STATEHOOD
FACT SHEET
Prepared for the Statehood
Committee
By Bob Kederick
"Yes" Votes needini on
three propositions
Affirmative votes on all three
propositions of the Alaska State
hood referendum are required in
order for Alaska to fulf ill the pro
visions of the Statehood Act.
Majority votes are required on
all three propositions.
If only one or two propositions
pass and a third fails to receive
a majority vote, the Statehood
Act is voided and Alaska has no
further opportunity to vote on
Statehood.
The three propositions, while
they are worded differently, basi
cally all can be boiled down to
one principal question: ARE YOU
IN FAVOR OF THE PRESENT
TERRITORY OF ALASKA BE
COMING A STATE?
The three propositions are:
1. Shall Alaska immediately be
admitted into the Union as a
State?
2. The boundaries of the State
of Alaska shall be as prescribed
in the Act of Congress approved
July 7, 1958, and all claims of
this State to any areas of land or
sea outside the boundaries so pre
scribed are hereby irrevocably
relinquished to the United States.
3. All provisions of the Act of
Congress approved July 7, 1958,
reserving rights or powers to the
United States, as well as those
prescribing the terms or condi
tions of the grants of lands or
other property therein made to
the State of Alaska, are consent
ed to fully by said State and its
people.
What do the three propositions
mean?
No. 1 simply asks the voter if
he favors Statehood.
No. 2 sets out that the boundar
ies of the State of Alaska shall
be exactly as they are now for
the Territory of Alaska with no
changes.
No. 3 merely reaffirms the
right of the President of the Un
ited States to make certain milit
ary withdrawals in the event of
a national emergency, a right he
already is able to exercise in all
the 48 states.
Alaskans lose no privileges, no
State laws or liberties are lost
through this measure in Proposi
tion No. 3. Civil law will always
be in effect and there could never
be a separation of Alaska. The
reaffirmation of the Presidential
privilege to make provisions for
national defense, as stated in
Proposition No. 3, is generally
considered to be an unnecessary
item but Congress saw fit to in
clude it. It is considered unneces
sary because the President of the
United States has always had this,
right in all states.
Nurses Seeking
Nursery Equipment
Members of the local Alaska
Nurses Association are seeking
the loan of cribs, high chairs,
car beds or bassinets, and play
pens for use in their Nursery
which they will operate on Aug
ust 30, 31, and September 1 at
the Matanuska Valley Fair. Any
one having such items which they
would loan to the nurses' is ask
ed to contact Mrs. Merritt Long
at PI-2425.
The nursery will be located in the
Jront section of the fairgrounds
"and operated from noon until 6
p.m. me Iasi tnrec days of the
fair. Two registered nurses will
be on duty at all times, assisted
by volunteer members of the lo
cal Rainbow for Girls assembly.
All children, up to three years
1 of age, may be left in the care
of the nurses, A charge of 50 cents
per hour will be made for one
child, plus 25 cents per hour for
each additional child of the same
family.
Of the 28 per cent of fatal traf
fic accidents in which an “ob
struction of view” was a factor,
one-third was caused by an ob
struction of trees, bushes or
mrops.
Interesting Display
Planned by BLM
During Valley Fair
Interesting displays will again
this year be shown in the Bureau
of Land Management log cabin
located on the south end of the
fairgrounds. Personnel this week
are preparing the building for dis
plays that in past years have at
tracted the interest of thousands
of fair-goers. Included in the
displays will be fire fighting
equipment, maps pertaining to
the varied BLM programs, and
timber samples.
The display will be staffed by
Bureau personnel.
SPECIAL OBSERVANCE
PLANNED AT
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S
The Rev. Malcolm Miner of
Anchorage will visit in Palmer
on August 24 to celebrate the
Holy Euchrist observance of the
feast of St. Bartholomew, patron
saint of St. Bartholomew’s Epis
copal Church. The service will
begin at 11 a.m., following which
the annual parish picnic will be
held at Anderson Lake.
All local and visiting members
of the Episcopal church are cor
dially invited to attend the Ser
vice.
Vote for
i. Gerald
r'Jerry")
lilliams
A LEADER OF PROVEN ADMINISTRATIVE ABILITY
• ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ALASKA SINCE 1949.
• LEGAL ADVISOR TO 3 GOVERNORS
• TAUGHT SCHOOL AT HOPE, SELDOVIA, UNGA, McGRATH
AND JUNEAU
• ASSISTANT U. S. ATTORNEY AT ANCHORAGE 1942-43
• PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE, ANCHORAGE 1943-49
• UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER AT HONNAH 1934
• B.A. IN EDUCATION AND BACHELOR OF LAWS DEGREE
FROM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• MARRIED —TWO TEEN-AGE CHILDREN BORN IN ALASKA
• ALASKA RESIDENT SINCE 1930.
(Pd. Adv.)
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ANNOUNCEMENT BY
R. E. ROBERTSON
USUALLY KNOWN AS BOB ROBERTSON
Of His Candidacy For
UNITED STATES SENATOR
For Term "A"
! have been a resident of Alaska for 52 years, during which
time I served three terms as Mayor of Juneau, about 24 years
as President of the Juneau Public School Board, two terms
as Trustee of the University of Alaska (then Agriculture Col
lege and School of Mines), Chairman of the Alaska Four Minute
Men, United States Employment Service and United States
Public Health Service, First Judicial Division Member of the
Board of Law Examiners 26 years, and in various other civic
and fraternal positions, and as Delegate to the 1955 Constitu
tional Convention at Fairbanks.
I believe in the two-party system of Republican government.
I am a life-long Republican and hope to aid Alaska's return
to Republicanism in support of President Eisenhower's and
Secretary of the Interior Seaton's strong advocacy of State
hood for Alaska, which I have long supported, having orally
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debated and written as early as 1943 for it, and having in
1924 appeared before Congress on behalf of Southeastern
Alaska, urging Statehood.
I have always advocated and still advocate low taxes
an«J will work to obtain an amendment to the United States
Constitution limiting income taxes to 25% or less.
I recfuest your vote at the primary election both for Statehood
and myself on August 26th, and at the final election on
November 25th.
I will work to make Alaska the finest and best, as well as
the biggest, State of all the 49.
I will appear before you either personally or by television
prior to November 25th.
R. E. ROBERTSON
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