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WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS
SAY ABOUT STATEHOOD—
ADMIT ALASKA
From the NASHVILLE BANNER, May 6, 1958.
IF PROMISES MEAN anything ... if party pro
nouncements mean anything ... if individual congres
sional pledges and expressions of public favor mean
anything—then submission of Alaskan statehood to
a roll call in House and Senate would see that Terri
tory swiftly admitted to the Union.
Why not now?
The promise was given, and has been reiterated.
Employing the Tennessee Plan, Alaska is ready with
its state constitution, its congressional representation.
The bills for its admission have been drawn, and await
only introduction on the floor of House and Senate.
Justice demands that Congress act on it, in justice
both to Alaska and to the nation, whose security and
economic interests would be served by the develop
ment so long planned. It is pointed out that in Art
icle III of the Treaty of Cession, by which we ac
quired Alaska in 1867, we pledged Alaskans ultimate
statehood. That was 91 years ago.
The Senate Interior Committee dbserved last
year that “In all ways Alaska is a dynamic and spec
tacular land. No area of the world offers a more
promising challenge to the man of vision. This wak
ing giant is the essence of America in its sturdiest
tradition and constitutes one of the nation’s best in
vestments in the future.”
Congress has been reminded, in the words of the
Washington Daily News, that “Since the 13 colonies
became the United States of America, there have been
35 additions to the Union. And each time a new
state has been admitted the national economy has
surged ahead.”
In Alaska, the U. S. has potentially a lasting spur
to the economy, comparable to the opening of the
West. That spur is welcome; it should be used.
The bills are ready. Statehood has been put off
too long already—for no good reason. Let Congress
act now and fulfill a promise, in the interest of the
whole hemisphere.
Seaton To Receive
Honorary Degree
At Univ. of Alaska
SEATTLE, Cff) — Interior Sec
retary Fred A. Seaton will spend
10 days in the Pacific North
west and Alaska this month, the
high point of his visit coming
May 26 when he is to receive an
honorary degree from the Uni
versity of Alaska.
The Secretary will deliver the
University’s commencement ad
dress.
May 28 he will speak at the
sixth annual Awards Banquet of
the Anchorage, Alaska, Press
Club.
He will be in Seattle May 22 en
route north and will returp May
29.
Wien Airlines
From Fairbanks—Merl Eam
heart, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Williams,
Fred Crane, Mary Washington,
Lorena Boehler and two children,
James and Pierce Walsh, Elizabeth
Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bani
gan, Robert Wilson.
To Fairbanks—Donald Durable,
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fuller and
three children, Bryant Brady, Mr.
and Mrs. Werener Bohrer and
Beverly and Frieda Bohrer, Ruth
Glavinovich, Axel Edman, Pam
ela, Billie and Tonja Ritter, Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Williams, Mr. and
Mrs. A1 Mosley and infant, Mary,
Mary A., Stanley, and Steffen
Anderson, John, Veronica, Jerry
and Bert Short, Mary J. Grace
and John Herman, Art, June and
Alice Ann Nelson, Marie Kelsey
To Kotzebue—Warren Koozoo
ta, Harry Foster, Margaret Guth
rie, Donald Schwetz, Gene Sam
uel, Ted Schwenz, Robert Bacon.
From Kotzebue—Walter Ballot,
R. W. Oliver, Everett Knoll, Bes
sie Barr, G. Alvensleben, Alice
McClanahan, Dan Burleson, Hugo
Wiedekamp. •
Fit To Be Tied
FLINT, Mich., UP) —_ Two
rifle-toting bandits must be fit
to be tied.
They appeared in the rural
general store run by Mrs. Gladys
Trueman, 57, Friday. Wearing
handkerchiefs across their faces
and brandishing a .22 caliber
rifle, they demanded money.
“Put it in a paper bag,” they
said. ,
Mrs. Trueman reached under
the counter and stuffed the bag
full.
The bandits fled with their loot
—three or four dozen shoe laces.
2 KILLED. 13 INJURED AS
THEATER ROOF COLLAPSES
IN HONG KONG
HONG KONG, UP) — The Al
hambra Theater, a Hong Kong
landfhark for thousands of Amer
ican sailors and tourists, was
•being demolished Saturday when
the roof collapsed. Two Chinese
workers were killed, 13 injured
and three were missing.
Old Newspapers—25<* a bundle
For Packing, Painting or Puppies
For Sale at the Nugget
It’s softened and filtered
As it comes from the
ground
So when it’s delivered
It’s the finest in town
It’s Softened!
BRONSON’S
— Water Delivery —
CALL MAIN 19
Bids Asked For
White Alice Water
Supply Systems
mother call for bids foi rasi
construction to be completed
during the present season , has
been issued by the U. S. Army
Engineer District, Alaska.
The construction is for water
supply systems at three White
Alice Sites—Granite Mountain on
the Seward Peninsula; Kalakaket
Creek near Galena; and Pedro
Dome about 20 miles north of
Fairbanks.
Bids will be opened June 12,
at 12, at 2 p.m., in the Alaska
District headquarters in Anchor
age, on Elmendorf Air Force
Base.
At each site the work consists
of constructing a 2-inch surface
laid water line from the supply
pumphouse to the water storage
tank.
The big tanks vary from 216,000
to 276,000 gallon capacity. Sup
ply pumphouses at two sites will
be of metal, 10 by 16 feet and
12 by 20 feet, each complete
with two diesel-driven pumps.
Work at all sites is to be com
pleted by Sept. 30.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Grade Five—M. Wilson
(For the Sixth 6 Weeks Period)
Paul Amarok, Roy Kenick,
Ronald Komok, Emma Kugzruk,
Richard Miller, Corrine Pauwok,
June I. Pederson, Judith Saito,
John Savok, Nora Tingook, Stan
ley Walker, Richard Young, and
Charlotte Wheeler.
(For The Year)
Nora Tingook, Richard Miller,
Richard Young, Ronald Komok,
Charlotte Wheeler.
Grade Six—Mrs. Dunbar
(For the Sixth 6 Weeks Period)
Alice Arnold, Gloria Carlson,
Linda Doyle, Richard Foster,
Pepper Gray, .Frank Gillespie,
Grace Obruk, James Picnalook,
Jr., Julius Pleasant, Allen Reed,
Pauline Tocktoo, Mary Walsh,
Janet West, Robert Walker.
(For The Year)
Richard Neal Foster, Clinton
(Pepper) Gray, Jr., Pauline Lena
Tocktoo.
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Ketchikan Firm
Low Bidder
For Armory
JUNEAU, W — McGillvray
Brothers of Ketchikan had the
apparent low bid for the con
struction of a National Guard
armory at Kodiak.
The Ketchikan company’s bid
was for $190,650. Construction
of the armory is scheduled to be
gin in June and is to be com
pleted by next March.
The only other bid for the pro
ject was for $286,192. Jt was
submitted by Morrison-Knud
son Co.
A total of $145,000 of the ar
mory cost will be paid by the
fedral government. The re
maining cost will be paid by ,
the territorial government, with
the financing scheduled through
a bond issue.
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“I went to a hotel for a change
and rest.”
“Did you get it?”
“The bellboy got the change
and the hotel got the rest.”
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