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...change came in 1938 when the Department of the Interior took over and gave the farmers greater control of their own affairs. Slowly, they began to make the land pay, and by 1940, when the U.S. began its big Alaskan defense buildup and servicemen created a sudden demand for fresh produce and dairy products, the Matanuskans were on their...
Tiny (pop. 150) Kalskag was the first to report its vote last week in the Alaskan referendum on entering the Union. Kalskag's vote: 40 for statehood, none against. And by week's end, with votes still being counted across the 586,400-sq.-mi. territory, it was clear that most agreed with Kalskag; a record 50,000 voted 5 to 1 to become the 49th state. Next steps: after the general election, and after the final votes are certified. President Eisenhower will sign Alaska into statehood, with two U.S. Senators, one U.S. Representative, three votes...
White Wilderness (Buena Vista) is the awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene...
...Senate debated the House-cleared Alaska statehood bill with fitful, windy opposition by antistatehood Southern forces; two test votes, one calling for commonwealth status, the other based on a constitutional point of order, were soundly defeated (50-29, 53-28), thereby paving the way for a final vote-and Alaskan victory-this week...
...high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives in Sleetmute (pop. 120) on the Kuskokwim River, where English-speaking Eskimos still attend Sleetmute's Russian Orthodox Church. Pilots transport Fairbanks Attorney Ed Merdes, 32, head of the Alaskan Junior Chamber of Commerce, who periodically visits club chapters in such places as Metlakahtla, south of Ketchikan. And they see, day after day, the strengthened heart of a people willing to challenge new frontiers...