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...Northernmost Correspondent in the World," to his friends in Fairbanks one day last week after a treasured visit from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 49, in 30-below weather. A strong Republican campaigner, Seaton flew into Alaska to help the G.O.P. ticket in the first post-statehood election contests. Wherever he touched down, Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly 50,000 voters as he could reach by plane, automobile...
...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...
...Union's strapping unborn infant-which will not officially assume statehood until early 1959-already thinks it knows the name of its first elected Governor: Democrat William A. Egan, 43. Egan is running a one-sided contest against Republican John Butrovich Jr., 48, Fairbanks insurance man, former Territorial Senator and longtime political catechist to Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (running for the U.S. Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost...
Last week the prosperous Matanuska farmers had finished their harvest and contractors completed a new $400,000 blacktop road through the valley town of Palmer. The valley was growing faster than the wildest dreamers had hoped, seemed destined to be even more prosperous under statehood, since growing Alaska still imports about 90% of all its food. For the 40 or so original Matanuska colonists-out of the original 900-who had looked for the promised land and found hard work, the promise suddenly seemed close at hand...
Tiny (pop. 150) Kalskag was the first to report its vote last week in the Alaskan referendum on entering the Union. Kalskag's vote: 40 for statehood, none against. And by week's end, with votes still being counted across the 586,400-sq.-mi. territory, it was clear that most agreed with Kalskag; a record 50,000 voted 5 to 1 to become the 49th state. Next steps: after the general election, and after the final votes are certified. President Eisenhower will sign Alaska into statehood, with two U.S. Senators, one U.S. Representative, three votes...