uOV^nhOn'o Oi'HLCu N_mo OGi • a, 1963
Govenor .;illiam A/Gagan said today the
Faith 7 capsule of Major L-, Gordon Cooper
vjill.be displayed in Juneau form April 16
through April 19, 1964.
Arrangements for display of the space,
capsule were made by the Governor and
members of Alaska's congressional delegxation
with the National aeronautics and Apace
Administration. The Juneau visit will be
part of a nation-wide; program which will
take the capsule into all 50 State Capitals.
Along with the ca jsule will be other
spacecraft items including a display of
food similar to that used by Major Cooper
on his 22-orbit flight, cameras and
survival equipment.
ALASKA HIGHLY MELTING
This meeting at Lhitehorse, Y. T. , was
attended by 150 prominent amoricans and
Canadians from all principal localities
along the Alaska Highway and from more
remote places. Of the American contigent,
delegates from Fairbanks and .mchorage
pre-ponderated. Juneau, Haines, Cordova,
Home, Soldotna, and Kenai we’:-e also
represented, as were Billings and Helena,
Montana. Criticism of the 1200 miles of
- graveled highway within Canada focused
largely upon the'dust, and enthusiasm for
tne^idea of proceeding as soon as possible
to do the blacktopping was rampant. -11
who voiced their enthusiasm seemed convinc
ed that hard-surfacing the highway the
highway would quickly result in a great
increase in tourist traffic,’ particularly
no ■ that the Alaska car ferry system from
Lrince ^.upert to Haines provides the last
link needed to enable a great circle tour
-into Alaska one way and out the other.
Before the meeting was over, however, it
became painfully clear through a speech
by Hon. J.11. Nicholson, Minister of
Forestry under x'rime minister /earson’s
-Liberal Government, that there was no
disposition on the part of Ottawa to hasten
any action by Canada, either unilaterally
or in .cooperation with the United States,
to blacktop the Alaska Highway within
Canada. .In unintentional pun appeared in
the associated mress report wherein ..ard
Sims said'that Mr. Nicholson'had thrown a
11 liberal amount of cold water" upon the
" proposed blacktopping project. In Hep.
Livers speech, he concurred as to the
desirability of hard-surfacing the .LLaska
Highway not only for tourists but because
of its significance as the only overland
link between Alaska and the 48 contiguous
States. He also spoke of appropriate
procedures for accomplishing the task of
getting the two governments.into discussior
and negotiations for joint arrangements in
financing and constructing the finished
product. Inasmuch as the section yet to
be blacktopped is all within the sovereign
jurisdiction of Canada, there is nothing
our Government can do at this time other
than approach the Canadian government at
Ottawa for preliminary discussio s designee
to stimulate an affirmative attitude toward
this proposed project. His next step will
be to urge the U.S. State Department to
initiate such preliminary conversations.
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A^CL u,: VI I ON
•HIEAEaS, fire h \s continued to take a toll i
of lives in the State of .ALasku during 1963; !
and, I
uHnnE.iS, fatalities have included a number
of children below the age of ten years; and
uHEIujAS, home evacuation plans for the_ homes
in our communities can be a substantial
factor in lessening loss of life should
fire strike;
HO,*, THEicEFOiiE I, WILLI,u.i n. EG.iN, Governor
of the State of Alaska, hereby proclaim
October 6, 1963, to be;
HOME FI HE DilLL DAY IN ALASKA
and I urge every family to participate in
home fire drill plans in those .ALaska
communities where such activities are
scheduled. State and local government amende
and the service organizations of Alaska, as
well as other interested individuals and
s
organizations, are also requested to observe
and give full support to. this program.
IN WITNESS W;.HEitE0F,,1 have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Seal of Alaska to be
affixed, this twenty-fourth day of September
in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred
and sixty-three. 1
/s/ WILLI.iM E.iG^N
Governor
(S E;.a L)
ATTEST; /s/ Hu.?h J. hade
. .'v Secretary of State
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