The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-09-19
THROUGH HE SENTINEL EERISCOPE

3tatlAOoa Tor Alaska Is muen
 closer tuau many expect Il reac-
 .4uus uI l.. D. aeuaIOrs Wuo visited
 tue Territory tne DasJ Iea weeks
 $ erttgloH oI Juuss JO come. AI- ter hearing tue pros and cOus uL stdtenuUu as well as aBUul every Jang else pertaining to Jue Ierrl- Jory from heJeulhdn to r.alruauhs, Chairman hugh DuJler oi cue pow erlu senate IuDng Lands COmm.f- tee predicted statehood LOT he
 IerrIldry som within three JO 1UI ye.tf. frIor tO uIs visit 10 AlasAas l tHe senator had puUucIy stated he l
 gas opposed JU statehood Tor Euy | Je.tItOfy not couusuCds to cougn-| ! ental ULIleu States. senator LaI=s EctUn oI Montana With Butler 5 committee, puUucly expressed him sell as WuoIehearteuiy for state hood ROW and Senator Ernest Mac FarIand oI Arizona, lne same cOl- mttee indicated favorable reac- ton.
 Senator Homer Capeharl of lu- diana. Chairman oI the senate small business committee. came out Tor Alaska statehood while 4p- proacniug Wraugeu via the East ern Passage, and publicly eNpres- sed himself throughout the Ter ritOry favor. senator Allen El- lender 'oI Louisiana, while lar from enthusiastic al first, indieaI. ed before leaving the Territory that statehood was aH ultimate destiny senator Cain of Wash ington was noucOmmittal. After all, Harry has to get elected ill Washington state where strong auti-statenood sentiment exists III the SeaJtle-rooted Alaska mon Cpoly.
 On the whole, the score was favorable. There didn't appear Eo be an anti-statehoou vote in either committee. Maybe the thing to GC is get the other 90 members of the Senate 10 come Up and take look ]
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 Anchorage continues as the boom towns o1 Alaska, although Fairbanks is getting to be strong runner-dp. From it's approximately . zoo in 1y4U. when Army bases started just prior to the war, An chorage today oouid count some where between I5,00O and 2U,- 000 people. NOW the second boom is on. The Army Is putting in per manent bases and doing some eX- banding likely to take from two and a half to three years. Re suit: Anchorage is rolling in clov er as the thousands ttop estimate 1900 of workmen over on the Army Post getting cost-plus wages. l pour money over the Anchorage s counters. Typical. if not horrible, , example Of inflated real estate f prices in Alaska's No. 1 boom C town; Two-story house which could be made into quarters for housing five air line employees to the air line manager for . $500 per month Another air line was offered a house of smaller size for a mere S375 per month. i At last report both offers had be n l turned down but it gives you an idea of the financial daze in wh1rh 1 Anchorage is living. People Wh have to live there on moderate fixed salaries find the situation g almost impossible, but at last re- port there were some 60-odd liqu .r [ licenses in the town and all were { doing fine, thank you. One chap, | who has been in town just two I years, is now opening his third liquor place and with his wtte { plans to retire within three yeas [ He'll probably do 4, too, unless some slicker down the street ] takes it all away from him. All the easy money boys are in An chorage, and lot of them brought their girl friends. It there's any town in the Territory doing it's
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