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Throughout the entire Puget Sound area, stretching 140 miles from Tacoma through Seattle, Everett and Bellingham to the Canadian border, the land where settlers thought they had found a paradise, with sheltered waterways on the front step and mountains in the backyard, is bursting with new indus try. Already, natives are dubbing it Pugetopolis. Said Washington Governor Daniel Evans last week: "In our state's history, the present expansion is second in significance only to that during the gold rush...
...Stream. On the coast north of Bellingham, the first molten aluminum was tapped last week from the pots of the new $135 million Intalco plant, which will be the third biggest aluminum-producing plant in the world when its three potlines are on stream. The owners of Intalco- American Metal Climax, Howmet and France's Pechiney Co.-were attracted by cheap, abundant power from the Bonneville grid, cheap land, sheltered deep water and fine living for employees...
...created Design for Washington, Inc., to find ways of preventing the inevitable growth from botching up the landscape. An agency called Seattle Metro has been most successful in checking water pollution around Seattle. But Washington's laws on the whole are not yet ready for the boom. Around Bellingham there are no zoning or pollution regulations. Whether or not the coast remains a paradise is, for the moment at least, up to the esthetic sense of industry...
DARRELL MINTZ ALEC McDOUGALL Bellingham, Wash...
Some of the stringers are unexpected types-for example, Dolly Connelly of Bellingham, Wash., a housewife who bakes very good oatmeal-walnut yeast bread, and who is also a freelance journalist who covers her area of the Northwest U.S. with a bright and knowing touch. Most of the part-time correspondents, however, are full-time professional journalists who hold positions of importance in the areas they cover...