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May 28, 1914: At a special meeting of the town council last Monday evening, a petition from the school board was read asking for the council to make an appropriation for the high school next year. After this was read a motion was placed before the council by Councilman Albrecht and seconded by Councilman Tate, that the town council guarantee the sum of $40 per month during the school season for maintenance of the high school, and in case of a surplus at the end of the term it shall be returned to the general fund of the city.
May 26, 1939: A strike as big as Percy Peacock’s on Boulder Creek has been made on Palmer Creek, main east fork tributary of the Little Muddy into which Boulder Creek flows, according to word brought by arrivals from Telegraph Creek this morning, who in turn had their information from four trappers who this week came into Telegraph Creek from the Dease Lake district. The names of the prospectors who made the strike are not definitely known, but the men were two of several parties who last February and March flew into various sections of the Muddy district from Atlin and Carcross. The two stayed for a time on Boulder, and later drifted down about twelve miles to Palmer Creek. Low food stores recently compelled them to stop in the midst of panning sensational values and go out for supplies. These had been brought to them from Telegraph Creek by truck as far as Dease Lake, and there the prospectors were waiting the arrival of a pack train from the George Ball ranch when encountered by the trappers.
May 29, 1964: Television will come to Wrangell June 7 at 2 p.m. It starts in Petersburg May 31 at 2 p.m.; it was announced today by Jim Stevens and Gary Engard, partners in the operation. Engard said that programming will be from KIRO, channel 7, Seattle, with programming in Petersburg one week behind Seattle and programming in Wrangell two weeks behind Seattle. Broadcast hours during the summer months will be from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on week days and 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Baseball will be featured Saturday and Sunday mornings. The first program will be a movie, “Louisiana Purchase,” starring Bob Hope. The Ted Mack amateur hour will be on at 5:30; news at 6; Mr. Ed, a comedy, at 6:30; Lassie at 7; My Favorite Martian at 7:30; Ed Sullivan at 8.
May 25, 1989: Wrangellite Leda Torgramsen landed the first king over 50 pounds last week to collect the $500 bonus prize and perhaps first place in the 1989 derby. Torgramsen paraded her 51.3-pound salmon down Front Street in the back of a pickup truck, proudly displaying it for onlookers at City Market about noon May 17. Photographers quickly snapped shots of the fish and contacted the Sentinel, wanting to collect the newspaper’s $50 bounty for a photo of the winning king. Torgramsen said she was running a herring through the water at “the Nose” off Woronkofski Island in the morning hours when the fish took the bait. Asked if she used anything special on the bait to entice the salmon, she said no. Torgramsen didn’t head back out to continue fishing May 17, however. “I’ve got my limit,” she said. Derby organizer Dick Angerman said slight rainfall over the weekend didn’t dampen the spirits of local anglers and visitors who headed out for the competition.
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