Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unicameral legislature, a possibility that was being discussed last week in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Vermont and Rhode Island? Should two such diverse areas as Northern and Southern California both be dominated by the single county of Los Angeles? Already some Northern Californians are renewing the old plea for statehood of their own. Their rallying cry: "Would you want your daughter to marry a surfer?" Finally, as Governor Earl Warren once insisted, are not the many minority interests more important to the welfare of a state than their population indicates...
Unpleasant Obligation. Alaska's economy was not too secure in the first place. The last of a $28.5 million federal grant, bestowed at the time of statehood in 1959, was exhausted last year. The fishing industry was healthy, and oil exploration was beginning to pay off. But Alaska was still in great need of risk capital, and it was not forthcoming; a Wall Street syndicate last year was able to sell only $5.3 million of a $9 million bond issue. As a territory and as a state, moreover, Alaska's economy had long been largely dependent...
Once in a blue moon is North Dakota's timetable for electing a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 74 years of statehood it has happened only in 1958, when now-Senator Quentin Burdick pulled a stunning upset...
...Ferreé brothers' fondest hope is that their sons-there are four of them-will some day run the family businesses not from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell...
Puerto Rico's Statehood Republican Party provides the only effective opposition there is to Mufioz' Popular Democratic Party. In the 1960 election for Governor, the Republican candidate, Luis Ferre, drew only 252,364 votes to Munoz' 457,880. But the Republicans believe that their statehood cause has been gaining strength recently. In legislative hearings and in private talks with Mufioz, the Republicans complained that Munoz was demanding a decision for or against statehood without any indication from the U.S. that statehood was even possible. Angrily, they threatened to boycott the plebiscite...