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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
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