The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30

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 From that start with the Ford. sheldon became one of Alaskass first. if not the first auto dealers. Later he branched out into the transportation business and was long interested in the Mckinley Park transportation angle In his spare time he served in the Terri torai Legislature and seven years as Postmaster at Fairbanks. Those were the days in which he was in- strumental in promoting air mail service between Juneau and Fair banks.
 As he hustled off to catch a boat for Petersburg, Bobby reminded us he'd given a piece" to Sid Charles of Fishing News which We might want to use as a basis for a story about his trip through the South east Having read it. we won't even burden you with it. The second class mail is deluged with similar press releases. which nobody wants to read. The chap who makes UCC tick is a MT. RoDere [. Sheldon, Alaskan deluxe, and very genu- inc human being, wnose main in terest in his job as UCC Director is human beings.
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 You may or may not hear some thing more about H. R. 2462 and S. 951, but. at any rate. they are the respective bills now before the 18th Congress to elect the Govern or Of Alaska and to create the State of Alaska. Fl. R. 2462, to elect the Governor. is fathered by Delegate Dimond in the House of Represent atiYes and s. 951 was introduced by Senator Langer Of North Dekota and Senator McCarran of Nevada in the Senate and proposes to establish statehood for the Territory Both have been referred to the committee on Territories. Whener they make any progress from that point re- mains to be seen. but they do seem to foretell of things to come.
 The bill proposing election in stead of appointment of the Gov ernor appears to nave the best chance at the present writing. and even the statehood measure doesn't t seem so remote when one considers the six-months building Alaska Highway and some of the other de- velopments in the north in the last year or so. Dimond's GoYernor-eleC- tion measure calls Tor the election of such an official next year. in the 1914 election. Nominations would be made in the same manner as now for Delegate to Congress and the nominees would De required to have the same qualifications as for Delegate, residence in the Territory, etc. The Governor would be elected for four years and would take off, flee on January l, 1945, with sal ary as at present, $1O,000 a year. l ue Blll p1Oh4uGb TUT InG 1OhCA or's residence in Juneau, now main- tained by the Federal government, being turned over 10 the Territory for use as the official residence of the Governor, and should it not be used for that purpose for a period of one year it would revert to the U. s. as part of the public domain.
 The bill by Senators Langer and McCarran for establishing state hood for Alaska provides for the election of delegates to a conven- tion which would form a constitu- tion and state government for the Territory, along the same line as all states are admitted to the Union. Under the setup the State of Alaska would have two Senators and one Representative in Congress. An ap- propriation of $1OO,000 would be set aside from FederaI funds to car ry out the provisions of the act