The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-02-11
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE
Bird Week

Bird Week
 n was officially bird week. The Governor of Alaska had. with few Kind words for the Raven and Stel- Ier'S Jay. signed into law a bill making the willow Ptarmigan the official bird of the Territory. The school children Of Alaska had sell ecssd. members of the Legislature. mindful perhaps of the u9coming voters. had passed the law, and now the Governor had attached the seal and his signature. The Willow Ptarmiran was "in". as the saying roes. from Dixon Entrance to the Little Diomede-
 From the Big Diomede and west ward it was a different story. There they had given the bird to a chap named Malenkov and el- ewated in his stead a bird named BulEanin while on the nation scene Interior Secretary Mckay was giv- ing Alaska the bird on the question of statehood. He was for Alaska. but - Chairman Engle of the House Insular Affairs commit tee had asked but what" and the Secretary had hurried off to make a Lincoln day address
 Indeed. t was bird week in more ways than one in many places.
 Things Looking Up
 Meanwhile along this historic conmunity's industrial row things were looking up. It was a week in wrangel loaded with brass" as the army lingo has it for the men on top. There was a NTP Every important person. on nearly every street corner. Among them your Pcriscoper found Yukitchi Ishida. executive director of the Alaska Pulp Co. Ltd. of Japan which op- crates the local wrangell Lumber Company among other things: C. Girard Davidson, attorney and Of- ficial of the Pacific Northern Tim Der Company. and. incidentally. a former assistant secretary of the Interior: and Harold Heaton. man. aEer of the Farwest wrangeH Com pany operations. All had words of encouragement
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 Mir. Ishida. an oldtimer on the coast was on his first visit Co AL aska and mighty happy to hear tho~e saws humming at the Wran- Een plant. Back in the 'roarin' twentles Mir. Ishida was in busi ness in Seattle % Alaska was not entirely strange and foreign land. Ti was. he said. a land with a great lumber potential His com pany. he reported. was going ahead with previously announced plans to build a pulp plant in Alaska in addition Co operating the local sawmill Currently the Sitka area was being given primary consider atiou. although. Mir. Ishida smiled. Alaska Pulp has very warm feel ing for the wrangell area and he looked forward with anticipation Go arrival of the first ship to take a load of lumber from the newly operating wranEell mill. First shipments. he said would go to Japan. Later. lumber might be of- fered in the '. s domestic market.
 Mir. Davidson also was on lumber and probable pulp business. Pacific Northern. he reported. was going ahead with it's development plans here. whiie consideration of the best sites was still being given. he said the company was hopeful Of having a portion Of its planned op- eration underway by fall. He re- ported the housing project schedul- ed to start with mill construction.
 Mir. Heaton had good and solid news. The Farwest cannery would operate in 1855 with stress on em- ployment of local labor. If there were enough people in town to man the plant no one would be i'm ported from the Outside. he said Elsewhere in this peerless family journal will b. found a news story advising how you can sign up for a job at the eannery this summer.
 The cold storage. Mir. Heaton ad- vtsed. would be entirely renovated with installation of new equipment, work on which was scheduled to start shortly after February is and a meeting of the stockholders.
 
 While he wasn't in town long enough to. make a street corner. wp almost forgot to mention that Kenji Xxi. member of the Alaska Pulp directorate. steamship opera tor and public relations man de luxe. was in town overnight. hav- ing accompanied Mr. Tshida from the states But Mr. Xxi. with many irons in the fire. had to hurry on. onIy had time to advise that the arrival cf the first ship to take . load cf lumber was going to be "a day to he remembered. and that t wasn't far away.
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