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Kodiak mirror., 1961-01-07
KODIAK MIRROR

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Kodiak mirror., 1961-01-07

3rd, Rudy Kennedy and James Britt; Senior girl: Nancy Waller; End, Carol Vail; 3rd, Polly Perry Junior boy: Kenneth Vail; 2nd, Marvin Frost; 3rd, Larry Fellbaum. Junior girl: Charlene Frost; 2nd, Susie Dobson; 3rd, Dayna Beusch- CT.
Kodiak mirror., 1961-01-07
Housewives Roll
 1Em On The Alley

The Housewives Bowling League in Kodiak will hold its first meet ing of the year at the Elks Bowl ing Lanes on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 1:30 pm.
 The Weekly bowling time will be
Kodiak mirror., 1961-01-07
To All Residents, HomeoWners and
 Apartment Occupants

Personal mailed residents City of Kodiak shown by the utility lists These forms be used rendering belongings furniture fixtures taxation cribed by law Every owning personal property within the city January 1st fill It responsibility the office certain these forms received by Forms be picked City Hall effort will be made the office check all returns that be fraudulent order to dis tribute the burden fairly equally Your attention is called State Chapt 174 authorizing the any premises any property thereon the furnishings usually determined by the value of the home.
 DOUGLAS c. PRESTON Published IA CITY CLERK TREASURER
Evening star., 1961-02-19
Exploring the Bypoths
OF World Communism

communism and the institu-
ton Of the party. :"
That is why" the author
explains. "the known reali-
ties Of the Soviet Union-op-
preston, Slave-labor camps,
purge after purge, murder in
the millions, brutal and un-
provoked aggression, even
KhruShchev's exposure Of
Stain and the Hungarian
Revolution Of l956-slide off
the cadre Communists con-
science like water off a ducks
back"
This is a grim but illumi-
mating recital, suggesting the
dehumanized world Of George
Orwell's "l984"-a world de
voted to the extirpation Of
eveyremnant of philosophical,
moal, aesthetic pinciple &.
and the substitution OF
the Communist world-view."
GEORGE w. CRONYN.
Evening star., 1961-02-19

do q SkyIOCkcIlIlB SIuuc1lG-
reporter playwrite-ado doleS-
lescent-lover, he writes with
great charm. OF his tenn
pestuous second and third
decades In Manila Journalism
he writes with pathos and
Understandable pride. OF
Americas never-quite-Sup-
pressed racism, he speaks
with sorrow and bitterness.
OF his self-sacrifice Of
working with Filipino in
terests in Washington, a
devotion which he believes
cost him the presidency Of
his nation and Of his sub
sequent election as president
Of the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly c"President Of
the world"), he writes with
passion and pride.
Our Promises
The scars from his post
war bouts with congressional
appropriations committees
are barred for all to see. Am
baSsador Romulo believes the
United States welshed on It's
promises to help the Philip
pines recover from the jap
aneSe war. He can not
accept our willingness to take
Manila for granted while
Tokyo and New Delhi are
courted with lavish aid.
Americans occasional ex-
presSions Of race prejudice
Evening star., 1961-02-19
CRIME AND MYSTERY
Exciting New Thriller
Is Set in Suburbs

relationships, funny lines,
and live ghosts Of the silent
screen. Mr.. Gault makes the
most Of every one.
50 4
CASE FOR APPEAL. BY
Lesley Egan. (Harper &
Bros: $3.50. Seven witnesses
testified that convicted Neil
Varney was the woman who
killed two women through
abortions. But Policeman
Vic Varallo still thinks she is
innocent. and asks his friend.
Jesse FalkenStein, a lawyer,
to prove 1t. The lawer'S re-
capitulation Of the trial, and
the new meaning he discov %rs
in the stories told th' re,
makes an absorbing stC ~,
enriched by believable, indi-
vidualistic characters.
THE DEADLY FRIEND.
BY Hugh Pentecose. (Dodd.
Mead & Co.: $2.95). A very
promising beginning-with
DR.. Charles Mallory. defender
of Israel. accused by his
friend, Columnist Grant
Simon. Of plotting to destroy
the state-degenerates into
shaky melodrama. DR.. NAL
lory is generally believed to
have admitted his guilt with
his suicide on a lake near his
home. His son and former
second wife are among the
witnesses at a congressional
hearing in the New England
town where he taught.
y y
TWENTY PLUS TWO. BY
Frank Gruber. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.; $3.50. Mr.. Gruber
Evening star., 1961-02-19

adultery and, in due course,
death and murder.
"The Right to an Answer"
is not a crime story. The
crime j. w. sees is the dis
comfort and narrowness and
immortality Of life in England
"the great democratic mess
in which there's no hierarchy.
no scale Of values, every
things as gcod-and there
fore as bad as everything
else" But this is no philippe.
1t is a hilarious and mordant
story told by a man whose
own morals aren't anything
wonderful, but who still
thinks that people committed
to institutions like matrimony
ought to live tidier lives.
Actually, Mr.. Burgess So
cial philosophy-and I'm not
even sure what 1t is-does
not dominate the book. What
gives 1t its life and bite are
its characters, all licked off
perfectly. all speaking in
their own inimitable style.
Mr.. Burgess has been so gen.
erous, it's hard to know where
to begin to praise. There is
for instance, the landlord of
the Black Swan. a direct de-
scendant Of Shakespeare, who
makes everyone want to do
things for him: his slim
blond wife Veronica. a mar
Evening star., 1961-02-19
Probing Sin and Grace,
The Church and Heresy

ridden priest. is strongly at
tracted to Query, and
imagines the reserved man q
true saint as yet unrecog-
nized by the church. Parkin-
son. a journalist, discovering
Querry's secret that he Is the
most-famous church-archi-
tect in the world and notori-
Gus for his fatal attraction
for women, now disillusioned
by art. religion and love,
writes a series Of lurid ar
'ticles comparing Query to
Schweitzer and Matisse.
Rycker, the well = to : do
merchant. would pass for the
most odious and repellent in
dividual now obtainable in
bookstores, if Greene had not
made him Of cardboard. a
travesty Of a man. In middle
age he marries a very young
wife, sanctimoniously quot
ing st. Paul that it is better
to marry than to burn. He
makes her miserable by his
boorish piety, ridiculing her
that she knows only two
prayers, that she doesn't
cross herself after grace, that
she has bad manners at the
Bishops tea party. He be-
labors her with sermons that
her marital responsibilities
are to God. with him as
agent; his amorous attentions
are extraordinarily gross.
Rycker's reaction to Query
is favorable-he is certain
that he is on the point Of
re-entering the church.
Until the last rs pages. the
novel is what the reader Of
Greene's other non-entertain--
mentS expects series Of
conversations probing the
heart and the libido, sin and
grace, the church and heresy.
Tackled on to this garnished
tract is the story-Rycker is
misled by overwhelming cir
cumstantial evidence. and
thinking Query is the father
Of his wife's child, gets drunk
and murders him. That
Greene takes no pains with
the fashioning Of his little plot
on which to hang his novel"
Is a laxity the reader will
resent. A good novelist should
be a craftsman, a coutriver.
The series Of incidents that
constitute the action Of "A
Burnt-Out Case" is so flimsy,
Evening star., 1961-02-19
Top Russian
AuthorGoes
Back to Don
HARVEST ON THE DON. BY
Mikhail Sholokhov. (Alfred
A. Knopf; 5000

This is the fourth in a
cycle of novels that began
with And Quiet Flows the
Don"-a book highly praised
and widely read in and out
of Russia. Mr.. Sholokhov.
considered Russia's foremost
contemporary novelist. de-
scribes the life. loves and
crude politics Of a peasant
village in the Don country in
1880. While the daily and
visible life Of Gremyachy log
Village is caught up in the
all-pervading task Of making
q success of its collective
farm, hidden in cottages and
operating at night are coun-
ter-revolutionary forces plot
ting an uprising against the
Soviet government.
Despite its meritS-a fine
feeling for the stark beauty
of the steppe country and the
tragi = comic affairs Of the
peasants the novel fails to
arouse our interest or i'm
merse us in the problems Of
its central characters. The
hero, a good and compass
sionate man with a religious
fervour for his job as chair
man Of the collective farm,
frequently seems more like
an over-age Boy Scout.
When he experiences mo-
mentS Of exultation over the
devotion to duty Of a district
Communist leader, or rejoiceS
In evidence that the collec-
tive farmers are thinking Of
the good Of the group. we
are more embarrassed than
moved.
Though the heroes are de-
voted Communists, the au-
thor is objective in his
treatment Of the counter
revolutionaries and non-party
characters. Some Of the
minor villains are Commu-
nists. While all this doesn't
add up to a satisfying novel,
it may interest some as a
sympathetic portrayal Of an
aspect of the Communist
cause.
Mr.. Sholokhov was one of
the few Soviet writers to de-
fend Boris Pasternak during
the controversy over the pub
lication of "Dr. Zhivago,"
and toured the United States
with Premier Khrushchev in
l959.-DIANE HOFFMAN.
Evening star., 1961-02-19

tyr to her "old trouble;
j. WIS father, a retired
printer who speaks in coughs.
His greatest creation, though,
is Mr.. Raj. a Ceylonese stu
dent. who attaches himself to
]. w. Mr.. Raj has come to
England to write a thesis on
Poplar Conceptions Of Ra-
cial Differentiation" He also
wants to have bitter fun"
with an English lady. He
makes his presence felt in
the tight little isle from the
first.
Mr.. Raj is a brilliantly de-
lineated person: His bland
brashnesS, is symphonic cur,
rieS. his adhesive charm, his
quick fists, his intricate
speeches. his insistence on
his rights as q member OF
the British Commonwealth.
Mr.. Burgess, a musician
turned novelist. who once
lived in Borneo, has not a
note in this wonderfully Or
chestrated and tragic per-
Sonality.
THE Right to an Answer"
does not really give any. But
the question has not been so
wittily stated since Evelyn
Waugh threatened to make
everybody die laughing at his
accounts Of the soul-sick-
ness Of modern day society.
Evening star., 1961-02-19
Venus Flight Makes
Space Book Timely
OUTWARD bound FOR

OUTWARD BOUND FOR
SPACE. BY David D. Wood
bury. (Atlantic Little,
Brown; $4.50.)
An old hand at populariz-
ing technical subjects, David
o. Woodbury. has produced
a slim. 178-page history Of
mans space efforts that is
almost always clear and quite
often exciting.
He Is at his best in his re-
telling of Sputnik rs impact
on individual American scien-
fists and in his descriptions
Of French, Russian and
American rocket pioneers, or
moon men" as the public
sometimes called them. Mr..
Woodbury. is also careful to
give credit to many scientists,
not just the one or two with
a flair for public relations.
In his attempt TO say some
thing about nearly every
project, Mr.. Woodbury. some
times produces overly tight
sentences in which abbrevi-
ations-LOX, RSO, Dovac,
Azusa and Secor, for in
stance-come so fast and
thick as to impede even a
space oriented reader. He
also seems to contradict him
self when he says Congress
repeal of the law permitting
classified scientific informa-
ton to be exchanged with
our allies was undoubtedly
necessary" and then
blames the repeal for United
States failure to be first in
space. I'VE couldn't exchange
ideas Much basic work
had to be repeated at great
cost in money and delay"
But most Of Mr.. Wood
bury's book is clear, objec-
tive reporting. Readers seek
ing a broad and understand
Evening star., 1961-02-19
Other Books in Brief

AMERICAN FAMILY
LIFE. Edited by Joseph E.
Mersand. Washington
Square. $500 II Remem-
Der Mama" Life With
Father" and You Can't
Take It With You"
THE ART OF THE THEA
IRE. BY Henri Gheon.
(Dramabook, $1.95.) Four
lectures on the drama.
REFLECTIONS IN A
GOLDEN EYE. BY Carson
McCullers. (Bantam, $500
A reprint of the second
novel by the famous south
ern writer.
THE LADY AND HER DOC
TOR. BY Evelyn Piper.
Dolphin, $3.50 A psyche
logical mystery-reprint.
Is AM ERICAN ONE-ACT
PLAY S. Edited by Paul
Kozelka. ashington
Square, $500
THE ORIGIN OF THE
THEATER. BY Benjamin
Hunningher. Dramabook,
Sl.35.) An essay.
THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR
CONAN DOYLE. BY John
Dickson Carr. Dolphin,
S.95.)
TONO BUNGAY. BY H. G.
Wells. (Signet;; 50cD A re-
print of Wells satire about
a patent medicine manu-
facturer.
Evening star., 1961-02-19

against the Filipinos enrage
him. II have another brief
memory" he writes. "of a
battle field on Bataan among
the dead and dying Of hear
ing an American stretcher
bearer call to another. who
was about to give aid to a
wounded Filipino: Hey. take
this one first. he's white.
=. the thoughtlesS words
were spoken under stress,
but I remember the hurt in
them and the look on the
face Of the wounded soldier
who was left on the ground"
Friend Of United States
In spite Of all these Of
fenses, however, Gen. Romulo,
who stood with Gen. Mac
Arthur in Corregidor, mar
shalled American support for
the Philippines in this country
in war and peace, and rose to
the heights of world diplo-
macy in the United Nations,
remained a passionate friend
Of the United States who
aches for US to be faithful to
ideals and to Submerge our
baSer instincts.
He writes Of an intention
soon to leave public service
but disclaims any desire to
retire. After six decades Of
action-packed-hving he could
not II he tried.
EARL H. VOSS.
Evening star., 1961-02-19
y. S. Government
Is the Biggest Of
All Publishers
GOVERNMENT PUBLICA-

GOVERNMENT PUBLICA-
TIONS AND THEIR USE.
BY Laurence F. Schmecke-
bier and Roy B. Eastin.
(The Brookings Institu-
ton; So
It Is doubtful that any pub
Usher in the world publishes
as many documents, books,
reports. and periodicals as
the United States Govern
ment. They make up a great,
ever-changing library cover
ing virtually every field Of
human knowledge and en-
deavor.
AS any one with even q
superficial knowledge Of this
outpouring knows, a guide
book to these publication
stating in an orderly form
what they are. which agen-
cies issue them. How they
can be obtained-iS a virtual
necessity for the reference
shelf.
Back in 1896, the Brookings
Institution met that need
with the first edition of this
book. 1t was revised in 1899,
but not since then. This new
edition takes account Of the
many changes and the great
growth during the past 81
years.
The book describes anC
evaluates catalogs, indexes.
photographers and other such
compilations. Classification
and titling systems are ex-
planned, and outstanding pub
lications are pointed out. The
inevitable question - How
do I get it?"-is answered.
And new chapters on period
icals and microfacsimile
copies have been added.
CHARLES B. SEIB.
Evening star., 1961-02-19

so easy. so unconvincing. that
the long commercial it fol-
lows is robbed of its force.
The implication that there
is a relevance, a dramatic
necessity, in the shooting Of
Query is false. The burnt
out case arrives, talks, lis
tens. ruminates and feels
pain. Then he is killed with
a bullet. It is not predestina-
ton, nor inevitability, nor
truth, nor insight, nor any
thing much but a dash Of the
sensational. and a pretty
weary dash, at that.
ID. T.
Evening star., 1961-02-19
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

Marine is clever, pretty.
cool. confused and a thief.
She is one Of the most fasci-
mating and appealing heroines
in recent suspense fiction.
Her story is told in the first
person. with incredible in
sight. by q man. MARINE. by
Winston Graham Double
day & Co.; $2.95) is a girl
who leaves job after job with
a healthy share Of the COM
pany's aSsets-slipping into a
carefully planned new iden-
tity. But she is forced into q
grudging, baking search for
the person she could become
when she is found out at last
and marrieS the head of the
firm, who believes she loves
him, to escape exposure. Mr..
Graham is a great story teller
and Marine" is a great sto-
ry. Supurb Characterization
and suspense leave only one
regret-that the book must
end.
VEIN OF VIOLENCE. BY
William Campbell Gault ISL
mon & Schuster: $500
Brock the Rock Callahan
fans rally round-here's a
fine addition to the series.
Silent Screen Star Mary Mae
Milgrim is murdered in her
Hollywood castle, complete
with moat and drawbridge.
bought by Brooks Aunt Sehi
la and her Texas oil Million
aire husband. The possibility
Of oil on the land throws
some doubt on Uncle Homer's
motives and suggests he may
have been anxious to remove
Miss Milgrim. who planned to
live in a small house on the
property. The story is full Of
surprises, complicated human
Evening star., 1961-02-19

IN EnNA A1AONAL COMMOs
NISNI. st. Anthony's Papers
No. 9. Edited by David
Footman. (Southern Illinois
University Press; $3.50
THE MOULDING OF COM
MUNISTS. The Training Of
the Communist Cadre. BY
Frank S. Meyer. (Harcourt,
Brace; So
A collection Of monographs.
produced under the auspices
Of st. Antony's College, Ok
ford. explores some bypaths
Of the world Communist
movement. The Bolshevisa-
ton Of the Spartacus League"
and the study Of Will Mu-
enzenberg-"patron saint Of
the fellow traveller" - are
among the subjects covered.
OF more immediate inter-
est is the paper by ex-Ameri-
can Communist leader, Earl
Browder. He submits the
thesis that Marxist-Leninist
dogmas are obsolete in the
highly industrialized society
Of the United States, where
welfare measures reflect the
advanced status and living
standards Of workers. This
is a book for specialists rather
than the general reader.
Training the "Cadre"
Frank 8. Meyer. in his
analytical study of the train
ing of a "cadre" made a
notable contribution to the
list Of testaments by dis
tinguished ex-CommuniStS.
The term "cadre," borrowed
from military usage. refers
to the basic operational task
force of The Party" 1t is
also applied to individual
members Of the party appa-
ratuS, an elite group with
more prestige and greater
obligations than the rank
and file.
The author traces the STEP
by-step induction of a pro-
spective cadre from initial
recruitment to the stage
where he meets these critic
ria: "Who fights for COM
munism must be able to
fight and not to fight, to say
the truth and not to say the
truth to go into danger
and to avoid danger, to be
known and to be unknown.
Who fights for communism
has Of all the virtues only
one: That he fights for COM
muniSm."
The PARTY Line"
The guiding star OF the
true Communist is the
scientific truth" of Marx
ism-Leninism, exemplified by
party line" Although the
party line shifts or may do a
complete about face, the
party member, and especially
the cadre, learns to accept
the most glaring incon-
sistencies. Facts that do not
fit the theoretical outlook Of
Marxism-L -Leninism have only
a Shadowy existence. Reality
rests only in the doctrines
Evening star., 1961-02-19
This Lovers
Triangle Is
Dogs Fault
A WINTERS TALE. BY Jon
Golden. (Alfred A. Knopf;
$3.50

A WINTERS TALE. BY Jon
Golden. (Alfred A. Knopf;;
$3.95O
If you've been wanting to
read about a triangle COM
posed of a man, a woman
and a dog, then your ship
has come in. "A Winters
Tale" by Jon Golden, tells
this very story. and 1t comes
out as a hterate stylish
SPCA tract.
The dog. an Alsatian bitch
named Sylvie, is the incest
character in the book-quite
human. Which is a bit more
than you can say for the
man, who Is a successful
author and rather egocentric
in the way of bachelors; or
for the girl. who Is a de-
termined little baggage.
The man Is holed UP by
choice and marooned by
snow in his comfortable
country home with orchid
conservatory attached. Al
though he is being faithfully
tended by his SCARED bat
man, the work at hand is not
going well. He's a trifle stale.
Out of the storm, to relieve
his boredom, to give him
inspiration, comes a thorny
young actress. Object: Matri-
mony.
The dog and the girl take
an instant dislike to each
other. The girl turns the dog
not just out of the masters
bedroom. but usurps her place
at his feet by the fire as
well. The batman goes
around tending the orchids,
cooking the meals and NUT
tering darkly about badly
brought up young women.
Eventually-and no one could
blame her-the dog bites the
girl; the man beats the dog
and the dog goes off In a
jealous rage and kills sheep.
The readers Sympathies
are with the dog all the way.
Miss Golden obviously thinks
her the incest character of
the lot. There are some good
passages about the agony Of
writing and the hopelessness
of someone staying in a room
and not bothering the writer.
1t is all very readable, as
a matter Of fact, and just a
little bit absurd. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1961-02-19
History in Song

c. A. Brownies handy VOL
ume on THE STORY OF
OUR NATIONAL BALLADS
was first published many
years ago. 1t has been revised
and brought up to date by
Willard A. Heaps (Crowell.
So in a form which schools
and libraries will find very
convenient.
Evening star., 1961-02-19
"A BURNT-OUT CASE. B,

"A BURNT-OUT CASE. BY
Graham Greene. (The vi
king Press; $685.
Graham Greene divides his
longer fiction into two cate
gories-novels and entertain
ments. In the latter group
are the adventure stories like
"Our Man in Havana"
"The Third Man." and "Ori-
ent Express" Among the
novels are those stories such
as "The Heart of the Mat
ter" and THE Power and the
Glory" in which the motiva-
ton is the Roman Catholic
faith. "A Burnt-Out Case" I"
Mr.. Greene's latest book. is
a novel; its principle ingre-
dientS are Catholicism, lep-
rosy and sex.
A man closing the door on
his past life, an escapist who
believes that no memories
nor any problems to come
will trouble him, is so little
concerned with his destina-
tion that at the Brussels
airport he boards a plane to
Africa rather than one to
Tokyo solely because it leaves
a few minutes earlier. For
him the end of the line is
a "leproserie." a church,
operated leper sanitarium.
p arrived at by chance because
there, in the heart of the
African jungle. transporta-
ton comes to an end.
Query. the man. meets
many strange characters.
First. there is DR.. Colin, like
himself a relapsed Catholic
and a nonmilitant atheist.
who assigns to Query as a
servant a leper who has been
cured but who has been raw
iShed by the disease of fin
gers and toes and everything
that a mans body can lose
and still function. He is a
"burnt-out case; it is clear
that Query, too, in his own
way, also is one.
The Superior who runs the
leproserie is an affable, in
telligent man Of the world.
He combats the over-scrupu-
losity Of his priests, warning
them that health is more
important than fasting and
that the mores of the ma
tives are not always to be
judged by the standards Of
civilization.
Father Thomas, a guilt
Evening star., 1961-02-19
RARE GIFT IN fiction
Conversation
Putto Print
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

A GAY AND MELANCHOLY SOUND. BY Merle Miller.
william Sloane Associates: $3.50
Few people can write in q conversational style, in q
truly easy cooQual running natural conversational
the first place doesn't do try to initiate life except
for phrase sentence two for genuine conversation is
usually abomnable and recaptured in print is not only
highly artificial unreadab It is instructive to