: . book sum:
"The Four Winds", ,a novel by Charles Hayes, ' is the story of the Hardin Family
who lives in juioblest oiroumetanoes, struggling to wrest a living from soil long
A since gohe steirile#
Pa Hardin;loees his land and they are forced to move into an abandoned house,
. ,Thoir px^ide faces a crushing blew# How crushing each member only gradually comes
1'*;to realise, "Ma Hardin bemoans that inevitably, in thoir search for opportunities
J fl d9nied vdt iidoie, they will be scattered to the four winds*
:In these people and their fight for a ohanoe at life, one sees human hature,
proud and dospdiring^ tender and oruol, unhappy and gay, in the faoe of insurmonnt
able handicaps* ;
' Here are real individuals, drawn by a writer especially gifted in portraying
character* They, as well as the problems which confront them, ore, for better or
' for Worse, American*
"Graustark" The story of a love behind a throne by George. Barr MoCutoheon*
"Hawaii and It1 s Pedple" by A* Grove Day* This book deals wit^ Hawaii and it’s
people from the time an. unknown Polynesian Columbus first sighted the islands to
Captain Cook’s discovery in 1778, and from then to the present* * A
"Don’t Tread On Me" by Capt# Walter Karig U*S*N# A novel of the historio
ploits, military and gallant, of Commodore John Paul Jones*
"The White Desert" by John Giaover* The official aooount of the Norwegian,
British, and Swedish Antarotio expedition*
.See you atthe Fletcher Library
ALASKA—FOR TOUR INFORMATION
There are fishermen stationed at Adah,/Alaska* If you ddfc*t b&liove it,/ just
take a cheek on the pier at Finger Bay on my week-end, fair weather or foul* The
primary catoh appears to be ‘’Japaneses Perch” and various other weird finny ere*
aturos of the deep. However, the primary topics of conversation, when it gots a
round to fishing (as it frequently doos), are salmon and trout. Yet, did you know
that the Dolly Vardon trout is not a trout at all? Or that the Pacifio coast sal~
mon- does not belong to the genus Salmo? Or that the Atlantic salmon is not a sal
mon^ it*S a troutl '
These* are'a few of the misconceptions that will be oleared up in the next^^w
weeks, 1 hope.
It is understandable that confusion could arise as all three fish belong to the
family Salmonidae* This family, as understood in modern ichthyology, the study of
fishes, consists of three principal groups of fishes* The salmon, the trouts, and
the ohars* ,
Salmon, as a group name, is roatriotod to several speoies of the Pacific be
longing to the genua Onoorhynchus, This is done notwithstanding that the name sal
mon no doubt was used for the species whioh migrate from the sea to fresh-water
streams to spawn of the genUs Salmo (the trouts) long before’it oeme into use for
the members of the £enus Onoorhynchus*
The minor differences distinguishing one genus of fish from another probably
seem negligible to the average fisherman and in this particular family of fishes,
they are especially trivial; Salmon differ from trout in site cf the anal fin,
which in the salmon is longer than it is high and oontains 15 or more rays* Trout
and ohars have fe*»er than 12 rays• Some difference* (to be continued next week)
Questi6ns pertaining to wildlife or ge
ography’ of the Alaskan region may be
sont to the Jklak Sun, and will be ons
wo,r$& ballasting jester .edition*