The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-07-28
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LudA EElaGA eAAA AE -.A has been done away with, but IL hasn't. The citizens of Alaska are, bv Army standards, it appears, still a threat to the peace and security of the war effort. Just why we should be considered such hellions is little beyond us. After all, we've made our bond issues, we sent our young men to fight for the cause of their country, We sup ported every cause, and Loyalty III furtherance Of the war effort. But there must be something We haven | done. for we are still considered, Dy the Army, a bunch of suspicious characters. For example: Recently a Wraugell woman wrote to her sis- ter in Tacoma. explaining she plan ned to go south in the near future and would like to have her sister meet her in Seattle, if possible Sne gave information on approximately when she expected to leave, put with no reference to steamer sched- ules. planes or so on. This week she received a reply. Her letter, wrote the Tacoma sister, was mostly hole" The letter had been cen sored: all reference to the fact that she expected to go south was deleted, except the general idea she might be down.
 So if you are an Alaskan, don t get any ideas that you might be considered a fairly decent American by the Army. Apparently the two don't jell with the powers that be. If you are an Alaskan living tenn porarily in the States, you can send letters from one state to another without fear of censorship, but just remember the penalty you pay for living in the Territory is to have your mail censored. It may be that the Army is still trying to find, in some otherwise innocent letter, a tip on how and when the Japs left Kiska. Doubtless, Gen. Simon Boii- var Buekner. Jr., would like toI know. They weren't on Kiska when the General arrived, remember?
 You may also remember that when Gen. Eisenhower led his fore &o lULD 1Ldl4s dDOuL LAAC HI 9S SAA-AA1 he did for the Italian people, after liberating them on the toe of the boot was to lift all travel regula- tions formerly imposed upon them. Still, in Alaska, several thousand miles from the enemy in any given direction, travel regulations, censor ship and every other unnecessary 4 n 6pUiCo Te thrust upon people who heretoforeI had reason to believe they were Am erican citizens. It is probable that when the last Jap and Nazi have thrown down their arms and the story of the various war theaters isl written The Alaska theater of oper- ations will win the leather medal for What to do to make every thing difficult in winning a war"
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 As we get it the so-called alloca- tion plan. inaugurated this season by the fisheries bureau, has gone just about as sour as a hOusewife's disposition on blue Monday morn ing with no hot water to do the washing. Perhaps it never was in- tended to be met with acclaim. If such is the case, reports indicate it achieved very fine results. No one that we've been able to run across even mentions it without a rising temperature and a touch of blood pressure. There are countless com plaints, but the main one seems to be that some buyers were forced off the market when they reached a certain quota while others continu- ed to buy. This situation became a two-point spear as it not only irked the buyer who couldn't buy any more but it virtually compelled the fishermen to sell to certain buyers in the district in which they were fishing or start burning up gas and oil to find a buyer in some other port thus losing time and money. The catch appears to be that the buyers representing several con- cerns had quota for each concern. while the buyer buying for himself or but one concern, had to quit when his quota was filled. Indica- tions are that the tempest on this enc is just starting.
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 One of the secret" jokes up a. round Juneau is how some bright lad just about eliminated the Alaska Game Commission without taking the matter up with Congress who created it. It seems that in the so- called complete merger" of fish and wildlife into the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it was decided to scrap all reference to ACC and use the new fish and wildlife title on all stationery, doors, etc. When this washout of ACC was completed it was discovered Alaska Game Com mission is set up under the Alaska Game Law, an act of Congress Eah