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A LASKA LUMBER dealers were sur- /r prised last year when asked to furnish rough lurnber for the "unmodernizing" and restoration of historic buildines for the Alaska 67 Centennial Exposition in Fairbanks.

The exposition is part of the Alaska centennial celebration to celebrate the purchase of Alaska from the Czar of Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million. Alaskans are celebrating their 100th year under the American flaq with a gigantic summerlong birthday party costing nearly as much as the

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half-million square miles o{ Alaska cost a century ago.

The main attraction at the 40 acre centennial exposition is the gold rush town, authentically depicting Alaska's colorful past, made up of actual log and frame buildings salvaged lrom downtown Fairbanks.

Nearly every one of the twenty-seven buildings in gold rush town has its own history and legends surrounding it. Twen' ty-six of the structures are authentic, hav' ine been "rescued" from urban renewal.