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...Threw, jointly with the 20-member senate, a turnabout dinner in the Gold Room of Juneau's Baranof Hotel for the swarm of lobbyists who had been wining and dining the lawmakers...
Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...
...Established by Alexander Baranof, a Siberian dry-goods salesman, manager of the Russian American Co., chartered in 1799 by Russia's Emperor Paul. Ordered to promote discovery, commerce and agriculture and to propagate Christianity, Baranof virtually ruled Alaska for 20-odd years. Through his trading company, which was to Alaska what Hudson's Bay Co. was to Canada, Baranof ably enhanced Russia's claim to the territory by organizing the country, setting up trade relations with England, the U.S. and Spain, and turning Sitka itself into a glittering, sophisticated Russian colony...
...West has its Rose Bowl, the South its Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sun Bowl (all played on New Year's Day). Last week Alaska jumped into the bowl business, 38 days early. Juneau citizens staged a Gold Bowl game between the Alaska Sourdoughs and the Baranof Bears, partly for charity, partly to encourage football among Alaskans...
...Alaska, 195 mi. up the winding Copper River Valley, is Kennecott, a raw mining town sprawled on the edge of what was once the richest copper mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley...