TUESDAY. JULY 1. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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."
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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. S. develop
ment.
But it is a frontier populated by
a voung. affable, friendly and tal
ented people Americans all
who envision the greatest slate 01
the union growing from a land that
too few of their countrymen know
much about.
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