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VOLUME XVI
Wednesday, October 19, 1955
NUMBER 219
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Five and cr:e qt:
feet of timber irs i ft*,
being advertised for
;rifsr hi is ion board
vicinity of Sitka Is
sale by the U. 5.
Forest
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aoeor&na to on annou
ncement made toc’c y by A. IV. Greeley,
regional forester for the the Alaska re
gion of the Forest Service.
This sa!e contemp!ates the construc
tion of another large pulp mill for south
eastern Alaska in the Sitka area. The
successful bidder will be allow
ed 50 years in which to cut and
remove the timber. The volume
sold and the rate of cutting
will be in line with sustained
yield management ol the IVi
gass National Forest, Greeley
said.
Timlber involved consists
mostly of western hemlock and
Sitka spruce, with some Alas
V eatchcombing
$ Art Greeley almost made
the 15th target date — only
four days late — and we Sitkans
now know something concrete
IS going to happen. Did you
ndlice B. Frank didn’t once use
she word “proposed" in refer
ence to the pulp mill?
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• One teen-ager played taps
while his father shaved off 'that
.prize-winning ibeard. But his
wife said: “Isn’t it nice it s
gone.”
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# George Beacom, who incid
ently did a swell job, thanked
a ldt of people last night for
making the Festival possible—
but he missed one that had
much to do with making things
go smoothly and listening to
gripes — his charming wife.
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• If Mr. Ohshima is correct
in stating when the mill will
open — it will take a lot of
jpaen working mighty fast.
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| i j,.v cerar. i :s. Jocatra
Ion ICrano; and CircLc vor ,'s
J .v's in Southeastern Alaska.
Sitka is the principal cijoy in
this locality.
! The A las x a Lumber and Pulp
Company, a corporation organ
ized under the laws of the Ter
ritory of Alaska by the Alaska
Pulip Company, Ltd., of Tokyo,
a Japanese corporation, request
ed the timber in hhis area be
advertised for competitive 'bid
ding.
Terms of the contract under
which this timber will be of
fered by the Forest Service re
quire that, prior o December
j 31. 1961, the purchaser shall
install a pulp mill in the vicin
ity of the sale area. This mill,
together wTith associated facil
ities must have an annual log
) requirement of al: least 80,000
000 board feet.
The advertised rates for
stamp age and for work of tim
ber stand improvement in the
sale area will be: $2.90 a thou
sand board feet for Sitka spruce
$1.75 for western hemlock,
$1.65 for Alaska yellow cedar
and other species. Sliumpage
j rates will be redetermined on
i July 1, 1971, and at five year
; intervals thereafter. Auction
bidding for purchase of the tim
ber will take place in the Re
| gional Forester's office in Jun
eau on January 25. 1956.
This Sitka sale if successful
ly completed will be the fourth
labge pulptimber sale within
1 the Tongass National Forest in
Southeastern Alaska. In Adj
ust of 1948. a sale of 11 2 billion
cubic feet of timber was made
to Ketchikan Pulp Company.
This is equivalent to about
8V3 billion board feet. In Aug
ust of 1955 a sale oi 7; > billion
board feet in the Juneau area
was made to Georgia-Pacific,
Alaska, Company. In June of
1954, a sale of 3 billion board
feet was made to Pacific North
ern Timber Company at Wran
gell.
! Mr. Greeley stated plans
for making other large sales
1 such as 'these will depend on
. the outcome of the forest in
ventory work now underway.
, Forest Service personnel work
* ing under the direction of the
. Alaska Forest Research Center
of Juneau, are currently inven
torying the {timber stands of
Southeastern Alaska. Comple
tion of this four to five year
project will furnish informa
»tion upon which management
] plans and (further decisions a
j bout additional large sales can
, be based.
[ Earlier this month, Takuji
Ohshima. executive director
of the Alaska Lumber and Pulp
: Company. Inc., said according
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' ITt i i i
Creek Site of Sitka Pulp Mill
' ..Vi ••re a mod tin pulp mill will
be erected on the site of Blue
Lake Farms; picture taken from
Liver Bay looking toward the
flats of Sawmill Creek.
—Daily Sentinel-x^.P. Picture
Ty@ng.el case goes
to urytoday
JUNEAU (A5) Oral arguments
by plaint if. in the $68,000 per
sonal injury suit against the
City of Sitka and the National
Board of Presbyterian Missions
opened here lai.e this morning
in district court.
Charles Tuenigel, 69, an un
employed barber, is suing for
damages allegedly resulting
from a fall Nov. 17, 1951 at the
Sitka community hospital, oper
ated by the city on lease from
the mission board.
Fred Morris, a witness for the
defense, in substance testified
that he saw Tuengel remove his
arm from a sling one day and
sweep the hubcaps of his car,
j using both hands.
Judge Hodge denied a motion
by defendants shortly before
the oral arguments began for a
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win prizes
Many
at Alaska Day \
Festival
Sitka is going to have to find
a larger hall for Alaska Day
events. That became apparent
last evening when the new
multi-purpose room otf the
grade school — which seats
600 — was filled wi1 h several
hundred additional standees to
[witness the pageant “In This
Place” and the closing program
! of the 1955 Alaska Day Festi
j val.
Prize winners in the teen
age and adult classifications
were as follows: ,
(continued on page three!
Forecast from Wednesday to
Thursday.
Cloudy. Intermittnt rain. Oc
casional gusty southeast winds
Little change in temperature.