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Little Rock School
Board Members
Give Notice
LITTLE ROOK, Ark., UP) —
members of the embattled Little
Roc'- School Board resigned \v ei- '
nesday night to clear the wa -1
a quicker solution to the impasse
in the istegration situation here. '
The mass resignation, subject (
of widespread rumor fo
several days, came as no surprise.
Before tne resignations, tue I
board paid off the contraei
School Supt. Virgil T. Blossom, |
frequent target of segregationists |
and Gov. Orval Faubus as the1
author of the Little Rock plan of
gradual integration.
The resignations left Dr. Dale
Alford, an outspoken segregation
ist who has cossistently voted
against the board majority on in
tegration matters, the only re
maining member.
ALASKA PIONEER
DIES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, UP) — Carl Benson,
86, former Alaska gold miner,
died Tuesday at his home at Ed
monds, north of here.
He came to the United States
68 years ago, living in Chicago
before going to Alaska in 1897
and staying there 10 years. Then
he returned to Mount Vernon,
Wash., and farmed there until
retirement in 1950.
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/etroleum Production Will Smooth
Economic Throes Of State Of Alaska
CLEVELAND, tP) — Petroleum
is (he resource which may smooth
the way to meet the economic
problems the State of Alaska will
e"f'0’m+or during its formative
years, B. Frank Heintzleman, for
mer Alaskan governor, said here
today.
'1 exploration and production
can do for Alaska what gold did
for California when the latter
came into the Union as a state in
f’e middle of the last century,”
he said in a speech prepared for
a luncheon session of the National
Industrial Conference Board.
“Oil geologists tell us that as
much as 100 million acres, over
one-fourth of the entire land area,
have geological formations fav
orable for oil.”
Heintzleman said businessmen
in the United States could look to
“a growing Alaska as an expand
ing market for the hundreds of
products that go into the installa
tion and operation of mining and
mineral processing plants, hydro
electric systems and the indus
tries that cheap power will at
tract, and into added transporta
tion facilities including railroads,
highways and ocean and river car
j*o .carriers.”
The former governor said the '
new State government, which
wil come into being next January,
probably will take early action de
signed to bring more rapid growth
to Alaska.
‘‘Principally this will mean of
fering encouragement to the de
velopment of natural resourecs by
private enterprise,” he added.
“We want to smooth the way for
obtaining a steady increase in
permanent population and an ex
pansion in industry.”
Stating that one of the main
goals in the new State’s planning
is getting more people, Heintzle
man said the present population
is 200,000 in a region of 586,000
square miles — more than twice
the size of Texas.
He warned that contrary to
some reports Alaska is not a vast
storehouse of readily tapped
weclt.h.
“It is a land of opportunity, but
only for the hardy and the per
severing, for men with the pion
eering spirit,” he added.
Heintzleman said about 99 per
cent of Alaska is now owned by
the Federal government, but that
Alaskans are awaiting the oppor
tunity to get into the promotion of
development activities that is af
forded them under the State en
abling act.
He explained the act authorizes
the new State to select as a free
grant 103,400,000 acres of public
land in sizeable tracts over a per
iod of 25 years.
“In addition, the State comes
into control of the tide flats and
submerged lands to the three
mile limit along Alaska’s 25,000
miles of shoreline of mainland and
islands,” he added. “This amounts
to an additional 45 million acres.”
Heintzleman said that by care
ful selection the new State may be
able to acquire most of the land
in Alaska “that is likely to have
development values in the next
50 years.”
Hawaii Alerted For
Possible Tidal Wave
HONOLULU, — Hawaii was
alerted for a possible tidal wave
Wednesday following a powerful
°arthquake believed to have cen
tal cd in southern Japan.
The U. S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey urged residents along Ha
waii s coastlines to evacuate their
homes until the danger passed.
The alert was called after re
ports of a, four-inch rise in the ]
water level at Wake Island, 2,100
miles west of here. A six-inch rise
was reported in the Aleutian Is
lands.
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