The Wrangell sentinel., 1953-11-13
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How It's Done
 Some weeks ago Delegate Bob Bartlett. prowliug the Territory in an off-election year, joined with Labor Commissioner Henry Benson in drumming up a meeting in Jun eau. aimed, they said. to work up a program to aid distressed fisher men" It got considerable publicity but no direct results until Gov. Hointzlenln went back to Wash ingtou and came up with a quarter of million dollars for public works projects and some direct re- lief aid for those in dire distress.
 With the clamor dying down, this week fsom Washington the Delegate. to no ones surprise, an nounced he would be a candidate for reelection next year. If noth- ing else. Delegate Bob is getting to be quite a politician. We wait with nothing short of baited breath for an announcement from Commission CT Benson to announce that he. too, will be a easdidate for reelection.
 The Partition
 Grant Jackson of the Miners and Meschauts bank in Nome and RaIph Iomen of the LOmen Com merciaI Company have come up with a plan for the partition of Alaska in as they describe it, an ticipation of StatehoOd.' They pro pose to keep their own Second Div ision and most of the Fourth in a limited Territory or district and let the First and Third become a state if they want it.
 The suggestion of dividing Alas ka isn't a particularly new one. Some dozen years and more ago the late Senator Norman Doe" Walk CT if Ketchikan proposed dividing the Territory into sort of north and south Alaska with a couple of states, if and when.
 The gentlemen from the Second have three alternative plans. One, they would make a state of that portion east of the 155rd meridian and south of the Yukon and Porcu- pine rivers, including Kodiak ls- land; or, two, all the present First and Third Judicial Divisions and all of the Fourth east and south of the 15Srd meridian, Yukon and Porcupine rivers; or, three, all of number two excepting the Aleutian Island and the islands of Bering Sea.
 They Lasc their proposals on density of population and financial ability of the areas concerned. In statistical breakdown they con- tend that the Second and most of the Fourth haven't the assets to support statehood, and as a mat ter of record, voted against it al the last statehood referendum some years ago.
 It is obvious, they conclude that part of Alaska is now right fully entitled to become a state but it is equally true that the bur den would be great unless the fed eral government would retain res possibility for a large segment oi its population and undeyeloped do main"
 AS the famed humorist Will Rog CTS once remarked about the Rus sian fiye-year plan during the de pression era: At least, they have plan
 COP SCORES
 After taking a larruping in New York and New Jersey last week the Republicans came back in Cal ifornia this week to score a touch down. They elected Glenard P Lipscomb to Congress from Calf ornia's 24th district. It made tn, score 219 seats in the House to 2l' for the Democrats with one Inde pendent.
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 After an absence of three years Don c. Foster, area director for tn Alaska Native Service, is back a his desk in the Juneau office. Il 1850 Foster was transferred to tn Minnesota area of the Bureau o Indian Affairs, and was succeede in Alaska by Hugh J. Wade.
 The Fosters have a wide circle c friends in Juneau, and Alaska wh will welcome them back to the Ter ritory.
 Wade expects to go to Anchorag where he will enter private la' practice.
 Depression Note
 More deer have been brought 1T to Wrangell and Petersburg tn fall than in the memory of anyon except the old market day hunter
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