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Katherine ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 69, oldtime "Belle of the Yukon," turned up at the 19th International Reunion of Alaskan Sourdoughs sporting a practically undamaged pair of gams but remembering better days: "I was a sunflower, but Lord, the petals are falling fast...
Died. Austin Eugene ("Cap") Lathrop, 84, Alaskan multimillionaire (coal mines, canneries, newspapers, radio stations, etc.), stiff-necked opponent of Alaskan statehood; in Suntrana, Alaska. Born on a Michigan farm, Lathrop made his first big Alaskan profits (and was nicknamed Cap) when he bought into a two-masted schooner and tapped the rich Gold Rush traffic. He developed Alaska's biggest coal mine; built its biggest radio station; became, reputedly, its richest citizen...
...only $763, Northwest Airlines and a group of enterprising bush pilots would fly anglers from New York direct to an Alaskan river which boasts trout as big as baseball bats; New England skippers would provide the picturesque discomfort of a sailing ship cruise on the open Atlantic for only $60; and many a summer hotel was advertising not only tennis, golf, and hayloft theatricals, but "cultural lectures" on Freud and Thomas Aquinas...
Alaska. It, he said, is "so important that it should be considered above the others." He recommended putting a radar screen around the U.S.'s highly vulnerable Arctic border with Russia. He recommended putting an infantry battalion in each of the three major Alaskan air bases. (The Joint Chiefs of Staff have long wanted more troops in Alaska but the Army and Air Force do not have enough housing for them.) "I don't cry wolf," said Ike. "I merely say that that looks like one inadequacy that we could cure with reasonable expenditure...
...their wild state, polar bears and Alaskan brown bears do not mate. For one thing, polar bears live on arctic ice, brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...