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Cricks & Daffodils. To Alaskan oldtimers, even the weather had augured well for statehood. Not since 1912, when Alaska first became an organized territory and won its first real, if tiny, measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand...
Coffee Royals & "Pan Ginney." Mike Stepovich typifies the pioneer's sense of destiny better than any Alaskan Governor before him. A Republican appointed by a Republican Administration, Stepovich handles himself like a man of the people, and the people-65% Democrats, 35% Republicans- like him that...
...make his points with an earnest warmth that radiates alley or when a he waits his barbershop-or turn a in a territorial bowling committee meeting. And beneath all of this is the tough mettle that was born in him and was strengthened on the cold, hard anvil of Alaskan living...
Discovery. Mike's use of so hallowed a table symbolizes no bottomless irreverence for Alaskan tradition, but rather the muscular spirit of the ever-changing, booming vastness that was once a faraway, forgotten frontier. As Governor, he has, in a sense, discovered Alaska all over again. "Man," says he, "it wasn't until I got into office that I really began to appreciate, with our resources potential, how much we could have accomplished even by now, if only we had the freedom and the responsibility to operate...
Alaska's biggest business is fishing (1957 take: $93 million), which is controlled by Seattle packers, supervised by an absentee government-and this outside control is the pet hate of Alaska statehooders. They claim that it weakens the Alaskan labor market by bringing in outsiders for half its 25,000 seasonal work force, and more important, severely depletes stocks by the use of fish traps. As it is, the industry is slipping (8,000,000 cases packed in 1936 v. 2,500,000 in 1957), and the sagging market makes it all the more imperative that the new state...