Word: antistatehood
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...EFFORT In one of Puerto Rico's tightest races--it was too close to call most of the night--voters elected antistatehood San Juan Mayor Sila Calderon as Governor...
...flags broke out across Alaska.* In Skagway, women paraded wearing embroidered badges: "Bigger than Texas, Better than California-God's Country." On the western shores, in Nome and Kotzebue, the populace torched big, bright bonfires that they hoped could be seen across the strait in Siberia. Even the antistatehood Alaskans, mostly in Sitka and the capital city of Juneau, joined in the bell ringing and dancing...
...anti-statehooders still found time for apprehension about the problems ahead, e.g., new, higher taxes to pay for state services. Scoffed Anchorage's bewhiskered antistatehood leader, John Manders: "Did you ever see anybody stop a crowd on its way to a hanging? Wait till the honeymoon is over and the taxes arrive...
...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...
Polka Dots & Pioneers. Doubter Williams and, more particularly, the rear-guard of antistatehood people have a certain amount of cold logic on their side. Despite its rapid urban development, Alaska is still a wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing...
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