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DIARY ...
The following item, from the
Houston (Texas) Press, is self
explanatory:
I have never got closer to
Alaska than Seattle, but it looks
like I might get up there after
our largest territory becomes
” our largest state, any time in
the next two or three years. You
may recall that on Dec. 22 I
wrote about the virtual certain
ty that Alaska will soon be ad
mitted to the Union as our 49th
state, as a result of the huge de
velopments our government is
making there, due to the war. I
sent a copy of that piece to An
thony J. Dimond, Alaska’s dele
gate in Congress. I told him that
when Alaska is admitted to
statehood and he becomes the,
state’s first elective governor,
he’d owe the Old Timer a trip
to and through his state—for
helping to persuade Japan, back
in 19J4, to take Manchuria in
stead of trying to take Alaska as
an outlet for Japan’s over
crowded seventy millions in her
small rocky island ho re.
Mr. Dimond writes:
“If and when the conjunction
of constellatons suggested in
your letter occurs, namely, the
creation of Alaska as a state and
the election and inauguration of
myse'.f as the first governor, it
would be a pleasure indeed to
have you visit the governor in
the capitol of the state and you
may be assured that the gover
nor will do his best to see that
you are provided with every re
} source that hospitality can
devise.
i “After reading your column, I
i am sure that at 75 you are no
I more than half way through,
I and so I earnestly wish you a
“ succession of happy New Years,
Sincerely yours, ANTHONY J.
■ | DIMOND, Delegate.”
Mr. Dimond has been Alaska’s
delegate in Congress close to 11
years, elected and reelected five
times by Alaska’s voters. I have
followed his work, in the Con
gressional Record, with increas- (
ing admiration for his industry
and efficiency in serving his con
stituency. When Alaska becomes
a state, its people will owe their
great advance more to Mr. Di
mond than to any other man. I
take for granted Alaskans will
wish to honor him for this ser
vice, and will wish also to retain
him in their service as their
governor. As a delegate in Con- 1
gress- he has no vote, but few
members have more friends or
more influence.
Clippings of this piece will be
sent to all of Alaska’s papers.
Hundreds of young Texans are
up there now, in the armed ser
vices; thousands more will go
there to take up the last free
homesteads available in this
country, or to engage in business
of one kind or another, after the
war. Seems like a good idea to
get word to them that some of
us folks back home are trying
to help shape a future for them
in that far country.
Hank Borowy, New York I
Yankee pitcher, was a member
of a group of major league base
ball players that have touieil
Alaska, and the boys were very
much impressed with the possi
bilities for free and unhampered
fishing in Alaskp.
In a letter written from Kod
iak to Ed Barrow, president of
the Yankees, Borowy wrote:
“You don’t need fishing tack
le here to catch salmon. They’re
so thick you can get all you
want with a baseball bat.”
Speaking of batty ways to fish
reminds us of a newsreel short
subject we conned at a local
cinema which showed a dog run
ning up a stream of spawning
salmon, catching the fisli and
depositing them on the shore.
The reason the dog made the
newsreel was because he was so
unusual: the narrator described
him as "one in a million ”
Knowing every dog in Kodiak
would do the same thing, and'
having seen a number do it, we I
could only hoot audibly along
with the rest.
continued on page 3
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