The Wrangell sentinel., 1954-11-19
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE
Thanksgiving
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Thursday is Thanksgiving day and III this year of Our Lord 1854. even as the Pilgrim forefathers, residents of Wrangell and Alaskans generally had great deal for which to be thankful.
 The harvest on the whole had been good While no one had been able to grab This muzzle-loader in the traditional manner and sally forth to shoot wild turkey to eel ebrate the event, a great many had been able to take their latest mod el 270, or their sleek over-and- under scattergun and go forth to take a moose, deer, waterfowl and a few grouse and ptarmigan to sup plement the family larder, which in this modern day means filling the family home-freezer.
 The fishing season, particularly in the Southeast, had been around average, although a dismal failure in the Bristol Bay area. The Mat anuska Valley had come up with cabbages so big that it was diff cult to find utensils ill this electric age large enough in which to cook them. Up in Fairbanks the News Miner in 154-page industrial ed- ition told the world of the luscious harvest of the Tanana Valley and pointed with pride to it's agricul- tural prospects.
 On the industrial front. financial eyes of the world were on Alaska s great Southeast timber resource. Fifty-two million dollars had been put into the Territory's first pulp producing plant now in operation at Ketchikan.
 Here in Wrangell millions more were being set up by the Pacific Northern Timber Company of Wrangell and the Alaska Lumber and Pulp Company of Tokyo for lumber and pulp development in this area. Smoke, for the first time since 1947, was coming out of the big, stack at the Wrangell Lumber Company sawmill, now operated byI Alaska Lumber and Pulp, as recent as yesterday. Pacific Northern was working on it's construction plans for presentation to the Forest Ser vice by January 1 under it's pur- chase contract for more than three billion board feet of lumber in this area acquired last June. Spring would see its construction opera tion, which ultimately calls for lumber and pulp production, under way.
 Up in Juneau consideration was being given by Georgia Pacific Ply wood Company, parent firm of PINT, to the establishment of newsprint plant on the site of the old Treadwell mine property in Douglas at an estimated cost of a. round 50 million. Sitka was optim- istic for pulp mill development there by Alaska Lumber and Pulp.
 Immediately, as this Thanksgiv- ing day approached, some $200,000 and possibly more was going into reconstruction of the local sawmill, a substantial portion of which was going to local workmen and thence ihIO LhS Lhdl IS OI JIduG III WTd0- gell. Preliminary work was under- way on the new construction pro- gram at Wrangell Institute which will see $380,OOO expended in this community. The two local shrimp canneries, each employing some 25 to 40 persons were hard at work
 A Bow to the News-Miner The enterprising Fairbanks News Miner in it's big industrial edition on Alaska progress, mentioned a. bove, gave Wrangell and it's pros- poets considerable recognition. It carried good story, written by Chuck Hoyt, ex-Sentinel staffer and now News-Miner's sports ed- itor, illustrated with the excellent aerial view of Wrangell which ap> peared in The Sentinel's anniver- sary edition.
 News-Miner with probably the best-equipped newspaper plant in Alaska did a real job of newspaper ing as we'll as great service to Alaska and it's residents in pro- ducing it's very fine edition. Con- gratulations to the obviously able News-Miner staff from this Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper in Alaska which, incidentally, to- morrow observes it's 52nd birthday.