European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Alaska Marks 30th anniversary As state with Low key ceremony Juneau Alaska up Alaska turned 30 years old tuesday at a Low key ceremony to celebrate the state s birthday. I remember what it was like to turn 30," said gov. Steve Cowper 50. It Felt like the end of the world. But certainly As far As alaskans Are concerned 30 years is just the  on Jan. 3, 1959, president Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Alaska the 49th state. Cowper the state s sixth governor led a modest Celebration of the anniversary an event ignored by most alaskans who returned to work and school As usual after the new year s Holiday weekend. When Alaska became a state it re placed Texas As the largest state. Recently Alaska replaced Texas As the nation s biggest Oil producer. Russian explorers discovered Alaska some 250 years ago and established the far Flung land As a trading Colony for the Czar who sold Alaska to the United states for $7.2 million in 1867. The Deal put together by Secretary of state Wil Liam Seward became known As sew Ard s  Gold started a Rush North to Alaska around the turn of the Century but world War ii demonstrated the territory s strategic importance. Japan bombed and occupied islands in Alaska s Aleu Tian Chain triggering a military buildup marking the beginning of Alaska s mod Ern development. I suspect that Back in the late 50s when the statehood fight was going on and it was a fight no question about it people did t know exactly what to expect in Alaska s future Cowper said. Alaska could not take its lessons direct o Alaska population 500,000 area 586,412 so. Mi., More than twice the size of Texas bordered by Canada major industries Oil Gas Coal tourism commercial fishing manufactured goods fish products lumber and pulp furs major crops Barley Hay silage potatoes lettuce average annual pay $28,806 1984 year of statehood 1959 Chicago Tribune graphic sources world almanac statistical abstract of the United states by from the rest of the states because of our unique situation being America s Only Arctic state. We be seen 30 years of mostly Prog Ress uneven Progress and i Don t think anybody could argue that 30 years later we have a much More promising econ omy and much More promising society in Alaska than people had the right to expect Back in 1959," Cowper said. Before Alaska s booming Economy suffered a bust with the decline of world Oil prices Oil Money quickly built Small but Modem Urban oases on the Tundra at the base of mountains and on its coasts. Alaska has no income tax and shares its Oil savings with residents by sending them annual checks. Alaska was in the spotlight with a 1971 meeting Between president Nixon and japanese emperor Hirohito and in a1984 meeting Between president Reagan and Pope John Paul ii. World attention was on Alaska in october when three whales became trapped by the ice and every year the 1,100-mile id Tarod sled dog race focuses attention on the state. Alaska has suffered the strongest Earth quake Ever recorded in North America the 8.5 magnitude quake on Good Friday in 1964 and tremors Are common. Alaska remains largely wilderness mostly owned by the Federal govern ment with the state still selecting its statehood entitlement lands. With just Over a half million people Alaska has the lowest population density of any state and its spectacular scenery annually at tracts More tourists than residents. Now Cowper is trying to open alas a s Border with the soviet Union for the first time since before statehood. Send Money Bakker urges on new show Pineville . A television evangelist Jim Bakker appealed for Money tuesday on his new show which is being broadcast by a half dozen stations. In his second broadcast since he was forced off the air two years ago in a sex and Money scandal Bakker asked listen ers to Send in "$100, or $25 or More for a crisis Book of  Bakker told viewers he did not want to raise funds every Day but expressed the belief that the heritage Usa Complex which was recently sold to a Canadian businessman would be restored to the pal members who paid for it. Meanwhile on lbs this morning Rufus Reynolds the now retired Federal judge who supervised the $65 million Sale of pal s assets said his stomach cringed at the Way Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye had handled the Money he raised in the name of religion. They just wasted a lot of it he said. Bakker 49, and a former top associate were indicted last month on charges of diverting $4 million in pal Money for their Benefit. A trial Date is expected to beset Jan. 17. The new Jim and Tammy show originates in the living room of the Bak kers borrowed biome and is sent by satellite to six stations mostly Cable in California Ohio new York Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The bakkers had not preached together on television since january 1987. Bakker said one of his supporters donated Money to put him Back on the air for the first month. Bully Goat fourteen year old Trina Muller of Rineyville ky.,has a new Friend bully a 4-week-old pet Goat. The teen Ager survived a fiery May 14 bus crash near Carrolton ky., which claimed 27 lives. The bandages on her face and hands prevent scarring from the Burns she received in the Accident. Last minute Vietnam donations save land for tree memorial Little Falls Minn. A a Vietnam Veteran whose plans for a Vietnam War Forest memorial were threatened by a Bank foreclosure Sale was bailed out by a flurry of last minute donations tuesday his support ers said. This has been a Long Long Effort but we did reach our goal said Terry Thompson a Vietnam veterans activist from Dayton Ohio who has led a nationwide fund raising Campaign to help save the project. The veterans National living memorial which Geof Frey Steiner has planted with More than 30,000 Trees since 1980, was scheduled for a foreclosure Sale wednesday. The 100-acre tract near Cushing was being taken by the Randall state Bank which holds a mortgage on it. Steiner 39, who received National publicity for his efforts was slated to lose the property after failing to repay a loan from the Bank. He secured the $8,000 loan with the property in 1984 to buy a car for his wife. The Bank initiated foreclosure proceedings last fall to recover $5,424 still outstanding and scheduled the fore closure Sale. Thompson said Adolph Coors co. And Minnesota Coors distributors will pay about 80 percent of the nearly $6,896 needed for Stemer s debts Legal fees and taxes. The Golden colo., Brewer is a major supporter of veterans affairs and one third of its employees Are Veter ans she said. The remainder of the Money will come from smaller donors she said. Thompson says she s already talked with Brigid Fitzgerald a lawyer handling the foreclosure. She said she and Steiner were scheduled to meet Fitzgerald wednesday with the Money and Fitzgerald then will cancel the Sale. Fitzgerald said earlier that Steiner could Stop the auction by paying his outstanding debt plus Legal and advertising costs incurred by the Bank. Thompson read about the foreclosure proceedings in november in a Dayton newspaper and launched a fund raising Campaign through her Hometown chapter of Vietnam veterans of America. Since arriving in Little Falls on monday night she has been on the phone with veterans groups across the nation seeking to raise the funds needed to redeem the property. She said replies have been slow because chapters have had to Convene their executive boards to approve donations. But she said she is confident the Money can be raised. Thompson said they planned to Plant a tree wednesday for Jason Rother the Minnesota Marine who died after being left stranded in a California desert when his outfit pulled out during a training Mission. Newsweek Magazine cited Steiner As one of 50 american heroes in july 1987. He has said his goal is to Plant a tree for each of the approximately 58,000 . Soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. F-4 crash leaves 1 dead 1 injured Tillamook Ore. A an Oregon air nation Al guard f-4 phantom Jet fighter crashed into the Pacific Ocean on a training Mission tuesday. Both Crew members bailed out and were plucked from the water but one of them died several hours later in a Hospital authorities said. The other the Pilot was reported in serious condition. The plane s weapons systems officer 1st it. Mark a. Baker 30, of Beaverton was picked up about three hours after the fighter plunged into the Pacific about 30 Miles off Tillamook Bay and died about eight hours later at Emanuel Hospital & health Center in port land National guard spokesman Mike Allegre said. The Pilot 2nd it. Mike Markstaller 24, of Portland was reported in serious condition with hypothermia or subnormal body temperature and multiple fractures Emanuel spokeswoman Lisa Hall said. A spokesman at Mcchord fab near Tacoma wash., staff sgt. Skip Wiseman said the Jet was on a training Mission out of the Oregon air National guard base in Portland. The Pilot declared an in flight emergency shortly before the crash Wiseman said