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...four, Bill Murray in the backstroke, Jim Stanley in the orthodox breaststroke, captain John Hammond in the butterfly, and Dick Seaton in the freestyle, comprise the group that gave the Crimson 400-yard medley relay team first place in the Easterns and fourth in the Nationals last spring. They are all back, and presumably improved with increased experience...
...right start, to Seaton's mind: a vote for 1) young (39) Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), who resigned from the governorship to run for the U.S. Senate against aging (71) onetime Governor Ernest Gruening; 2) Territorial Senator John Butrovich Jr., 48, for Governor v. Valdez Grocer William Egan...
Territorial Labor Commissioner Henry Benson, 48, for Congress v. former Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers, 55. Seaton hardly needed to mention the second G.O.P. senatorial candidate, Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson, who is certain to be defeated by popular Democrat Bob Bartlett, for 14 years Alaska's territorial delegate to Congress...
While none of the other Democratic candidates commanded as broad a lead as Bob Bartlett, they seemed far enough ahead of their Republican opponents to warrant all the push Fred Seaton could give-and Seaton pushed hard. He collected all the "things that ought to be done" and saved them for his campaign trip, frankly admitted that his basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks...
Even without all the glad tidings, Seaton's trip was far more effective than the brief appearance of either Vice President Richard Nixon or the Democrats' Senator Jack Kennedy. Nixon and Kennedy got good crowds, packed in a lot of visits. But Alaskans have deep feeling for Fred Seaton, who gets much of the credit for statehood. Next week if Alaska's voters surprise themselves by electing a few Republicans to office, Fred Seaton could once again take much of the credit...