Conversation so far:
What date did this alaska period start?
arriving in Fairbanks in February 1953.
What did he do in fairbanks?
In Fairbanks, Stevens cultivated the city's Republican establishment.
He befriended conservative newspaper publisher C.W.
Snedden.
How did he grow his base?
He befriended conservative newspaper publisher C.W.
Snedden, who had purchased the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in 1950.

Question: What else did Ted do in alaska?
Self-contained rewrite: What else did Ted do in alaska, besides cultivating the city's Republican establishment?