The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-07-22
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE
No Fish Calendar

B waiting the fish biologist who comes up with a calendar that sal mon can read and follow. Hemight even get to be director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, although that may not necessarily be one of the qualifications for the job. But the field is unlimited
 An idea of the scope may be found in the Anan Creek area which opened to seining last Fri day by mans calendar. This cal endar had fixed the date for the we'll known humpback, or pink, to rendezvous off Anan It was also the date when the king salmon were supposed to have passed the area and Tipped their willy way in- to Bradfield Canal and it's tribu- taries.
 Humpies, apparently with the wrong calendar, failed to keep the date in any appreciable number. Kings, obviously unmindful of the head office and unaware of their assignment, were still hanging a. round. One seine boat picked up 150 kings in one haul. Some of the others got few kings. Accord ing to mans calendar there aren't supposed to be any kings around Anan on July 15.
 Pinks, too, had missed the boat. Only the more. venturesome, it ap- peared, had arrived at Anan for the opening. The take was es- pecially poor. No fish in the stream to speak of, government ob- servers reported. They figured they were late and hadn't come in yet from the sea.
 While the pinks and kings were messing up mans calendar, fisher men kept the date. There were 150 seine boats in the Anan .area on opening day. Take ranged from zero fish to one boat, 4,000. A FWS spot check on 15 top boats showed an average of 470 per boat. The other 135 didn't do so well.
 Opportunity awaits that fish cal endar biologist.
 Thanks to Senator Ellender
 Residents of Wrangell, Peters burg and Metlakatla can be thank full to Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana for it's harbor an d dredging project. The Senator, who has viewed Alaska at first hand with a penetrating eye. went to bat on the Alaska items and the result is as you know it - dredg- ing projects for the three commun- ities. Delegate Bartlett, who did some yeoman work on the projects himself, reports:
 We have reason to be especial ly grateful to Senator Allen J. FL lender, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee. It was that subcommittee under Sena- tor Ellender's direction that made provision for the Alaska projects even though there were no budget ary estimates for them"
 In other words, the items were over the Presidents budget and it took some potent senatorial doing to get them into the public works appropriation bill and get White House 0. k. Senator Ellender, who is also chairman of the Senate Az riculture committee and one of the most powerful men in Congress, delivered. Alaskans are deeply grateful.
 How about coming up for an- other shrimp creole, Senator, made with Wrangelfs peerless shrimp?
 Sitka's Good Town, Too
 Bob DeArmond, sage of Sitka and special assistant to Gov HeintZleman, is in there as usual, plugging for his home town. Bob scratched a furrowed brow when he noted that the first complete cargo of Alaska lumber ever load ed in an Alaska port for direct foreign export was dispatched from Wrange1l recently for Japan on board the Kosho Maru.
 Let us not get carried away with the 'firsts.'" cautions Sitka's s statesman, and relates, "in 1903