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...Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...
Open Secret. In Ketchikan, Alaska, the Chamber of Commerce voted to hold an off-the-record meeting - and voted to have it broadcast...
...Nome found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...
...hold in Alaska's Panhandle he might end the supply lines of the northern bases while he strengthened his position for raiding against northwest U. S. Big Navy base in the Panhandle will be at Sitka, but other U. S. bases are being set up at Juneau and Ketchikan. A few weeks ago the Indian inhabitants of Metlakatla, on U. S.-owned Annette Island, descendants of refugees from religious persecution in Canada in the '80s, voted permission for the U. S. to set up a base on their reservation...
...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...