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TUESDAY. JULY 1. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 7 A State Issues More Tickets SACRAMENTO (AP) - More Californians were cited (or trallic violations during the first five months of 1958 than in the same period last year and fewer died on the highways. The California Highway Patrol reports 44 fewer deaths on the state's highways for the first five months of 1858 compared to the same period in 1957. At the same time the patrol made 63,543 more arrests an in crease of almost 18 per cent. Highway aeatns in areas pa trolled oy the Liir cropped from 845 last year to 801 this year a change of 5 per cent while cita tions climbed from 354,509 last year to 418,052 this year. The pa trol covers unincorporated areas and freeways. A patrol spokesman said that while increased enforcement isn't the sole factor involved it's prob ably the most influential and im portant. He pointed to the fact that the patrol also had some 264 more patrolmen on the highways this year man last. Speeding arrests this year are only slightly higher than last, 123.652 compared to 123,288. Ar rests for drunk driving and felony drunk driving also increased slightly from 5,160 to 5,190. Hours devoted to highway law enforcement increased by 20 per cent from 1,246,182 hours last year to 1,504,961 this year. Reportable accidents those in volving injury or death dropped about 3'i per cent irom 14.028 to 13.529. Persons injured fell from 22.058 to 21,470. Total deaths in the state, through May, including incorpor ated areas, was set tentatively at 1,263, a decrease of 79 or about 6 per cent from 1957. Alaskans Fail To Agree What The Future Holds For Their Beautiful Land By WILLIAM J. TOWN JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) "Some say God was crazy when he made it, Some say it's a fine land to shun, But there's some who would trade it For no land on earth, and I'm one. Publisher Robert B. Alwood who has seen and helped Anchor age grow from a town of 2.500 residents to a hustling metropoli tan area of nearly 1O0.0O0. was happy to fill the Virginian's re quest. First, however, he printed the letter in full for the amusement of the 20,000 English- speaking sub scribers of the Times at 10 about Alaska ever since ' Robertjt . , . ri'; . .. b - ... Service, the Klondike poet, penned these lines about the gold rush days of 1889. It is a land that has encouraged myths, engendered ar gument, and mystified outsiders. Alaskans themselves, who nave invested their lives and fortunes in an area 2'i times the size of Texas, rarely agree on what the future holds for their varied, beau tiful land. Residents from the "outside," as Alaskans refer to the states, often seem nebulous about the land, its people, its potential and, most frequently, its climate. A Virginian, for example, re cently wrote the Anchorage Daily Times asking for a copy of the newspaper printed in English. He enclosed "twenty-five cents in American currency" to pay for the paper. New Star Costs. Flagsters $2,000 DETROIT (UPI) Alaska's new star will cost the J. L. Hud son Co. owners of the world's largest flag about $2,000. A company spokesman said it Wedding Bound Pair Is Late SP1CKARD, Mo. (UPD-Robert Stafford, 21. set out from Water loo, Iowa. Monday with his sweetheart, Mary Peverill, 22, in a truck loaded with 480 bushels of corn. They planned to' go to Ver sailles, Mo., to get married, but they never got there. Stafford had seven tire blowouts en route and then in Spickard his truck crashed into the post office. Miss Peverill suffered a leg scratch and the post office door was littered with corn kernels two feet deep. Stafford decided to postpone the wedding date. ka's two dozen daily, semi-weekly and weekly newspapers. A southern congressman, during the House debate on the Alaska statehood bill in May, said he doubted the territory would aver be settled by Americans because of the climate. As a matter of fact, nearly 200, 000 former residents of every state in the union have made homes in Alaska. Along with some 33.000 native Aleuts, Indians and Eski mos, the transplanted populace gives Alaska a group of residents who wouldn't trade its invigorat- chmate for that of any place in the world. Alaska docs have bitterly cold temperatures during the long win ters, but the territory's weather area thai is one of the centers of the territory's great salmon lisheries, enjoys a climate much like the Pacific Northwest states. Anchorage, which has weather that compares with Chicago, was so hard-pressed by a heal wave last winter that snow had to be imported to stage dog sled races that are a feature of the annual Fur Rendezvous. Thousands of tourists, whose numbers increase each year and who are becoming a major Alaska industry, have come to know to some degree the climate and beauty that appeals so greatly to residents of the territory But beyond a universal love for land that has been a possession of the United Males for 91 years Alaskans often are at odds among themselves. The difference of opin ion centers on questions of how Alaska is to grow, and what the future holds for its struggling economy. The matter of statehood for Alaska has been typical of the disagreement among Alaskans on problems affecting the future. Congress was first asked to ad mit Alaska as a state more than 40 years ago, but statehood bills have been vigorously supported only since 1946. Even this year, When the state hood movement gained more fol lowers than at any time in the past, Alaskans were sharply di vided on whether it was wise to become the 49th state. The anti-statehood forces, cen tered mostly in the conservative panhandle of Alaska, fear the ad ditional cost of a state government Alaska is a land of potential. It has vast possibilities for the development of hydroelectric pow er. Timber stands of spruce, hem lock and birch are abundant. Vir tually every type of mineral, and vast quantities of coal, are to he found in many sections of Alaska. And then there is oil. Oil as much as statehood the topic of conversation hun dreds of times a day as Alaskans pause for a coffee break or (or an evening cocktail. A land boom o( amazing pro portions began in Alaska in Julv o( last year after the Richfield oil Lo. announced lis first wild cat well on the Kenai Peninsula. south of Anchorage, was capable of producing at least 900 barrels a day. Residents seeking a quick re present territorial form of gov ernment. The actual difference in cost turn on their investment as' still is an item of debate but well as harboring hopes for a new is expected to run some three major industry in the territory .million dollars more than Alas ka's present budget of more than 36 million dollars. Seasonal labor conditions in Alaska, with high summer em ployment and a low winter work level, is one major drawback to development of the territory. The cost of living running In as much as 50 ner cent above Seattle is another brake on industrial have applied for more than 27 million acres of mineral leases on potential oil land. Oil lease rentals alone at 25 cents an acre is expected to give the territory some six mil lion dollars in additional revenue within the next few years. Actual production would increase the oil revenue a hundred fold. Fven the most ardent of those '.development who favor statehood for Alaska! Most of all, says "39-year-old agree that a state government! Alaska Gov. Slepovich, Alaska would cost more than Alaska's I needs people and jobs to support Finest Major Gasoline like virtually everything else'is more than Alaska's present about its 586.400 square miles i economy can bear, aenes a Diantti'i uesenpuun. You can t call Alaska a land of ice and snow even though it has 18.000 square miles of gla ciers. You can't very well say its wintertime temperatures are un liveable because some 35.000 persons live in Fairbanks (where the mercury sinks more than 60 degrees below zero) and call their city the Golden Heart o( Alaska. The southeastern Alaska pan handle, an island-studded coastal Pro - statehooders, a majority o( Alaska's population, point to the great potentials of the terri tory's largely untapped resources and say state status will open broad avenues to industrial de velopment. Ants-Roaches Insect Pests of all kinds BUHACH California'! Great Insect Powder 80 Years Old Kill Best and Salest. Saf laty To Ul Economical would cost that much to reshuffle A 1,500-pound flag, which is raised across the front of the firm's main store is 104 feet high and 235 feet long. Each star is 5',-i feet high. "We're not in a hurry to add the 49th star," a spokesman ex plained. "We've got a grace peri od since it's only flown on Flag Day, June 14. and next year that's on a Sunday so it won't be up. "And before it's time to unfurl the flag we might have an an swer on Hawaii, too." Let Us Help You DO-IT-YOURSELF Wiring Materials ft Lighting Fixtures 'ft Electric Heaters VAN FLEET ELECTRIC 200 Main (Acroii from Willard Hotel) Phone 4-4415 Use Any Major Oil Credit Card On So. 6th and E. Main Across From Lee's ECK TICKETS MOW! mi free mm Next Free Boat July 30 new families. Stepovich predicts a population of more .than a mil lion in 10 years, and says new residents and new jobs will come hand-in-hand. Alaska is. in many ways, exact ly what Alaskans call it the last frontier of potential U. 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