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Kipplingor gays: Tho entity of Alaska~into the Union shifted the
^geographic center of tho U#S* from Kansas to South Dakota* Toxas
remains sol.f conterod*
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To thoso Alaskans who have tho cuts and rocklosanoss to bo
what somo call possimistic but which othora call roalistic, horo is
a bit of plain dopo# ,
Tho probabilities of evor finding paying quantitios of oil
in ..laska aro iv*w slim# Tho oil companies aro'saro spending millions
.n exploration on that slim chanco# But tho spending of millions
:doos not put oil into the rocks if it aint thoro#
A long timo ago, lctfs say maybe twenty billion years, groat
quantitios ef oil woro formod in the aroa that is how «»la8ka#
Several years later, lot*s say ton billion, this area was submorgod
undor tho soa and whilo down thoro it was covorqd with layers of
rock# and was stirred and twisted and smashod irnto a fantastis
\moos* If you £ravol thru Alaska you will see very few lovel,even
formations. Everything is stirred up and twisted#
This twisting and stirring and cracking let the* soa water dr/in
into the oil bods, the oil was forced out and up by the wator and
tho oil vanishod# V/o aro sorry that this happened, but thoy havo
been drilling for oil in Alaska fir sovonty flvo years now and havo
found only a fow tag ends of oil so far# No amount if ’’optimism” is
going to koop winter from coming next Docombor, nor is ’’optimism”
* going to put oil into tho’Ground if it isn’t there#
But- there may be a big pool of oil lodgod somewhere in thi;s>
vast now Stato, and the oil companies aro looking hard and deep#
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i. V/hon it como3 to qucor montal antics tho pooplo who votod in
this goofy statehood business havo tho world boat# Thoy votod in
statehood bccauso thoy boliovod that with it wo could got moro
money out of dear old Undo than wo h&vo boon gotting as a Territory#
4»nd now th^y talk as tho it is tho responsibility of tho pooplo who
opposed statehood to soo that it works out good*
GnCw there was a beautiful girl wont walking thru tho woods
ono sunny day in Juno# She bscamo woary and sank down among tho
I fragrant flowers to rest# She foil asleop# 5ho dreamod that a tall,
handsome nicji came out of tho wood3 and engaged her for a whilo in
pleasant conversation# Thon ho siozed her and ynnkod off most of hor
clothing and taking hor in his strong, brawny arms ho startod
carrying her further into tho woods# «*nd this beautiful girl s<..idj
”0h,Mister, Mister,what arc you going to do to me now?" .>nd ho
repliad, ’’That is strictly up to ycu Miss,this is your dream#”
It seoma roaenntibld that tho statehood pooplo keop in mind
1 that this is thoir droam#
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