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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Where Is Our Land Office?
]VTOME HAS BEEN ASKING for the return of its
-L ^ Land Office, repeatedly and especially since
there is renewed interest in the mineral wealth of
Seward Peninsula from the time Alaska became a
state.
That this is the most highly mineralized area in
the world is acknowledged by those who were re
sponsible for the removal of the office to Fairbanks,
and many promises have been made concerning the
return of the records to Nome.
Promises, however, do not help those field geo
logists now in the field, those interested in prospecting,
those potential investors and promoters who know of
the hidden wealth around here.
Our passenger lists have included Shell Oil
representatives, British Petroleum, copper interests,
coal interests, Japanese and many others who seek
oil, tin, iron, coal, copper, bismuth, asbestos, and so
many other things which are less known.
They all ask — where is your land office? Why
aren’t they convenient in the area? The Fairbanks
office is so busy its director has been unable to visit
Nome — which further points up the need for an
office here.
Alaskan’s United Launches
All-Out Attempt to
Defeat Initiative No. 1
JUNEAU, Itfl—Alaskan’s United,
a group dedicated to keeping the
seat of state government at Ju
neau, launched an all-out cam
paign to defeat Initiative No. 1.
The initiative, which will ap
pear on the Aug. 9, primary el
ection ballot, proposes to move
tlhe capitol by Jan. 1, 1983, to the
Cook Inlet-Railbelt area. The spe
cific site would be selected by a
five-man committee named by the
governor.
Taped statements by Gov. Wm.
J§gan, U.S. Sens. Ernest Gruening
®nd Bob Bartlett and former ter
ritorial Gov. Mike Stepovich in
support of keeping the capitol
here were released for radio use
throughout the state as paid com
mercials. .
Egan, Gruening aiidVBarlett aie
Democrats. Stepovich i4 a Repub
lican. 1
EDDIE JOHNSON RETURNS
FROM MUSIC FESTIVAL
Edclie Johnson, son ol Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Johnsen, who was one
of the five high school students
chosen to be guests of the Alaska
Music Festival in Anchorage, re
turned home this week saying it
was a wonderful opportunity and
he enjoyed all the different kinds
of music from solo to symphonic
as well as the visiting artists who
took part.
Me expressed appreciation to
the N.C. Co., Alaska Airlines,
Northern Consolidate Airlines,
and Col. M. Marston who pro
vided the accomodations for this
unusual musical treat.
VISITORS FROM MARYLAND
Mr. and Mrs. Markell arrived
in Nome flying their own plane
from Maryland. Mr. Markell is in
ship building business and manu
factures generators some of which
are used on military sites in this
part of the state.
L\ lltioil JolillMMI
Throws His Hat In
Presidential l\in«i
WASHINGTON, bW— Sen. Lyn
don Johnson of Texas announced
his candidacy Tuesday for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion.
The Texas senator—long recog
nized as a bidder for the nomina
tion—finally made it formal and
official at a news conference.
His announcement came just
six days before the opening of the
Democratic convention in Los An
geles, and signals a stretch drive
| by his supporters to stem the mo
| menlum gained by Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts.
To applause from an obviously
pro-Johnson crowd of spectators,
the Texan told a packed news
conference in the auditorium of
the Senate Office Building:
“I am of this moment a can
didate for the Democratic nomi
nation for President of the United
States.”
Johnson said he had withheld
an announcement up to today be
cause “somebody had to tend the
store,” referring to his duties as
Democratic chief in the Senate.
Johnson said he was not going
to push aside other candidates for
the nomination, that he is only
going to ask the American people
to look hard and long for the
right man.
Johnson prefaced his formal an
nouncement with a comment that
since the drive for delegate com
mitments began, the job of the
presidency to which the candid
ates aspire has changed tremen
dously.
He recalled the series of events
through which Soviet Premier
Khrushchev has chilled the cold
war still further, and told his au
dience of newsmen that in the
world of the immediate future
there will be “no mercy for in
experience, no gallantry toward
youth.”
With the world changed, John
son said, “the next President is
not going to be a talking or a
traveling President—he is going
to be a working president.”
How does he describe himself?
"You don't go in for labels. I’ve
been called almost everything.
“I’ve been progressive and lib
eral without being radical, con
servative without being reaction
ary.”
Russ Rocket Right On Target
LONDON, l/P) — The Soviet
Union Tuesday launched a rocket
into the Pacific, beginning tests
of a new powerful multi-stage
carrier rocket for space explora
tion, Moscow radio announced.
A Tass announcement said the
flight of the rocket launched yes
terday strictly followed the pre
set program.
“The dummy of the last stage
of the rocket reached the water
surface in close proximity to the
target, 13,000 kilometers (8,078
miles) from the launching site,”
the Tass announcement said.
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\M\ Traffic Deaths
Sel 4ili of ,|ul\
WeeknicI Kcconl
Traffic . 438
Boating . 34
Drowning . 124
Miscellaneous . 110
Total . 706
Traffic deaths set a high mark
for a three-day celebration of In
dependence Day, and brought a
call for action to curb such
slaughter.
Fatalities that hit and held an
average of five an hour surpassed
the previous record of 407, set in
1955. before the holiday period
ended at midnight Monday.
But it fell short of the record
for any three-day holiday observ
ance, the 609 piled up at Christ
mas in 1955.
“Public officials and all others
dedicated to safer highways must
act and act fast in an increased
effort to reduce this highway
slaughter — not only on holidays
but every day.’
The Associated Press tabula
tions—now in a 50-state basis—
showed only three states, Alaska,
Delaware and New Hampshire,
reported no motor vehicle deaths.
The Council, which had esti
mated 370 traffic fatalities for the
period that began at 6 p.m. Fri
lay and ended at midnight Mon
day, issue a statement saying: “If
this country received warning in
advance that a national catas
trophe would strike on a given
weekend, bringing death to more
than 400, does anybody doubt that
emergency measures would be
taken to prevent such a thing
from happening?”
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Wade Estimates Primary
Vote On August 9
Will Not Exceed 35,000
JUNEAU, UP. — Secretary of
State Hugh Wade estimated today
that the vote in the Aug. 9 pri
mary would not exceed 35,00(1.
While Wade emphasized that he
was only making an estimate, he
said he based his figure on two
things:
1. The primary is being held
during a time when many people
are vacationing and when many
fishermen are away from their
homes. He did say, however, that
inquiries to his office on absentee
balloting have been quite heavy.
2. The new election code pro
vision requiring a straight party
vote. “In the past,” Wade said,
“people did a lot of hopping from
party to party merely to vote for
friends. That incentive to vote
will be lacki ng now.”
The 35,000-vote estimate by
Wade, if proved out, would place
the total vote for the primary far
below the record 50,343 ballots
cast during the 1958 general elec
tion.
Col. Wheeler Becomes Head of
Army's Yukon Command
FAIRBANKS, UP) — Col. Lester
L. Wheeler Tuesday succeeded
Brig. Gen. Thomas Back as chief
of the Army’s Yukon Command,
charged with supervision of all
Army duties in Alaska north of
the Alaska range.
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