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Books-in the news by Collice Portnoff Republic Book Editor Longhorm and tall tales LONGHORNS NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS, by Ralph F. Jones. The Naylor Co. San Antonio, Tex. 371 pp.

$7.95. LOST LEGENDS OF THE WEST, by Brad Williams and Choral Pepper. (192 pages and 21 photographs. Holt, Rinehart and Winston $5.95.) For years J. Frank Dobie's documented history.

For in- RINGS AROUND TOMORROW. Hugh Downs. (Doubleday As a rule we don't associate that magic box, television, with erudition. Hugh Downs, however, is the notable exception, and a delightful raconteur as well. His "Rings Around Tomorrow" fully substantiates one's television impression, too.

His slender though complex volume is based on a string of articles he wrote for "Science Digest" (Hearst Corporation), some of them rewritten and considerably enlarged, with one theme in common man's position in the universe. Isaac Asimov, who writes the Introduction, is a Russian born educator, the author of "Intelligent Man's Guide to Science," "Human Brain," "Understanding Physics," "Quick and Easy Math," and others. In 1928 Asimov became a U.S. citizen, received his Ph.D. from Columbia, and has been a professor at the Boston University School of Medicine since 1949.

He has been a guest on the Today's Show" and briefly, fellow columnist with Hugh Downs for "Science Digest." IN TRIBUTE TO DOWNS Dr. Asimov writes: "It is a great value to mankind generally that as many of us as possible learn to understand and appreciate where science is going and how. Our lives and well-being depend on it. If mankind generally allows science to recede into some incomprehensible distance, then scientists will became a priesthood divorced from contact with humanity and they may become ineffective or, worse yet, dangerous." As Hugh Downs himself puts it: "This book presents my attempts to get my bearings in the midst of our highly developed, technically advanced society, to explore my own position and even occasionally to chart possible courses for the future." "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness." These words of James Thurber to fit Hugh Downs' mood perfectly as he makes the world the object of his scrutiny. In these thirty-one short articles, Downs probes current problems of society, sets forth what the "summum bonum" 1 is for you layman and the world, and expresses his concern I about the crystalization of our ideas.

Quoting with easy familiarity authorities like Pierre Teil- hard de Chardin, Dr. Warren Weaver, Sir Julian Huxley, Thomas Merton, Erich Fromm, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Downs lends extension and weight to his probing. Three chapters among his thought-provoking speculations about man and his universe, have particular appeal: first, "The Vision of Father Pierre." Occasionally a man appears, Downs says, who can look out over the treetops and see the I I 'forest stretching for miles in every direction, a scientist able to extract patterns, trends, meanings from what he views I and therefore a wise man.

1 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit was such a man. Paleontologist and thinker, Teilhard de Chardin taught I at the Institute Catholique in Paris, visited China where in 1929 he became involved in the discovery of an'exemplary specimen of Peking Man (Sinanthropus). From 1951 Father Teilhard worked in New York with emi-1 nent research teams, until his death there in 1955. He aimed I at a metaphysic of evolution, holding contrary to Bergson I that it was a process converging toward final unity (Teil- 1 hard's "omega Scientifically Teilhard showed that I evolution has not ended and that it has a direction, and that! man can be optimistic about the future. Second, Downs' article on the "fast draw" with a gun and his own fortuitous try at it is intriguing.

And third, also amusing is his whimsical description of our possible progeny. How would you like to be the progenitor of this: "The completely hairless, rather large-domed and weak- limbed man of the future will wear temperature-controlled underclothing, infrared or extended spectrum eyeglasses, multichannel all-distance audio-sensing aids, air-purification and breath-control systems or possibly, with atrophied lungs, oxygen-extraction systems equally effective in air or water and having the capability to carry oxides into outer space. Personal locomotion may be accomplished effortlessly by means of powered clothing so that weak muscles need only trigger a relay to amplify the power wishes of the organism." Downs puts important rings around tomorrow by informing the layman, making him think and enjoy his thinking. classic, "The Longhorns," has been the basic book about the wild, tough Spanish cattle of the Texas brush country and the equally wild, tough riders who rounded up and sold them. Now, an excellent supplement to Dobie's book is here, written by a Phoenician, Ralph F.

Jones, the son of a pioneer cattlemen and a cowboy and cattleman himself in his earlier years. The locale is not Texas, where the Anglo ranchers found them, but 1,500 miles away, up the Texas-Montana trail to the knee-high grass of the northern plains country Wyoming, Northeastern Colorado, Western Nebraska, the Western Dakotas and Montana. The grass was free and until the homesteaders moved in, the cattlemen had the area all to themsleves. Jones has blended his own memories and careful research into a colorful, authentic record of the cattle empires' great days. In following the whole sweep of action from 1868 to the turn of the century, he recounts: HOW THE TEXAS steers were rounded up, in herds of 2,000, for the long, hard drive to the northern grassland.

How the powerful cattle companies, whose brands became known over all the West, ruled the states, controlling the economy, dominating the politics and sometimes maintaining their own armies. How the working cowboys lived, worked and played and how the cattle barons, often representing multimillion-dollar British syndicates lived 1 worked and played (sometimes, it resembled England in the pre- Magna Carta days). How the Plains Indians Arapaho, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee- fought back when the white man cleared the area of buffalo in just a few short years. There are all sorts of stories about a wide range of things the army, the railroads, the weather, the land itself, frontier women and frontier characters, law officers, politicians. And there's a full page of famous brands.

There's the best short account, to date, of the bloody Johnson County War, when one faction shipped in a railroad car full of "well-known professional gunmen with low-slung open holsters from Texas and Arizona." And there's an interesting chapter on the far-flung Hash Knife combine, which once ran herds on the Pecos River in New Mexico, in Texas, in Northern Arizona and in Montana, with a short biography of Burt (Cap) Mossman, superintendent of the Arizona operation and first captain of the Arizona Rangers. LEGEND IS HISTORY told by a storyteller, who never allows facts to stand in the way of what the master story teller of them all, J. Frank Dobie, used to call The Real Truth. Legends are more fascinating and more enduring than stance, who has not heard of Robin Hood but who knows of Robin of Hode, a petty thief who never gave a penny to tne poor in his life. Everyone has heard Parson Weems' story of young George Washington and the cherry tree, but if you know the date of Ralph F.

Jones Washington's first inauguration will you please stand up. The American West is endowed with more legends per square mile than any place in the New World, probably because of the nature of the West desert and mesa, shadowy canyons and mountain ranges that stretch from Alaska to the Sierra Madre of Mexico, the hieroglyphics and the ruins left by races now vanished and the others who left their mark upon the land Indian and conquistador, goldhunters and gunfighters, Mexican bandits and the secretive Black Robes, cowmen and refugee poets and the lone burro men. In "Lost Legends of the West," Choral Pepper and Brad Williams have assembled an excellent variety of legends and they are first- rate storytellers. Sometimes the reader is led through the twists and turns of a legend to a dead end and left there. Sometimes the reader is given the fragments of a legend, to assemble as best he can.

There are 21 legends in the Pepper-Williams line-up, ranging from the Lost Skull of the Laguna Man to the Lost Gold Bars of Junta Blanco. In between are stories about Pearl Hart and her disappearing lover, California's mysterious diamonds, a ghostly camel that wanders the Western Arizona desert with a skeleton tied to its back, Pancho Villa's lost head and the $1,000 misunderstanding, a trio of lost monsters, the giant figures and the Minoan maze that can be seen only from the air above the Arizona desert, lost mummies, lost expeditions, lost ships, vanished towns and lost ladies. THIS REVIEWER'S favorite chapters are those that tell of the lost payroll at Wickenburg and the lost gold bars of New Mexico's Organ Mountains. The Indians at Date Creek were blamed, and punished, for the Wickenburg Massacre, a stagecoach drygulching nine miles west of town on November 5, 1871. Six of the eight persons on board were killed and the authors raise a number of interesting questions about the ambush and its two survivors, Mollie Shepherd and William Kruger.

What happened to the $100,000 of army payroll funds Kruger, a quartermaster cashier, was carrying? What happened to the $40,000 Miss Shepherd, a Prescott madame, was carrying? Why didn't the attackers take the horses, the jewelry, the blankets and "colored rugs and gay Indians always did. Why was the stagecoach shovel found wedged between two rocks 300 yards from the scene of the killings? The story about Jesuit gold in the Organs is one I heard often during the 13 years I lived in Southern New Mexico. It was an elusive story, but its lure was so strong that as late as 1949 men were dying trying to find it. Reviewed by KEARNEY EGERTON Best Seller List This Week 1 New York Times FICTION The French Lieutenant's Woman. Fowles i 2 The Godfather.

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5 8 The Graham Kerr Cookbook. 6 9 In Someone's Shadow. McKuen 7 10 Love and Will. May Last Weeks Week On List 14 49 5 21 7 2 11 1 12 14 19 12 42 17 3 21 11 7 3 Chtldren Church's growing pains Spies THE PEOPLE ARE THE CHURCH by Eugene C. Kennedy, N.M.

(Doubleday, Garden City, New York) Teilhard de Chardin wrote: "The essential core of Christianity, in my view, is certainly none of the humanitarian or moral ideals so dear to both believers and unbelievers: it is to maintain and preserve "The primacy of the Personal," extend it analogically to the whole and also positively to bring the world into contact with the supreme Person." Eugene Kennedy, priest and psychologist, in his present book, "The People are the has this thought of DeChardin very much in mind as he tries to assess the present dilemma of the Church as it wavers between following the aggiorna- mento sought by Pope John XXIII and Vatican Council Two and a retreat into its former bastions of centralized authority. Kennedy sees a retreat as the abandonment of the primacy of the person. Kennedy seeks to draw an analogical comparison between the growth of a person and the progressive growth of an organization, in this case the Catholic Church. He sees a person's growth as a gradual replacement of most outside authority by the self- regulation of inner maturity. He sees humans progressively freed, not from morality, but from the imposition of morality by outside force, by authority; and he sees this freedom as the reward for maturity.

Kennedy then goes on to express his thesis that the Church's growth should lead it to liberate its people more and more so that they will be ever more mature Christians who "glory in the freedom of the sons of God" as they approach their heavenly Father. Kennedy does not take the naive position that there should be no authority, since he knows that there will always be those who fail to reach the maturity of self- restraint which would make authority unnecessary, i He takes the position that authority should be used as lightly as possible, and that those in authority should be seeking, not the imposition of their wills, but the growth of the persons who serve under them, a growth which should lead to ever-increasing freedom from external restraint. Kennedy's book is a new crying out of an old truth, one which is always accepted in theory but not always in practice, that the Church exists for people, not people for the Church. REVIEWED BY FATHER JOHN DORAN A new slant on espionage 19, A STORY, by Roger Hall. (Norton, 255 pps.

$5.95.) "19" is a realistic spy story that is the participants never leave the United States, the hero doesn't carry a gun and the sex angle is subordinated to fact. The most important question to the publisher however will not be how realistic the book is but how much will it gross? "19" will tell if people require their spires to out Bond Ian Fleming's favorite character. If the reader wants a truer picture of life in the national secret services any of them this book will sell. It has a hero with a sense of humor. The comic relief might almost detract from the plot except that the book has such a good plot it would be hard for anything to shadow it.

It has an anti hero who is not even an enemy just someone a little top nosy for the tastes of the Nineteens, a spy force within a spy force. AND THE HERO doesn't sever an artery with a well aimed shot or rip through a vein with a honed knife to eliminate his anti-hero. The sex angles of the book are about as advanced as an eighth grader's knowledge of the subject, though this last is not inconsiderable. However, the author handles the subject better than any eighth grader would and stays, a way from vulgarity. Almost too 'true to be simply "a story," "19" may well make the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency people stay awake at night wondering where the leak in their organization is.

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$4.29) This collection of Eskimo stories and legends, rewritten with great charm, is equally a delight for children for whom it was ostensibly written and for any adult who has ever been fascinated by the Eskimo. Because of the author's careful selection of these tales, and her eye for detail, she has managed to explain a great deal about day to day Eskimo life within the context of each story. The myth about the Moon Husband, for example, based on the universal theme of wanting the moon, manages to convey the flavor of igloo life, the food, clothes, hunting techniques, and even the attitudes of Eskimo husbands to their wives without ever seeming to step outside the story to explain. Many an Eskimo wife isolated by the weather and customs must have complained as this one does: "There is no one here for me to talk to," in answer to her husband's protest, "I told you that I needed a patient, untrouble- some wife and you give me nothing but trouble." Again, in the story about how Raven found the daylight, the tricky hero, disguised as a baby, is indulged when he cries and given the great ball of light which he promptly breaks into daylight. And surely nothing could be more comically cruel than the wicked grandmother in the title tale cheerfully serving herself a very large meal of bear meat while her supposedly blind grandchild watches her serve him two unappetizing boiled lemmings.

A treat for the eye is provided by the illustrations taken from current artwork, prints, engravings and carvings by modern Eskimo artists, published by permission of the U.S. Indian Arts and Crafts Board and the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. These are chosen to make the environment of the stories even more vivid. Printed in blue on white, the publishers have further strengthened the impression of snow and ice. The author, Ramona Maher Weeks, has published a number of other books for children and is a widely published poet, as well, under the name Ramona Weeks.

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