March 17, 1921
The peak of high prices has not been reached in printing materials. In December the Sentinel laid in a supply of certificate bond paper at 32 cents a pound. This same paper is quoted on the Seattle market today at 37 cents a pound. All printing machinery and other equipment is still soaring. A typesetting machine that was priced at $4,100 at the outbreak of the war is now listed at $5,0000. All over the United States papers are being forced out of business owing to high prices of printing materials. Other papers are attempting to stem the tide by further raises in their subscription and advertising rates. The Petersburg Report has recently raised its advertising rates 60 percent. The McCarthy News and the Hyder Miner both have a subscription rate of $5 per year. And both of these papers are smaller in size and set much less type than the Sentinel. According to the best information on hand, the Sentinel has a lower advertising rate in proportion to its circulation than any paper published in Alaska.
March 15, 1946
Bernard Iversen, former second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, and Marvin Rice, former machinist’s mate with the Naval Air Service, have joined the Petersburg Air Service personnel, according to an announcement made today by Tony Schwamm, manager of the flying company. Iversen, a local young man born and raised in Wrangell, will be a pilot for the company, and after a short time in Petersburg “brushing up” on water landings will probably be stationed in Wrangell where Manager Schwamm expects to base a plane. Iversen has 450 hours with Army planes and graduated from the strenuous ground school courses in navigation, aerodynamics, motors and meteorology required for a pilot’s license. He got his wings from Uncle Sam in March 1945 and took extensive training for a bomber pilot.
March 18, 1971
Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Bryson, operators of the Wrangell Sentinel since last May, have purchased the newspaper from Charles F. Willis Jr. of Seattle. Bryson, a former Southern California newspaperman, is editor and Mrs. Bryson is business manager. The Sentinel will continue to print on a press located at the Petersburg plant, Bryson said, but plans are under way to install typesetting equipment in the Wrangell office. “This will make it possible for the entire newspaper to be set up in Wrangell, with finished pages being transported to Petersburg for the press work only,” the editor said. “This will allow us to give improved service to our advertisers and our readers.”
March 21, 1996
Former Wrangell resident Annette Thompson whipped up some large cinnamon rolls at the home of friends recently, and explained how her love of baking, a desire to share her Tlingit culture, and her love of meeting people brought her to producing TV segments for the weekly Native TV program, “Heartbeat Alaska.” Thompson, a 1958 graduate of Wrangell High School, grew up working in the kitchen helping her grandmother make fry bread. “I was 4 or 5,” said Thompson. In recent years, Thompson set up a booth at the Wrangell Fourth of July activities to sell fry bread. It was a hit. One day, Thompson called Jeanie Green, host of the show “Heartbeat Alaska,” to ask if she was interested in activities around the Southeast community. Thompson said, “Jeanie told me to send a trial tape.” The producer liked her tape, and in the past three years Thompson has recorded 13 segments that have aired on the weekly Sunday afternoon program. Several of her shows have been filmed on trips she and her husband have taken to Norway, Germany, Russia and China.
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