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March 26, 1914: J.H. Hyland and Ias. Troxel arrived down the river from Telegraph last Thursday and took the Princess south to Victoria Friday night. Mr. Hyland is a well-known booster of Telegraph and is making the trip outside to get a new pack train to use in that country as soon as work starts in the Dease lake country. The prospects in that country are brighter than ever, according to Mr. Hyland.
March 31, 1939: A special meeting of the City Council held Friday night was called by Mayor Van H. Fisk primarily to arrange details to handle the allotment of WPA funds on sewer, street and school grounds projects. Three
appointments were made. Arnt Sorset as general foreman of the WPA projects recently allotted to Wrangell, Mrs. George Green as clerk for the city elections on April 4 to serve in the place of Mrs. Art Larson who will be away from town on that date, and Mrs. Irene Coulter to audit the accounts of the city treasurer for the year ending March 31.
April 3, 1964: Local officials at Wrangell Lumber Company this week extended sympathy to people of Alaska on the
disastrous earthquake which struck last Friday in Westward Alaska causing death and destruction over a wide area. The statement said: “Wrangell Lumber Company and Alaska Pulp Company, Ltd., Tokyo, extend to the citizens of Alaska their deepest sympathy for the loss of life and property resulting from the earthquake and tidal waves of last Friday.”
March 30, 1989: Wrangell will not see any reduction in ferry service this winter despite cuts being made elsewhere in the Alaska Marine Highway System. Doug Burton,
customer services director for the ferry system, told the Sentinel Tuesday that Wrangell will not be affected by the service reductions. Those reductions now are being made to make up a $1 million budget overrun predicted for the ferry system this fiscal year. The ferry Aurora has been docked in Ketchikan in an effort to save money. Burton said a series of events caused the budget overrun. First, running the Chilkat to Metlakatla for feeder service cost more than budgeted and keeping the Taku in the shipyard longer than expected
resulted in higher costs of running a larger ferry to Prince Rupert, he said. In addition, plans to use the Aurora as a day boat four days a week did not materialize and the vessel was on line longer than expected, he said. Addition of the Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday also added to costs, he said. Burton said ferry officials had believed they could absorb some of the additional costs if they had been lucky. But all of them in combination resulted in the $1 million overrun, he said. “We didn’t get lucky on anything, “ he said. Burton said no changes will be made in summer ferry service if the budget overrun can be made up before the season begins. However, he said, officials will have to implement cutbacks in summer service if they can’t make up the overrun before that time.
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