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Show AFTER THE PIPELINE jniiiiiitmmimimiinitHum Remodeling or Building? 'High Road To Adventure' It's answer time in Alaska, and the big question may well be: "After the pipeline ment. ACCORDING And what Alaskans answer may change the face of the 49th state, just 18 years old on January 3. The pipeline is in finally place and by Another forceful voice on Aleuts. Eskimos, and Indians. In a benchmark act of the federal government, they have been awarded nearly a billion dollars in revenues, and granted title to 40 million acres of land land the it is supposed to carrying crude oil miles from the North Slope oil fields to the waiting tankers at Valdez. Today's pipeline and tomorrow's oil bonanza already have exploded the way of life in Alaska with record pay and prices. But also the 800 Based on current statistics, there are 364 million television sets in the world, compared with 360 million telephones and 300 million automobiles and trucks. first oil. Since then drilling wells and building the $7.7 billion pipeline has brought riches, corruption, and hordes of people to a frontier state little prepared for them. o Lighting o Bath I Home Decor HONEYWELL I affected are other great last-chan- Hill SMOKE DETECTOR BATHROOM HARDWARE questions that cry for decisions. Five National Geographic staffers moved across the state from Juneau to the Arctic Ocean, from the Aleutians to far up the Yukon to take the measure of Alaska's promise and problems. Their findings fill a new book, "Alaska: High Roads to Adventure." EDITOR GILBERT M. Grosvenor set forth the crucial challenges: "How best to develop Alaska's extensive mineral resources; how best to preserve the wild beauty of its land and to protect the unique character of its wildlife; how best to achieve equality among its small but diverse citizenry; how best "to fit into the mainstream of American life; how best to handle the explosive problems of increasing population, increasing crime, and increasing shortages of housing and other services." Oil is the most obvious force shaping Alaska's future. It was a discovery on July 18, 1968, when the 51st and final test hole planned brought in the REFLECTIONS d Alaska's future is being raised by the state's native, the h start Con- gress, all these issues must be settled by December 1978. what?" mid-197- 7 TO natives had long claimed as their own. High stakes for the natives and Alaska alike are riding on the success of the new, native-ownecorporations formed to develop and administer these vast holdings. 30 All V TOX. .',4 Steve Raymer By (c, 800-mi- le - 753-066- 6 Bike & Trilte Sale Men's trans-Alask- 26" Now Fridays Special 3 Speed $t Zl 00 Reg. $79.88 IQJfctf All Other Bikes Drastically Discounted private citizens and government bureaucrats all are raising their voices over the future of Alaska's land. The federal government has proposed 83 millions acres to be designated as new or expanded MRCAINS On Mens Shoes national parks, national forests, means of refining the Alaskan oil, and transporting it from West Coast ports to the Midwest and East where it is most needed." Conservationists and developers, wildlife preservationists and trophy hunters, OK Thursday thru Saturday National Geographic SNAKING OVER HILLS, the a oil pipeline is welded together near Valdez, where the crude will be pumped into waiting tankers sometime this summer. Oil's impact on the 49th state is explored extensively in the National Geographic Society's newest book, "Alaska: High Roads to Adventure." cost, and violent social upheaval, that there exists no practical Utah State Wallpaper's Spring Merchandise 20 'CNYV g 104512 N. Main - Logan, VaitiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieiiiiiiimitiiiiHiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHfiitiiiiiitiiifiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiu vlx X every-escalatin- 2495 In Bridgerland Square I THEN, AS THE pipeline neared completion, emerged the bitterest of ironies. 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