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Alaskans Hold Wildest Celebration
Since The Days Of The Gold Rush
By William Tobin
JUNEAU, OP) — Alaskans caught
their breath Tuesday after tossing
the wildest celebration since gold
rush days, and looked ahead to
a problem-packed future as the
nation’s biggest state.
They poured it on last night,
with whistles, sirens, horns, bells
and fireworks as they cheered
news of the. Senate’s passage of
the statehood bill. Street dances
followed parades. In Sitka, one
time capital of Russian Alaska,
drinks were on the house.
The Senate’ action completed
congressional work on the ad
mission bill, and left statehood
to President Eisenhower who
must sign the measure and to the
voters of Alaska who must ac
cept it.
With statehood, Alaska will
bring into the union a land of
586,00 square miles—2V£ times
the size of Texas—with a pop
ulation of about 205,000, including
upwards of 50,000 servicemen.
There seemed to be no possi
bility that either the President
or Alaskans would reject state
hood. But before Alaska’s star
is added to the flag, a monumen
tal task faces the territory in
preparing for actual admission
to the union.
However, celebrants who have
fought and dreamed of statehood
for the vast territory set aside
thoughts of the difficult period
ahead and toasted victory.
At Fairbanks, the Chena River
turned gold—as wildly residents
poured dye into the stream near
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where one of Alaska’s big gold
strikes lured pioneers and sour
doughs at the turn of the century.
At Skagway, the gateway to
the big Klondike gold strike of
1898, housewives paraded in the
streets wearing embroidered bad
ges that proclaimed:
God's Country
“Bigger than Texas, better than
California. Alaska — God’s coun
try.”
At Anchorage, a huge bonfire
blazed long through the over
night twi-light in the land of
the midnight sun.
In Kodiak, city fathers de
clared an official holiday, an or
dinance against firecrackers was
waved and 49 were shot off on a
breakwater and a Russian priest,
Father Sturmer, tolled his church
bell.
In every city of the territory,
and in its scattered villages and
towns, the celebration went on.
Not everywhere, however, was
the merry making as loud or
spontaneous as it was at Anchor
age and Fairbanks, centers for
years of the statehood movement.
At Juneau, the capital and
se^t of conservative opposition to
statehood, hundreds celebrated
and cheered as a replica of the
liberty bell was struck 49 times
and as scores danced in the
street under bursting fireworks
and aerial displays. But a few
residents grumbled and some pro
tested that hardships and higher
taxes were in store.
Even among long-time oppon
ents of statehood, however, there
was general feeling that the
past should be forgotten and that
Alaskans should unite in the
job ahead.
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