Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Juneau lay under a woolly fog that rolled in off the Gastineau Channel, and airplanes carrying Alaska legislators probed in frustrating circles over the capital's airport. Some lawmakers turned to dog sled and Coast Guard cutter, others waited restlessly in clearer areas until the fog lifted, but everybody was on hand last week when the new state's first legislature was gaveled into its second session. Fortuitously, a "Capital-Site Steering Committee" came around with petitions bearing the signatures of 13,000 Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage...
...thousands of state salaries have been increased, some by as much as 35%. But there have been no new general taxes. The state has taken over control of fisheries, courts and penal institutions, and bothersome bureaucratic bugs have been ironed out. But a glimpse of the financial forecast for Alaska was as sobering as a plunge in the Bering...
...this fiscal year, Alaska is operating under a $27.7 million budget. For fiscal 1960-61, Governor Egan is asking for an increase of some $6,000,000, while increasing the revenue only some $1,050,000. The budget will get one big boost from a juicy windfall: $4,000,000 gained from the sale of 77,000 acres of tideland oil and gas leases last December. It will get another from the transitional fund voted by Congress to tide the 49th state over its early years; the 1960 portion will amount to $6,500,000. And what happens after...
...present rate of earning and spending, Alaska will, by 1966, have fallen $30 million into debt on its operating programs alone...
When he casts aside his senatorial toga and puts on his campaign hat, though, Candidate Humphrey forgets about the small adjustments, lets fly with his old fervor. In Ketchikan last fortnight, he found such an occasion. "Fortunately we bought Alaska from the Russians." he cried. "We all know what Russia would be doing now if she owned it. She would be developing the vast potential of the Yukon. Unfortunately, the Administration looks on the Yukon as just another stream. This country needs to get a vision of what America needs...