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...Juneau lay under a woolly fog that rolled in off the Gastineau Channel, and airplanes carrying Alaska legislators probed in frustrating circles over the capital's airport. Some lawmakers turned to dog sled and Coast Guard cutter, others waited restlessly in clearer areas until the fog lifted, but everybody was on hand last week when the new state's first legislature was gaveled into its second session. Fortuitously, a "Capital-Site Steering Committee" came around with petitions bearing the signatures of 13,000 Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage...
...klystron, a radio tube operating at microwave frequencies that figured prominently in the development of World War II radar and later guided missiles, founder (1948) and board chairman of Varian Associates, a fast-rising, $20 million-a-year electronics firm; of a heart attack; aboard a cruise ship near Juneau, Alaska...
...twin hearings in Seattle and Juneau last week, a Senate Commerce subcommittee stewed over the biggest economic problem of the nation's 49th state. The great salmon fisheries, which normally bring 41% of Alaska's $146 million annual civilian income, are on the verge of destruction. In the past 23 years, the pack has slipped from 8,500,000 cases to 3,000,000 cases in 1958. This year the outlook is for a bare 1,800,000, the lowest level since the canneries started keeping records...
...Threw, jointly with the 20-member senate, a turnabout dinner in the Gold Room of Juneau's Baranof Hotel for the swarm of lobbyists who had been wining and dining the lawmakers...
...Weighed Representative Robert Blodgett's proposed ten-year ban on new government buildings in Juneau, the state capital. "I wouldn't want them to get carried away with illusions of grandeur," Blodgett explained. But Blodgett himself got carried away in speaking for his bill to set aside 5,000,000 acres of land to provide income for the University of Alaska. "Why, some day," he exclaimed, "we could have the greatest university in the country...