The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-03-10
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ment Tn the IerrlLory or the region al office is step along the plan conceived by pr. Ira N GabrieIson when he first took over as Director Of the service. He was of the belief Alaska fisheries should be handled from Alaska, as long had been ad= voeated by Alaskans. Creation now of the regional office in the Ter ritory is the accomplishment of that goal. It will mean that the fisheries as we'll as the game personnel will
 live in Alaska; that the boats and ether equipment will be in the Ter ritory, rather than being in Alaska during the summer and wintering in Seattle as has been the custom.
 To head up the new regional of flee, Dr. Gabrielson named Wran- gells Frank Hynes, to whom in the interests of good public relations, We shall in the future refer to asI Alaska's Frank Hynes. The new Al-I aska fish and wildlife chief, long in fisheries, made Wrangell his home for many years, and contrary to the old adage has great honor and res pect in his old home town. As his fisheries wing commander, Hynes will have Steele Culbertson and onI game matters. the above mentioned Jack O'Conner
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 Moving up as a result of the new Vfgh ritory will be Game Commissions Executive Officer, Frank Dufresne. who goes to Chicago as Director of the Public Relations Division of Fish and Wildlife for the nation. one of the top ten or a dozen men who will in the future make and direct U. S. Fish and Wildlife pol isy. While regretting his personal loss as a resident of the Territory for a quarter of a century the great majority of Alaskans from Barrow to Dixon Entrance are wishing him we'll in his new position.
 Dufresne, generally conceded to be one of the best informed men in North America on wildlife, came up the long, hard way; actually by way of a box factory in Seattle. Back from the "other" war, the one we fought in France remember? 1 New Hampshire-born, newly dis charged army private Dufresne felt the call of the west. The call led to the ultimate necessity of a job | which he found in his hour of want at the aforesaid box factory. As a l means of eating, the box factory wasn't So bad, but as a potential master box maker, our hero decided, !, with the encouragement of the management, that there must be a great many men much better at it. With a newspaper background of reporting on Boston papers, the man who might have been a poor box maker, headed north; for Nome be- cause the name was short, would fit in headline type, and he was al- most certain he had relative there. His first enterprise in the metropol- is of the Second Division was to be- come the towns champion pea pool player Obviously, old Nomites say. he hadn't spent all his time in Bos- ton reporting nor in Seattle making boxes. Somewhere along the line he had learned to chalk a mean cue.
 One thing led to another, and shortly our subject of these para graphs found himself holding down a deputy marshars job. About that time old Biological Survey decided they needed a young fellow, who would work cheap, but who would really get out and do some work as a fur warden in the Arctic. Before you can unbuttOn a deputy marsh aIs star, eX-priVate Dufresne was a l fur warden. Now our hero was in the groove, as 25 years has proven. Along the trails of the Arctic, alone
 with dog team beating a path
 from Nome along the north coast to the Mackenzie; through the En- dicotts, down and up a thousand and one rivers and valleys gather ing data f)r the Survey, the future ] rector of Public Relations for Fish and Wildlife was doing his job, and gaining first-hand the know ledge which was one day to place him among the foremost authorities on wildlife The years took him to duties over all of Alaska. Mean
 while, the old reporting instinct ev-
 CT alive, Frank in his spare time was writing stories of Alaska and Alaskan wildlife. Nearly a hundred articles have come from his type writer to entertain magazine read
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