Alaska Is the Forgotten Land, Most
Misunderstood Possession—Atwood
PORTLAND, Ore., (!f\—“Alaska*
is the forgotten land, the most
misunderstood of all our posses
sions,’’ Robert Atwood, publisher
of the Anchorage Times, said last
Monday.
Speaking at the fourth annual
Alaska Day luncheon of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce, At
wpod said, “I hate to go east of
the Mississippi. People ask me if
I live in an igloo and eat blubber.
They want to know if we Alas
kans really share our wives with
strangers. They think we live on
a chunk of ice.”
He said the reason many Alas
kans were fighting for statehood
was because “we are governed by
5,000 land laws administered 5,000
miles away—and all of them say
no. None of them says yes.”
He outlined five immediate
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needs for development of Alaska:
Workable land laws; cheap elec
tric power which he said can be
provided only by federal funds;
highways to tap the territory’s
resources: coordination of the
dozen federal agencies which fre
quently “sever diplomatic rela
tions and wage cold war upon
each other;” and statehood, which
he said would help solve many of
the other problems.
In what apparently was a refer
ence to Secretary of the Interior
McKay, who last July criticized
members of a pro-statehood dele
gation for their “belligerent atti
tude,” Atwood said:
“A man of prominence in these
parts says Alaskans are belliger
ent . . . we’re proud of it.”
“We like it there,” he said. “We
think we’re a little better than
anyone else. We have to be to pull
up stakes and migrate to a new
country like that.”
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SON OF NOME COUPLE
ON UNIV. HONOR ROLL
Neil T. Davis, geophysics senior
at the University of Alaska, is on
the honor roll for the first semes
ter 1954-55, Dr. Neil W. Hosley,
university dean, announced Mon
day.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bon V. Davis, Box 45, Nome.
Dean Hosley pointed out that
honor grades start at 2.00. Davis’
grade point average for the sem
ester is 2.71.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ruth Anayak.
j Discharged: Alex Soosiyak and
Kathleen Wongittillen.
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Outbreak of Fires
Across Nation
Takes 15 Lives
(By the Associated Press)
An outbreak of fires and explo
sions cost at least 15 lives yester
day and Monday across the nation.
Three persons died in an apart
ment house fire Tuesday in Rich
mond, Va. Police said an oil lamp
may have been the cause. No
sooner had firemen controlled the
flames than they were called to a
business district fire that gutted
three buildings with an estimated
loss of $250,000.
Two brothers perished in a
bungalow fire at Port Monmouth,
N.J., Monday night after the older
brother, James McFadyn, 15, had
helped other members of the fam
ily to safety. The father was away
at work. Firemen said an oil
burner apparently ignited clothes
hung in a utility room.
Five persohs, four of them chil
dren, died in three Michigan tires
Monday. Mrs. Eleanor Tolowski,
30, died in a vain effort to save
her infant son in their flaming
farm home near Hesperia. A
brother and a sister perished in a
house fire in Pontiac Township.
A two-year-old girl died and
her brother were critically burned
in a fire in their home at Flint.
Also in Michigan, flames de
stroyed a Port Huron automobile
sales agency and 38 automobiles
in the body and paint shop. The
loss was estimated at a half mil
lion dollars.
Three men died in an explosion
and fire that destroyed a gasoline
storage plant Monday at El Cen
tro, Calif. Firemen said a truck
hit and broke a gasoline line and
that a spark from the truck ig
nited 45,000 gallons of basoline.
At Minneapolis, one person
died and 14 were injured Monday
in an explosion of a linseed oil
extraction plant.
FIRE AND ICE
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., UPl —
Ice was listed today as the cause
of a fire in the cellar of Mrs.
Antoinette Laughlin’s home.
Fire officials said a piece of ice
fell from the roof, struck a util
ity wire and caused a short circuit
in the basement ceiling yesterday.
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is a motorist’s paradise. Police
have run out of tickets for park
ing violations and a new supply
isn’t expected from St. Louis for
a few more days.
Until they get here, no parking
tickets are being handed out.
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PASSENGER SHIPS' SALE
BROUGHT NO BIG PROFIT
SEATTLE, IP)—President D. E.
Skinner of the Alaska Steamship
Co. says his firm did not get rich
over its recent sale of three pas
senger ships after such service to
the territory was terminated.
“The need for such ships is
limited,” he said. “Anything over
scrap price was attractive to us.”
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Pan Am Gets Backing
In Bid to Fly Great Circle
From California to Japan
SAN FRANCISCO, (FI—The San
Francisco Board of Supervisors
unanimously approved a resolu
tion Monday asking President
Eisenhower to grant approval for
Pan American Airways to fly the
great circle route from California
to Japan.
Los Angeles’ Mayor Norris Pul
son said his city would be glad to
join with San Francisco in ui'giifcg
the President to approve Pan Am
erican’s application to fly the
shorter route over the North Pa
cific. Northwest Airlines is $he
only air line presently authorized
to travel the great circle from
Seattle to Tokyo.
Pan American planes, if they
were allowed to fly the route,
would stop at Los Angeles and
San Francisco.
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