ALASKA MUST
GR
• • •
OR DIE
If we continue to spend all our income on state administration, we face
economic stagnation and tax increases. More tax increases will drive
families and industry alike out of Alaska. We must reduce the cost of state
government, then devote our oil lease money to building new payrolls.
IWe must conduct an immediate inventory of our resources, then
• determine what we can sell through the use of the most modem
marketing techniques.
2 We must invest some of our oil lease revenue in the
• Alaska Development Bank. We must provide our own
source of capital to finance new industry.
3 We must open an intensive program to promote our natural re
• sources and scenic attractions. This is not a task for some small
office in our state government. It should be a major effort. We
must attract investors, developers, tourists and new residents.
AND HERE ARE SOME OTHER POINTS IN MY PROGRAM:
Lei's get our schools out of politics by
placing them under a Board of Education
as provided for in Section 26 of our Stale
Constitution.
Let's give our Native people adequate vo
cational training. When they are trained,
and can hold good jobs, they will be more
able to stand on their own feet.
5.
Let’s forget about politics and hire the finest minds in
Alaska to administer our state government. When we
have good administrators who have the freedom to get
a job done, then we will see our state make progress
on highways and other programs.
7.
Let’s provide real incentives for Alaska employers to
hire only Alaska residents. We must end our tremend
ous economic loss brought about by seasonal, non
resident workers.
8.
Let us assist our fishermen by listening to local Fishery
advisory boards, and by employing state fisheries per
sonnel who are familiar with the area in which they
work.
Watch this newspaper for more details of my program to put our people
and our resources to work building a prosperous state.
^ MIKE STEPOVICH
(THIS AD SPONSORED BY THE STEPOVICH FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE, BRAD PHILLIPS,
P. O. BOX 34, ANCHORAGE, CHAIRMAN, WHICH REMINDS YOU THAT WHEN MIKE STEPPED
DOWN AS OUR LAST TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR, HE LEFT AN ACTUAL SURPLUS OF $12,000,000
IN THE TREASURY AND NO INDEBTEDNESS AGAINST THE NEW STATE.)