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AN ALL-NEW INCLINED OVER
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FIVE PLYMOUTH ENGINE 1
OPTIONS FOR 1960. The first in
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inclined to make servicing simpler, to
lower the car’s center of gravity and
to make handling and riding easier.
Also for 1960: the limited-production
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FEATURES NO OTHER CAR IN
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doorlocking system*. RCA “45”
Record Player*. And many more.
* Optional at extra cost
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SOLID PLYMOUTH 1960
LARRY GALVIN
Froi^t Street, Nome
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OUTDOORS
By ALAN COURTRIGHT
While in Anchorage a couple of
weeks ago,, I picked up a book
that I’ve been meaning to add to
my library for a couple of years:
Olaus Murie’s “Field Guide to
Animal Tracks” (Houghton Mifflin
Co., Boston, 1954; 374 pp., $3.95).
Now that the year’s first snowfall
has arrived, the book should
prove useful; up until now, I’ve
enjoyed reading it but haven’t put
it to use.
Back in 1953 I was a visitor at
Dr. Murie’s place in Wyoming,
in company with a few other wild
life management students and a
professor. One night we were all
going up to Grand Teton National
Park headquarters to do a bit of
square dancing, and our group
walked over to the Murie’s house
to pick up the naturalist and his
wife. While we were waiting for
Mrs. Murie, Dr. Murie went up to
the attic and brought down sev
eral boxes full of plaster casts of
animal tracks, and everyone got
so interested that Mrs. Murie lit
erally had to drag us off to the
dance. Those plaster casts were
the basis for many of the drawings
in the book, and Dr. Murie’s writ
ing generates almost as much in
terest as his extemporaneous
talks. The book is not a collection
of dry writings and dull drawings;
it’s full of anecdotes and interest
ing etchings, and makes good fire
side reading, as well as being a
primer for the reading of stories
in the snow.
Although most of the book is
devoted to the tracks and signs
of animals, some birds, reptiles
and even insects are included. One
thing I couldn’t find was any dif
ference between the tracks of
reindeer and caribou — not that
I expected to find any; the way
people talk, however, the two
animals are so different that there
would almost HAVE to be some
difference in the tracks.
On the subject of reindeer; last
j week the linotype operator must
have figured I left out a couple
of letters in my orignal copy —
“feral” (meaning domestic ani
mals which have reverted to a
wild state). The printed version
had it that the Fish and Game De
partment was going to try to de
termine how many “federal” rein
deer there are on the Seward
Peninsula.
It’s all the same difference
though, at least according to Mr.
Vern Hirsch of the BIA. Mr.
Hirsch says that all unherded
reindeer are the property of the
U. S. Government; in other words,
feral reindeer are federal rein
deer. Which reminds me of the
hoary old joke of the man who
asked the waitress whether the
pie he was eating was apple or
peach, to which the waitress re
plied “If you can’t tell by the
taste, whai, difference does it
make?”
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