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Died. Austin Eugene ("Cap") Lathrop, 84, Alaskan multimillionaire (coal mines, canneries, newspapers, radio stations, etc.), stiff-necked opponent of Alaskan statehood; in Suntrana, Alaska. Born on a Michigan farm, Lathrop made his first big Alaskan profits (and was nicknamed Cap) when he bought into a two-masted schooner and tapped the rich Gold Rush traffic. He developed Alaska's biggest coal mine; built its biggest radio station; became, reputedly, its richest citizen...
Like many U.S. states, Hawaii had anticipated Congress' invitation to join the Union; Hawaii was tired of waiting. As a territory, it pays more taxes to the U.S. treasury than some states; its chief argument for statehood-"No taxation without representation"-is straight from the original 13 colonies. So are most of the ideas in the 13,000-word constitution. Others are borrowed from Lincoln, and from Senator Wagner (the constitution guarantees labor's right to organize...
...Pigeonholed in the House Rules Committee the Senate-approved Lodge-Gossett constitutional amendment to change the system of counting electoral votes in presidential elections (TIME, Feb. 13). ¶ Voted to make Hawaii a state (having already endorsed statehood for Alaska), sent the bill to the Senate where a similar proposal had been shelved three years...
Last week the House: ¶After 34 years of thinking about it, voted (186 to 146) to make Alaska the 49th state in the union, then approved Hawaii's 30-year-old appeal for statehood (which it had approved and the Senate had rejected in the 80th Congress). ¶| Approved a bill establishing a National Science Foundation, after first insisting on an FBI check for all employees and scholarship holders...
...bitter struggle over changing the House rules (TIME, Jan. 30) had not left the "right atmosphere" for another wrenching controversy. When FEPC came up, under the rules that Rayburn had successfully fought to retain only three days before, he decided that a more appropriate topic would be the statehood bills for Alaska and Hawaii...