BIOGRAPHY OF
IRVING REED
When Irving Reed went with
his family to Nome in 1900, the
mining community was a hustl
ing city of 40,000 people. Then
he went to the first public
school in Nome with Jimmy
Doolittle as a classmate. He was
a rodman on the original sur
vey of the Seward Peninsula
railroad and worked in the
mines during the summer be
tween attending high school
and college at the University of
California, where he was grad
uated In mining engineering in
1913. The following year, be
sides establishing an assay of
fice and general engineering
business in Nome, he took out
a commission as U.S. Mineral
Surveyor which he held for 34
years.
For 10 years he was associate
mining engineer for the Terri
torial Department of Mines,
and 13 years as Game Commis
sioner for the Fourth Judicial
Division. In 1928 his father,
then a Federal District Judge,
died on the bench in Juneau.
His intimate knowledge of
the Territory has been ac
quired through such projects
as a mineral survey in 1920
from Wasilla to Rainy Pass,
McGrath and Ophir by dog
team, from Ophir to Yukon and
Bering Sea by boat. He made
the first report on the platinum
strike at Goodnews Bay and a
complete report on the Kobuk
River Valley and the first map
of Wild River for the Depart
ment of Mines, and surveyed
the .Yukon ramparts on prelim
inary investigation before the
war for a railroad to Nome.
In the war years he was
chief road locator for the U.S.
District Engineers at Fairbanks.
During his Fairbanks residence
he served four years on the city
council and experimented with
running his own farm, and
where he still boasts of raising
30 tons of potatoes on two and
a half acres.
In 1949 he retired from active
business and in 1952 he was
elected Territorial Highway
Engineer to which office he
seeks re-election. He has a wife
and three children. He is a
member of the Masons, Scot
tish Rite Shrine, Pioneers of
Alaska, Igloo No. 1, and of the
Sons of the American Revolu
tion. He is dedicated to an ex
panding program of roads and
highway construction through
out the Territory to advance
the industrial and economic de
velopment of Alaska.
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Stevenson Renews His Proposal
Ike Ban Further H-Bomb Tests
By the Associated Press <
Adlai E. Stevenson challenged
President Eisenhower Tu^pday to
“take the leadership” in banning
hydrogen bomb tests, saying the
administration “has not pressed
forward along this path to peace
as so many have urged.”
The proposal came in the wake
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Stevenson’s renewal of his
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He told the conference of
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port by the cabinet committee on
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any needy family in the land.”
Eisenhower talked of “an ap
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who, he said, supported a school
aid bill “that we ithe Republi
cans) proposed and that his party
defeated.”
Eisenhower’s Lexington address
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“We all know that there are
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