The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-29
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via the Associated Press that ClaF= ence Olson, veteran employee of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, has been named Acting Alaska Agent. sue ceeding Steele CulbertsOn, who had been acting in that capacity and now will be stationed at Ketchikan. taking the place of Warden A. w. Hawkins, resigned
 Apparent interpretation is that the smudge centering around the Bureau of Fisheries resulting in the. resignation of Commissioner Frank T. Bell and then Alaska Agent Lem uel Wingard is still smoldering All appointments made since have been Acting" only. In the mean time, the more or less famous re- port prepared by Dr. Carl Hubbs. Secretary Ickes' special emissary, has been presented to the High Command. Nothing from that re- port has been made public, and per haps never will be. Meanwhile. the status quo of the Fisheries setup kindles added interest.
 Feeling seems to prevail in some quarters that the ultimate line up of the Bureau of Fisheries is going to be far more reaching than might | be suspected. Reports have seeped Iup this way from Washington that program is being considered to group fish along with game, as the result of the assimilation of both l the Bureau of Fisheries and the | Biological Survey into the Depart ment of Interior the former having l been previously a branch of the De partment of Commerce and the lat ter of the Department of Agricul ture This may mean that one man will head game and fish in Alaska. l Including commercial fishing Alas kans will be watching with inter est to see what happens in connect ion with their No. 1 ndustry-fish- ing and No industry-fur and game. In direct benefit to the Ter ritory, mining is usually considered in No. spot.
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 The gentleman from the Third | Division. MT. Karl Drager of An chorage, propounds the question this week. Not only that, but he gives an answer. Representative Drager. who had no end of amuse ment in the last Legislature and provided a great deal of it himself. | has been reading up on his election l laws, the Organic Act and what | haYe-you. Up in the Third Division, Mr. Drager points out, they accept ed filings for Senators, on the as- sumption that there were two Va eancies, one through the resignation of James Patterson to become U. S. Marshal in the Third and the other through the death of Joe Hoffman, who had two years yet to serve. In the first place, says our MT. Drager, there aren't any vacancies officially, regardless of the fact that Mr. Pat terson is herding prisoners up at l Valdez as U S. Marshal and MT Holman has passed on. There can be no vacancies unless officially de- clared by writ from the Governor, opines MT. Drager, quoting section tion 469. And, Furthermore, says our esteemed correspondent, after issuing a writ, the Governor shall order an election and give due mo- tice." Now MT. Drager asked opin ion, other than his own, and was informed, he reports, that the Gov ernor should file this writ "at least 30 days prior to the general ele
 tion in the fall of 1940." Thus, the gentleman from the Third pro- pounds the question:
 What about the filings and what is the status of those nominated orI eliminated at the primary? Can theI candidate who has been eliminated file over, and if he can what's toI prevent anybody from filing?s
 It is our MT. Dragers opinion that things aren't according toI Hoyle, or, at any rate, the law books not, as he adds, that it is likely to make any great difference, except, that it is wide open for contests and some one may take q notion to blow up the works" Any thought Chat MT. Drager would be- the one to do the blowing up, how ever, should be immediately dis missed, we suspect, from this con- clusion How. anyone could live in Alaska during khis last administra- tion and not be In favor of the ad- ministration continuing is a ques- tion only a black dyed-in-the-wool Republican could answer in any other way than voting the Democra- tic ticket?" One guess how MT Dra- ger is going to vote.