Alaska Prepares
Coming Out Party
As Statehood Nears
By MARTIN HEERWALD
UPI Correspondent
Juneau, Alaska -4UPD- State
hood is to Alaska what a
coming out party is to a beau
tiful debutante.
Suddenly, the tomboy of
the far north has become the
belle of the ball, and if she
wasn't so gosh-darned big, the
rush of popularity would
weep her right out of her
rnukluks.
A record number of travel
ers visited Alaska during the
past summer, and they could
not help but say "wow!" when
they took a gander at her raw,
rugged beauty and considered
her incomparable dowry.
The territorial capital here,
which will be the state capital
when admission day is pro
claimed in January, has a
problem keeping up. with the
fan mail. Chambers of com
merce at Anchorage and Fair
banks likewise are swamped.
Mail from Children
Much of the mail, comes
from school children. Don
Bullock, assistant to the gov
ernor, suggests that "geogra
phy teachers have rediscov-
ered Alaska as a bright, new
subject for term papers."
Other inquiries come from
potential investors, large and
small, and a lot of letters are
from job seekers or prospec
tive homesteaders who expect
Alaska to work miracles for
them. ,
Alaskans are happy to have
you come looking for a job or
land, and they figure they can
helj. you, but they warn:
"Come with enough cash to
take you back where you
came from if you don't like it
here or can't find what you're
looking for."
Bullock says some folks
who want to come looking
should first get a general idea
of where Alaska's 586,400
square miles are located. One
letter which recently caught
up with him was addressed to
Dawson, Yukon Territory,
Alaska. The writer didn't
know that Dawson and the
Yukon belong to Canada.
When it' comes to what
Alaska has to offer, no state
has ever joined the union with
such an untapped treasure
chest.
Valuable Deposits
There are billions of tons of
high grade iron ore near
Haines in the Alaska pan
handle. Ralph Brown, an eco
nomic consultant at Anchor
age, says this mountain of
magnetite has a potential
value "estimated to be worth
more than the national debt."
Another huge iron ore deposit
has been explored on Prince
of Wales Island where there
are good uranium prospects
as well.
Alaska also claims it has
near Seldovia the largest
chromite deposit under the
U. S. flag. The Japanese are
busy testing the extensive
Bering River coal fields near
Cordova for what they hope
will be an economical source
of cooking coal. And oil ex
ploration already has turned
up three producing wells with
excellent signs of many more
to follow.
Potential Power ,
In fact, there isn't much you
can't find in Alaska if it's
mineral or metal. And sur
veys show the big north coun
ty has a potential hydroelec
tric power capacity equal to
nearly two-thirds of the total
for the entire nation.
But very little of Alaska's
natural wealth is easy to get
out. Most of it is locked se
curely in the earth, long and
expensive distances from
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Hints for Making Cookies Given
Here are a few hints that
will make your ' Christmas
cookie baking a lot easier.
. First of all, prepared mixes
are only slightly more expen
sive than "starting 'from
scratch," but are great time-savers!"
large and ready markets.
Most of Alaska's growth to
date is the result of defense
spending, and, in that respect,
the territory's strategic posi
tion on the globe is its biggest
moneymaker. Ac cording to
some estimates, 80 cents of
every dollar spent at Anchor
age, Alaska's largest city,
comes from Washington, D. C.
This is one reason that Alas
kans are so anxious to get
going with the development of
a state which can get by on
its own even if defense spend
ing is elminated.
Fancy, thin cookies tend to
lose their shapes in transfer
ring them from cutting board
to baking sheet so, roll the
dough directly on a greased
and lightly floured cooky
sheet, cut desired shapes, and
remove surplus.
If you wish to hang decor
ative cookies on the tree,
press a small navy bean into
the top of the cooky for a
loophole; remove after bak
ing. Colored bead candies will
adhere effectively to cooky
surfaces if you brush rolled
out cookies with a pastry
brush dipped sparingly in
cold water.
To flatten drop cookies,
cover bottom of glass with
damp white cloth, and use to
press down cookies.
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