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The Nome nugget., 1961-01-11
FLOATING MINES STILL
HAMPER JAPANESE SHIPPING

TOKYO Up = Japanese ship
ping is still haunted by floating
mines planted during World War
II.
The M a m Self-Defense
Agency estimates 10000 U.S.-made
magnetic mines are floating about.
Plans are under way to launch
a three-year mine-sweeping oper-
alton to get rid of these explo-
sives.
The Nome nugget., 1961-01-11
BIZ Ward T. Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer


JUNEAU lY = Gambling, Bor-
oughs and Employment Security
should be back for repeat per-
formances when the Legislature
opens on Jan. % and there are
all indications the same old
wounds will be reopened.
The last Legislature gave the
nod to Alaska's winter parlor
game, the ice pool guessing con-
test, and it okayed certain other
types of gambling, if conducted
on non-profit basis.
There have been hints from
several quarters in recent months
that a move will be made during
the 1861 session to open the state
to Nevada-type gambling.
If there is such a move, last
years squabble will seem like a
lovers spat.
The Borough question has been
with the state ever since the Con-
stitutional Convention decided to
provide Alaska with an area
wide type of government.
In directing the establishment
of governmental units called Bor
oughs, the Constitutional Conven-
ton was stepping into an entire
ly new field and it put the Legis-
lature in tough spot.
The Legislature has no guide
lines to follow. The Borough Sys-
tenn, as it is envisioned for Alas
ka, has never been tried before.
That is the reason the Legisla-
ture has stepped gingerly in the
matter of Boroughs.
There has never been any great
dispute, as yet, but there has been
great reluctance on the part of
the Senate, at least, to move too
fast on virgin ground.
A Borough Government Bill was
passed by the House last year, but
it failed to get past the Senate,
primarily because the Upper
Chamber felt there were too many
holes in the proposed statute.
A new bill will probably be in
troduced this year, based on
year long study conducted by the
State Local Affairs Agency and
the State Legislative Council.
1t will probably find its greatest
opposition coming from lobbyists
for the cities and the states in
dependent school districts.
The cities are reluctant to see
some of their traditional func-
tons, such as fire and police pro-
lection, possibly taken away from
them.
Schools would lose a great deal
of their independence under the
Borough System, unless the Legis-
lature, or the Borough Assembly,
provided for local administration
Of schools, with the Borough AS
sembly acting only as a general
OverSeer.
The State Chamber of Com
merce has already indicated it
will push hard to trim the cost of
the States Unemployment Com
pensation program to the states
businessmen.
c.. w. Snedden of Fairbanks,
President of the State Chamber,
advised members of the organiza-
ton late last year that "this pro-
gram is costing you two or three
The Nome nugget., 1961-01-11

No wonder it's so hard for many
of us to see our way clear.
Some 90 million Americans have
the vision problem called astig-
matism.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Long Cold War Calls
For Unified PIonninq

that II war comes, use Of nu-
clear weapons cannot be-
avoided. 1t is not possible to
return to the past, they say.
The United States main
concern must be to take all
measures necessary, no mat
ter how costly, to survive a
first strike by an aggressor,
and to develop clean nuclear
weapons and improved mis-
sile defenses. This would re-
quire a resumption Of nuclear
testing.
Guerrilla Warfare
Like President Kennedy,
the authors advocate much
more stress on developing
guerrilla warfare forces-they
call them "para-military"
forces-so that the United
States will have a capability
to fight communism at
every level of violence"
The enormous Importance
Of chronological strategy"
and the swiftness with which
rapidly developing technolo-
gies overtake strategic con-
cepts is paid special atten-
ton. The United States is
capable Of financing its own
survival, the authors insist,
but some severe reforms, par
ticularlN in the field Of taxa
ton, az believed to be nee
essary FSEARL H. VOSS.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
A Detective Story
In Classic Form
THE GOUFFE CASE. By

THE GOUFFE CASE. BY
Joachim Mass. (Harper
& Bros; $4.95O
First published in Germany,
"The Gouffe Case" a novel
about a murder and the en-
suing trial in Paris in 1899,
was widely acclaimed not
only as a mystery, a detec-
tive story, but as an un-
usually narrowing and skill
fully drawn picture Of an evil
and bewitching woman, a
belle dame sans merci. It's
author. Joachim Mass, Ger
man born and living in this
country since 1899, has writ
ten two previous novels pub
lished in the United States
THE Magic Year" (1944
and "The Weeping and the
Laughter" d94D.
AS a detective story the
book does not rank very high.
AlphonSe Gouffe, a Partisan
money-lender without known
enemies, disappears without
trace. The case excites the
personal interest of Goron,
head Of the Paris Surete, and
thus a forerunner of Maigret.
No man could be more differ
ent from Maigret, or have
methods more antithetical.
He is a domineering superior,
raging and shouting and de-
manding. When a body is
found in a trunk near Mar
sellleS, he is certain without
any evidence that it is the
man they are looking for
seemingly overwhelming con-
Trajectory identifying marks
are only trivial irritations. He
is right. The man is Gouffe.
Tracing the trunk to Lon
don, Goron learns that it had
been purchased by Gabrielle
Bompard. So she is the mur-
deress! A worldwide hunt
is set afoot for Gabrielle, who
calmly walks into police
headquarters and demands
the reward-Michel Eyraudt
did the murder. He was her
lover and after killing Gouffe
out OF Jealousy, threatened
her life.
Although there is no real
evidence against her, Gabrf-
ellie is thrown into prison
and subjected to fierce
browbeating, not only by
Gouffe's unhappy brother
in-law Jaquemar, but also by
Goron himself, whose hatred
OF the girl is pathological.
But the prosecution has no
case, and when Gabrielle
and Michel are brought to
trial "a travesty Of judicial
proceeding), she is acquitted,
and Michel goes to the gull
lotine.
But this simple tale is only
~ts1e scaffolding 6f Maass's
novel. The author attempts
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Rovoges Of Flu Bored
Germ Warfare PeriIs

moved fast. In its first day
at Fort Riley, Kans., lot
patients were admitted to
the hospital.
Later carried to Europe,
probably by American troops,
the organism grew even
stronger. Mustard gas, used
by the Germans, was blamed
for making the flu strain
more virulent.
It returned to the United
States to cause mass fatali-
ties. Theaters closed. Ru-
mors were born. One preva-
lent one was that the flu was
disseminated from a German
laboratory hidden in Chevy
Chase, Md.
Camp (now Fort) Meade,
Md, was counting 1900 new
cases every day. More than
1000 soldiers-one-fourth Of
the complement-were now
too sick readily to distinguish
night from day"
District Commissioner Louis
Brownlow sought and got
permission for emergency
action. 1t very nearly became
illegal to be sick. Forty-five
society leaders organized a
volunteer ambulance corps.
Only two doctors remained
mobile in all Alexandria.
Half Million Died
Face masks appeared, along
with onion cures and phony
preventatives. The New York
Herald printed a DR.. Pages
belief that nakedness might
prevent influenza.
Some 100000 Americans
died. UndertakerS got richer
and insurance companies
paid out record claims. Then,
almost, suddenly the disease
seemed to end with the ar
miStice.
WILLIAM GRIGG.
Evening star., 1961-03-12

hit the jackpot with Fire
in the Ashes" and "The View
from the Fortieth Floor"
Postmaster General ]. Ed
ward Day, unabashed by the
exposure of his novel-writing
past, is hard at work on
another. The Postmaster
General has kept his head
very well about the recent
selling surge Of BARTOLPH
STREET, q privately printed
effort in the J. P. Marquand
tradition. He doesn't regard
the sale of 1000 copies in
the past couple Of weeks as
exactly a trend.
The Postmaster General,
unlike most people who do
it for q living, loves writing,
plots and Scribbles every
chance he gets. His new
novel, which must await pub
heation until his retirement
from the cabinet, will be, he
says "a love story, Of course.
What else is there to write
about?"
Evening star., 1961-03-12

shuttled continuously from
continent to continent in
pursuit of their voluminous
writing. editing and publish
ing interests. Mr.. Sheed has
now settled down in New
Jersey. He serves as a part
time editor Of the Catholic
magazine Jubilee and de-
votes himself happily in the
remaining hours to the COM
position Of his second novel.
He hopes the English won't
take his picture of the seamy
side Of life at the old school
too much to heart.
After ALL" he says, with
out much conviction, you
can't really hurt Oxford"
Evening star., 1961-03-12

In the second part-"The
Indian Plans" - Miss Ward
shifts the scene to India it
self. With simple tables and
lucid prose she investigates
the three main sectors of
the Indian economy under
going revolution - the infra-
structure public utilities,
transport, etc., industry and
agriculture. She outlines
strains and deficiencies i'm
posed by Democratic govern
ment, sets Indian achieve
ments against the more dra-
matte Chinese. and con-
cludes that outside foreign
support is absolutely essen
tial to sustain even this mod
est Indian advance in the
years ahead.
A Marshall Plan"
The third part-"Challenge
to the West sounds q clar-
ion call for a co-ordinated
Marshall Plan" approach.
Miss Ward says that all the
wealthy Western nations to-
gether-not only the United
States-can well afford So
billion annually for the next
five years in straight aid to
India. The challenge is not
only to stop communism, in
her opinion, but to prove the
West has the heart and con-
viction to spread its own
well-ordered prosperity to
the rest Of the world.
GEORGE SHERMAN.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Ice Cream PorIors
And Billiard Halls

Thus peopled and pro-
PEELED, his fables ranged
across the breadth Of the
land, peering into chalked-up
billiard halls and pausing at
every ice cream parlor fes-
tooned with Chinese lanterns.
He was ever in search Of
SWANS in yellow shoes, girls
with stuffed birds on their
hats, and morals to q point
that would make people
laugh.
The Best Of Ade
In this 2S4-page selection
of three light-hearted essays,
six short stories and 72 Of the
famous Fables in Slang. Mr..
Shepherd has concentrated
some of the best of Ade in a
most potable form.
That George Ade was a
successful humorist, his for
tune attested. That he was a
sensitive social historian, this
book atteStS. For here pre-
served, in all its wonderfully
ludicrouS dimensions, Is an
entire era. This is the Amer
lea he made his own.
ROBERT J. LEWIS.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Better Life
For Sicily.

Another caller was Danilo
Dolci, the controversial hu-
manitarian from Western
Sicily, who has at consider
able inconvenience to himself
reused the world to the in
justice and economic misery
Of his own people:
Signor Dolci's latest book,
a staccato. documentary &C
count of primitive living amid
fearful oppression and official
apathy has just been pub
lished. It is called OUTLAWS
(Orion Press: $4.95).
We felt it extremely fitting
that his arrival in Washing
ton coincided with the first
STRINGS Of the Peace Corps.
Mr.. Dolci has written in his
book a couple Of paragraphs
that might have come out Of
Peace Corps Director Sargent
Shriver's preliminary report
to the President.
Here is Mr.. Dolci: What is
wanted is that every city in
the more highly developed
areas should send some Of the
more balanced, level-headed
and mature of their young
people to work in the under
developed areas for at least
two or three years: If the
experts do not exist, they
must be created. The shortage
is not Of willing young
people. We hope to find
those who (either by teaching
themselves or by showing us
where teachers are to be
found, or in any other way)
viii help us to get UP a train
ing school for workers in the
underdeveloped areas, and in
the Southern Mediterranean
area in particular. a school
which would turn out experts
in adult education, community
development officers, regional
planning experts, cooperative
and extension experts"
Evening star., 1961-03-12

Clough in a room in the
Pleasant Hours Motel, with
free television and Betty.
AS the reader may be
nagged by the suspicion that
the scene Of Judge Rainey
being removed from his illicit
bed by his Negro servant
might be quite powerful If
told by a Gogol or a Faulk-
ner, I will quote one long
passage concerning Preacher
Clough which is typical Of
the literary style Of the whole
book:
"The closest Preacher
Clough ever came to being
married was the time when
he took one of the singers
home after choir practice.
They had stayed in his car
in front of her house for
such a long time that her
father went out and found
them making love on the
back seat. Her father was
so surprised to see what they
were doing that he thought
he was looking into the wrong
car and he quickly walked
away. However, stopping to
think about it, even though
he had not recognized
Preacher Clough without his
his blue suit, he felt Ger
tain that he knew Preacher
Clough's tan ,two-door sedan
when he saw it, and he went
back to look again. They
were still making love, and
that time he shouted and
turned his flashlight on them
until Preacher Clough finally
stopped.
". Preacher Clough
put on his blue suit and got
out Of the car. However, the
girl was too young to marry,
and even getting q license at
her age would have been
impossible. -"
This is high-comic parody,
or it Is nothing.
Halfway through the book,
Lawana, who says she is part
Indian, comes to town look
ing for a job. and boards
with Jenny. Dade, the town
boss. says she is colored, and
must remove to the other
side Of the tracks. Jenny,
who after all has a heart
Of gold. replies Nothing
doing" and the scene is set
for the denouement. Before
IL comes, however, Iawana
applies for q job to a man
who spurns her but tries to
rape her on the spot. Mis-
cegenation is enjoyed by or
reputed to almost every man
in the book-Dade, Dade's
law partner, Shorty the
midget, and Judge Rainey
himself. When Mr.. Cald-
well gets hold Of an idea, he
certainly gives 1t a workout.
Jenny by Nature" is either
the worst novel by any repu-
table American writer, or it
Is a very funny book.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Barbara Ward Requests
Western Aid to India
INDIA AND THE WEST,

INDIA AND THE WEST.
Barbara Ward. (W. w.
Norton; $4.50.)
The sweep of Barbara
Wards expert brush is as
vast as the problems of the
Indian subcontinent she por-
trays. With all the facility
displayed in her past books,
she paints a verbal canvas
which is eloquent, profound
and yet simple enough for
the interested lay reader to
comprehend.
In India and the West,
Miss Ward addresses herself
to this central question: Can
India achieve the necessary
"take-off" into a modern
economy within the liberal
democratic framework exist
ing there? To demonstrate
her resounding "yes-if" an
swer, she divides her book
into three parts.
Economic Growth
In the first part-"The
Revolution Of Economic
Growth"-she describes the
ingredients Of a modern in
dustrialized economy and
how they have been devel-
oped in the. Atlantic arena
and the Soviet Union. This
sets the stage for showing
how our new welfare cap
italism" is engaged in a fate
full duel with totalitarianism
communism for the future of
underdeveloped Asia.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
A FORWARD STRATEGY

A FORWARD STRATEGY
FOR AMERICA. BY Rob-
ert Strasz-Hupe. William
r. Kimtner and Stefan T.
Possony. (Harper; $3.50
The aim Of the authors Of
this thoughtful and thought
provoking book is to demon
strate that the United States
can develop a better inte-
grated overall strategy which
brings all the diverse elements
of American society pulling
in the same direction: To-
ward victory in the PRO
tracted conflict" with world
communism.
World Domination
The quoted phrase is from
the same authors previous
study Of the broad spectrum
in which the Communists
are contending for domina-
ton Of the world. This book
is a prescription for winning
that conflict, by mounting a
total, co-ordinated effort
which will call for sacrifices
and for a mobilization of
will on a scale the United
States has so far tried not
to think about. Military,
economic, chronological, cul-
tural. political, psychological
and diplomatic policies are
foutlined to support the total
,Astrategy.
{ The authors are convinced
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Demonstrable Facts

How many times have you wished
there were some way you could i'm.
Pressanother favorably-getanOpD
him Or her jour idsat9 That thoughts
can be transmitted, received and
understood by others is now scien-
ti6cally demonsrabIe. The tales of
miraculous accomplishments of
mind by the ancients are now
known to be fact-not fable. The
method whereby these things can
be intentionally, not accidentally, ac-
comPlished has been ? secret long
cherishedby the Rosicrucians-one
of the schools of ancient wisdom
existing throughout the world. To
thousands everywhere, for CEN
turies, the Rosicrucians have pri.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
THE AMERICA OF GEORGE

THE AMERICA OF GEORGE
ADE, Edited and Intro
duced by Jean Shepherd,
&C. P. Putnam'S Sons; $40
Oliver Herford once penned
this commentary on George
AIDE, the celebrated author Of
Fables in Slang:
Somehow I altD1ys like to
think OF GeorgeGde as a
summer Drink, Sparkling
and cool, lDith Just a tang
OF Pleasant, EtterveScent
Slang.
Re-read today, the Indiana
writer Of plays, books and
newspaper humor, is just as
tart, flavorful, and refresh
ing as ever.
A sip or two OF the present
concoction can evoke a dozen
memories Of a past you never
knew vanished. A deeper,
gully-washing draught and
away you go on a magic car
pet, back 40 to so years to the
age Of AIDE.
Standard Of HumOr
In a day when telephone
operators were the Girls at
Central, his fables set a
standard Of humor that, at
this distance, echoes as a
somewhat ribald guffaw.
Marriage, to him, was a
Life Sentence. A bride was a
Bride. Getting away from
home for q day or two was
Having a Chance to Burn
Holes In the Track. An at
tractive girl was a Hot LOCKER.
The local ladykiller was the
Depot Flirt.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
Hc~ CaAs Influence Others
With Your Thinking! ..

TRY it some time. Concentrate
l. intently upon another person
seated in room with you, without
his noticing it. Observe him grad.
ually become restless and finally
turn and look in your direction!
Simple-yetitis a bOtitips dsmonstra.
tiOn that thought generates a men.
ral energy which can be projected
from your mind to the conscious
ness ofanother. Do you realize how
much Of your success and happi.
ness in life depends upon your in.
Auencing others2 Is it otimportanr
to you to have others understand
your point of view-ro be recep.
tive to your proposals.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
BIOGRAPHY
THE HUMOROUS VERSE
OF LEWIS CApDnT

THE HUMOROUS VERSE
OF LEWIS ROLL.
Dover Publications; $1.65.)
Put this down as the best
buy Of the year. A paper
back edition Of a book which
was dismissed originally in
a review in the New York
Times with this comment:
There is nothing for the
faithful to do but sit down
and fall to the banquet"
MARK TWAIN; The man
and His Work. BY Edward
Wagenknecht. university
Of Oklahoma; $4.50.)
THE ORDEAL OF WOOD.
ROW WILSON. BY Herbert
Hoover. (McGraw-Hill:
$2.25) From 1915 to the
defeat Of the League of
Nations.
THE CONSTANT CAPTAIN:
Gonzalo de Sandoval. BY
c. Harvey Gardiner.
(Southern Illinois Univer-
Sity; $4.50) A biography Of
Cortes' abSst and most
trusted lieutenant.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
You Cannot
Hurt Oxford

Wilfred Sheed, youthful
slender, blackhaired author
of "A MIDDLE-CLASS Ed
UCATION," came to town to
participate in a st. Mat
thew's forum. He was an
amiable and unpretentious
sort of person. who was hav-
ing qualms about the i'm
minent English publication
Of the novel, which is not
exactly an alumnae aSSocia-
ton view Of oxford, q uni
versity he attended himself
in the early sos.
Mr.. Sheed explains with a
helpless air that he didn't
intend his somewhat savage
story as an indictment of
Oxford, which, he says, isn't
as squalid and aimleSS as he
pictured 1t.
Its Just that you can't
get everything in," he says
with q small smile. II thought
there had been enough Of the
Evelyn Waugh, golden-dayS
kind Of thing.
No Message
Actually, I didn't have any
kind of sociological message
in mind at all. I only wanted
to see If I could reproduce
that facetious, undergraduate
dialogue. Then I got started
and I couldn't stop. I want
to go on and on writing
novels, doesn't everyone?"
Like the hero Of his book,
Mr.. Sheed has always lived
trans-Atlantically. His par
ents, Wilfred Sheed and
Maisie Ward, have themselves
Evening star., 1961-03-12


Sidered a devastating satire
on the class Of books in which
sex has become only a symbol.
I do not know whether I
think the book a potboiler
or not. For the first so
pages, assaulted by a far
rago Of cliches, faceleSS and
amorphous characters, stu
ations recounted in prose
that would be the shame of a
backward weekly newspaper
correspondent, a Stereotyped
plot, and an uninterrupted
succession Of indecencies
and pallid pornographies,
thought the book simply
silly. But Erskine Caldwell
is no hack-he is a writer of
long experience, who has
made his mark time and
again, and who is held in
respect by many readers and
critics.
Suppose you think Of the
book as a great joke, an ex-
tended parody on inconse-
quential and out-of focus
writing? The approach is a
good one, for from then on I
found not a dull page, and
can recommend the book to
anyone who believes that
when a man laughs he adds
a day to his span Of life.
Jenny, q one-time prosti-
tute, runs a boarding house
in Sallisaw, Ga. Her star
boarder is Shorty Goodwillie,
a midgit 3 feet high, who
affords carnal delights of so
special a nature that Jenny's
next-door neighbor tries to
induce him to change his
residence, and in so doing
precipitates a hair-pulling cat
fight with Jenny. The other
boarder we meet is Betty,
who has turned to a life Of
sin after being deserted by
an athletic coach, black
mailed by another woman.
Judge Rainey is an old
friend Of Jenny, not averse
to a little dalliance. He Is
pulled from her bed in the
mid Of night by his old Negro
man-Servant, who forces his
way into the room, dresses
the expostulating man, and
takes him home. Next door
to Jenny is the Rugged Cross
Church, whose pastor,
Preacher Clough, threatens
to have the law on Jenney
for the irregularities of her
household If she refuses to
sell her house correction
gtUe her house, to the
church.
Preacher Clough, the
reader will not be surprised
to learn. lustS after Betty,
or. to quote Mr.. Caldwell:
Preacher Clough had been
planning and thinking all
day about what he had a
compelling desire to do and,
having made UP his mind,
he was anxious for darkness
to come" Shortly after it
does come, we find Preacher
Evening star., 1961-03-12
PAPERBACKS

THE YEARS BEST SCI
ENCE FICTION. Edited
by Judith Merril. (Dell;
$500
THE WORLD THAT
COULDN'T BE. Selected
by H. l.. Gold. (Permabook;
$.35.r Nine science-fiction
novelets.
WHITTIER AND BROWN
ING. Edited by Richard
Wilbur. Dell; $3.50 Two
additions to the Laurel
Poetry Series.
THE ENGLAND OF ELIZA
BETH. By A. L. Rowse.
Macmillan; $2.25O The
structure Of Elizabethan
society, reprinted.
HOW GREEN WAS MY
VALLEY. BY Richard
Llewellyn. (M milan:
$1.95.) The well-known
novel Of Wales reprinted.