In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
March 24, 1916: The ladies of Wrangell will give a leap year ball on Friday evening, March 17, 1916 at the Rink. The admission for ladies will be $1.00 and gentlemen free. Music by the Wrangell Orchestra. With Mrs. Oscar Carlson chairman of the refreshment committee everyone present will be assured a surprise in the line of refreshments, and with Mrs. T.J. Case as floor manager it goes without saying the dance will have the snap to it that will forevermore put J.G. Grant and J.R. Bender in the back ground as floor managers, with all due respect to both.
March 28, 1941: Burnett Inlet Salmon Company has completed the deal for the Wrangell Packing Co. formerly operated by the late Frank S. Barnes and the Burnett operations will be carried on this season at the former Wrangell Pack, it was confirmed this week by Ole Nergaard of the Burnett Inlet Salmon Company, who arrived in Wrangell the first of the week from Seattle. The Wrangell Pack Cannery will now be known as the Burnett Inlet Salmon Company and there will be no operations by his company at Burnett this season, Mr. Nergaard said. The well-known cannery man is here only for this week to get pre-season work underway. Complete new machinery is being installed in the plant and O. Thanen of the Continental Can Company arrived this week also to have charge of the installation which is expected to start next week. Mr. Nergaard is returning to Seattle this weekend and expects to be back north in May.
April 1, 1966: In one of the largest special election bond issue votes ever cast in the city’s history, Wrangell voters Tuesday approved a $175,000 bond issue to finance the city’s portion of the projected $398,000 new hospital here. With 229 ballots cast out of a registration list of approximately 300, there were but two votes against the proposal. The official tally showed 227 for and two against. Precinct No. 1, City Library, recorded 130 votes for and one against. Precinct No. 2, Episcopal Church, totaled 99 with one against. Some 15 potential voters were disqualified due to failure to register, officials reported.
March 28, 1991: About 300 timber industry jobs have been lost and 137 will lose work this spring if a court injunction
barring some logging in Southeast isn’t lifted. That’s the word from June Cristle, the executive director of the newly formed Loggers’ Legal Defense Fund. Cristle toured Wrangell last week, asking Wrangellites who want to preserve timber
industry jobs to join the new organization. Cristle, who is volunteering her time as executive director of the non-profit group, said she estimates an environmental lawsuit filed over Alaska Pulp Corp.’s plans for logging in the Hoonah and Tenakee Springs areas will result in loss of 537 timber industry jobs by spring unless a court-imposed logging ban is lifted soon. The Loggers’ Legal Defense Fund was formed late last year to pursue compensation for lost jobs and income for timber industry workers “created by the radical actions of environmental groups.” Another goal is to “protect the work place from further erosion created by environmental initiatives designed to annihilate the timber industry,” Cristle said during her visit to Wrangell.
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