The News-Miner is not among the newspapers I commonly read, Ron Davies, but I did a little reading and it appears that the managing editor really does regret letting that caption through. (Makes me wonder though if the caption writer wasn't given the go ahead at the time.) He may have taken a lot of flak.

I have some friends who live just outside Fairbanks and they like the area. But, my friend says, in all other areas he has lived he is considered a political moderate. In Fairbanks, however, he says, they regard him as a bleeding liberal.