Word: jacobsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a Northwesterner-among them lean, soft-spoken Berne Jacobsen, 46, city editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer-the mountains are a vital part of life. When he was younger, Jacobsen went north in the Jack London tradition, to the greater ranges of Alaska, and later wrote of handloggers, prospectors, coastal fishermen. By the time his only child, Keith, was born, Jacobsen was claimed by the chores of the city room. But as the boy grew, the father found time to take him into the mountains on innumerable weekend trips...
...Keith Jacobsen became a husky 17-year-old who lived, like many of his friends, for little but the challenge of the peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last...
...tide was wrong, and the Constitution drifted within a hand's breadth of smashing into its pier. Dangling anchors dropped with a screech, and with engines in full astern the big ship backed off. On the second try, after a tense hour and 15 minutes, Captain Bernt Jacobsen finally inched the Connie into its slip...
...major reasons why the U.S. has found as well as consumed more oil each year, says Jacobsen, is the impetus given to oil hunting by the Government's depletion allowance. (A similar allowance is also given on other minerals and on lumber.) Though Harry Truman and other Fair Deal politicos have railed against it as a tax steal, Jacobsen points out that the allowance has made possible a multitude of industries based on expanding oil production, and thus vastly added to the corporate taxpayers. "Moreover," says Jacobsen, "gasoline is lower-priced today, without taxes, than...
...Jacobsen doubts that the U.S. will ever run out of oil. Oilmen estimate that of 2,400,000 square miles on the earth where oil may exist, only 1% has ever been explored. One huge, virtually unexplored such frontier is Alaska. On all such virgin horizons, Explorer Jacobsen cocks his questing, tireless...