The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-08-27
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

season reopened in all Southeast Alaska Monday morning after be- ing closed for a week. There was time during the week end when it appeared that the Wrangell area, including north Clarence and Sum ner Straits, would be closed for an other week but appeal by citizens of Wrangell and representatives of the industry as a whole induced Director Albert Day of the IT, S. Fish and Wildlife Service. to re- yoke action pertaining to this area with the result that all fishing re- sumed on Monday. Whether there would be a substantial run of pink salmon remained to be seen. OpIn- ions, as usual differed, but at any rate, there would be no discrimIna- tion as against districts. Every body would have equal opportunity In behalf of this district We extend to Director Day our thanks for his attitude of fairness.
 As 10 extension of the season be- yond the closing date of Sept 8. a meeting of fisheries officials with representatives of the fishing in-. dustry is scheduled for Juneau next Thursday, Sept 2, day before the closing, to consider the over all picture on basis of the latest l reports from the grounds. c. Cir ard Davidson Assistant Secretary of Interior, is due to be in Juneau on that day and may sit in with Regional Director Clarence Rhode, Seton Thompson, head of the AL aska fisheries branch, and other Ter report on the Juneau meeting | last week see news story elsewhere in this paper.)
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 On the theory that there might i be a change of administration come fall, there are some great shenanigans going on in the Alas ka political world, some of them highly amusing. One that's going around concerns Juneau young man who is having troubles be- cause of the White-Anti-White split in the Republican patry He is seeking a seat in the legislature on the COP ticket and at the same time hopes to land a patronage job if the Republicans are successful. The man who will have the most to say about jobs in Alaska under the Republicans will be Albert White, General Counselor of the party who was in the Dewey camp i at the national convention and had i his delegation seated over the pro- tests of the so-called black Repub- licans. Last week when the Repub- hcan,s largely White Republicans, had their get-together dinner in Juneau, the young man had busi- ness in Ketchikan, having lert word he'd be home in time for the , dinner Came a wire to the gath ering, and read by the tOastmaster, that the young man had fallen and sprained an ankle while in Ketch- ikan and was unable to attend. ! best wishes and so on. A few days | later he arrived in Juneau ap- parently quite nimble on his feet, ! but carrying one arm in a sling. | Facetious rumor had it that the arm had been injured while at i tempting to carry water on both i shoulders.
 Another report has it that sig | nificantly large number of black i Republicans misinterpreted t h eI COP campaign slogan, you have q 1 date in AS" which heralded the | get-together. They appeared to, have dates elsewhere.
 Equally interesting was Boss Whites poker-faced comment after looking over the unusual number of "no party" voters at his dinner: Tt is surprising the number of people who seem to think there's going to be a change"
 He may possibly have had in mind, too, the Democrat-appointed Territorial office holder who con tributed his bit to both parties on the ground that "it seemed like the only fair thing to do."
 Nothing, it would appear, seems more difficult in the political world than the act Ol pOlltlcal job-seeking contortionist attempt ing to ride the middle of a two party fence in campaign year.
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 We don't pretend to know any thing about the national political trends other than, as the late Will Rogers used to say, what we see in the papers. Lately, we've been fol- lowing with a great deal of inter est the forecasts of David Law renee, veteran political reporter, who now publishes the U. s. News and World Report a journal devot- ed to national and international affairs. In the July g issue that publication reported: Dewey seems to be within six months of the