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ELMER'S IMPASSIONED DEFENSE OF MATANUSKA BROUGHT a flood of letters from the LowerForty-eight, sixty percent containing messages of encouragement, the rest condemninghim as a communist. ''Where's that?''Smart distance due west. e grandson of Malcolm Venn and Tammy Ting, he had Tlingitand Chinese blood, which made him part Native. austed state he failed to practice the cautionswhich had kept him alive for six years, and in his drifting he came wit

tive newcomerfrom Oklahoma and a young half-breed fellow with jet-black bangs hanging over hiseyes. And hehad made the grave error of bringing with him his dog Killer, who showed his growlingdislike for all the Flatches, including Flossie. The local papers, of course, featuredthe fact that Tammy Venn was the daughter-in-law of Thomas Venn, president of Ross& R Thegirl, well, she's something else.