The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-02-25
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for the annual meeting or the Alas ka Game Commission in Juneau next week. Aboard the bureau yes sel Crane with the Fish and Wild life chief were W. E. Crouch, long a member of the department look ing ehipper again after being laid low for nearly a year with severe illness: Frank Williams of St. Michaels Game Commissioner; Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of ACC: Clarence Olson, Fisheries Supervisor. steele Culbertson of the fisheries branch and Capt. Dan Col lins and his crew
 Capt. Dan, incidentally, got a mascot for his vessel accidentally while the Crane was casting off. A friendly cat had elamOred aboard while tbe boat was alongside and when the skipper and his crew tried to get him ashore kitty decided to stay aboard and hid himself neatly under a life boat-not too far from the galley either from where there came the smell of good food.
 "Too late now" Capt. Dan said as the stern line fell free. Maybe he wants to go to Petersburg. any way" and the Crane pulled away with a Wrangell mascot aboard.
 Looking and feeling rested after the strain that is wartime Wash ington. although battling a cold he had picked up. Dr. Gabrielson was wishing, had planned. for about a month in the north, but figured he'd probably have to cut it to a. bout half that time. Fisheries pro- gram for the year is set up much a. long the same line as last year. he reported. Regulations were on Sec retary Ickes' desk for signing when he left the national capital and since then have been released. Where labor was available, addi- tional eanneries were permitted un- der the 1914 program. particularly in villages mainly dependent on fishing for a liylihOod. Otherwise, concentration program is much the sa me as last year.
 
 men in the industry who have worked out the program. Labor, the operators and the fishermen really get together and do business in this area" he said. ''Of course. they have their differences but all ways work out a program. They get somewhere. We have some areas on the east coast where such a thing is virtually impossible. Cooperation such as you see in this Alaska fish cries is a standout, I tell you"
 While here pr Gabrielson confer ed with Mayor F. G. Hanford rela- tive to possibilities of a fisheries boat setup here and plans to go fur ther into the matter with his Alas ka men. He appeared impressed with local advantages; hopes to look it over personally. if time per mits, before he leaves the Territory.
 Frank Williams member of ACC from the second division, was down with a severe cold, keeping pretty well to his bunk. Williams, we'll known trading post operator, had been Outside since fall trying to get his trading boat fixed up, thought he had the job licked now if he could just get somebody to run it he figured business would be about as usual up St. Michael way this summer. Commissioner Williams has two boys on the fight ing fronts-one Army, one Navy was most concerned with how the war was getting along.
 Game Exec. Dufresne also was dragging a cold back from Chicago; was glad to admit it was worse than the Alaska variety; prob b l y wouldn't have had one if he hadn't been around to Washington, New York and way points. In New York he had opportunity to visit with Corey Ford and Alastair MacBain, who are doing the aerial war fronts for Golfers After Greenland latest assignment the boys have is India. They covered the Aleutians early in the war. In Chicago he spoke to about 800 sportsmen at dinner given in his honor. Highlight of his trip, We guessed, was a chat with Oscar Webber at Stevens Point, Wis, and preview of plastic fly rod the fishing tackle manufacturer is experimenting with. Doubtless, he thinks after the war we'll be able to drop a Mary Ann below the riff flies with a very light plastic rod bamboo possibly going the way of the horse and buggy.
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 A. H. Zeigler, Ketchikan attor- ney and a Democratic candidate foI Delegate to Congress, was Wrangell- scouting first of the week while a boat laid over, en route to his home after a trip to Juneau. Campaign should be a dandy opined cool and collected ''Zeig,'' who anticipated kaSA ha kx, fhava rfxuufua- zrazIx6 fEx.