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...optimistic are Alaskans on statehood, now that the House of Representatives has voted them toward membership in the Union, that they have a flag already prepared (see cut). The stars are neatly arranged, seven up, seven down. Only trouble: nobody is sure what a 49-star flag will look like officially-provided the bill passes the Senate. The U.S. Code does not stipulate the arrangement of stars, only that one shall be added for each new state, effective the Fourth of July following admission to the Union. In the congressional hopper are proposals, drawings and samples of 49-star flags...
Helping some 3,000,000 Minnesotans celebrate their statehood centennial last week were Norway's comely Princess Astrid, daughter of King Olav V, and Sweden's Prince Bertil, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Earlier, the royal junketeers, who looked none the worse for the four-day hullabaloo, had found time for New York shopping and lunch in Washington with President Eisenhower and Mamie. But Bertil, who arrived in the U.S. two days earlier than Astrid, had one regret: no time for golf...
Ever since May 1957, the bill to grant statehood to Alaska has been gathering dust in a House Rules Committee pigeonhole personally guarded by Rules Chairman Howard Smith. Virginia Democrat Smith opposes the bill, at least partly because Alaska would probably send a pro-civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another...
...pigeonholing the statehood bill, Howard Smith is clearly bucking a House majority, including Speaker Sam Rayburn. "The Speaker asked me to get it out of the Rules Committee," says Virginian Smith. "I told him I wouldn't if I could help it. I'm against it." By his tactics last week, Smith made sure that nothing would happen until at least mid-April. If he can stall for another month after that, nearly everyone agrees that the bill will be lost in the rush of House business-and Alaska will have to wait months or years longer...
Author Ferber has been to Alaska four times, and must have done a lot of research, too: her book is very knowing about such matters as parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy...