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Alaska Is Not Only for the Young
SENATOR GRUENING inserted in the Congres
sional Record an article entitled “Alaska Only for
the Young?” which Donnis Stark Thompson wrote in
the July issue of the Alaska Sportsman. Praising the
magazine as “this excellent magazine of the great
outdoors, which is filled with stories on the last fron
tier,” the senator said, “Alaska is not only for the
young. It is for youngsters of all ages — from 9 or
young ‘to 90 and beyond. Alaska welcomes people
imbued with a pioneer spirit, regardless of their age
or previous condition.”
GRASSROOTS OPINION
From The Hartford, Wisconsin, Times-Press —
“Communism, in one century, has gained sway over
more people than Christianity in twenty centuries!
With Socialism, its ‘younger brother in short pants,’
Communism is mopping up the world! Can we stop
it? Nobody else can and WE can only if we get our
own snowball rolling, pushed by dedicated men who
believe in freedom, have the integrity to stand up for
it, the intelligence to recognize the enemy in its dis
guised forms, and the moral faith by which alone
freedom can survive.”
“IN A FREE SOCIETY, the state does not admin
ister the affairs of men. It administers justice among
men, who conduct their own affairs.” — Walter
Lippman.
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EVERY DAY
State Legislator
Was Pioneer of
Automotive Alaska
DETROIT — The pioneering
spirit that helped add the 49th
star to the American flag played
an important role in furthering
automotive transportation in
Alaska.
Now in his seventies, the real
pioneer of automotive Alaska is a
member of the state’s first Legis
lature — Robert E. Sheldon.
As a youth of 21, he> had never
seen an automobile, yet Sheldon
built Alaska’s first gasoline en
gine automobile in 1905 from pic
tures he had seen in newspapers
and magazines. The inspiration to
build the car was part of a con
centrated effort to divert the at
tention of a Skagway lass from
another suitor who owned a fancy
horse- drawn rig.
Not stopping his automotive ca
reer with the first Alaskan car.
Sheldon felt the motor vehicle had
a definite place in the territory’s
transportation system.
To prove it, he quit his job
with a Fairbanks electrical com
pany and blazed a trail over a
wagon path to Valdez, 370 miles
away, in a new mass-produced
American car. So much enthusiasm
was created over Sheldon’s feat
that two years later he formed a
profitable automotive stage com
pany between Fairbanks and Val
dez which cut the horse and wa
gon travel time by more than a
third.
The motorized stage route to
Valdez has become Alaska’s Route
1, a main part of Alaska’s 2,000
mile primary road system. In ad
dition, the 49th State has a 3,200
mile secondary system that con
nects farms, mines and industrial
areas with the primary network.
Still in running condition, Shel
don’s 1905 automobile has been
retired to the University of Alas
ka Museum. The state representa
tive recalls that he salvaged a De
troit-made engine from a sunken
boat which eliminated one trans
mission problem — since the en
gine would run in either direction
he just reversed the engine to
back-up.
SATURDAY BASEBALL
(By The Associated Press)
American League
Baltimore 11, Boston 5.
Washington 10-0, New York 6-7.
Cleveland 6-12, Detroit 1-9.
Chicago 7-3, Kansas City 4-8.
National League
Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3.
San Francisco 10, St. Louis 3.
Chicago 2-2, Los Angeles 1-5.
Philadelphia 2, Milwaukee 1.
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake 4-2, San Diego 1-9.
Portland 5, Vancouver 4.
Sacramento 3, Phoenix 2.
Seattle 5, Spokane 1.
EDMONTON, Alta., UP) — Howie
Bauer of Calgary won the Cana
dian Singles Trapshooting Cham
pionship Sunday with a total of
495 of 500 targets,, the highest
score ever recorded for the title.
Bauer, shooting in tricky winds
during the last day of the Fourth
Annual Canadian Trapshooting
Championships, broke 99 of his
last 100 targets.
Three Anchorage men shot in
the final half of the handicap
singles event, for which there
was money prizes. Their scores
were: Jim Kerwin, 96; Don Deach,
95, and L. W. Hornbeck, 92.
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Water Carnival Will be
August Feature at Lake
Spenard in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage’s
first annual Water Carnival and
Outboard Motor Regatta will be
held August 1 and 2 on Lake Spe
nard under sponsorship of Greater
Anchorage, Inc., in cooperation
with the Anchorage Outboard
Club.
Commodore Leo Gagne of the
Outboard Club predicts that the
Water Carnival will be the “big
gest event” of its type ever staged
-in Alaska. Gagne said that the
program will include a water
show by the Arctic Aqua Ski
Club, complete with pyramids,
jumps, stunts, etc., normally seen
only in aquatic shows in the
south.
The Lake Spenard event will be
held as the All-Alaska champion
ship for three previous regattas
— Big Lake, held June 20-21;
Fairbanks on July 4, and the
Fairbanks-Nanana Marathon July
17-19.
Carl Tingook Begins Basics
FORT ORD, Calif. — Carl Tin
gook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris
topher Tingook of Pt. Hope, is
currently undergoing the first
cycle of basic infantry training at
this Infantry Training Center.
The eight-week training program
consists of courses in troop infor
mation, general military subjects,
tactical training and weapons ^
instruction.
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