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Idaho's Republican Senator Henry C. Dworshak last week performed an odd trick: he passed himself on a merry-go-round. Just a few days before, Dworshak had shifted away from support of Hawaiian statehood unless it was coupled with statehood for Alaska. His switch produced an 8-to-7 vote by the Senate Interior Committee to report Hawaii and Alaska together. Dworshak thereby helped set up a combined target on the Senate floor for those who are 1) against Hawaiian statehood, 2) against Alaskan statehood, and 3) against statehood...
...constituents see a rich field for investment in Alaska as a state, got a promise from Chairman Hugh Butler that Alaska would be approved by the committee soon after Hawaii. With that assurance. Henry Dworshak provided the swing vote in another 8-to-7 decision, this one to report Hawaiian statehood favorably and separately...
Some call letters sound like static (KAGH, KARK, KWAK, WZIP, WROK, WOKY), others like Aztec gods (KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...
...defense metals, from copper to uranium. Party-liners are in control of the American Communications Association, bargaining agent for 5,000 Western Union employees in New York, and Communist Harry Bridges' 75,000 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union could tie up West Coast and Hawaiian ports...
...trial, longest and one of the most controversial in Hawaii's history, lasted 72 months, during which time 83 witnesses gave more than 3,500,000 words of testimony. The jury of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and Caucasian strains took only 16 hours to arrive at a guilty verdict...