The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-08-01
SOUTHEAST ALASKA ASSURED OF PULP MILLS
 IN PASSAGE OF HJR 2O5

4A6G ouAudg HUI AtuE oA Guuse
 Jolnt Resolution 2U5 by the U. $.
 Senate. The Resolution authorizes the Department of Agriculture To dispose of timber Jo paper mill op-
 orators under 5O-year contracts
 The llth hour action at Wash Iiugtou saIyaged for Alaska the l $IOO,0OU.UoU industry it's citizens Iuaye been hoping for for 20 years. With the passage of this legis- lauon, Ne will proceed with plans
 for building our plant in the ket-
 chikan vicinity" an official of tue
 Puget sound Pulp and Timber Co
 told a eporter Tor The Ketehikau
 Chronicle.
 The Chronicle also reported a second paper company was inter
 ested in a site near ketchikan and may send engineers into the dis l Irict later this year. l Harold Gavin, who visited ketcn- kan early this month is due back
 there this week to lay out plans i for construction of the first mlu
 and pOh CT facilities. 50 far as ls l known, Congress did not make any money available for construction i of little IVA. power plant and the company thus will have Co l Duld It's own hydro-electrie sys-
 tenn This will mean that the intt-
 lal cost Of the mill of S6,50O,0O0
 will be increased by about $2,0OU
 OOO.
 Population Will Jump Coming of the one mill wIH Drng keLchikan an increase of z0O0 to 25OO residentsn or os
 much as 90 per cent, although many ot the mill and logging camp employees probably will not live in the city limits. The mill will em. ploy 5UO 10 5OO men and the '. camps Will employ an additional ? SOO to 5O0. =. At Thomas Bay
 The b 6s F Company of Lost 4 - geles, neaued by Emmett Dougher. 1 ", plans a 52O,O00,OO0 neWspr1nt 44lu at Thomas Bay near Wrangell and Petersburg, with work to be- gin late this year It is controlled by new spaper puDnshers capital with work 10 De done by Foley brUtners of New Ork, who wIh 1l -rate the 55D-ton per day plant. - It Is. estimated the Thomas Bay .a.ll will bring to that area a com muuity of 25OO to 5000 persons.
 4..I moved 10 final action , uuung the last minutes before ad- CurnmenE Of Congress As passed by Lne Senate, the bill is identical with the House text iu respect to ., i- hs. ,F Tr dian possessory rights and does nithlng whatever to prejudice whatever the Indian claims may be regarding possessory rights.
 The bill authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell timber rights and the Secretary of Interior 10 sell land required for necessary town and mill sites It passed at 12:27 a. m. Sun day and was the next to the last bill considered.
 Robert Jernberg, of Ketchikan reporting on the last minute dra- matic passage of the bill, said: Senator Butler and Delegate Bartlett were very active on the Senate floor. It was like a stock exchange at the end At 11:4O p. m. Senator Taft announced that the Senate's resolution required adjournment at midnight The an nouncemenu resulted in many 0b- Jections. At midnight, the Senate amended its adjournment resoiu- ton, extending the session to July l27 and House concurrence was ob- tained
 Otherwise the Tongass measure would have died. Taft announcea he had four bills but Senator Ma bank CD- So. D. objected, claim ing Taft had promised the Senate revert to regular order. Chavez
 (D-New Mex prevailed on May bank to reserve his objections which ho did, and Taft presented his bills including HJR 205. It was a cloes shave.
 Watkins Gives In
 Until late Saturday Chairman Watkins (R-Utah) of the Ruh Committee insisted on SIR 11S Cthe Senate version ) therefore his conceding to 205 was important. Watkins told the Senate he diu not prefer 205 but he would nar impede =, industrialization of AL aska.
 Chairman Hope (R-Kan.) the House Agriculture Committas (which had originated 2O5) was ready to have the House consid 1T SIR 118 if adopted by the Senate"
 Thursday Secretary Krug inter vened and got Senator o'Mahons5
 (D-Wyo) to withdraw harmful a. mendments
 The Forest Service plans immed- fate advertising of pulp timber for sale President Truman has rn1.