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More Cell Space? Last week in Juneau, the Alaska legislature was considering whether to take the U.S. Government up on its bargain-basement offer. The trouble is, Alaskans cannot agree on what they would do with POW if they owned it. Some want to make it the new state capital. Others want to turn it into a tourist resort, or perhaps a sort of deep-freeze Las Vegas. There was a move on to acquire it for a penitentiary; the state's jails are now badly overcrowded. But the plan was defeated when people realized that existing prisons would...
...bring Idaho any new starts on reclamation projects in the past two years. (The state has had at least one start every year since 1906.) > Alaska's Democratic Governor William Egan is vulnerable, since he has been caught in a sectional crossfire over moving the state capital from Juneau to the Anchorage area...
...Sunday newspaper penetrates seven of every ten U.S. households, where it reaches a phenomenal-if not always attentive-readership of 120 million. It comes in all sizes, weights and shapes, from the Juneau, Alaska Empire (circ. 3,050, an average 14 pages) to journalism's undisputed heavyweight champion, the Sunday New York Times, which often runs to 600 pages and tips the scales at 6 Ibs. In the massive Sunday barrage of newsprint, there is something for almost everyone: reprises of old murders, comics, crossword puzzles, fiction, verse, quotations from Scripture, galleries of young ladies recently betrothed, advice...
...Juneau, Alaska...
...seven years, Patty has nearly tripled enrollment, doubled the faculty, added $7,000,000 worth of new buildings. More important, the university has really begun serving Alaska. It rolls out useful pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges (Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer) teach everything from aircraft maintenance to Tlingit Indian culture. To help exploit Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with its own mine under the campus...