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The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
TIMBER SALE

Sealed bids will be received by the Regional Forester, Juneau, Alaska, up to and including Sept ember ', 1946, for all the mer- chantable dead timber, standing or down, and all the live timber marked or designated for cutting, On an area totaling approximately 61 acres, in Area No. l, Menefee Inlet, Tongrass National Forest, Alaska, estimated to be 1,550,OO0 feet B. M, more or less of Sitka spruce, western hemlock and red cedar saw t m b CT, and piling. No bid of less than S1.50 per Meet B.M. for spruce and cedar sawtimber, S1.0O per NJ feet B. M. for hemlock sawtimber, and 1e per linear foot for piling up to and including 95 feet in length and 1he per linear foot for piling over 95 feet in length will be con sidered. One thousand dollars (S1,O0O) must accompany each bid, to be applied on the purchase price, refunded, or retained in part as liquated damages, according to the conditions of sale. Primary manufacture outside of the Ter ritory of Alaska of any part of the timber, is subject to the consent Of the Regional Forester. The right is reserved to reject any or, all bids received. Before bids are sub mitted, full information concern ing the timber, the conditions or sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained from the Div ision Supervisor, Petersburg, AL aska, or the Regional Forester, Juneau, Alaska.
 First publication August g, 1946
 Second publication August 23, 1946
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
ELLIS AND SPEAR START QUITTING SERVICE

Chester steear and Lee Ellis. both well known Wrangell sports men, have organized a new service here for big game hunting and sport fishing. With the purchase of the Radar, 50-foot long former Coast Guard cutter, they have a fleet of three boats to take hunt ing and fishing parties out. Their ether boats are the Bielby, also 5O- feet in length and the Charlotte. B feet long
 Name of the new concern is the Stikine Guides and Cruise Service, and Steear said today that their two larger boats are booked up for the entire coming hunting season.
 Lee Ellis is licensed guide and has had several parties out this year during the bear season.
 The Stikine Guides and Cruise Service fills a need long felt in Wrangell for tourists who wish to come to this section of Alaska for big game hunting. Both men are we'll qualified and highly special ized in such work.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
HERE ARE BARE FACTS;
 USE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT

Reports have been coming into The Sentinel office of bears being sighted in and around the- out skirts of town. Report is that there is one particularly large gizzly giving berry pickers a bad time
 Martin Massin and Mrs. Massin were chased out of a low-bush cran- berry bed near the ski slide by the big follow and John Peterson sighted the apparently same beor near the APA cannery site.
 Last week when Mrs Grace Vel Ions and Mrs. Eloise Harding were forced to walk back to the Insci- tue to phone after their car had broken down just beyond, they were met in the road by a large pear. Orville Keeney also reports that bear got into his yard and did considerable damage to a wire fence
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
REPORT
 URGED IN SHIP HEARING

JUNEAU - Attorney David E. ScolI representing the Alaska De- yelopment Board told a Congress sional subcommittee hearing testi- mony on Alaska shipping problems this week that the recommenda- tions of Examiner F. J. Horan should be used to guide the con- gressional committee in deciding on rates for shipping to, from and within Alaska.
 Horan recommended to the mar itime commission that the petition of the War Shipping Administra- tion for higher ocean freight rates be denied.
 "The question raised concerning the rates required to maintain pri- yate operation and the ability of the people of the Territory to pay an increase are settled by the ex- aminer's report. The examiner also finds that the cost of private op- eration was oyer-estimated by the steamship lines" Scoll told the Congressmen.
 The examiners recommendations has the effect of sharpening the necessity for some form of legis- lative relief It is now up to con- gress and the Territorial Iegisla- ture to deal with the problem of providing Alaska with an adequate water service at reasonable rates"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
CLOSED
 BY DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC

ANCHORAGE -- Mayor Francis Bowden of Anchorage has issued an order prohibiting all public gatherings for at least a week he- cause of an outbreak of diphther- ia. According to Bowden, 50 posi- tive diphtheria throat cultures were taken in the city. At least 12 .of the cases are said to be clinical ly active.
 Bowden's proclamation closes bars. dances, playgrounds and the theaters, and travel in and out of The city will be restricted.
 The City Health Officer, pr. Howard Romig. is said to be one of those with a positive culture. Tn addition 12 Of the 16 prisoners i1 the city jail are reported to be carrying the disease.
 In a statement issued today. pr. C. Earl Albreeht said six new cas- es had developed in Anchorage and there is no indication that the situation is under control"
 From Adak, where the diphther- ia epidemic started two weeks ago. report was that the Aleutian base had the disease completely under control" and that there had been no new eases in six days and that the hospitalized cases were not serious.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
AUGUST IA PROCLAIMED
 VICTORY DAY BY TRUMAN

WASHINGTON President Tru- man has proclaimed Wednesday, August II lanniyersary of Japen's .surrender) as Victory Day and di- rected the flag be displayed on all government buildings It will not be a legal holiday, however.
 He called upon the people to observe the day as one of solemn commemoration of the devotion of the men and women by whose sac rifices victory was achieved" He also asked that it be observed as day "of prayer and high resolve that the cause of justice, freedom, peace and international good will shall be advanced with undimin- ished and unremitting efforts. in- spired by the valor of our heroes of the armed services"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
CASCADE TO SHIP
 FIRST POLES TO FAIRBANKS

Cascade Pole Company, which recently opened a branch office in Wrangell, has received an order for and is shipping a carload of red cedar poles to the U. S Smelt- ing and Refining Company of Fairbanks Fred G. Hanford, resi- dent agent for the pole company. said the shipment would be on it's way as soon as the poles are cut and assembled here. He has three crews at work now cutting the poles.
 Another order for the new com pany was received from the Alas ka railroad (which requested 1OO.- GOO ties. Mir. Hanford said his company would accept the order of the Alaska railroad if they would accept delivery after February 1. Home office of the Cascade Pole Company is in Tacoma.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
NEW HUNTING. TRAPPING
 REGULATIONS ANNOUCED

The new hunting and trapping regulations for 1946-47 have just been received at the local Fish and Wildhfe Service office. according to Howard Baltzo. Wildlfe Serv- ice Agent He said a supply of the printed booklets has not yet been received for public distribution but he expects them shortly.
 Most surprising feature of the new regulations. Baltzo pointed out. is the announcement that the trapping season for mink. marten and otter VIII be open next win ter. The season on mink and otter. he said, runs from December 1G. 10 January 15, inclusive. Marten. however, are open only December Is to January B. Tn addition. limit of 20 is put on the marten and all belts must be sealed with in 30 days of the close of the sea son. There will be no beaver season next spring in Southeastern Alas ka Baltzo said
 As for the hunting regulations. moose season has been set back two weeks so that it is now open on September 15 and runs to Oct ober b.
 Deer season. Baltzo said, is still the same as last year, opening September 1 and closing November Is with the limit at two bucks. Mountain goats are still open on September 1 and closing October 31 but the limit has been cut to only one per hunter in Southeast ern Alaska.
 Bear season is the same as be- fore: September 1 to June 20 with the limit locally at two blacks and two browns.
 One new feature of the regula- tions, Baltzo pointed out, is the provision that all big game ani- mals, except bear, must be tagged with a Game Commission tag as soon as killed as a means of iden- tifying the hunter. No information has yet been received as to how this tagging will be administered during the coming season, however.
 The official regulations on Dlfu shooting have not yet been :e- oeived but advance information in- dicates that both seasons and lim- its have been drastically reduced. The season on ducks and geese will be open in Southeastern Alaska on- ly 45 days. from October l to November 14.
 Duck limit is set at seven per day with fourteen the maximum in possession. The daily bag allowed on geese is only two "honkers" plus two snow geese and that is the possession limit. too. In other words, Baltzo said, only one days bag may be in possession at any time.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
NEW RENT CONTROL

Renewal of rent ;control on July 25 has created numerous questions and uncertainties in the tenants, if inquiries now pouring into the Territorial and field of fees of OPA are any indication Office and phone calls, since Pre- sident Truman signed the Price Control Extension Act last week. are running as high as they did when Rent Control was first en- acted in 1922, according to re- ports from those offices.
 The Alaska 0PA's territorial f. flee in Juneau today explained that rent regulations are again in full force and effect, on the same basis as when they were temporarily lifted on June 30. In attempting to inform the public on the most common questions now being received, the Alaska Rent Director, E. P. McCarron, stressed the following points: CD Rents that have been increased between June 30 and July 25 must now he returned to thkir pre-June 30 ceilings; CD Notices of rent in- | ereases that were to have gone in- to effect after July 25 are thus void and ineffective; (3) Rents in excess of the re-established June 30 ceilings, which have been actu- ally collected during the period be- tween June 30 and July 25, need not be refunded to tenants. How ever no such increased rents can be collected on due dates subse- quent to July 25; (4) Prepay ments for more than one month in advance at an increased rate should therefor be Refunded to tenants, according to latest official interpretation received from the national Rent Office in Washing ton.
 With questions on evictions oe- ing especially numerous right now it was explained that no act or I transaction occurring between June 30 and July 25 which has already resulted in tenant eviction would be acIlondDle @o
 violation. However all pre-eVlctlon notices terminating tenancles ana demands for possession issued put not completed during that time' which were not in conformity with the re-enacted eviction require ments. are now void and nave no effect. Agreements made durlhs the interim time, between lana- lords and tenants, for the surrend- CT or possession, or for the pay ment of rents in excess Of former ceilings are likewise void.
 All local landlords and tenents are urged to consult the nearest OPA office or write direct to the Territorial oPA Rent Office Ill Iuneau on their individual prob lems regarding transactions oc- curing between June 30 and Juiy | 25
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
CITY COMPLETING
 PAVING OF SIDEWALKS

City crews started work this week to complete paving of side walks on Front street.
 Starting at Newman and Early's electric shop (the former John sons storeJ paving is being put in to the end of the street. The strip, likewise, from The Sentinel office to Brother Gums shoe shop is also being made ready for ce- ment. This will complete the en- tire paving of Wrangells main street
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
FISH PCK FIGURES
 TO AUGUST 4. 1946

Fish pack figures for 1946, to August 1, are as follows, accord ing to records at the local Fish and Wildlife Service office:
 Farwest Wrangell Co. = Total lack to August 4: reds, 1892; kings. 49; pinks. 4S12; chums, 422; echoes. 549; Total, SPA.
 Weeks pack, July 29 to August 4, 1946: reds, 589; kings, g; pinks. 1923; chums. 2O9; echoes. 497; Total, 2321.
 Total pack for 1945 to August 5: reds, S2O3, kings, P; pinks, s424; chumss 1O77; echoes. 103I; Total, 19.757.
 Kayler-Dahl Fish Co. - Total pack to August 4, 1946: reds, 4O1; kings, 66; pinks, 1S6; chums, TT; echoes, 43; Total, 775.
 Weeks pack, July 29 to August 4, 1946: reds, 125; pinks, 172: chums, 24; echoes. 30; Total. 351.
 Pacific American Fisheries-To- tai pack to August 4, 1946: reds, 34S; kings 21; pinks.. 236: chums, 467; echoes. BPS; Total. 2OO0.
 Weeks pack July 29 to August 4. 1946: reds, 1O1; kings, 8; pinks. 38; chums, 66; echoes, 4O2; Total, 61O.
 Total for 1945 to August 5: reds, 1772; kings, 61; pinks. 39555 chums, 2547; echoes, 1713; Total, 10,048.
 Union Bay Cannery. Total pack to August 4, 1946: reds. 413; pinks, 46O6; chums. 737; echoes, 527; Total, 62S3.
 Weeks pack. July 29 to August 1, 1946: reds, 183; pinks. 1S45. chums, BPS; echoes, 299; Total, 2157.
 Total for 1945, to August 5: reds, 2113; pinks, 491O; chums S44; echoes, 668; Total. 1885.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
AT THE HOTEL

Gusts registered at Wrangeii Hotel this week were: R. H. John son, Sr., E. H. Johnson, Jr" '
 mic Jack. MT. and Mrs. h. A price William Warner, L. Il. Smith. W. R. Binns, George King Leo sivertsen, John E. hahm' Wayne shwift, Harold Olsen, Dah- nv Marion, Herman Asp, Amy Day p Fromberg, A. Hulse, Charles Hanley. Walt Valentine, James Ao- ams. Clarence Jones, w. T. ogs' George Tarr, Maynard Ward, Mrs Gloria Berkley, Tom Case, R. h. Sumwell. Albert Keeney.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
MAYOR TO JUNEAU

Mayor Doris Barnes, Alaska s cnly woman Mayor, went to Ju- neau this week to represent Wran- gell at the fish and steamship rate hearings held there the first or the week. She expected to be back today or tomorrow.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
MARRIED TODAY

Mrs. Garnet Thompson and James Ellis Meyers were married this noon by U. S. Commissioner R. J. Suratt.
 Mrs. Meyers, on the nursing staff of Bishop Rowe Hospital, is sister of Mrs. Jewel Binkley. MT. Meyers is employed at the City Market.
 Witnesses for the couple were Mary Garcia and James Kuntz.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
WE APOLOGIZE!

Our attention has been called to an error in last weeks paper by proud grandmother Mrs. Leo Me Cormack.
 daughter born to Mir and Mrs. Keith Reischl in Seattle we named Mary Treva. The correct name Is Alice Treva. the little lady being named for her two grandmothers.
 (Now we're hoping Mrs. Me Cormack will call off that libel suit.)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
MARVIN K. RICE 1
 TO WE'D PETERSBURG GIRL

Word has been received in Wrangell of the forthcoming mar liage, Monday August 12, of Mar win K Rice, former Wrangell man, and Miss Jean Elizabeth Mcdonald of Petersburg. Miss Mcdonald is the daughter of Mrs Georgie Me- Donald, former residents also, of Wrangell h A reception will be held at the Mcdonald home following the cere- mony.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
MARITIME COMMISSION DENIES RATE INCREASE
 PETTTI0NED BY VISA

JUNEAU = Denial of the peti- Iition for increased freight and pas Isenger rates by the Alaska mari time carriers. and discontinuence of the rate proceedings, are recon mended in the report of F. J. Hor-
 an, Examiner of the Maritime
 Commission, Docket No. 641, en- titled Increased Rates From, To, and Within Alaska, which was made public here this week.
 Announcement to this effect was made at the opening of the second cay's hearings before the subcom- mittee of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries by David E. Scoll. Special Counsel or the Alaska Development Board, who had been retained by it to fight the case.
 Mr. Scoll's statement made to the committee was in part as fol- lows.
 "The report of the Examiner for the Maritime Commission fe-I views all the testimony which was presented to the Commission both in Seattle and in Washington and finds that the petition of the War Shipping Administration should be denied and the proceeding dis continued. The question raised yesterday concerning the rates re quired to maintain private oper-. atiOn and the ability of the people of the Territory to pay an increase are settled by the Examiners re- port. The Examiner also finds that the cost of private operation was oyerestimated by the steamship l lines. Undoubtedly this honorable 1 committee will find the Examiners l summary of the testimony and | statement of the rate issue help ful in it's own deliberations. The Examiners recommendation that 1 the rate petition should be denied 1 has the effect of sharpening the necessity for some form of legis- lative relief. It is now up to Con- gress and the Territorial Legis- lature to deal with the problem of providing Alaska with an adequate water service at reasonable rartes.
 "The people of Alaska are to bel congra tulated upon the result or the Maritime Commission Case. It will save them millions in trans poration charges. While the Com mission has yet to issue it's final report, I confidently believe that ghe Examiners recommendations will be adopted"
 Governor Guening in comment ing on the report said:
 While it is clear that the final decision of the United States Mari time Commission is still to come, and Alaska has had one preyious experience when in 194O the recommendations of the United States Maritime Commis- sion's Examiner, adverse to the steamship rate increases, were subsequntly oYerruled by the Commission, I feel confident that the Alaska public has scored a great victory, and that, as Mir. Scou points out, it seems extremely that the Maritime Com mission. will again find contrary to the categorical recommendations of it's own Examiner. I am highly pleased at this result, which fully justifies our retention of MT. Scoll as Special Counsel, who in con- jur4tion with Attorney General Rivers, has so ably handled thel case for Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
BACK FROM TELEGRAPH

Dr. A. T. Nelson returned from his ''Postman's Holiday" at Tele- graph Creek this week. The first day he was in the Canadian town he treated 30 patients.
 Following day he went to Balls ranch where he spent three-day vacation, returning on the river boat last Tuesday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
EARNEST HIGH BIDDER

Farwest Cannery was hlgn Dla- der at the call for bids held at Red Men Hall by the Stikine Gillnetters Association. Farwest bid was l4 cents, a boost of one cent over tue bid two weeks ago of 1S cents or fered by Nelson Brothers or van couyer and Whizz Fisheries or Seattle. Contract was awarded to Farwest.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
MRS. WYNN HERE

Mrs. Bess Vim, representative of the Territorial Tuberculosis As- sociation. is in town from Juneau. Mrs, Vim is bound up-river on a vacation trip.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
NEW MAN AT SIG. CORPS

Sgt. Maynard P, Ward, with Mrs. Ward and their three months old son, arrived in Wrangen this week from Seattle to be stationed at the local Signal Corps office. lie will replace Sgt. Otis Lull who is being transferred back to the States.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09
FINAL FIGURES ON
 STIKINE SOCKEYE CATCH

Final tabulaticn on the Stikine sockeye catch are announced to- day by the Fish and Wildlife Ser vice Final tabulations have some what increased the priliminary figures released last week, Agent Baltzo said. He said the total gill net catch on the river from the seasons opening on June 25 until July 31 was 19,4S5 fish. This com pares with a total of 51S75 last year.
 Landing reports were as follows
 Wrangell - 1856: 17,534; for 1945: 60.422.
 Petersburg - 1946: 1851; for 1945: 1851.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-09

Among those appearing at the hearing from towns in the South east was Mayor Doris Barnes of Wrangell, Alaska's only woman Mayor. In reply to questions by Chairman Henry Jackson about adequacy of steamship service, Mayor Barnes pointed out Wran- gell depends on one American ship the North Sea which arrives every two or three weeks and the CPR vessels. She pointed out that if it weren't for airplanes the mail service would be impossible Referring to the ship service, the
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The Lincoln times., 1946-02-07
National Boy Scout Week, F,
BOY SCOUT WEEK
FEBRUARY 8-14
Lincolnton Boy Scouts Unite
With Nearly Two Million
Others in Observance

Lincolnton Boy Scouts along with
nearly two million Boy Scouts, Cub
Scouts, Senior Scouts and their adult
leaders throughout the United States
will commemorate Boy Scout Week,
which begins Friday, Feb 8, and
continues through Thursday, Feb. IA.
The theme of the observance. which
marks the 36th anniversary of the
founding of the movement in Amer
lea, is Scouts of the World-Build-
ing Together"
The Boy Scouts of America have
created World Friendship Fund"
and nearly two million members have
been invited and urged to contribute
voluntarily to it. Through the fund,
Scout Associations in lands ravaged
during World War II are being help
ed to rebuild their organizations. At
the outbreak of the war in 1889 there
were more than three million Scouts
and leaders in 70 different lands.
Many Boy Scout Troops, Cub
Packs and Senior Scout Units will
mark Boy Scout Week by contribut-
ing to the fund through local Boy
Scout Councils. The National Ex-
ecutive Board of the Movement au-
thorized the World Friendship Fund,
believing it can make definite con-
tribution to the postwar world, since
boys dedicated to the Scout ideals of
tolerance, friendliness and democracy
may be the leaders of the world Of
tomorrow.
Many troops have contributed from
the money earned by salvaging waste
paper, while others have given the
proceeds Of special Scout entertain
ments. To make certain the great
est good is done with each dollar
spent, the Boy Scouts of America
secures the advice Of the Interna-
tional Scout Bureau in London and
has arranged with agencies of the
Federal government at Washington
to see that the Scout organizations
actually get the help in the manner
intended. The fund will continue as
long as Scouting overseas needs aid
for rebuilding.
A feature of the Boy Scout Week
celebration is the "Shirts- Off-O
Backs" Campaign. Boy Scouts are
out to collect from 500 TO 1000 tons
of used but clean and serviceable
Scout uniform parts and camping
equipment to help Scouts overseas
resume their Scouting activities. The
collection is not considered charity
but rather sharing by one Scout with