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INFORMED AMERICANS”  \nPublished by the  \nCENTER FOR INFORMATION ON AMERICA  \nWASHINGTON,CONNECTICUT  \nVolume VI,Number 6  \n# ALASKA-49th State?\n\nAlaska,in Aleut language,means \"The Great Land.\"It's just that.  \nIt is twice the size of Texas,with enough over to make acouple of dozen Delawares.Alaska has seven major riverbasins,with the Yukon the largest.It's got America's tallestmountain—Mt.McKinley.Its coast line is longer than thatof \"Stateside\"U.S.A.longer than the Atlantic,Pacific,andGulf coasts combined.  \nThe latest U.S.census check gives Alaska 209,000 inhab-itants.In the past ten years Alaska has lead all States per-centagewise in population gains.That's not a new situation.Between 1929 and 1939,Alaska also beat out all exceptFlorida and New Mexico.Thousands of homes recently builtshow Alaska's growth.  \nBut the elected representatives of these U.S.citizens-—twoSenators and a Congressman—still wait to be seated byCongress.  \nAlaska is so big and there are so many things to thinkabout concerning it that we better duck preliminaries and getdown to business.  \nGeography.Look at the map.There's Alaska's huge in-terior,largely undeveloped,but with natural resources inrich abundance.This interior is known as the Central Area,with the city of Fairbanks,Alaska's second in size,servingas supply point.  \nThere's the Southeastern Area,the Panhandle,which,be-sides its mainland,is made up of hundreds of islands—thechannel between forming the Inside Passage familiar to tour-ists from U.S.West Coast ports and Canada's British Colum-bia.At the start of the Panhandle is Alaska's third largesttown,Ketchikan,with its new 55 million dollar pulp plantand its fleet of 2,000 fishing vessels which supply the ninecanneries of this salmon canning capital of the world.  \nIn the Panhandle are such other towns as Sitka,capitalduring Russian ownership,and Juneau,capital now.  \nWestward,where the Panhandle joins the pan,lies theSouth Central Geographic Area,where Anchorage,Alaska'slargest city,is located.The South Central Area includes theAlaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands,stretching in a ninehundred mile crescent between Bering Sea and the NorthPacific.The end of the chain is near enough so that Japanhad little trouble,at the start of World War II,in takingover Kiska and Attu Islands,the only part of the AmericanContinent to suffer occupation.It cost 2,500 American livesto drive the invaders out.  \nFourth and final area is the Northwestern,facing theArctic Ocean at the top,and with Siberia,to the west acrossBering Strait,only fifty-four miles away.Nome,former goldrush town,is the major port for the Arctic Region,beingaccessible by sea from June to October.Point Barrow,north-ernmost community on the American Continent,can be  \nArt.by C.P.Meier.  \nreached from the sea for only a few summer weeks,but de-fense needs,particularly the installing and_operating ofDEW-line sites—units in our radar Distant Early Warningsystem to guard against air attack—have created somethingof a boom for Barrow as supply point for the icy,windblownarctic coast.  \ntion but in terms of the area they serve as marketing,business,and education centers.Thus Anchorage,the largest,likes tomeasure its size not according to its 27,500 inhabitants butaccording to the 60 to 90 thousands in addition which itserves as a trading center.These include U.S.armed forcespersonnel from nearby Fort Richardson and Elendorf AirForce Base.  \nClimate.Three-fourths of Alaska lie in the north tem-perate zone.Only one-fourth is beyond the Arctic Circle.Thanks to the Japan Current,which flows along the westerncoast,most of Alaska's principal towns have the same sort ofwinters as Maine,Vermont,and much of Massachusetts.Sitka's and Ketchikan's winter averages approximate those ofPhiladelphia and Washington;Juneau's those of New YorkCity.Mean average January temperature for Anchorage is20°above,which puts it on a par with 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