The Wrangell sentinel., 1952-06-13
THIRD WEEK OF SHIPPING STRIKE SLOWS BUSINESS HERE

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 The third week of the Pacific Coast shipping strike found busi- ness in Wrangall grinding to a slow halt Two shrimp eanneries. employing approximately 90 per sons, would be forced to close in from a week to h days unless their product could be moved from the cold storage and an additional supply of cans could be obtained
 We'll just have 10 close down" said Ben Engdal of Harbor Sea foods Company. We've just about got our space blocked at the cold ] storage and unless We can get ship to move the shrimp south we'll have to close in about a week or possibly 10 days We are get ting low on cans and salt but there will be no point in operating un- less we can ship the canned shrimp"
 Peter Mccormack, manager ot. the Wrangell Cold Storage. said that plant is rapidly getting block ed
 There are soma 6O.ooa n@rnds of mild cured salmon which has to be moved before the wavm weather or it will spoil" he eaf5 "There are about 3o,0o0 pounds of shrimp that hava to move or We won't have space to handle any more"
 The Mill Greek Lumber Com pany. near WraugeH. was closing down because it could not move it's lumber. Barges were loaded and lumber had been piled in the woods back of the mill It was destined for military projects in ] Westward Alaska. H. NJ Olson, of the company, said it would be i necessary to close down until the lumber could be moved.
 South For Fed ! Ed Moore, local chicken rancher, ! l flew south yesterday in an effort to try and get food for the birds brought north for the local chick en rauchers. The Moore farm alone had more han 1,500 young birds not quite old enough for slaughter which would be lost unless feed was obtained shortly. \ similar condition prevailed at the local dairy.
 The two local food stores. only 1 Jaes remaining since the disas- crous fire of March 21-22 which wiped out half the business dI3- triet, were hard pressed to supply the community with the necessities of life. Supplies brought in by small boat had helped relieve the situation.
 Lloyd Benjamin of Benjamin's Store and W. D. Grant, of Grants ! Grocery, said they had supplies on hand to last about a week. They re- ported main shortages in meats and coffee. Deliveries by small boats probably would keep them in limited supplies.
 Campbell Bros. the towns only marine supply and fishing gear store since the fire, was low on l both items. Manager Joyce Hay said the situation was acute, par 1 ticularly with the gillnetting sea- l son opening June Is and a heavy l demand from the fishermen. He re- ported he had received his invoic- ] |, af Gh ments were aboard strike-bound | boats in Seattle.
 Its a tough situation" said Mayor Vern Smith. "If we don't l get relief before long everything will have to close down. Lack of building material already has sty- mied most of the construction work Work on the new school l building already has stopped and 1 it looks as if our entire recon struction program is out until ma l terials can be received. The food situation is critical. I've just been around to the stores again and they are getting mighty, mighty low on supplies. One thing I want l to say for our merchants, they nev- CT give anything a price boost be- cause there's a shortage. When they run out we'll just starve to- l gether at the same old price, i The Mayor said he had been in 1 telephone conversation with Seat ties Life Line committee and tried to give that group a full picture oF