate of shout
l mile century.
Balsam poplar trees occur With
in the spruce forest and are found
farther south than spruce, being
present along the valley floors and
on alluvial slopes as far south as
Uyak and Alitak Bays. Poplar
trees reach a diameter of 3 feet
or more.
A through study of the timber
resources of the Kodiak group, is
in progress, but incomplete at
this time.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26

NEW YORK R = And, in Mech
anicville, New York, basketball is
going to be good, clean fun. A
bar of soap was the price of adj
mission tonight to see preseason
scrimmages between Mechanicville
high school basketball players. The
coach explained the players need
the soap for Their showers.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-26
By Jim Williams

Department of National Resources
State of Alaska
There are no productive mines
on Kodiak Island. For many years
certain beaches on the western
and southwestern coasts of Kodiak
Island have been worked inter.
mittently for placer gold, with
which was recovered O small pro-
portion Of metals of the platinum
group. No records exist to base a
reliable estimate Of the total pro
ducti0n from the Kodiak beaches,
but from available information it
appears that total Of $3.50, 900 has
been produced.
ALI the beach placerS occur at
localities where Stormwaves have
attacked extensive deposits of I'M
consolidated glacial till and out
wash gravels; the gold deposits
are believed to be the result of
concentration by the waves of
large quantities of uncoasolidated
material whose gold content was
small. The beaches that have yield
ed practically all the gold that has
been recovered 50 far are known
locally as the Red River Beach on
southwest Kodiak Island; Seven
mile Beach, just west of the mouth
of Uyak Bay; Miners Point Beach,
at the south entrance of Uganik
Bay; Uganik Beach, on the north
west end of Uganik Island; and
Raspberry Beach, on weston Rasp-
berry Island. In all these places
some respecting has been done to
determine whether or not the
bluffs back of the beaches con-
tain sufficient gold to justify min
ing, but so far no paying ground
has been found.
Prospecting for gold lodes has
been carried on internationally for
the last 60 years or more, some
development has been done at
many places, and at a few locali-
ties mining has been carried on to
some extent. The fact that most
of the attempts to develop gold
lode mines in this region have been
unsuccessful should not be taken
to prove that workable gold lodes
do not exist here. In general, it
may be said that the gold bearing
veins of this region are similar in
type to veins found in many parts
of the world that are related in
origin to granite intrusive rocks;
there seems reason TO believe that
this genetic relationship holds for
the Kodiak group of islands. AS far
as can be learned, all the gold
lodes of this region occur within
a few miles of a granite intrusive
mass, or of dikeS that are off
shoots from such a mass.
Gold lodes have been prospected
in Uyak Bay, Afognak, Uganik,
Viekoda Bay, Terror Bay, Dry
Spruce Island, Whale Island, Wo-
mems Bay, and Kizhuyak Lode ON
Larson Island near the village of
Old Harbor on Darling Bay. The
lode veins prospected contained
quartz, arsenopyrite, pyrite,
sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and ga
Iona. as we'll as varying amounts
Of gold and silver.
COAL
Coal deposits on Sitkinak Island,
tan miles south Of the southern
most tip of Kodiak Island, have
been known since before the turn
of the century. The deposits have
not been explored or their extent
determined. Samples from the coal
beds show the coal to be sub
hituminouS and preliminary ex-
animation of the deposit by Di-
vision of Mines and Minerals en-
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
Income Tax In Iceland May Be Dropped Because Of Widespread Evasion

REYKJAVIK, Iceland = Ice land seems to be on the point of abolishing income tax.
 The chief reasons are the wide spread evasion going on, and the high cost of collecting the money. The tax also causes social injus- tices, since some classes are better able than others to escape it.
 The earning capacity of the av- craze worker in Iceland, with some overtime, is about 5000 kronur (about $4,80O) a year.
 Of this sum, he must pay about one-fourth in tax to state and town. When the income received is 120,000 kronur the tax becomes one-third At the 15O,O0O-kronur mark it is nearly a half. Beyond that, state and town between them take nearly every kronur of ad- ditional income.
 The result of this steeply rising scale is that some men, given an increase, try to persuade their employers to conceal it. Others stop working after their income reaches a certain point, contend ing that the extra money is not worth having.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
l,225,OOO Acres No Longer Needed Relased by BIA

ANCHORAGE, R-The release of 1,225,000 acres of presently withdrawn land has been recom- mended by the Alaska Office of Bureau of Indian Affairs, James E. Hawkins, area director of the bureau announced.
 The land consists primarily of withdrawals which have been made in the past for Indian Ser vice schools and reindeer stations and range in size from a one-acre school reserve on the Shelikof Re- serve at Kanatak on the Shelikof Straits to the 1,205,000 acre rein deer reserve on St. Lawrence Is- land Hawkins said.
 These reserves are no longer needed for the purpose for which they were withdrawn, he added. The reindeer on St. Lawrence Is- land died and there is no longer school at Kanatak.
 The Bureau is continuing to examine withdrawals and will re- lease any that are no longer needed, Hawkins commented.
 At present BIA has about 4,OO0,- 900 acres withdrawn, in school withdrawals, native reserves and reindeer reserves, most of it in reserves for specific native groups. These must receive ap- proval of the natives before they are released.
 Hawkins expects the land no longer needed will be returned to the public domain before the year is out.
 The withdrawals range in age from 50 years old
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
SPIRITUAL
 TRUTHS FROM THE NEWS
Contributed By NOME GOSPEL HOME

WASHINGTON - More than 10000 complaints were received by the Post Office Department in 1859, protesting against obscenity in the mails. The government has studied this increasing crime, and ordered an all-out search for the merchants of the indecent pie lures and literature. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield has ordered posters to be distributed to every area of the country, warning about the mail-order merchants of filth, and asking the public to cooperate and send ad- dresses of any they may obtain.
 Not only the U. S., but every nation should know that when God and his Word is honored, that nation will be blessed, but when indecency takes the reins, then comes the downfall. My son hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own under standing. In all thy ways ack- nowledge Him, and He shall di- rect thy paths." Proverbs 1:8,10; 3:5, 6)
 Paid AdU.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
House Tables Adoption And Civil Rights Bills

JUNEAU, R-Measures on civil righ5s and child adoptions, both backed by Rep. Blanche McSmith of Anchorage, were tabled in the Alaska House of Representatives yesterday.
 Mrs. McSmith said she would seek today to revive the bill which would give the State Divi- sion of Child Services a stronger hand in adoptions. Such a move would require a majority vote.
 Chairman John Hellenthal of the House Judicary Committee, which recommended Al against the bill, said it gives "too much power over adoptions to the Vel fare Department"
 Hellenthal said the present ad- option law is good one and passage of the bill would make it "easier for the Department of Health and Welfare to get hold of more and more kids and make more and more placements"
 The civil rights bill was a Judi ciary Committee substitute for a bill originally proposed by Mrs. McSmith, the only Negro mem Der of the Legislature.
 The motion to table the bill was 23-14. Again, a majority vote could take the measure off the table for further consideration.
 The bill would have broadened Alaska's civil rights laws to pro- hibit discrimination in housing and public accommodations.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
Jonathan Moto Serving With Cavalry in Korea

FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, Korea, (AHTNC) - Pfc. Jonathan Moto, son of Taylor s. Moto Sr., Nome, recently participated with other personnel from the 1st Divi- sion's 5th Cavalry in an annual Army training test in Korea.
 The test, conducted under real istic combat conditions, was de- signed to determine the combat readiness of units of the 1st Cav airy Division, the only U. s. divi- sion presently manning a front line against an armed and ready aggressor in Korea.
 Moto, radio operator in Headquarters Company of the Cavalry, entered the Army in January, 1858, and arrived over seas last July.
 The 19-year-old soldier attended Nome High School.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18

Publish March 16, Is, 21.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
Dan Jones Succeeds Jenks at Fairbanks Office of ELM.

FAIRBANKS - Resignation of Robert L. Jenks, Manager of the Fairbanks Land Office, was an- nounced today by Robert A, Smith, Acting Operations Super visor. The resignation is effec- tive today.
 Chosen to fill the vacancy is Daniel A. Jones, who is presently supervisor of the Records Im- provement Project of the Bureau of Land Management in Fair banks. Jones was born and raised in Nome, and is a graduate of the University of Alaska. He was ac- tive as a mining engineer for many years before joining the Bureau of Land Management in 1855. Prior to his coming to Alas | ka, in August, 1859, he was with the Minerals Staff of the Bureau of Land Management in Wash ington, D. c. He is married and has three children.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
Alaska House Would Ease Restraints on Sales Tax

JUNEAU, tR = Bills easing re- strictions on local sales tax cleo tions were approved by the Alas ka House "Wednesday.
 Present law prohibits cities and school districts from holding more than one such election within 12 months.
 The two bills approved would eliminate this restriction, except as it applies to tax elections for the same purpose. That is, addi- tional elections could be held any time to change use of sales taxes already on the books.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-18
BOY SCOUTS TO MAKE COAT RACK FOR HOSPITAL

Boy Scout Troop 666 has new civic project, it has been announ- ced by Scribe Ricky Young. The troop will make coat rack for the waiting room of the MMM Hospital.
 The troop learned about inven- tory when Committeeman Bill Hoogendorn, working with Quar- termaster Fred Chunn, made a list of what belonged to the troop at the Scout Hall