The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-08-06
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

capital of Alaska for a few days next week. On Monday the Alaska Development Board will meet in the Third Division hub. Tuesday the newly formed Alaska Field Committee made up Of Interior De partment heads will hold it's first session there and Wednesday a housing meeting will hold forth on the same grounds. Reliable sources indicated there was no intention of moving the Capitol building itself up from Juneau. although it was suggested it might be a good idea to move it to the mouth of the Sdkine for a while. what with the duck season opening October l.
 Development Board. getting to gether for its annual session. will have one new member - Herbert Hiischer Of Fairbanks. who sue eeeds Leslie Nerland of Fairbanks, Eh0 resigned some months ago. Other Board members are Governor Ernest Gruening, Chairman JacE Talbot. Ketchikan: Tony Polc- Nome and Fred AXfoTd. Anchorage. Meeting with the Board will be George SundbOrg, Consultant anC Kathryn Mack. Secretary.
 The Alaska Field Committee is the advisory group recently set up by Interior Secretary Krug 10 work with the Alaska Field Staff, head ed by Kenneth KadoW. 10 push AL aska development and coordinate the activities of Interior in the TAerritory. In Anchorage. Rex Lee. Of the Division of Territories the Governor. Col. J. P. Johnson of the Railroad. Don Foster of the Native Service. Lowell Puckett Of the Bur eau of Land Management. c. D. Germain. head of the Bureau of Mines in the Territory. Joseph Morgan of reclamation. Clarenc Rhode of Fish and Wildhfe. John Reed of the Geological Survey, AL fred Kuehl of the Park Service, and Col John R. Moves, COmmis- sioner of Roads The latter is a new post in the Territory and will have to do with overall road work under Interior.
 The housing session will be most Of the above group meeting with a representative of the Alaska HOus- ing Authority and others interested in the overall housing problem in the Territory. It looked like the Anchorage Chamber and seryic clubs wouldn't lack for speakers at their luncheon meetings next week
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 After a quarter of a entury of kicking the ball around, it began 10 look as if Alaska was going to get at least one pulp mill. At any rate. the Forest Service announced this week that it had accepted the bid of the Ketchikan Pulp and Pa Der Company, subsidiary of the Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co.,, of Bellingham, on billion and a half cubic feet of pulp timber to be taken from Prince of Wales ls- land in the Craig-klawoek-Hyda- burg area. A great deal Of credit for getting the pulp mill in ket- chikan should go to some of the aggressive leaders Of that cOmmun- ity who have been keeping their eye on the ball They went out and lined up necessary land for the site and it tonk a little doing n some instances where private pro- perty was involved, and kept ever lastingly working toward thar projet. The Ketehikan crowd has earned themselves pulp mill. More power to them.
 We might add in passing:
 We note our good friend and col league Bill Baker. publisher of the Ketchikan Chronicle remarks ed i.orially this week on the fine en- tainment Wrangell and Skag way are giving the tourists vi1 their Days of '9S" shows. He goes on to urge his local citizens to wake up to tourist trade. We shouldn't let our sister cities Of Wrangell and Skagway steal our stuff" says Bill.
 Good gracious. William, did you know that 25 years ago Wran- gell had the first survey in Alaska for pulp timber and an area on Bradfield Canal was picked as the outstanding site?. Who's stealth who's stuff?
 However. we'll compromise with you. We'll bring our show down and give you a treat (really gor- geous Can-Can gals, Bille and you give us one of your pulp mills Sounds like an even trade to us
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 Two other possible pulp plants are in the offing for Southeast AL aska - one being pushed by young Ben Mullen. formerly of Juneau and backed by Belgium capital for the Sitka area and the Thomas Bay project near Petersburg being considered by the DOherty inter ests of California.
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 While optimistic over the na-