The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-06-01
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Past week saw two positions, created by the last Legislature, fill ed by appointment of the Governor. They are Commissioner of Agricul- ture ito head the new department and a full time Commissioner of Health. Prof. George W. Gasser of the University of Alaska drew the assignment for agriculture and It. Col. Earl c. Albrecht, who has been senior surgeon for the Army at Fort Richardson. Both are reported to bel top men in their professions.
 Gasser, who has been with the University since 1927, heading up it's agricultural work, is an old time Alaskan, having come north in the fore part of the 1900s to be as- sociated with agricultural eXten- sion work under the old Insular Stations. He was at the Rampant i station in 1909, later transferred | to Fairbanks where he has been since. He is credited with being one of the best informed men in the country on grains suitable for Alas ka, ]
 Col. Albrecht becomes Alaska's | first full time Commissioner of Health, For years the Health Com missioner has been a sideline for a physician in private practice, pay ing a retainer of '$1,8O0. Legisla- ture saw need for a full time man and set up the departmen on an ea- larged scale and provided a salary of $10,0OO The Army is releasing the Colonel from his military ae- tivities so that he can take over nhe Alaska work
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 Mail brings a note from Frank Dufresne, whom many will recall as former Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission and now Chief of the Bureau of Information for the S. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice in Chicago. Frank has been hit ting the magazines with consider able regularity back in the "big time" and his latest opus will ap- pear in the June 2 edition of Col Hers entitled "1,0O0,000 B. C. based on wildlife in the glacial age in Alaska, We're suggesting, in be- half Of some of Us old "violators' up here, he might interest us with one, Wild Life Chicago, 1945 Al D." The Dufresne son, young Franklin, was home from the south Pacific with some narrowing eXper- fences from the Philippine theater of operations after hospital1zation and Mrs. Dufresne was studying at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, Frank was just back from a mis- sion in the Florida swamps where he'd been photographing some rare birds and was wondering about the trout fishing in the far north this spring. They all come back some time. Meanwhile it appears at this distance the ex-champion pea pool . player of Nome is doing all right for himself,
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 If they ever decide to form a Wrangell Club up in Juneau, they'll have the foundation of quite a sig able organization. Latest to migrate to the Capital City are Dr. and Mrs. ' John H. Clements, Dr. John going in practice with Dr. J. o. Rude, eX- Petersburg. (That combination -- Wrangell and Petersburg - looks like a sure Wtnper.) Over the years there have been many other eligible for membership in Juneau Wran- gell Club. To mention few who come to mind: Dr. and Mrs. Will liam Whitehead, after good train ing in the WTangell Chamber, Bill's now President of the Juneau Cham- Der of Commerce; MT. and Mrs. M 0. Johnson, Mrs. Johnson heads one of the OPA divisions; Dr. L. P. Dawes, one of the oldItimers Of Wrangell, now retiring in Juneau after many years of practice there; Walter Camper, who went to Ju- neau recently to be with his broth CT; Mary Mccormack, now Mrs. Keith Reischl and the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Leo Mccormack; Rtolin Coulter, daughter of the pioneer Wrangell Coulter family, (Continued on Page Four)