The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-11-05
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE
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 Once again Alaska proved itself something of a barometer in the political fled.
 In October Alaska. reversing it's position of two years ago. went Democratic. Tuesday the nation s voters, following Alaska's lead el- teJed a Democratic House of Re presentatives and appeared to have given the Democrats a majority in the Senate although they probably would be recounting the votes in New Jersey and Oregon where very close contests had developed. In addition, the Democrats elected I9 Governors over the nation as a. gainst 13 for the Republicans. h. gluding hoidoyers this would give the donkey riders 27 Governors and the G0Pess 21.
 As Alaska goes. so goes the na- tions seems 10 have developed into something more than a phrase once attributed to Maine.
 Meanwhile, the traditional com
  olina to the Governor of North Carolina relative to the exhaustive periods between refreshments be- comes momentarily, at least, over shadowed by what the Governor of New Jersey said to the Governor of Oregon. In the latter up-to-the- minute case, His Excellency ex- claimed tets impound the ballot boxes" and so it is being done in Oregon and New Jersey as a couple of very tough Senate races develop cd in the two states. In New Jersey Republican Clifford p. Case had 50 vote edge over his Democratic opponent Charles R. Howell with ali the precincts reported and some absentee ballots to be counted In Oregon Democrat Richard L. Neu- berger had a slight lead over Re publican Guy Gordon with some votes to be tallied. On the final outcome of these two races rested control of the IT. s. Senate when it convenes in January. The Demo- crats have 47 seats. the Republi- cans 46 and Senator Wayne Morse Of fOregon holds one as an Inde- pendent. The other two Senate seats are those in dispute in Ore gon and New Jersey.
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 The Trend
 The Democratic trend was re- 
 ditionally Republican Pennsylvania e.ected it's first Democratic Gov ernor in 70 years in George M. Leader. New York, the Republican Tom Dewey stronghold, elected lib eral Democrat AverlI Hartman. Michigan with it's large Detroit in dustrial area returned Democrat G. Mennen Williams to the Governors chair for an unprecedented fourth term. Arizona, in reversal from two years ago, elected Democratic former Senator Ernest w. McFar- land, who, incidentally, is well known to many Alaskans as a re- suit of his visit to Alaska with the Butler committee in 1946. Con necticut, Iowa and Minnesota. us- ually counted in the Republican column, came up with Democratic Governors
 Obviously, the highly-touted Els enhower program wasn't what the voters wanted
 Industrial Note
 c. Dean Johnson, construction engineer who will be in charge of the Pacific Northern Timber Com pany development here, while in town last week end reported com pany plans going forward as sched- nled. He said one of the first things that would be undertaken would be the construction of a small sawmill on the old Packers site to cut lumber for use in it's full construction program. He esti- mated two years might be neces sary before a full operation is underway
 PINT originally announced a S4,- 5OO,O00 lumber development for the Wrangell area. It has since ac- Auired the old Alaska Packers site at the north end of Wrangell Is- land, has been the successful bid der on some 339.OOO acres of tim Der in this area and has optioned from the city 90 lots for housing project. Under its contract with the Forest Service it must submit to that agency complete plans for it's operations by January 1. The pro- gram, said Engineer Johnson, is on schedule.
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 Fine Civic Job
 A word of thanks is in order to the scouting organizations and civ ie groups of the community who