November 22, 1917: The Wrangell chapter of the Red Cross raised $104 for Christmas packets for soldiers. By Christmas the United States will have 1 million men under arms. The Red Cross has, in addition to its many other labors in humanitarian work, undertaken the task of sending each American soldier a Christmas packet filled with good things and good will. It was possible to have Christmas packets made up for $41 each. When the Wrangell chapter received notice of the undertaking, the time was so limited that it had to hurry and transmit the money by cable as soon as it was raised.
November 20, 1942: The Navy will pay $5 for every acceptable mine fragment or bomb fragment which may be discovered by the fishing fleet. Such fragments are useful to the Navy for study and when such are found they should be sent with a letter of transmittal to the Mine Disposal Officer, 13th Naval District, Exchange Building, Seattle.
November 17, 1967: Will Rogers Jr. of Beverly Hills, Calif., assistant to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, was in Wrangell this week. He was with Warren Tiffany of the Juneau BIA office. They met with superintendent of Wrangell Institute, Lillian D. Walker, and Principal Fred Fisher. The plan is to make visits to all the BIA and Indian schools in Alaska that a tight schedule will allow them. Rogers entertained the Institute children at a school assembly with rope tricks that his father had taught him. He plans to visit the site of the Barrow plane crash that killed his father and aviator Wiley Post many years ago.
November 12,1992: A task force composed of Southeast Alaska troll fishers will meet Nov. 18-20 in Juneau to discuss ways to solve some of the problems trollers fishing the Panhandle have faced in recent years. The Southeast Alaska Chinook Salmon Task Force was established last March by the Board of Fisheries. Its mission is to identify ways to extend the short summer season trollers have had in recent years and to minimize the incidental mortality of king salmon caught when the troll fleet is targeting coho salmon.
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