The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1952-10-31
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TUESDAY Big uaY
Alaskans. having nau their big
inning on October II, can ST and
uwirl the dlaIs next Tuesday
night and attempt TO learn what
nearly I75,OO0,UOO people in the
As states are doing about elect
ING President.
VIII it be Gen. Dwight d. Els
enhower, better known as Ike, or
GOV. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois,
Some of the pollsters give Re
publican Eisenhower the percent
age break others give an edge
10 Democrat Stevenson.
No pollslef, our only thought
is that if the national election
follows the pattern of the recent
Alaska election, The Republicans
will come out on top with most OF
The offices. which may mean con
troll OF Congress. and if the coz
sentative Democrats swing N
with them, as they did in Alaska,
there probably will be a Repub-
lican President of the United
States for the first time in 20
years. +
At any rate, it will make inter
esting listening. I
Absentees Didn't Count
Counting of the absentee bal
lots last Tuesday in the various
divisions made no difference in .
result of the two closely contest
ed races for legislative seats. In
the Second, Mayor Charles Jones'
of Nome defeated Rep. w. W. +
Laws, both Republicans, for a
seat in the Senate by % votes and
Rep. Wendell P. Kay of Anchor /
age, Democrat, defeated Fred
Williamson, Republican, for a
seat in the House from the Third
Division by II votes with the alb /
sentee ballots all totaled. Kay .
will be the only Democrat in the
House from the Third, all nine of
the other seats going to Republi- .
cans, as listed last week.
Elder Statesman
In coming back to the Senate
next January for a fOur-year /
term, Senator Jones, in addition
to taking has regular seat, will +.
be taking the unofficial seat OF
"Alaskas Elder Sta (e m n
Charley, staunch advocate of
life begins at So is the living
example that proves it As mere
lad of 81" he served in the first
Alaska legislature of 1913 as
member of the House from the
Second Division, his home town
of Nome. He served in the Senate
in 1917 and 1919 legislatures
and in 40 was President Pro Ten
of that body. Senator Jones, Ter
ritorial Treasurer Henry Roden, I
and E. B. Collins of Fairbanks
are about the only active Alask-
ans remaining of the first legis- /
lature.
Lying Dean of Senate /
Nome and the Second Division
also come up with the dean of
the Senate this time in the per-
son of Senator Howard Lying, .
who was reelected with a hand
some majority, leading the ticket
with a neat 11O1 votes - a lot
of votes in the Second
Senator Lying. who for years
was the only member of the leg
islature born in Alaska Sand
Point where his father operated
a trading schooner before hitting
the beach at Nome in the strike
of 1902, has served six terms in
the House and two in the Sen
ate. He first served in the 1885. |
House, probably the most ram
FUNCTIONS free-wheeling legis- |
lative body that ever gathered
under one roof 1t had in it suchi
spirited then-young Alaskans as
Lying, George Lingo. of Anchor
age; Alton B. "Tubby" Nordale
of the pioneer Fairbanks Nordale
family. later tragically allied in
a plane crash; A. H. Ziegler of
Ketchikan and some other coming
young men with a zest for living
and a lusty approach to leigisla-
tive problems. 1t was generally
accepted by the more reserved
Senate of that year that the
House was always in session. It
was just a question of where -
officially in the House chamber
or at rendezvous in the old Cas-