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13 Hatch Act 'is more inclusive than state laws. Whereas the Oregon Civil Ser- vice Act appliesr^^ ^ g ^ ^ e d <emp]ny~b ees, the Hatch Act>would include un classified employees'" of thV grant-in- aid agencies as, well. Recruiter Added to Staff Ralph Underwood was j^ ^intedfficg ||K|aM|ion in*-the C iW Servicp s Com- mission office in September. U n d er-' wood w ill be ip -‘charge bf The^Obmmisg ^^c^BreCr^Sing actw ip s g He for- mCrjy , workecfflBn the State -Eihploy- < ment Service vofficeSlWMcMi-nhv^^^i The Northwest In Books By Loretta G. Fisher Oregon State Library Now that the lpn§^^^niogai have BBSs: manw-of us are thinking of the fS^^ihg j w^ffibe sable to do this winter. Bega^^Bit is particularly pleasant to resSl about places and things nearby andifarmlfar to us, I ha^ ^ ^ e ^ &^ev-? eral re cent b ooks concerne d with the ?NSh'weM that I’d like you to know /a^ouhfhs' First a| ^ ^ o refn:^ ^ ^ R ln i ;t;e d S ta te s Justice William O. Douglas’ Of Men and Mountains, I which has proved so popular it has been on the best seller list continuously since its appearance last spring. Douglas writes in the f @j||l word: “ These pages contain what I, as a boy, saw, felt, smelled, tasted, and »Sasaiin the mountains of th^Kla^^O Northwest.” His experiences and the spiri^^^^^ ^m fw^^^^and phCj^ a ffny he draws from I them .will I be familiar tof^all man of theI world who have w alked inithe mountains anywhere. To t ^ B B e n ~ a n ^ ^om en. Of Men and Mountains will not only awaken memories of their own adventure, but Jwill help them to see tn^ ^ K xperiencel in a neyy perspective because he can ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ S ^ ^ n tifu lly and deftly the sensations and . feelings most of us want .ts ^ w . -but are unable to put into • words. jC<To the readg^^mffl^ttateMin th a fcaggsfe of the mountains, the Douglas book will open new vistas. He will want to go right over to the neighbors to bor row a sleeping- bag for’ a week-end. ttip^into the Cascades. MosT'fishermen'will appreciate Jus tice Douglas’ 'accounts of fishing trips and agree with him that the adventure met and the -pleasure of sharing it with congenial ; company is more important ||>Ba|æj|ll creel. Also, apparing oh thelo f s l^ e lle r . list this spring was- ‘ Mildred McNeilly’s Each Bright River, a noÿel of the Ore gon^ country between JL845..; and 1854. If you wanF'fo ^ ^ M ^^^^bgon " City, Fort Vancouver . and Puget Sound as they werëyimlthjse pioneej^dayg, here âr^âuthentic and graphic descriptions^ The heroine, Kitty Gatewood, is a beautiful and W ealthy Southern belle who comes around the Horn to Oregon City, seekingher prodigal fiance. The 4aï|||Bhas taken an India^B/oman, and commits suicide rather than meet Kitty. K itty’s negro slave runs away with her m oneyed that Kitty -is.stran- But she .fheets^with courage the problems * of making a living and the” hardsh i^ im frontier life, learning, in ®Ke meantime,-Itpÿlpve the country. An- otherI love, which she at first finds MiMBeful. is that" of the arrogant [Htj brave and ^ p ab leggagntiersman. Curt gEiffcher, and frotn him she turns to Sunset Lee,lah~ equally courageous and a more gentle mountainman. The sorry condition of the overland emigrants upon arrival in the valley, m B horror Q the Whitman massacre, j f | | | Gold Rush fevelBthe^àntagonism the American^jv.er The- boundary are all a part of Each Bright River. Mrs. McNeilly Was born on a North-, west ranch I which her grandparents ,‘bought from thêilndia.O foh/éix deer skins and a plug of tobacco. She was a reporter^ 'for a " Seattle . paper before to Pasadena B Ü lefce she now IRSrs, with her husband anddaughter. Jo Evahn Lundy’s Tidewater Valley i s B title in the Land of the Free, a series of junior historical novels. A l- though it is written for teenagers, I found this story of thep ^ B W n Tilla mook county particularly interesting, and several other members of our staff (Continued on Page 21)
