The Wrangell sentinel., 1953-12-04
PLANS MADE TO
 HELP TOWNS HIT BY POOR FISHING SEASON

EUOk FISHING SEASON
 JUNEAU - Accreliting list from all distress areas affected by the poor fishing season this year are reaching the office of Gov. Frank Heintzleman and are being checked by a committee working through Secretary of Alaska Waino Hend- rickson.
 Meeting with Hendrickson this week were Henry Harmon. Terri torial Director of Public Welfare. Miss Beatrice Erickson. Alaska Ma tive Service welfare department. Roy Peratrovieh and Ed Sweeney assigned to the relief proiet by. Don Foster. ANS area director and Brig. Erie Newbould. who has just returned from a Salvation Army field trip through villages of South east Alaska. Newbould, at the meeting in an advisory capacity offered the sery- ice of Salvation Army workers in the operation of the relief program. ]
 Over 2.5O0 Need Aid
 Preliminary estimates are that there are between 2.50O and 5000 individuals in Southeast Alaska who will need assistance in varying degrees before the winter is over
 During a telephone conversation with Virgil Farrell, ANS special ad- ministrative assistant in the Seat tie office, Hendrickson and Farrell made shipping plans for staples that will be furnished Alaska by the Department of Agriculture. !.
 Our main object now is to get supplies 10 Alaska as soon as poss- ible,' the secretary said.
 Plans at present as discussed by Farrell and Hendrickson are to ship to Ketchikan Juneau and Sit ka and redistribute to outlying vil- lages by the ANS vessel Mt. Edge i. cumbe.
 Checking Lists
 The welfare committee working with the secretary is checking lists of individuals needing aid received from these villages: Craig. Hyda- burg, Kasaan. Klawock, Saxman, Rake, Petersburg, WrangelI, An goon, Juneau-Douglas area, Kluk- wan, Yakutat and Hoonah.
 Bristol Bay requests for aid have not reached the stage where an estimate would be helpful" Hend- rickson said "Our lists are still preliminary and need further checking. r.
 Shipments to Bristol Bay area will be made by steamer to Seward, by the Alaska Railroad to Anchor ge and military plane to Naknek, from where distribution will be by local airplanes.
 Within day or so we expect to have a total list of individuals in each village in SE Alaska where aid is needed. A committee is set up in each village to arrange for distribution" the secretary said.
 In the meantime, the Alaska Ma ltive Service will care Cor any i'm mediate distress cases through it's welfare division, Hendrickson said.
 And we're hopeful of getting work projects going which will re- lieve distress. MT. Farrell told me , that he has been authorized to pro vide small hand tools from surplus sources for fishermen to use in pro posed work projects"
 Sixteen hand-logging projects | have been arranged through the ! Forest Service, according to Hend- rickson.
 A. w. Greeley, regional forester, explained that 16 sales have all ready been made by the Forest Service of approximately 4,50O,O0O . board feet of bemlock pulp logs to boat loggers. One purchase is in the Petersburg area and the other in the Ketchikan district.
 The Ketchikan Pulp company has agreed to purchase the manufactur- ed logs, according to Greeley.
 Some of the loggers are already at work Stumpage must be paid for in advance, the forester ex-i plained, and, he added, i've are try ing to make arrangements through the Alaska Native Service or Small Business Administration to make plans for those who do not have money to finance their operation.