Sen. Egan and Rep. Rivers Arrive
In Seattle After 2,300-Mile Trip
Over Highway Thru 65 Below Cold
By JAMES HUTCHESON i
SEATTLE, U)—A senator with
out a seat and a congressman
with nothing but constituents ar
rived here Monday night from
Alaska after the coldest trek
prospective lawmakers ever made
toward the national capital.
“Senator” William Egan and
“Rep.” Ralph Rivers and their
wives reached here after a seven
day, 2,300-mile trip on which the
lubricants in one of their cars
froze when it stalled in 65-below
zero cold.
They hope their quest of state
hood for the northern territory,
bigger than Texas, will be warm
er than their trip.
Egan and Rivers, with “Sen
ator” Ernest Gruening, a former
Alaska governor who was in the
states ahead of them, were elect
ed to Congress under the so
called “Alaska-Tennesse plan."
It got its name from the brash
tactics used successfully by Ten
nessee in 1796 in its fight for
statehood. Alaska, like Tennes
see and five other states that fol
lowed, elected its prospective
members of Congress ahead of
time. The theory was that they
would be “official lobbyists” for
statehood, then take their seats
in the halls of Congress if and
when statehood is granted.
Gruening, the senior politico of
the trio, was a journalist before
he served 14 years as the ap
pointive governor of the nation’s
largest territory. Egan was a mer
chant in the town of Valdez, a
territorial Senate leader and pres
ident of the Alaska Constitutional
Convention. Rivers is a territor
ial senator and a former attorney
general for the lerritory.
All expressed optimism over
the prospects of Alaska adding a
49tn star to the flag.
“There was some feeling, even
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in Alaska, that there was gamble
in taking the seemingly brash
step of naming our members of
Congress when Congress had fail
ed to grant us statehood,” Egan
commented. “But the reaction has
been favorable. Newspapers
throughout the nation have come
to our support. It is encouraging."
Before they were out of Alas
ka, they hit 65-below-zero cold
along the Alaska Highway.
Egan’s car broke down because
of a loose battery connection. It
took five hours for a road station
crew to get a wrecker warmed up
enough so it could take to the
highway for a pick-up. Then the
grease in the differential was
frozen so solidly that the rear
of the car had to be picked up
for a backwards tow of 11 miles.
But the two - car party aver
aged more than 300 miles a day
over snow, ice and rough roads.
They traveled for as long as 18
hours a day to complete the or
deal 24 hours behind schedule.
They left Seattle for Portland,
where they will split up for a
statehood good-will mission
across the states for a reunion at
Nashville, Tenn., for the big push
on to Washington.
They’re rugged men, these nor
therners. Mrs. Egan confided
that her senator husband made
the trip without ever donning
long underwear. She said that
was more than she did.
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Nations by a unanimous vote
Tuesday. It became the 80th
member of the world organiza
tion.
The action took place in tne
General Assembly on the unani
mous recommendation of the 11
nation security council.
Japan’s admission had been
held up almost five years by So
viet vetoes. Russia withdrew its
opposition following the signing
of an agreement with Japan last
week ending the state of war be
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to take its seat in the assembly
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headed by Foreign Minister Ma
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