Letter To
The Editor
Statehood brings happiness to
me because I have seen Alaska
grow rapidly but lacked the op
portunities accompnying State
hood. I m happy that it has pror
gressed to become a State and
to be on an equal status with the
rest of the United States of
America.
When I came to Alaska in 1935,
I came on the S.S. Northwestern.
It was impossible to fly to Alaska
in those days. Anchorage was a
city of 5,000 population and I
helped survey the Matanuska Val
ley. Mr. Anton Anderson, the
present mayor of Anchorage, ws
my supervisor and friend.
OLAF HALVORSON.
Don’t forget that it is safest to
record your assessment work af
fidavits before September 20 at
noon, so that they will stand as
been done. If recording is not
legal evidence that the work has
done by that date, it should then
be done before January 1 to sat
isfy the new Territorial law.
Arsonist Blamed
In Seattle Fires j
SEATTLE. UP!—A predawn fire
killed two persons and injured
three others in a small hotel here
Monday, and Fire Chief Fitzger
ald blmed an arsonist who has
started at least 36 other blazes in
two weeks.
Police said there were 22 per
sons in the Hollywood Hotel, at
First and Stewart Streets, when
the blaze broke out at 2:15 a.m.
The two dead were identified
by police as Jean Ballou, 52, and
Jack Broda. Two of the injured
were not identified, immediately.
One woman. Mrs. Mary Long,
about 50, was hospitalized suffer
ing from smoke and shock.
Chief Fitzgerald said the fire
was started outside the building
and whipped into the structure
by an offshore breeze.
“There is no question about
it” he said “This is the same ar
sonist who set the fires in the
last two weeks. It is exactly the
same type of blaze.’
The series of fires, mostly in
Seattle’s southend skidrow dis
trict has kept firemen and police
on constnt alert but each time
the arsonist was undetected.
None of the other fires caused
I fatalities.
Nine More Congressmen Expected
■From Western States Next Session
Western states are estimated to
gain nine additional members in
Congress when reapportionment
of the House of Representatives is
made on the basis of the I960
Census, according to William H.
Flood, manager of the Seattle
Field Office of the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce.
The State of Washington’s rep
resentation is expected to remain
at seven members. Gains for the
eleven Western States are esti
mated to occur mainly in Cali
fornia, with seven additional
members and one additional
member each in Oregon and Ari
zona. No Western States are ex
pected to lose Congressional rep
resentatives. In view of passage
of the Alaska Statehood Act,
Alaska has been allocted one seat
in the apportionment, based upon
the 1960 projection.
Nationwide distribution of the
435 Congressional seats projected
to 1960 will account for a de
crease in Northeastern States
from 115 to 106 seats. Southern
States would lose one seat. The
North Central region total -vyould
remain unchanged. States of New
York and Pennsylvania are ex
pected to experience the greatest
losses of three seats ach, and
Massachusetts and Arkansas
would lose two seats each.
Commerce Department’s Bur
eau of Census emphasizes that
this apportionment is based in
part on conjecture as to future
population changes and that it is
not unlikely that some Congres
sional delegations may vary in
number by one member, when the
final 1960 Census returns are in.
MINING ACTIVITIES
SECOND DIVISION — Herk
Edwards and Jack France are
using a track loader in their
sluicing operation on the Solo
mon River with good success.
•They use it for stripping overbur
den and digging bedrock to a
depth of four feet as well as
transporting material to the sluice
bojf. They claim to have moved
about 425 yards of gravel in 5
hours, and are generally well
pleased with the machine.
GENERAL REVENUE PER CAP
Alaska general revenue was
higher than 39 of the existing
tates in 1957. This per capita rev
enue compares with other States
as follows:
Alabama .$115.9
Alaska . 161.6
Arkansas . 106
Idaho . 134.2
•Kansas . 115.’
Mississippi .:. 110.8
Vermont . 140
Wyoming . 224
Nebraska . 90.8
Virginia . 112.9
OLD THERMOMETERS
BRING READY CASH
Got an old thermometer around
your house? It may be worth
some cash, if it’s one being sought
by Thermooeter Corporation of
America.
This company is scouring the
mometers to add - to the collec
country for odd and unusual ther
tion it is assembling. This collec
tion will be incorporated into an
International Thermometer Mu
seum which eventually will be
sent to cities throughout the
United States for public display.
Thermometer Corporation of
America says no limit is being set
on the number of thermometers it
may buy. The prime requisite is
that the thermometer help por
tray the development of ther
mometers through the years, and
the part they have played in ev
eryday life.
If you do own a thermometer
which you think is either unusual
or unusually old, send a descrip
tion or a snapshot of it, together t
with any background information
you can give (such as some fa
mous person to whom it belonged,
how long it’s been in your fam
ily, or other pertinent and inter
esting iformatio) to:
Thermometer Corporation of
America, Springfield, Ohio.
Do not send the thermometer
itself. If yours is a thermometer
that is needed for the collection,
you will receive an offer for it
by mail. All letters to Thermome
ter Corporation will be acknow
ledged, even if your thermometer
happens to be one that is not
needed.
If you do correspond with the
company, the editor of this news
paper will be interested in
hearing about the thermometer
you are offering to the Museum.
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