The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-11-25
THROUGH THE SENTINEL TELESCOPE
Starting Its 53rd Year


 If you happened to look in the upper left hand corner of the front Periscope head, you noted that it read Vohlme 52, No. 52, meaning it was the 52nd issue of this ven erable newspaper in it's 52nd year. Those 52s could come up again in a hundred years, but there would be one in front of one of them.
 This week the rugged old Sen tinel starts its 53rd year of con tinuous publication in this historic international port of Wrangell, AL rsska. Its ever-optimistic editors feel it is going to be one of the best years of its long history be- cause it promises to be a big year for Wrangell.
 It is expected the next 12 months will see a going enterprise at Shoe maker Bay, south of town, where the Pacific Northern Timber Com pany has projected a lumber plant and pulp mill. Additional logging camps will dot the 399,0O0 acres of timber area the company has under contract from the Forest Service. The Wrangell Lumber Company will continue it's opera tions with it's now enlarged facil- ities, supplying both the export and domestic trade. It means pay 
 the community. This will bring new homes, new people and new enterprises to meet the growing de- mand.
 The new airplane facility, now under construction at 4-mile, will be completed. Dredging of the har- Dor for the first time in more than 20 years will be undertaken in the spring. The Army engineers are now calling for bids for the work for which $220,000 has been allo- cated nnd additional funds up to half million have been approved by the Bureau of the Budget to con- plete the project.
 The Sentinel, a true community newspaper, having been started by funds raised along the street by It's founder, A. V. R. Snyder, is happy to be kicking off it's 53rd year in the solid growing commun- ity of Wrangell. It is mighty proud Of the phenomenally loyal, whole hearted support the old publication has had through the years.
 Looking over an early issue, our attention was called to the fact that virtually every business in town was represented. In this 53rd year of publication they still are, with many new ones. This is the sort of support which builds sound md lasting newspapers. It will be The SentineIs goal to continue the policy which has made it the old est, continuously published news paper in Alaska.
 Who knows, maybe another 52 years and we'll be getting out a daily with several editions a day. At any rate. the present senior ed- itors won't be worrying about it.
 Why Not One Here?
 Probably more deer taken in the Wrangell and Petersburg districts than any place in Alaska. Yet, When effort was made the other day to make a check as matter of iif 'ormation on how many deer were brought to town this season it proved an impossible chore. The reason is that there is no game management here. The U. s. Fish and Wildlife Service has a repres- entative here for the fisheries, but no one for game There are two in Petersburg. Does that make sense?
 Maybe. No Secret
 The constitutional convention in Fairbanks, or rather College, home of the University, which started out to be sort of closed corpora tion with press and public barred from committee deliberations, is re- ported to be easing the censorship A couple of the committee have announced public hearings tomor- row.
 It could be that some of the wis CT heads have pointed out that the delegates, after all. are just repre- sentatives of the people and not self-annointed dictators with a philosophy of if there is no bread ''let 'em eat cake''
 Things are high in Fairbanks, too, it appears. And, at the salaries the voters are paying the boys, it seems we'd be entitled to know, at least, what they are doing.
 Convention Secretary Tom Stewart gets $41 day plus SIP per diem, according to the salary report, with clerks and other employees getting s21, n day that is. The Delegates are reported struggling by on $35 day A real, tough winter in Fairbanks.