THE GALAX NEWS
JULY 28. 1960
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•'Greatest state in the Union* You can put
North Carolina and all of New England in
just a little old corner of Texas,, you
know it# Land are of 263, 644 square miles
Greatest state in the Union,
Then a man sitting on the other side
of me, whom I had not even noticed before,
piped up, "Pardon me, Pardner,” he said
to the Texan, »»I»m from little old Ala^a,
Youngest state in the Union, 588,400 square
miles. One fifth the size of the whole
United States, twice the size of Texas,
Greatest state in the Union, Texas blinked
at him sjid turned back to me, '»Ab I was
saying,” he said, ”You can't mention a
thing that Texas ain*t got. We got 400
miles of sea coast, you know it, man, and,,
’’Pardon me, pardner, •* Alaska said, "We got
4,750 miles of coe.st linej our shores are
washed by two oceans, one sea, straits,
gulf, and God knows how many bays* We got,,"
Texas turned back to me again, "Now
you take our mountadns," he said, "there*s
Capitan in the Guadalupes, 9020 ft. That
makes her about 4,000 ft, higher than any
thing you got in North Carolina and..."
"Why son," Alaska said, "that’s just a lit
tle old hill. If you want a he-mountain,
why don’t you take old McKinley, 20,300 ft.
high. That makes her about 11,280 ft. high
er than anything you got in,,, ,TWhat‘s the
name of that state again?" Then Texas said,
"Ihere’s the old Rio Grande, VIhat a river,"
Alaska immediately said, "There’s the
old Yukan, 2,000 miles long, and you’ll ne
ver see the day you can jump across it like
you can some rivers I can mention but won*t
..." Well, by this time Texas was foaming
at the mouthj he turned his back on Alaska
and said, "and we got gas and oil, gold,
jilver, mercury and lead, and ,,,"
Alaska said, "we got oil, gold,
silver, copper, lead, tin, platinum, pella-
cin, antimony, tungsten, coal, marble,
glosum, sulphur, pitchblend, timber, and
fish and ,,," Texas said, "There ain't
anything we can*t grow. You ever see a
Texas watermelon? Biggest thing you ever
saw,"
"Yeah," Alaska said, "about half the
size of a Matauska Valley cabbage. Richest
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land in the world that Matauska Valley
land is,
"But what we are really noted for,”
Texas said, "is our men. Takes real men
to live in Texas, You ever hear of them
*blue northers' that whip through the pan
handle?" "Yeah," Alaska butted in again,
"They're just baby williwaws sent down
for seasoning. When they get where they
can brean 100 miles an hour they come
back to Alaska to work out on some real
men,"
After that Alaska got up and left.
Then Texas turned to me and said, "Them
Alaskans, If they ain't the biggest-
mouthed, loudest bunch of braggarts I
ever heard. Why we ever let 'em in the
Union, 1*11 never know."
A more enjoyable experience than this,
I am yet to know.
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