Wrangell to
Have New
Lumber Mill
SEATTLE. July 27, -J(AV-The
President of Alaska Wrangell Mills,
Inc., announced in Seattle today
his company will reopen an old
lumber mill this fall at Wrangell,
and build a new mill on the same
site.
C. T. Takahashi, who heads the
corporation, said the new mill will
cost ‘‘in excess of one million dol
lars" and have a capacity of 120,
000 board feet of lumber in a single
shift daily.
He said it will employ approxi
mately 50 men. who will be hired
at Wrangell or the surrounding
area. All will be mill workers. The
company does not plan to operate
a woods crew but will buy logs de
livered at the mill.
Takahashi estimated that the old
mill will be in operation within GO
days. He expects it to produce from
55,000 to 60.000 board feet daily.
Work on the new mill will gel
under way while the old plant i'
being rehabilitated. It is scheduled
to be in operation early next year.
The old mill will be shut down
when the new one is completed.
Takahashi said C. W. Hall of
Portland, a director of the corpor
ation, will leave Seattle by shin
today to open an office in Wrang
ell, where he will be resident man
ager.
Hall said before his departure
his first job will be to get work
started on both the old and new
mills. Much of the machinery need
ed for tne new plant is already on
hand at Wrangell, he said.
The Alaska Wrangell Company
took over the old mill in July, 1950,
after it had been idle for several
years.
When operations are resumed, tin
mill will turn out both rough and
green and finished lumber, mostly
of spruce, hemlock and cedar.
Takahashi said, his firm hopes
to market much of its output in
Alaska to defense contractors en
gaged in a huge construction pro
gram, but will also do a heavy ex
port business.
Four Weeks of This
Charlotte Fitch, 7-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne
Fitch, of Slater, la., will have to remain four weeks with her legs
hoisted up like this. She suffered a broken leg, fractured ribs and
cuts In an automobile accident. Student Nurse Lois Christiansen
shown with her in a Dcs Moines hospital says the baby is a good
patient. I/P) Wirephoto.
Senate Conferees
Grant Renf Rollback
In Defense Areas
TACOMA, Wash., July 27, — (tfl—
The administration won a round
today v.hcn Senate-House confer
ees voted to permit rent rollbacks
to the May ,24-June 24, 1050 It";’
in newljr declared critical dclAIie
areas.
The conference committee appn
ed that provision in the econom
control bill passed by the Senate
and decided to junk a House bill
provision which would have bar
red rent rollbac ks in those areas.
Stablization Director Eric John
ston had appealed to the committee
last weekend to adopt the Senate
plan.
The version approved by the con
ferees authorizes the Secretary of
Defense and the Mobilization Dir
ector to designate critical defense
areas.
These areas, such as sections near
military posts, could then be brought
under rent control.
Most of the world’s wool, accord- j
ing to the National Geographic
Society, comes from the southern
hemisphere.
Samana and Santiago Rail
road oi Haiti reaches neither Sa
mana nor Santiago.
On Lobbyists
Mrs. C. Irving Uuyer, mother of
five children, shown in her home
after the White House made pub
lic a letter to her from President
Truman in which he said "big
paid lobbyists” are doing their
best to wreck price controls.
Mrs. Guycr, wife of a small btfti
nessman, had written the presi
dent that she had heard about
lobbyists for various big interests
but none for the housewife con
fronted with mounting food
costs, (fl>> Wirephoto.
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Smith Denies
Guilt in
Girl's Death
WASHINGTON, July 27. —IM—
j Bill Smith, Jr., held In Redwood
CUy, Calif, charged with the first
degree murder of a young Tacoma
girl, denied yesterday that he was
involved in her death.
The News Tribune, in a special
dispatch from Redwood City, quot
ed the red-haired, 28-year-old car
hop as saying he knew 17-year-old
Noreen McNicholas “but I didn't
kill her—I never took her out.”
The murder charge was issued
by a Justice of the Peace and sign
ed by Prosecutor John J. O’Con
nell after a friend of Noreen’s—
Ella Mae Cooper—told authorities
she was an eye witness to the slay
1 ing.
The girl’s body was found nude
in Spanaway Park, Jan. 16, 1949.
She disappeared Nov. 5, 1948—the
day Miss Cooper said the killing j
occurred. Investigators said she had j
been raped and strangled.
Jailed in Redwood City after his
arrest Tuesday, Smith said he was
in Tacoma when Noreen’s body was
found and remained in Tacoma tor
several months before leaving to be
come a carhop in Beverly Hills, Cal
ifornia.
“I wouldn’t say I was fond of
her," Smith told a reporter.
“I just knew her because she was
quite attractive and was a student
at the beautician's school in Ta
coma the same time I was.”
The investigation also was broad
ened yesterday to include two sol
diers, who may be in Korea. One
was identified by Miss Cooper as
“Bob”, who she said was her com
panion with Noreen and Smith the
day of the slaying.
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