May 5, 1921
The ladies of the Presbyterian Aid Society have secured the Rex Theater for tomorrow (Friday) afternoon and evening, and will give a tea and goody sale from 3 to 5 p.m. and a program at 8 in the evening. The program includes a farce in two acts and vocal and instrumental selections and readings. The admission to the evening entertainment will be 35 cents for adults and 20 cents for children. The proceeds will be used for furnishing the new manse. In addition to the program as printed last week, Mrs. Towers has consented to sing a solo with a violin obbligato by Mr. William Patterson. Mr. Patterson will also play a violin solo.
May 3, 1946
At regular meeting of the city council last night at city hall, H.C. McKowan, owner of the Wrangell Telephone Co., asked the council to cancel his franchise or revise it to allow for a rate increase. McKowan pointed out the excessive and rising costs of operation of the company over the past years since the franchise was drawn, and said he no longer could operate it at the present rates. The council will study the franchise and come to a decision on whether a rate adjustment can be made.
May 7, 1971
Lincoln Saito, wrestling coach at the Wrangell Institute, was fishing for steelhead with light tackle last Friday off the log boom at Pat’s Creek when something a little heftier than a trout decided to take his lure. Like a 43-pound, 6-ounce king salmon. Saito, 23, was forced to do battle with the giant fish using a fiberglass trout pole (which shattered), a spinning reel and 12-pound test line. And, oh yes, the king was hooked with a No. 6 triple fishhook and that is about the size of your little fingernail. “I didn’t’ have anything to get him in with and thought I’d lose him, but then I saw some logging guys working on the raft and yelled for help,” said Saito. “When we pulled him out of the water I couldn’t believe it, neither could they.” Saito said he fought the salmon for a total of 40 minutes. But he did not have a ticket for Wrangell’s King Salmon Derby, so the salmon was ineligible for the contest.
May 2, 1996
The ranger boat Chugach, the last commissioned U.S. Forest Service wooden ranger boat, came back to Wrangell this week after a three-year absence. Built in 1925 and now homeported in Petersburg, the Chugach was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, the second Alaska vessel to be added to the list of the nation’s important heritage sites. She underwent a major refurbishment at Port Townsend Boat Works in Washington state in order to return to full active duty. The Chugach has been back in service for a year, and now takes Forest Service personnel on 10-day trips eight months out of the year. The boat has two original teak doors but otherwise got a total overhaul. It sleeps eight — four in the forward bow (complete with a dresser and built-in drawers), the other four in the galley. It runs on a 671 Detroit diesel two-cycle engine, and has a depth finder that, during the recent hooligan run, sounded as schools of fish ran under the boat.
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