National Geographic Magazine Will Feature Alaska in
June Issue With Four Articles and Up-to-Date Map
WASHINGTON—In the Aleut
tongue the word “alashka,” which
gave Alaska its name, means “big
land” or “mainland.” Today that
American frontier is not only big,
it’s booming.
The National Geographic Maga
zine for June, with four articles,
91 photographs, and a new 10
color wail map of Alaska, de
scribes the far-north Territory as
“the fastest-growing portion of
the United States.”
Population has nearly tripled in
16 years, from 72,524 in 1940 to
more than 208,000 in 1956, the Na
tional Geographic reports. With
plenty of room for more—Alaska i
still boasts 2.8 square miles per
person—it now holds an optimism
as broad as its bounties of forests,
farmlands, fisheries, oil and min
eral deposits, scarcely tapped.
Twice Size of Texas
Leading the' magazine’s por
trayal of a region twice the size
of Texas, Elsie May Bell Grosven
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Wanted: Scientists
By 1960, it is estimated that the
United States will be short 100.000
scientists and engineers.
This crisis has been brought on
by the present-day failure of our
educational system to produce the
scientists that our future demands.
In the five-year span beginning in
1950, the number of science and en
gineering graduates has dropped
more than 50 per cent. High school
enrollment has climbed 16 per cent,
but the number of
qualified science
teachers has fall
en 53 per cent.
Equally dis
turbing is the
fact that out of
r _ every 100 public
high schools in the
tZD nation, 23 offer
neither physics nor chemistry
courses, and mathematics and phys
ics courses for 800,000 students are
being conducted by teachers whose
training has been in other fields.
What to do about this grave prob
lem? Government, and industry are
working to provide scholarships,
grants and the like to promote sci
ence education and research. One
major chemical firm, Chas. Pfizer A
Cc., Inc., has pointed out the need
for more science students in its an
nual report to its 19,000 stockhold
ers. Others also are participating in
programs to stimulate science edu
cation.
However, most of the basic work
to eliminate this problem will have
to be done on the community level—
at board of education meetings,
where school curricula are decided,
in bond issue votes, where academic
facilities are decided, and in the
home itself, wherever parental ad
vice can help a youngster decide his
future.
Science is in danger in the United
States, ar.d it will remain in danger
until we produce more scientists.
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or, wife of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor,
chairman of the board of trustees
of the National Geographic Soci
ety, writes of “Alaska’s Wanner
Side.”
W. Robert Moore, chief of the
Societies foreign staff, covers “Al
aska, the Big Land.” Virginia L.
Wells, an Anchorage housewife
and amateur naturalist, describes
“Photographing Northern Wild
flowers.”
The new National Geographic
Alaskan map and text, based on
recent aerial surveys, charts the
territory with accuracy never be
fore possible. Insets reveal extent
of the mapped region—as broad
as the United States itself.
Mrs. Grosvenor writes of vast
verdant forests now being opened 1
to scientific cutting for new pulp
wood production, of air-travel ex
pansion, of magnificent scenery in
huge national parks, and of Alas
ka’s friendly, openhearted hospi
tality.
Appointment of Seaton
Called “Best Thing That
Could Happen to Alaska”
ANCHORAGE, (JV—Mr. William
Prescott Allen, Alaska and Texas
newspaper publisher, declared on
Monday President Eisenhower’s
nomination of Fred Seaton as In
terior Secretary is “the best thing
that could happen to Alaska right
now.”
Allen said Alaskans could unite
behind Seaton for the good of the
territory, adding Seaton “is one of
the brightest young men (he’s 48>
in the Republican Party today.”
Allen, publisher of the daily Al
aska Empire at Juneau, is here
for the annual Alaska Press Club
awards. He was the principal
speaker at he club banquet last
night.
During a televised interview,
Allen urged Alaskans to seek tax
reductions and industrial tax in
centives which would “make this
great land grow—as surely it will
—to become the wonder, hope and
profitable asset to America that
it can and will be.”
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Outposts to the North
In both winter and summer, Mr.
Moore covered Alaska’s modem
boom from great jet-plane bases
to northernmost outposts. His
travels pinpointed many of the
changes on the new Society map.
The airplane, he found, has be
come as common to Alaskan life
as kayaks and dog sleds once
were. “Put your finger on any
northern village on the map of
Alaska and we have a scheduled
service to it,” one airline execu
tive told him.
Busy salmon canneries, rather
than gold mines or fur lines, pro
vide the territory’s chief source of
revenue, today. But prospectors,
businessmen, geologists, oilmen,
and timber experts talk enthusi
astically of other riches.
In Nome, the writer found a
bank still willing to cash a poke
of gold. But residents were more
interested in newer finds of tin,
copper, coal, asbestos, graphite,
and tungsten on the Seward Pen
insula. At Kodiak in the Gulf of
Alaska, where Russian fur traders
settled in 1792. a United States
Navy base and bumper fisheries
keep the port wide-awake and
growing.
i-iesearcn on me Arctic rum
Scientists working at Barrow,
north of the Brooks Range on the
Arctic Ocean, are carrying on a
remarkable variety of basic Arc
tic research. A zoologist studies
the life cycle of lemmings. An en
tomologist interested in insects
entombed 60 million years ago in
Alaskan amber seeks the bedrock
source of the fossil substance.
Other university workers, com
ing from all parts of the'United
States, investigate tundra vegeta
tion, marine life, and migrant
birds.
Mrs. Wells, in holiday travels
through south-central Alaska, has
captured the beauty of wildflower
gardens that blaze out when win
ter leaps into summer. Sihe did
her work in river valleys, bogs
and marshes, and rugged moun
tain ranges to assemble a notable
series of full-color photographs.
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j Indianapolis Will Be Run
I Today After Flash Flood
INDIANAPOLIS, (A*>— Hot sun
shine dried the waterlogged Indi
anapolis Speedway grounds yes
terday after a flash flood, and the
management said the 40th 500
mile race would run as scheduled
this Memorial Day.
Four former winners of the race
predicted today’s running would
result in a record several miles
an hour over the late Bill Vucko
vich’s 1954 mark of 130.84.
The prediction looked sound, in
vjew of the fact that 15 drivers in
the 33-car field qualified their
cars at speeds above the previous
Indianapolis Speedway record for
the 10-mile trials.
Bob Sweikert of Indianapolis,
last year’s winner after Vukovich
was killed in a four-car crash
while leading the race, said it
might take 136 mph. to win.
A life is more precious than the
time you’ll save speeding.
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Kodak Small Boat Basin
Given Top Priority
By Army Engineers
WASHINGTON, t/pt—If the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
adds money for any Alaska public
works projects not included in the
House-passed bill, Army Engi
neers would like to see it spent on
Kodiak Harbor. *
Maj. Gen. E. C. Itschner, dep
uty chief of engineers for civil
works, gave the Kodiak small boat
basin top priority Monday when
asked by Chairman Ellender (D
La> of the Senate Public Works
Appropriation subcommittee to
list Alaska projects in the order
he would like to see them added
to the bill.
The Senate traditionally goes
beyond the recommendations of
the administration and the House
in public works appropriations.
Itschner said engineers could
spend $500,000 on the Kodiak har
bor project in the year beginning
July 1. Total cost of the project
is $1,948,000. -
After Kodiak Gen. Itschner
grouped three projects in Craig,
$365,000; Anchorage at Elfin Cove,
$173,000; and at Pelican.
Already included in the House
passed bill are Gold Creek, $393,
000; and Ketchikan Harbor, $500,
000.
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