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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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6No Need To Open New Lands In Terr.,’
Says Agriculture Dept. Researcher
By FRANK W. VAILLE j
WASHINGTON, — A former
economist at the Alaska Agricul- 1
tural Experiment Station sees no 1
economic need to open new home-1
stead lands in Alaska in the next1
few years.
“It would see$p wiser to con
solidate present gains before ad
ditional areas are opened to settle
ment,” Tegh A. Johnson writes
in an article in the 1958 Agri
culture Yearbook, just published.
“Seward’s Folly can be a great
land” is the title of his article.
Johnson is now with the Agri
culture Department’s farm econo
mics research division here.
Although Alaska now has only
15,000 to 19,000 acres ready for
production and a large unfilled
market for certain items, John
son notes that it also has several
hundred undeveloped farm and
homesteads in private ownership.
Many of the owners are non-resi
dents.
“Sudden development to full
time farm status on half of these
farms and homesteads,” Johnson
said, “would create serious sur
pluses of farm products.”
Supporting tills conclusion, he
said in a separate interview, are
surpluses of both milk and po
tatoes which occurred this sum
mer in the Fairbanks and An
chorage areas.
Alaska’s major problem, hej
said, is not to get more land under
private control, but to get land
already settled into development
and use.
“Too many people are trying i
to develop farms and ranches
without adequate financing or
knowledge of farming,” he said.
Although contending “no simple
solution exists for land problems
in Alaska” Johnson put forward
several suggestions.
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New legislation he said is
needed to permit classification of
land for efficient and economical
administration of future settle
ment and development.
Development of concentrated
areas also would be encouraged,
Johnson said, by a real property
tax. This would serve to dis
courage nonresident owners who
now may hold good and unde
veloped land and escape their
share of community expense —
a problem he described as par
ticularly critical in the Kenai
Peninsula.
He also believes there should
be a step-up in the Alaska pro
grams of federal lending agencies
and suggests it “probably would
be desirable” to emphasize re
search toward improved storage
conditions, packaging and pro
cessing.
“An almost untapped market”
exists both in Alaska and the
other states for such special Alas
kan products as lowbush cran
berries, blueberries, smoked and
dried salmon, sheefish, ling cod,
shellfish, reindeer meat, artifacts
and other items, Johnson said.
He warned, however, that en
terprises of this nature present
almost insurmountable problems
without capital and contacts.
Rebels beseiging Kaifeng de
strayod the seawall, causing flood
that drowned 30,000 persons in
1642.
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Eisenhower Plans
Additional Iowa
Stumping Stop
WASHINGTON, UP> — President
Eisenhower has added an appear
ance at the National Cornpicking
Contest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
October 17, to his growing pre
election travel plans.
The White House said it is
probable — though still not def
inite — that he will campaign
in New York City October 12.
A top-level Republican pow
wow in the White House next
Monday also was announced.
Twelve GOP leaders will lunch
with Eisenhower to devise means
of snapping the Republican Con
gressional drive out of what the
President has called apathy.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told reporters
that additional speeches may be
scheduled within the next few
I days, giving Eisenhower a bigger
I role in the Republican effort to
| recapture control of Congress.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower will leave Washington
October 17. They will visit the
corn-picking competition at Cedar
Rapids that day, then fly to Los
Angeles on Monday, after a two
night stay in Denver, Colo., home
of Mrs. Eisenhower’s mother,
Mrs. John S. Doud.
In Los Angeles the President
will deliver a television speech
over a regional network on Mon
day morning, Oct. 20. This will be
followed by another television
broadcast Tuesday morning, Octo
ber 21, in San Francisco.
Heading back east, Eisenhower
will make a Chicago address the
j night of October 22.
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