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...office wall, a framed anonymous quotation says: "Oh, God, don't let me weaken. Help me to continue on. And when I go down, let me go down like an oak tree felled by a woodsman...
When it comes to honoring the pioneer fathers, few U.S. cities can outdo Salem (pop. 43,140), capital of Oregon. A brawny woodsman stands atop the capitol dome; pioneers flank the capitol entrance, a circuit rider sits astride a horse on the capitol grounds, and more pioneers stare bold-eyed from murals on the rotunda walls. Three weeks ago the city got a chance to put up still another tribute to its past, but this time it was a figure that looked strikingly different from the hardy frontiersmen. The statue: a hippy bronze nude by France's great Pierre...
...Governor of Alaska: B. (for nothing) Frank Heintzleman, 64, long (16 years) the Department of Agriculture's regional forester in Alaska. Woodsman Heintzleman follows the prevailing Washington opinion that Alaska is still too green for statehood. Says he: "I am very much interested in getting statehood for Alaska when it can finance the services of state government . . . I hope [that stage] will come in the next few years...
...kick out of the writer's literary style, ordered the $25 paid to him, and said, "It's worth it." The writing hobo was a 28-year-old Norwegian immigrant with goldrimmed spectacles and an aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers, taught Unitarian Sunday school in Minneapolis, driven a horsecar in Chicago (where he was fired for letting his horse plod past waiting passengers while he read Euripides...
...feels fortunate in having a real Maine woods guide, one of the last of a dying race, in its employ. Ross McKenny is in charge of the woods lore division and acts as judge and referee in the annual spring Woodsman's Weekend...