The Way We Were

May 23, 1918

The United States Food

administration has set the prices for salmon as:

Salmon taken by crews operating with company boat, gear, and fuel: Red Kings, 6c/lb; White Kings, 3c/lb.; Sockeyes and Cohoes, 25c/fish; Chums, 6c/fish; Pinks, 4c/fish. With crews operating independent boat, gear, and fuel: Red Kings, 7c/lb; White Kings, 3 ½c/lb; Sockeyes and Cohoes, 30c/fish; Chums, 7c/fish; Pinks, 5c/fish.

May 21, 1943

To extend its rifle range to 300 yards, men of the Wrangell unit will meet at the rifle range tomorrow to clear and prepare the new range. Women of the Legion Auxiliary will serve coffee and sandwiches. A full turnout of the Guard is ordered so the work can be completed so that it can be put in service. Men in the community who are not members of the Guard are invited to come and help the Guardsmen.

May 23, 1968

It looks like it will be six months before Wrangell gets a television system.

City councilmen this week appeared to be taking on a wait and see attitude toward allowing the opening of a cable television station here.

The reason: a United States Supreme Court case on the legality of taped television programs is scheduled for a decision in about a month.

Councilmen Tuesday heard a presentation by General Telephone Co. officials. It was the third firm that has submitted a formal proposal to the city to operate a television service.

The General Telephone officials estimated it would take 90 days to go on the air, if they got a city okay. They said they were only interested in

operating in Wrangell if Petersburg would also take their service.

May 20, 1993

Electricity could be made available to Wrangell West residents as early as autumn of 1994, City Council members were told at a public workshop Monday night.

Bob Martin, chairman of the Tlingit-Haida Regional Electric Authority (THREA), told the council and about a dozen citizens: “We’d like to do this project. I think it would be a good opportunity for us.”

The project would involve installing power poles and lines from the end of the city’s current service at about Pats Creek to the end of the Wrangell West subdivision near McCormack Creek.

After building the lines, THREA would begin providing electricity for that area, purchasing the power from either the City of Wrangell or the Four Dam Pool.

The project became a possibility for THREA after it received a low-interest $5.6 million loan in April from the federal Rural Electrification Act. The loan was granted for the expressed purpose of expanding electrical service to the Chilkat Valley in the Haines Borough, and to Wrangell West.

THREA supplies electricity directly to six Southeast communities: Hoonah, Angoon, Kake, Klawock, and Kasaan.

In those communities they generate power with their own diesel plants, which would not be required at Wrangell West. In Yakutat and the Chilkat Valley, the authority has contracts to run the utilities in those areas.