davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
Sterling Hwy.
 safsic Jumps

Traffic passing over the Alaska
 Division of Highways check point 8n the Sterling highway a half-
 mile east ef soldotHa showed ? percent rise for the month of Oe- tebef as compared with the same month in 1860. These statistics were included in the latest re- lease issued by Fl. II. Pentecost, the Divisions planning director.
 Increases were recorded for the period at foul. out of seven high way system check points. They included f4 percent increase on Glacier Highway. a mile north of Juneau city 1inlits;= to percent on PalmerzWasilla highway about I mile out of Palmer city limits, and 5 percent on Anchorage Seward highway south of North efn Lights boulevard, as well as the gain Heeofded at the local check point.
 Drops III traffic were registered at three other check points. Traf- fife fell off T percent on Richard son highway at Gulkana Airfield Access road; 3 percent on Glenn three miles south of Eagle River road, and II percent on Fairbanks-Nenana highway.
 In comparison with the preced- ing months traffic figures, the regular seasonal decreases were noted at all check points. The Sterling highway traffic dropped 9 percent from that recorded in The largest drop, 50 percent, was listed for the Rich- ardson Highway and the smallest decrease for the month was ' per cent on the Anchorage Seward
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
CAP Cadet Corps Seeking Recruits

Civil Air Patrol cadets are now receiving basic drill instruction from Army officers at Wildwood Station, according to Mrs. Glenn kipp, cadet eommandant. Ten additional girls are needed in the cadet corps, Mrs. Kipp said. Applicants must be between the ages of Il and 21 years or they may be accepted at 13 years of age if they are in high school
 The drill team is being built up with the idea of entering ill state and ntaional competition and with possible entry in var ious exchange programs.
 The CAP cadet corps meets reg ularly on Tuesday nights at 7:30 in the CAP quonset hut at kenai.
 --.----
 Send the Cheechako News for Cb,.;es+..,,-
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
CHURCH NOTICES

CATHOLIC CHURCH SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULES; Kenai. 9 am. at Our Lady of the An gels Church: Soldotna, II am., a- Village Shopping Center; Wildwood, 1 p.m., at Wildwood Chapel. 54-be
 
 TIE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS meets at soldotna Community Center Services sunday at 1900 pm. Everyone invited. 46zbe
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
Letter to the Editor:
November ist6l

Loren Stewart. Editor Ihe Cheechako News Dear Loren:
 I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to you Haf donating space in your paper to advertising The Float the Boat benefit dinner for Bill and Edith Seely and the MeGahanS. l would also like to convey my thanks to each and everyone who donated food, material. tine. af= folt and money that helped make this dinner a success.
 Special thanks must go also to Inc various individuals and organ izations such as the North kenai Community Club, the American Legion, the American Legion Auxiliary. the Kenai high school superintendent, Mr Hoover. and inc school band.
 To everyone, I once again say thank you for your help and CO., 
 Sincerely.
 David G. Bell
 Commander. Kenai Post
 No. 20
 The American Legion
 kenai, Alaska.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
Tent City,

Founded in 1896, Hope was the scene of the first recorded gold strike in Alaska and in 1898 there was a Tent City, there of over 5000 gold-seekers.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
James Alien Hoekzema

Born at 9:52 p. m. on Monday, Nov. 20. at the Clinic in Soldotna. . son to Jack and Anna Heekzema of kasilof. The infant weighed 6 lbs. oz. and has been named James Allen.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08
Angela Diane Chisum

Paul and Sylvia Ghisum of An- ehofage are the parents Of daughter, Angela Diane, born at 12:f0 D. m. on Friday, Nov. IT. at the Clinic in Soldotna. The baby weighed T lbs. II oz.
The Kenai Peninsula cheechako news., 1961-12-08

Send the Cheechako News for Christmas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
This Novel Embraces
Easter Week of 1915

it came to the girls. This one
was so young and so fair
(she reminded him of the
girls at home) that he COM
pletely lost his head over her
and committed q blunder.
Sophie yielded to him, hav-
ing never before had a man
take her in his arms, and
they had to get married. It
SO happened that this alli-
ance with a republican fami-
ly drew the blacksmith even
further into politics. The
cousin was not the only one
with convictions. Sophie was
the daughter Of a sheep
breeder who had played a role
In the days of the Conven-
ton. Napoleon was getting
deeper and deeper into Rus
STA, and imagination was run
ming riot in these circles:
there was talk of changing
the course of events. especial
ly since Malet's conspiracy
had suddenly revealed the
fragility OF the regime; and
meanwhile the disastrous bull
letins from the Grand Army
were being read with con-
sternation."
Having had enough, the
reader will have at this point
have succumbed. ID. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

HOLY WEEK. BY Louis Ara
gon. Translated from the
French by Haakon Cheval-
Ter. g. P. Putnam's Sons;
$5.75.)
The emphatic asseveration
of its author that Holy
Week" is not any historical
novel may bewilder some
readers of the massive work,
for it seems to be one. 1t is
filled with characters known
to history, its time is Easter
Week Of 1915, a man called
Napoleon has escaped from
Elba and is marching toward
Paris, France. It is certain
that many readers who en-
JOY old-fashioned historical
novels that abound in adven-
ture, portentious crises, and
colorful but two dimensional
characters will find this book,
by the eminent French writ
er Louis Aragon, quite to
their taste.
They should be warned that
between them and their story
stands prose SO doughty and
agglutinated that Is minutes
of it cures chronic insomnia.
The following paragraph is
not a horrible example but a
fair sample:
Lame though he was,
Louis was not backward when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08


you, of Topnotch Hall. and
all, would associate beneath
them"
The rest of the book,
earnest. heavy, grand. at
tenuated, down trodden,
could well have come from
a different pen. Mordecai
Himmelfarb appears on the
scene and at once tells Miss
Hare his whole life story. It
is the now thrice familiar
tale, unrelieved by novelty
and undistinguiShed by
freshness of vision or APP
proach, of the Jew in Hit
ler's Germany. All is run
through to the end-the
ghetto. the pogrom, the gas
chamber, the exile-and,
alas, it all amounts to hor-
ror without tragedy.
There follows more woe in
a minor key-the virtually
unrelated story Of Mrs. God
bold, stricken with poverty,
a drunken husband, a large
family, and hopelesSnesS;
and the tale of Dubbo, the
"blackman" or "abo," a pitt
full character also i'm
pregnated with misery.
Melodrama creates tn e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
Book on Renaissance
Is Major Work of Art

liver Cheevey and people like
Bernard Berenson loved and
regretted.
The great cities are treated
fully, Rome, Florence, Venice
and Milan, but the Signifi-
cant or curious TOWNSHIP
bino, Rimini, Mantua - are
shown as we'll. Likewise. such
giants as Lorenzo, Plus II,
Michelangelo, Leon ardo,
Machiavelli and Petrarch are
accompanied by Cellini, the
Este sisters, Castiglione and
the blackmailer-pornograph-
er, Pietro Aretino, who, oddly,
is credited with teaching men
"how to live"
In many ways it was a
rough age: its public a nd
private morality was no bet
ter than our own. Style made
the difference, affecting, as
it always does, the substance
in which 1t inheres and the
Renaissance style, much Of it,
comes through in the text as
well as the pictures of this
sumptuous book.
FRANK GETLEIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
The Increase in Crime
Borders on Hysterio

those found In the Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Amendments
to the Constitution, offering
protection against such po-
lice "trespasses" as unrea-
sonable arrest, improper con-
LESSONS, invasions of privacy,
and overlapping.
Mr.. Barth admits that po-
lice might have more success
in experimenting criminals If
allowed to use these tactics,
which he says. a large part
of the country encourages
them to do. But-and Mr..
Barth is quite eloquent on
the subject-liberty itself will
be threatened If society does
not restrain its police from
such "trespasSing."
The book then, is a dis
cussion of the rational bal
ance between public safety
and private rights" that
every society must maintain
if it is to be free. and Mr..
Barth throws his weight very
forcefully on the side OF pri-
vate rights.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

Fresh proof-if proof is
needed-that youngsters can
be severe critics is offered
by the comments of a group
of sixth graders in Great
Neck, N. Y, who have been
compiling a book list on At
RIGA, the hottest" continent
in the world affairs. At the
same time these il and H.
year-olds have set up their
own criteria for evaluating
books on geography and
travel. Their intense con-
Germ with standards is re-
ported with vigor and hu-
NOR in the current issue Of
the School Library Journal.
Adult critics would find
it hard to improve on the
criteria set up by these per-
ceptive youngsters. Informa-
ton must be objective, not
propaganda, and correct ito
the last detail" Interesting
style is listed as next most
important to accuracy, al
though one girl says: Who
cares about style, if you can
have a good, solid book,
crawling with information?"
The sixth graders list other
criteria: Convenient organ
ization cit is much easier
to use a book if it is or
ganized wellD; easy to un-
derstand elf an author
writes a child's book, he
should keep it a child's book
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
THE PRICE OF LIBERTY

THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.
BY Alan Barth. Viking;
$4.50.)
The country's most serious
illness at the present time
is It's steadily-growing crime
rate. Never before has so
much crime been committed
by so many people. The
FBI in fact, has reported
that the rate increases yearly
four times faster than the
population.
This rise in crime has
caused serious anxiety to
many people, but Mr.. Barth,
editorial writer for the
Washington Post, believes
this anxiety is "neurotic {.
because it contains unmis-
taxable elements of hysteria.
expressed in a destructive
readiness to throw aside for
the sake of safety the very
rights which. under the
American political theory.
governments are instituted to
secure"
Among these rights are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

unifying force hitherto miss
ing in the novel. A holiday
crowd at the factory where
Himmelfarb works, hot with
snoldering anti-semitism,
crucifies the Jew on o tree,
and burns his house. The
"abo" denies that he knows
the man and thereafter kills
himself, the mourning
women honor the body, while
a wealthy employer, MFR.
Rosetree, alias RoSenbaum,
tries Though too late) to
dress the corpse and lay it
in his own tomb.
In 1.-THE Magician" Ing
mar Bergman has shown that
it is possible for a genuinely
great artist to put the story
of Jesus into modern dress.
Riders in the Chariot" is
evidence that the task must
not be undertaken lightly,
that q transcendent theme
requires transcendent treat
ment. and that q crucific-
ton will not suffice to in
fuse meaning into an in
coherent and i'll = executed
novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
THE HORIZON BOOK OF
THE RENAISSANCE. Text

THE HORIZON BOOK OF
THE RENAISSANCE. Text
by j. H. Plumb. (American
Heritage: $3.50; de luxe.
$19.50)
Never was an age more fit
subject for a picture history
than the Renaissance. It
made its own pictures as it
went along and set a standard
in picture making not yet ex-
celled and rarely equaled.
The pictures, as in this mon
umental work of popular his
tory, not only illustrate the
age; to some degree, they are
the age. There are almost
500 Of them, 100 in color.
Together they cover most Of
the Renaissance masters and
all Of the aspects Of Rem
aissance life touched upon
by the group of scholars re-
sponsible for the book. Paint
ings, prints. and drawings,
sculpture, architecture and
objects appear as needed to
show forth the century and
a half that people like Min
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
BOOKS IN REVIEW
A Tale of Woe
In q Minor Key
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

RIDERS IN THE CHARIOT. By Patrick White. viking
Press; $3.50 n.'
For 81 pages this long novel laid in Australia very
promising The story of Miss Hare mddeaged spnster OF
almost comic ugness and the author admits both doty
and stupid is told with lveness and sub-acid humor
Everybody bit crazythe father who beQueaths the grand
monstrous and decayng house he built whim and also
the mother disturbed when her husband speaks OF their off
spring red" says she is ugly foetus The at
mosphere that of baroque Wutherng Heights and the
conversation is pleasantly exoticOne thing never was
was bitter and ct would Of thought that lady like
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

which to me is unconvinc-
ing.
Mr.. Van Doren's essay is
an attack on the "pedantry"
of saying that "a book is
not read well unless 1t is read
in its native tongue. J." Trans
lation," says Mr.. Van Doren,
keeps literature going in
the world" Those that think
otherwise he names "pedants"
and their position "pedan-
try" I suggest that such d.
alectic question begging Is
unworthy of so noble a critic.
1t is hard for me to be-
heve that Mr.. Van Doren can
find any joy in the poetry Of
Herrick, which he quite just
ly considers the greatest lit
erature and calls perfect"
when it is Appropriated in
another tongue. Or does he
know one single Englished
lyric Of Heine that retains
the ironic overtures, both Of
meaning and sound, deprived
Of which q short poem Of
Heine is doggerel? Can any
one find something Of value
in Faust" in any of its
what is the resent tally?-
10 or 80 English versions?
Shakespeare in the classic
Schlegel-TiecK edition Is O
fantastic recreation and an
obvious blow to my conten-
ton, and the King James BIZ
BILE is a special case. hors
de combat. Also there are tiny
translationS-little tours-de-
torce-that match the orig
inal, like Joyce's multi-lin-
quail translations Of James
Stephens est. Stephe n s
Green" and the Nietzsche
beatitude, Blessed are the
sleepy, for they shall drop
off"
The translation Of prose
stands no better chance of
success. To translate, unfor-
tunately, is simply to traduce,
in most cases. The attempt
is admirable, for translation
is not evil, it is only i'm
possible, whether it Is Scott
Moncrieff's Proust, Muir's
Kafka, or j. j. Bodies Sterne
Is it not, perhaps, that the
word itself explodes inte
meaning meaning 1t ere.
ates at the moment - anc
other words inevitably NEAR
other things? ...
Certainly one should no
voluntarily deprive oneself o.
foreign literature. 1t may b.
that the eprosaic trot is thu
answer, not the literar!
translation. A humble pom.
open beside an open book i
perhaps the only hope in thi
Babel Of a world. ID. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
Scholar Gets
New Slant
On Lincoln
LARGELY LINCOLN. By
David Chambers Mearns.
(St. Martins; $6.)

AkIkSOLAA AAAN~OAN ~
David Chambers Mearns.
(St. Martins; S6.)
Gaggery is infiltrating the
marble halls of the Library
of Congress.
Perhaps it's due to the
zeit geist or one of his
troublesome poltergeists.
Perhaps it's due to TV or
to the daily press.
David C. MearnS, who has
spent 40 years in the Library
of Congress largely reading
about Lincoln and his times,
has become affected.
He can't have wasted much
time on such vulgar media.
but here he is trying to top
Groucho Marx and George
Dixon.
Get a load of this:
ut has long been one of
my ambitions to be widely
recognized as the authority
on some personal character
istic of Abraham Lincoln"
After noting that phre-
nologists have written mon
ographs on the bony struc-
ture of his Uranium and der
matologists insist that the
wart on the upper lip is
their exclusive province, he
goes on:
"In consequence and some
what hurriedly, I must an
nounce myself as the Special
list on Mr.. Lincoln's h1ireSy."
He brings in Henry Clay,
who wrote a letter to the
manufacturer of a hair in
vigorator thanking him for a
gift bottle.
Nothing" wrote the Great
COMPROMISED, can avert the
appearance of gray hair"
This would mean nothing
to Lincoln, although he pro-
fessed to love Clay and
followed him far into Wing
gerry (there he goes AGAIN..
For the fur-bearing Mr..
Lincoln, a man prodigal of
follicle, this message would
probably have been of senti-
mental interest only: for,
when it came to hair, he was,
like Nancy, his mother, a
creature of Hanks" (ouch)
But it's unfair to let ter
rible puns outweigh the rest
of this potpourri of clippings
and snippings of DR.. Mearns'
long life with lincoln.
Anyone who wants to know
more about Lincoln-and who
doesn't?-would do well to
read it. He probably will find
himself reading observations
he never read before. Samples
from witnesses of the New
Salem days:
Lincoln has nothing, only
plenty of friends. His pants
were made of flax and low
cut right at the ankle his
knees we're both out. Was the
toughest looking man I evel
saw-poor boy-but welcome
to everybody's house"
And:
when he began to study
law he would go day after
day for weeks and sit under
an oak tree on a hill neal
Salem, and read - moved
around tree to keep II
shade was so absorbed tina
people said he was crazy"
GEORGE KENNEDY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
FICTION

HE RANCHER TAKES A
WIFE. By Richmond P.
Hobson, jr. (Lippincott;
$3.50 Mr.. Hobson, a pio-
neer cattle rancher takes
his city-raised interior
decorator bride, to his cat
tie ranch far back in Brit
ish Columbia. The evil
dence is that they're still
happily married.
THE BLACK SHRIKE. BY
Ian Stuart. (Scribner's;
$3.50 A cloak-and-dagger
story of the battling disap-
pearance Of eight British
scientists. The stake is
nothing less than domina-
ton of the world. And
there's an eccentric archie
ologist involved.
THE JUDAS TREE. BY A. J.
Cronin. Little, Brown:
$4.95.) The widely read
novelist's latest book con-
Germs a man beset by ego
ism, particularly in his re-
lations with women.
LOO LOO's LEGACY. BY Da-
vid Dodge. Little, Brown;
$3.50 Loo Loo's board
inghouse, Dire a m h a ven,
harbors a zany group. Pub
lished earlier in Britain
where reviewers confessed
to having laughed heartily.
HELEN ALL ALONE. BY Will
liam Buchanan. civilian
Morrow & Co.; $3.50 A
novel of suspense keyed
to present times. miles
DANGERFIELD. BY Barnaby
Conrad. (Harper's: $685.
This is a novel centered on
a famous literary figure
Mr.. Conrad is remembered
for his novel, "Matador," q
decade ago.
HIGH ON A HILL. BY Lucy
Daniels. (McGraw Hill
$4.95.) A novel set in a hos.
| pital for nervous and men.
| tai disorders, by the author
d of "Caleb, My Son."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
The History of Greece
Shaped by Her Myths
THE WILL OF ZEUS: A His

THE WILL OF ZEUS: A His
tory of Greece from the
origins of Hellenic Culture
TO the Death of Alexander.
BY Stringfellow Barr. Clip
pincott: 500
The Greeks transmitted
their own early history
through myths of gods and
heroes. Mr.. Barr makes fur
Their use of them to illumine
later times that were more
precisely chronicled by Thu
cydides, Herodotus and Zen
ophon. Among stories OF
heroes. he selects that Of
Achilles, the warrior Of great
courage, great wrath, great
INSTRUMENTATION. many bat
ties, and short life; and that
of OdysseuS, the wise. subtle,
overseeing wanderer whose
long-deferred homecoming
required new recognition by
those about him.
Among stories Of the Olym-
plans, Mr.. Barr reminds
readers that from the early
in-migrations of the Hellenic
peoples until Philip of Mace
don and his son Alexander
arrogated to themselves the
myth that the king too may
be a god, the Greeks regarded
their history as the will OF
Zeus-powerful if often in
attentive Zeus, zeus subject
to the connivance Of willful
and obstreperous fellow
Olympians, but Zeus whose
directed thunderbolt rarely
went wide of the mark.
Mr.. Barr leaves the stark
data of the times he covers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

War Seldom, are balanced by
the lis addressed to Mrs. Lee
and the many others ad-
dressed to his sons and
daughters. ~
The official letters evidence
the generals regard and re-
spect for the President; the
family letters reveal the
tender solicitude of the hus-
band and father, his sterling
integrity, his humility. and
the lighter side of Lee which
has been all but obscured by
the bearded figure of the Con-
federate leader.
There is a letter to his son
Gusts to send up his pants,
if they were done. II am in
my last pair" he said, land
very sensitive, fearful of an
accident" Or that other
letter to his wife: To-day the
cars have arrived and has
brought me a young French
officer, full of vivacity and
no English, ardent for service
with me. I think the appear
ance of things will cool him,
if they do not, the night will,
for he brought no blankets"
Lees letters to President
Davis and the successive Sec
retaries of War evidence his
interest in the campaigns in
the Confederate west, even
though they were not within
his limits of command until
the last two months of the
war when Lee had become the
"general-in-chief" of all the
armies.
The publication Of these
papers under the sponsorship
of the Virginia Civil War
Centennial Commission is an
outstanding event of the cur
rent commemoration of the
Tooth anniversary of the war
years of 1876.
ROBERT S. HENRY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
THE WARTIME PAPERS OF


r. e. LEE. Clifford Dowdey,
editor; Louis H. Manarin,
associate editor. Little,
Brown; $l2.500
"It has been said," wrote
General Lee to his daughter,
Mildred, "that our letters
are good representatives Of
our minds. They certainly
present a good criterion for
judging of the character OF
the individual"
No better evidence Of the
truth of the statement can be
found than there is in the
1,0O6 items representative of
the generals correspondence
in four years Of war. in
cluded in this book. Massive
in size and comprehensive
in sweep, the work is utterly
absorbing in its presentation
of the many-sided Lee.
While the papers speak for
themselves, their usefulness
and ease of reading are
greatly enhanced by the Or
ganization and method of the
book. Each Of the seventeen
sections into which the work
is divided is introduced by a
short chapter by Mr.. Dowdey,
the editor. which sets up a
framework into which the
items reproduced may be fit
ted by the reader.
Mr.. Manarin, the associate
editor, selected and prepared
the papers to be included in
the volume as representative
of the 5000 or so known Lee
items. The result of the COM
bined laborS of the two edi-
tors is a solid and substantial
achievement in the presenta-
ton of General Lee as he
must have been.
The work is balanced as be-
tween the reports and formal
correspondence of Lee with
his Confederate associates
much of which has been pub
lished previously. and the in
timacies of his family CORE
spondence, much of which is
here published for the first
time. The ITO items adj
dressed to President Davis
and the 100 to Secretary o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
Other Books of the Week in Brief
GENERAL

FAB ULOUS
MAGIC. BY Walter B. Glib
son and Morris N. Young.
(Chilton Books; $4.500 If
what Houdini did wasn't
magic, it certainly looked
like it to a lot Of people.
Mr.. Gibson worked with
him for a number Of years
in preparing material for
this book, and he also had
the aid of Houdini's scrap
books and notes. DR..
Young is not only an OPP
I SHOULD HAVE KISSED
HER MORE. BY Alexander
King. (Simon g. Schuster:
$4.50.) The author of May
This House Be Safe From
Tigers" continues his auto
biography and recalls the
ladies In his life.