The Book Worm
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offers its readers the Book
Worm. Though this column
we will keep you up to date
on new books and at the
same time you may buy these
books for your own library,
by placing your order order
with the Baranof Banner.
A Dream of Fuji
by Arthemise Goertz
A novel about a group of aliens trapped in wartime Tokyo.
Janet Shaw, an American
girl, came to Japan just be
fore Pearl Harbor to forget
an unhappy love affair. With
the sudden outbreak of war,
she becomes overnight an
enemy alien in a hostile land,
and is caught up in the fren
zy. fear, and intrigue of an
alien society.
Janets youth and beauty
b e c o m e s her important
a s s e t s. Befriended by the
Swiss Consul, Eric Strohm,
she is given a chance to es
cape. But her love for Dick
Cameron, an American news
paperman, compels her to
stay. Interned in a mission
house run by a pro-Japanese'
American widow, Janet
shares her fate with an oddly
mixed group of people. One
of these is the mysteries Vic
toria Trent, mistress of Baron
Maeda, a liberal Japanese
noble. Victoria, half Cana
dian, half Japanese, offers
Janet the limited protection
she herself receives as the
Barons mistress. Another is
Fannie Matson, a bitter cyni
cal German girl married to an
American with whom she had
hoped to ('scape. Suspense
and terror mount as each be
gins the nightmare struggle
for s u r v i v a 1. Arthemise
Goertz weaves this story of
love under peril through a
richly detailed panorama of
life in wartime Japan. The
a u t h o r, who spent many
years in Japan and was her
self an enemy alien in Tokyo,
brilliantly evokes a time of
tragedy and a place of beauty
and terror in a suspenseful
novel that is certain to'take
its place' beside her other
popular successes,“Give Us
Our Dream”, The Moon Is
Mine", and “New Heaven,
New Earth”.
400 p a g e s, 5 5/8 x 8 3/8
$4.95 plus 15c city sales tax
a n d 35c for postage and
handling.
It All Started with Marx
by Richard Armour
Armour aims again-and hits the Marx
Spoofing Politics and Poli
ticians is Richard Armour’s
happiest hunting ground. He
comes well armed with facts
and fancy, and with an arsen
al of exaggeration, u n d e r
statement, wordplay, and wit.
Happy fans of such Armour
classics as “It All Started with
Columbus’, It All Started
with Europa", “It all Started
with Eve”, and“Twisted Tales
from Shakespeare” will wel
come this new comic out
burst.
In this, his latest safari in
fo satire and the charming
world of light, lighter, and
1 i g h t e s t humor, Armour
romps through the history of
Communism (with a brief
history of Russia thrown in
lor good measure), with prize
specimens like Marx, Lenin,
Stalin, and Khrushchev as his
targets, he hilariously sects
dissects the comic Comarad
es.
There’s a full quota of de
lightful humor is every line as
Armour makes capital of Das
(Capital, relates the orgies of
the Orgburo, and leads us
through revolutions, counter- *
revolutions, and c o u n t e r
counterrevolutions, with a
few exploratory jaunts into
the Communist world of at
heism and free love added for
extra fun. It all adds up to a
delightfully mad tangle-the
book least likely to succeed
in the Soviet Union.
Cambell Grant, former Dis
ney artist who has illustrated
Richard Armours previous
satires of history and litera
ture, has contributed 65 won
derfully funnv line drawings.
125 pages' 5 x 7M> $2.95,
9(J- city sales tax and 35c for
postage and handling.
Mr. Armour’s other books
may also be ordered at the
same price per book.
Books for Young People by Whittlesey House.
Scat, the Witch's Cat
by Geraldine Ross
Pictures in color by Kurt
Werth
“In tht' crags of G r a z y
Mountain, near the boiling
Fire Fountain, lived a witch
named Mrs. Stitch." These
are the first lines of a picture
book about a cat that might
l>e your own.
Boys and girls will be fas
cinated by Scat, and all the
other o e c n p a n t s of Mrs.
Stitch's cave the snake named
Jake, the owl named Scowl,
the bat named Brat, the crow
named Joe and most of all by
the thinly flat cat named
Scat, who is frankly scared of
witches and their pranks..
How Scat, who escapes to
a real home here he stays in
side on Halloween with his
eyes closed, makes a perfect
readaloud book. Kurt W orth’s
pictures in three colors are
scary but full of fun just like
Halloween. Combined with
wonderful, lilting r It y in e s
they provide just the right
amount of eeriness for a tale
of a very wicked witch and a
very lovable cat,
32 pages set is large, read
able type with pictures on
every page, ages 4-8,7 \ 10,
regular cloth edition $2.00
plus 6 c city sales tax or the
special library edition $2.75,
plus 9c city sales tax. Please
add 35 c for p o st a g e and
handling.
Other current best sellers.
Tell Me a Story, Edited by
Charles Laughton 392 pages
$5,00, plus 15c city tax and
35c for postage and handling.
The Final Face of Eve, by
•Evelyn Lancaster, $4.50, phis
14c city sales tax and 35 r for
postage and handling
A Mail Called Peter, by
Catherine \ 1 arshall, specia 1
edition $2.49, plus 7(- city
sales sax asd 35c for postage
and handling.
Students if you need a text
book ask us first We have
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subjects, Science, Social Sei
e n e e, Business, Education
Engineering and the Arts. All
books are ordered from New
5ork, please allow several
necks for delivery.
Please send remittance with
order.
New X-Ray
A complete, modern x-ray
unit has recently been instal
led at the Moore Clinic, Hali
but Ft. Road. Not only is such
a unit necessary or the safety
and convenience of patients
to the Clinic but plays a vital
part in the* practice of ortho
pedics and general surgery.
The unit includes an X-llay
table and fluoroscopy list'd
for stomach and internal ex
aminations with the immedi
ate possibility of a picture.
The centering device is con
nected with a heavy duty X
Ray tube and is the latest in
projected light for centering
along with continuous size
adjustment representing the
ulitimate in patient protect
ion.
The X-Ray Controls Mach
ine has been on the market
for only three months and has
an electronic timer. (Timing,
we learned, is the essence of
X-Ray).
The third part of the unit
is the Dark Room. This has a
cascade overflow and is con
trolled by a thermostat, keep
ing the solutions at a contant
temperature.
Mrs. Area Boroughs. X-Ray
technician for the Clinic, was
trained at the California Col
lege of Medical Technicians
and has been at the Mt,
Edgeeeube H o spit a 1 for 4
and a half years. She has re
cently jointly the Moore
Clinic staff.
Oothers on the staff in
clude Mrs. Phillip Moore,
Nurse, Mrs. Doris Borhauer,
part-time physiotherapist and
Dr. T. M. Moore who has
just finished a five year resi
dency at Barnes Hospital, St.
Louis in the specialty of gen
eral s u r g e r v. Dr. Philip
Moore heads the Clinic.
We-The Pioneers
by one Jessica Mather
This week we pioneers,
many of us who have lived on
the Alaska Coast before com
ing here and have known Mr.
Malfred Soley personally or
by hearsay, were shocked to
know of his passing so sud
d e n 1 y on Monday of last
week. Mr. Soley, who has
worked so long and hard in
the fishing industry and w ho
lived in a home whose doors
were always open to some
friendly gesture, will be mis
sed by everyone w ho knew
him. His wife, Anne, was
truly a partner, too, for she
shared his genuine liking for
the other fellow. Those from
the Home who could attend
ed the fumeral Service in the
Cliurch of his faith where
floral tokens of sympathy and
love were truly beautiful and
almost covered the casket
During the service Mrs.
Gacnslen, w ho has a very
beautiful voice, sang “The
Old Rugged Cross'”, one of
Mr. Soley s favorite gospel
hymns.
I understand Mrs. Town
send, Mr. Soley’s daughter)
from Anchorage, will be
spending a little while with
Mrs. Soley and will be a
great comfort at this time,
I'm sure. And the two young
Norwegian gentlemen, who
have lived with the Soleys
and upon whom they have
looked almost as sons, have
been a great help.
During the past weeks I
have intended in these col
umns to extend a word of
thanks to the V.F.W., the
Loyal Order of Moose, the
Soroptimist ladies, Grandma
Whittimore, Irene W hite and
Vi's for contributing to our
fortnightly Saturday evening
p 1 e a s u r e. Our games our
much enchanced by the love
ly gifts. We are all most ap
preciative.
W e had a flutter last W’ed
n e s d a y morning. By the
grapevine before1 breafast we
heard that the radio present
ed to the ladies had disap
peared but we were able to
breath freely after breakfast
as it had been suggested that
one of the ladies should take
care of it in her room during
the nights, hadn’t been taken
after all simply tucked away
for safe keeping!
Our next excitement will
be Alaska Day not only is it
special for Alaska but also
for the Women’s Wing of the
Home for it was opened two
years ago os Alaska Day and
a great day it was too! Weve
grown from the original five
to very nearly thirty now.
Next week I would like to
do a sketch on the Home. So
far, I've been rambling on
about the happenings now I
should like go into what our
Home really is. Following
that, in the weeks to come, a
little profile on each of us, in
cluding our staff members,
for, of course, they make the
home tick!
Three more Pioneers have
arrived at the Home in the
last few days. Although all
are originally from Scandin
avia the;« have each spent
many years in Alaska. Nikolai
Kristensen, 81, was born in
Norw ay and came to Alaska
in 1907. Nikolai w ho is a fish
erman was naturalized in
Nome in 1916 and has lived
there, in Council and in False
Pass. Joseph Anderson, also
SI, was born in Sweden and
arrived in Alaska in 1898. A
miner he has lived in Tionek,
Nome, Susitna Valley, the
Fairbanks area and Anchor
age. Hjalmer Peterson, *6,
was bom in Norway and
came in Alaska in 1907. Mr.
Peterson who is a cook has
lived in Ketchikan. Anchor
age, Seward, Sitka, and Min
ilchik.
If my readers are wonder
ing when I'm going to stop
I’m stopped! for this time.
VOTE FOR
Myrfh B. Sarvela
dependable & trustworthy
lor your State Representative
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