October 30, 1919
The Town of Wrangell last night established a quarantine against the Town of Petersburg During the past two or three days there have been rumors that smallpox existed at Petersburg. Yesterday a cablegram was sent to the Territorial Health Commission and their reply was: All incorporated towns should protect themselves against Petersburg for two weeks. L. O. Sloan, Territorial Health Commissioner. Upon receipt of the above cable gram the Board of Health held a meeting and ordered a quarantine against Petersburg for two weeks. James Matheson was employed as night guard and L. K. Carson as day guard.
October 27, 1944
The commerce department wants to invest capital in the establishment of a huge pulp paper industry in Alaska. The Forest Service, the statement said, classified almost all timber in the 16,000,000- acre Tongass forest as high grad pulping species. The department says the investment for such an enterprise, to yield more than a million tons of paper annually, would run into the “millions of dollars per plant.”
October 30, 1969
Two Engersoll-Rand 50KW diesel generators arrived on the Sunday night ferry for the Wrangell light plant. One generator will be installed immediately and the other will be put in after alterations and the removal of some equipment at the plant. The present generator, a Fairbanks-Morse O.P. Diesel, has been examined by a representative of Fairbanks-Morse and the city will study his report in regards to reconditioning the unit and increasing its capacity. With the Fairbanks-Morse generator repaired and the two Engersoll-Rand units installed, the light plant will have a capacity of 2400KW. This is well above Wrangell’s 1500KW peak load for the winter months.
October 27, 1994
City workmen utilized Gary Allen’s crane to set up a prefabricated restroom behind the Elks Lodge Oct. 19. Brought to Wrangell by barge, the facility will make the area more accommodating to tourists. An identical facility is installed at Volunteer Park.
Reader Comments(0)