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...airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
Very surprised to see Honorable Fred A. Seaton of Interior also Mr. John Butrovich. What a world it is here. Being invited to the meeting and before the start making speech. I rounded up natives so they could come to the conference meeting. On this meeting Seaton said that first item he wants to speak is about high school. High school which natives looked for all these years. Seaton said that they are going to have one already solved and in this school, they will have class rooms, kitchen rooms, utility room, and general shop room. Wow what a good...
...right start, to Seaton's mind: a vote for 1) young (39) Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), who resigned from the governorship to run for the U.S. Senate against aging (71) onetime Governor Ernest Gruening; 2) Territorial Senator John Butrovich Jr., 48, for Governor v. Valdez Grocer William Egan...
...Union's strapping unborn infant-which will not officially assume statehood until early 1959-already thinks it knows the name of its first elected Governor: Democrat William A. Egan, 43. Egan is running a one-sided contest against Republican John Butrovich Jr., 48, Fairbanks insurance man, former Territorial Senator and longtime political catechist to Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (running for the U.S. Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost...
...tell you this," says John Butrovich, with the special kind of awe that seems to flourish in Alaskans, "a dynamic chemistry is working here." That chemistry is a passion for life and growth. To Mike Stepovich and the rest of Alaska's leaders, statehood is a birthright, and they have etched that declaration on the skylines of the cities and on the cold, unyielding glaciers of their land...