Seward’s Home
Town Pays Tribute
To 49tli Star State
AUBURN, N. Y.—The nation’s
biggest holiday event will take
place in Auburn, New York, to
morrow, as the “Queen City of
the Finger Lakes” plays host to
the Alaska Statehood Celebration.
The all-day-long event will
honor the entrance of Alaska into
the union, and is being held as a
tribute to native Auburnian Wil
liam H. Seward, Secretary of
State in the Lincoln and Johnson
administrations. Seward negotia
ted the purchase of Alaska from
Russia, despite great overwhelm
ing popular opinion against his
move.
A mammoth three-hour parade
will keynote the day’s acivities at
Auburn. Marching bands from
many parts of the United States
and Canada will be joined by
many area school and civic bands
for the pdrade. Many leading serv
ice bands, representing branches
of the armed forces will also par
ticipate. Industries, businesses and
associations in the Finger Lakes
area will add to the parade’s color
with gaily decorated floats.
Heading the parade will be
America’s first official 40 star flag,
—transported by jet plane from
Washington, after its debut on the
White House flagstaff earlier in
the day.
The parade will be followed by
ceremonies at Seward Park, adja
cent to the home of William H.
Seward. At this event, the Alas
kan Statehood postage stamp will
be issued for the first time. Post
master General Arthur Summer
field has been invited by the com
mittee to take part in this event.
Alaska’s only member of the
House of Representatives, Hon.
Ralph J. Rivers of Fairbanks, will
be among the honored guests on
the speaker’s platform. Also par
ticipating will be Congressman
Charles Halleck of Indiana, as
the personal representative of
President Eisenhower, and other
federal dignitaries.
The Seward home, now a mu
seum,. will be open all day for
the convenience of visitors. Furn
ished today as it was in Seward’s
time, the house is a treasure trove
of furniture, costumes, pictures
and invaluable historical docu
ments of this stirring period of
America’s history.
At Emerson Park on nearby
Owasco Lake, the day’s program
includes jet plane acrobatic dem
onstrations by crack service fly
ing teams, and a colorful boat
“float” parade by hundreds of
boat owners in this resort area.
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July 4th
Drive to Fairbanks
Three Years from
Now -- Or Maybe 20!
By ALBRO B. GREGORY
JUNEAU — An all-year road
will be completed between Nenana
and Clear by next summer, the
Bureau of Public Roads an
nounced this week. A contract for
construction of the 15-mile sec
tion will be let in the fall, Frank
Morris, assistant division engineer
for BPR, said.
The road will go on to McKinley
Park from Clear and surveys have
been completed as far as Ferry,
some 40 to 50 miles beyond the
projected Missile Detection Site,
said Morris.
He discussed roads and road
work in general, painting a pic
ture of stepped-up activity in the
state. Among other things, he said,
the road to Manley Hot Springs,
via Livengood, will be opened
next fall, and the road — High
i
way 97 — \^ill take off to the east
from a point 60 to 80 miles north
of Nome.
Access To Mines
Bids will be asked shortly for
the erection of the bridge across
the Kuzitrin River, 66 miles north
east of Nome, on the route to Tay
lor, which will give better access
to mining properties. The bridge
is the one which for many years
carried traffic across the Chena
River at Cushman Street in Fair
banks. T
Morris said the Fairbanks-Nome
road will be some 550 miles long;
that it will be via Ruby and Tana
na to Haycock. It will lead to the
northwest from Ruby, to skirt a
large swamp area, then cross a
low mountain pass into the Kuzi
trin River Valley.
When will it be finished?
It could be in three or four
years. Then again it may be 20,
said Morris. It depends upon how
the road-building money comes in.
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Nolice is hereby given lhal lhe
Common Council of lhe Cily of
Nome, Alaska, has, at ils regular i
meeting of June 22, 1959, fixed i
lhe lime and place for a hearing j
upon the Pelilion of the Nome
Telephone Company for a change
in rales.
Such lime and place are as
follows:
Thursday, July 9, 1959. Council
Chambers, Nome Cily Hall, 8 P.M..
or as soon thereafter as the mailer
may be properly heard.
All persons wishing io'be heard
may appear at lhe lime and place
aforesaid.
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3, 6, 8, 1959.
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Chicago 6, St. Louis 5
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New York 5, Baltimore 0
Washington 4, Boston 1
Detroit 5, Kansas City 4
Pacific Coast League
Spokane 9, Portland 4
Salt Lake City 9, Sacramento 4
San Diego 9, Phoenix 6
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Rocky says:
HURRAH FOR THE
FORTY-NINTH
STATE!
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