January 30, 1919
In a letter from The National Red Cross to Wrangell Chapter: “Dear Madam, It is a pleasure to acknowledge the contribution of $1,344.69. The amount will endow two beds for a year in the American Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, and we have asked our Commissioner to have a placard placed on the beds bearing the inscription, “Donated by the Wrangell, Alaska chapter, American Red Cross,” that those who enjoy the comfort of these beds may be aware of the donors. Though hostilities have ceased there are thousands of American boys sick and wounded, and these bed will serve a great need in bringing relief to them. Such a gift is a splendid tribute to the members of your congregation and we ask you to extend to each our hearty appreciation of this contribution and the spirit, which has prompted it.” Yours very truly, L.J. Hunter, Deputy Comptroller.
January 28, 1944
What about Wrangell garnets? A new kind of paint, made of crushed industrial garnets and a new resin that won’t burn, has been produced for the U.S. Navy. The paint is used to cover steel decks, to render them non-slip regardless of wet or oil, and immune to the tremendous heat of bomb, shell, and torpedo flashes which set ordinary paint to burning furiously. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company produced the new material, under the name of Dektred. It can be put on with a trowel, or like ordinary paint by spraying. The paint is used on weather and flight decks especially, gun emplacements, and in quarters, passageways, landings and stairways.
January 23, 1969
The Forest Service has announced that there will be no new sales of western red cedar for export during the next three years.
Regional Forester W. Howard Johnson said that no cedar from new Forest Service sales would be considered surplus to domestic needs. He said the decision was reached by the Secretary of Agriculture after wood processors announced that a mill was under construction in the state that would use approximately 20 million board feet of cedar a year. Until now, cedar could be exported in the round to Japan. Johnson said that the decision does not affect the handling of logs on sales under contract prior to January 1 of this year. All timber, including those sales will be administered under the terms of the contracts under which the timber was originally offered for sale, he said.
January 27, 1994
Wrangell residents should see the completion of a rebuilding of the Zimovia Highway to the Alaska Pulp Corp. mill by the end of the 1995 construction season, a state transportation official said last week. Tracy Moore of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities told a standing room only crowd that showed up at Wrangell City Hall last Thursday for what he called an “informal discussion” of the repaving work that the state is in the preliminary design phase of the project now. Although he stopped short of making outright promises, Moore was confident of his prediction that the reconstruction will take place in 1995.
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