LIBR ARY
From the January Best Seller List
the following books are available at
the station library*
FICTION
The Agony and The Ecstacy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Spirit Lake
Clock Without Hands
The Edge of Sadness
NON-FICTION ‘
- Stone
- Lee
- Kantor
- McCullers
- O'Connor
Living Free -Adamson
The Making of the President 1960 *
' White
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Sherer
The Coming Fury - Cotton
Newcomers* to .the 'Island will find
that the Fletcher Library in the Bering
Building will offer them many hours of
reading pleasure in the books carried
by.this well stocked library* Recom
mended reading for all newcomers are
the books: Glacier Pilot, Birthplace
of the Winds and Bridge to Russia which
combined together will give the read
er a composite picture of the life and
adventure of a tour in the Aleutians.
The book 'Bridge to Russia' tells how
the Aleutians were formed, topography,
history and is an excellent reference
book for many of the questions you
will be asked by your children or fri
ends and relatives in the lower *48*
There is a waiting list for these books
but due to the fact many copies are in
circulation the waiting period is not
long* Pay a visit to your station
library soon*
READ FOR ADVANCEMENT AS WELL AS FUN
.. ,C A RJ BOU '
Mr. Robert D. Jones of the Fish and
Wildlife Service has reported a count
of 36 caribou in a recent trip to the
site of the Adak caribou transplant area
at the Bay of Islands on Adak*
It has been said that in 1948, pers
onnel at Davis Air Force Base,, now the
Naval Station here, wondered what would
happen' to them if their food supply was
cut off from the outside. An idea was
to transplant caribou on the island as
an emergency food supply and for recreat
ional hunting.
It was not until 1958 that this idea 4
was culminated by the first recorded
transplant of caribou was accomplished
by the use of Air Force helicopters op
the mainland and the Marines on Adak who
bottle-fed the young calves under the
direction of the Bureau of Fish and Wild
life who provided biological know-how in
development of feeding formulas, bottle
feeding and changing caribou, beds three
times a week#
In all, 24 caribou were successfully
transplanted from their range on the
Alaskan mainland in 1958 and 1959. At
the last *visit to the area not all of
these 24 were seen although a cow and
calf were seen which indicated the succ
ess of the program.
This years sighting of 36 is good
news and is an indication that the Carib
ou transplanted to Adak on the western
part of the island are doing well# There
are no roads to the area known as the Bay
"of islands and therefore it is quite is
olated but seems to have the type of sur
roundings conducive to the success of
the caribou transplant.
ONE MORE WEEK
B.R. Oates, District Director of
the Immigration and Naturalization
Service said today aliens in Alaska
have only one more week in which to
comply with the Federal Law requir
ing that aliens report their address
es to the Government during January
of each year.
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The deadline for registering is Wednes
day, January 31, 1962*
The Immigration official urged all al
iens who have not yet complied to go as
soon as possible to the nearest Post Off
ice where .the farms'are available.
Parent? or guardians must file the re
port for alien children under 14 years of
age.