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Notebook
It seemed like most everyone
in town turned out to welcome
the visitors from Cordova last
week-end. Good attendance was
reported at the two games ar>d at
the dinner-dance which follow
ed on Friday and Saturday nights.
The Mariners club of United
Protestant Church will hold a
Valentine party February 14 at
8 p.m. in the church assembly
hall. There will be a movie on
McKinley National Park’s wild
life. Richard Prasie, park ser
vice naturalist, well speak. Guests
are invited. A lunch will be serv
ed.
Lew Hanks of the Extension
Service and Dr. Curtis Dearborn
of the Alaska Agriculture Ex
periment Station, returned to
Palmer Wednesday following a
trip to Seward where they met
with farmers of that area for a
discussion on gardens and vege
table varieties. Hanks and C.
Ivan Branton, Experiment Sta
tion, were in Juneau last week
where they met with farmers of
that area.
Ken Ubbelohde, new Boy
Scouts district executive, was a
guest at the February 6 meeting
of Palmer Kiwanis. Ubbelohde
expressed thanks to Kyle Turner
for his successful efforts as head
of last year’s Scout drive in Pal
mer. Also a guest was Dale
Clark, local Explorer who attend
ed the Boy Scout Jamboree this
past summer. Clark told of some
of his adventures while attend
ing the jamboree.
Mrs. Justine Parks, MEA presi
dent and board member of CAPA,
recently attended the meeting in
St. Louis of the National Rural
Electric Co-operative Association.
Mrs. Parks is Alaska director on
the NRECA board.
Two of three persons injured
in a car crash, were transported
from the accident scene near the
Matanuska River bridge to Val
ley Presbyterian Hospital in the
Community Ambulance Saturday
afternoon. Volunteers were Joe
Gallant and Henry Liebing. In
jured were Marsh Baker, ACS
station at Glenallen, Mary Hob
son, 18 of Glenallen, and Jim
Tipple, driver, also of the ACS
station. The Tipple vehicle ap
parently went into a spin direct
ly in the path of a vehicle driven
by David Carxson. Territorial Po
lice investigated the accident.
Friends in Palmer have receiv
ed word from Elton and Judy
Aarestad, former residehts who
recently left Alaska for a world
tour. They are now in Portland,
N. D. will start out for New York
?oon and then overseas shortly.
Mary Steelman has been sub
stituting as receptionist in the
office of Dr. C. C. Bailey, for
tsabelle Woolcock who has been
ilL
A reward has bee" offered for
the return of a trumpet, missing
from the Palmer High Sc fool.
Anyone having information is
asked to contact the high school
or Dennis Johnson of Eska. The
horn was reported missing around
the first of February.
Bruce Graham, secretary of the
Matanuska Valley Sportsmen, is
an Fairbanks this week where he
is attending the annual meeting
of the Alaska Sportsmen Council
as delegate from the local organ
ization. The Sportsmen Council
membership consists of sports
men clubs in the Territory.
Among the thousand spectators
at the signing of Alaska s Con
stitution, were local residents, V.
Louise Kellogg, Lucille Mick, and
Dorothy Hurley, the latter is wife
of James Hurley, delegate to the
constitutional convention.
The moose population of the
city has kept residents amused in
more than one way the past
week The cow that jumped over
the moon had 1 ttle on the moose
cow that was seen clearing the
fairgrounds fence this week. A
herd of 12 moose was meander
ing around the MEA-City lot op
posite from the fairgrounds when
one of them decided to see what
was on the other side of the
fence She had no difficulty in
clearing the eight-foot cyclone
fence, anding on four feet an
heading off toward the woods in
apparent complacence.
Local Physicians
Present Papers
At Staff Meeting
Members of the general medi
cal staff of the Valley Presby
terian Hospital held their quar
terly dinner-meeting at the hos
pital on February 2. A dinner,
prepared by Fritz Lowe and his
staff, was enjoyed by the doctors
in attendance and was fohowed
by a brief business meeting. Dur
ing the meeting ways
of improving the professional
care of patients treated in the
COMMITTEES NAMED
IN LOCAL CHAMBER
Ed Smith, manager of Ketchi
kan Spurce Mills Palmer branch,
and new president of the Ma
tanuska Valley Chamber of Com
merce, announced appointments
at the February 8 meeting of the
local Chamber.
John Weisenberger was name^
'"'hamber director to fill the va
cancy of Everett Adams who re
cently resigned. A steering com
mittee consisting of James Hur
ley, Don Irwin, Charles Wilson,
James Wilson, Dr. C. C. Bailey,
Dr. Foster Sims, Leo Lucas and
A1 Hagen, was announced. Mem
bership and finance committee
will consist of Richard Jones, A1
Hagen, James Hurley, John Weis
enberger, and Jan Koslosky.
Tourists and aviation commit
tee members are Ralph Farns
worth, Tiny Shields, Dr. Foster
Sims, Betty Mears, V. Louise
Kellogg, John Gore, and Neal
■ Wright. The program committee
members were named as Glen
Persinger, James Wilson, and
Virginia Gallant.
Members of the industrial, de
velopment, and roads committee
are H. P. Gazaway, Charles Wil
son, Cy Brewer, and Roland
Snodgrass. Stewart Durrani, Don
Irwin, Lew Hanks, Eugene Reed,
George Crowthers, and Lloyd
Watts were named to the agricul
ture committee. Other commit
tees will be named from time to
time as the'occasions arise, Smith
announced.
Speakers at the luncheon meet
ing was Stewart Durrant, gen
eral manager of the Matanuska
Valley Farmers Cooperating As
sociation who briefed members
on the coming merger of the lo
cal Co-Op and members of the
Tanana Valley Farmers Associa
tion. The Fairbanks producers
will become full members of the
local Co-Op, according to a re
cent vote of the local member
ship. Durrant pointed out the
many advantages, to both areas,
of this coming merger. “It will
assure us of a coordinated pro
gram between the two valleys”,
he pointed out. He speculated
that in time to come the Tanana
area may be able to produce
grain to the amount where a mill
can be built and much of the
feed, now shipped in at high cost
from the States, could be pro
duced right in Alaska.
Following Durrant’s talk Don
Irwin, director of the Alaska
Agriculture Experiment Station,
told Chamber members that last
fall the Experiment Station had
made an attempt to purchase two
carloads of grain in the Tanana
Valley. “We were unable to buy
even part of a load. Had there
been such an organization as this
Co-Op at the time, we could have
gone to them and offered them
a market for their grain,” he
pointed out. Irwin said that he is
looking forward to the time when
the dairy industry has a good
hold in the Tanana Valley. “This
is giving them a good start”, he
said. The experiment director
stated that tests have shown that
cereals grown in the Tanana val
ley have protein content equal to
arid better than cereals grown in
the northern states. They tested
at from two to four percent high
er in the Tanana Valley than
here in the Matanuska Valley.
“The time may come when cereal
crops can be grown in Alaska for
local use. "I’m glad to see this
merger. It will be an incentive
to the farmers of the Tanana
Valley to get into production”,
he concluded.
A meeting of the Chamber’s
board of directors will be held
sometime before the next regular
meeting, which is slated for Feb
ruary 15, at which time recom
mendations for annual dues rates
will be presented, Smith said.
A program is planned for the
meeting of the 15th.
local hospital were discussed.
During the professional meet
ing held immediately following
the business session, two scien
tific papers were presented;
“Tumors of the Kidney” by Dr.
Arthur J. Colberg, and “Leuke
mic,” by Dr. John F. Burnett.
The papers were well received by
the general staff and were dis
cussed by members of the con
sulting staff.
Those attending the meeting in
cluded Dr. C. C. Bailey, presi
dent; Dr. Arthur J. Oolberg,
vice-president, and Dr. John
Burnett, secretary, members of
the acting staff. Also Dr. Milo
Fritz, president of the Territor
ial Medical Association; Dr. Rob
ert Wilkins of Anchorage, Terri
torial chairman of the American
Heart Association; Dr. John
Towers, pediatrician, Anchorage;
Dr. Perry Mead, neuro-surgeon,
Spenard; Dr. George Hale, sur
geon, Anchorage, Dr. C. Moore
head, orthopedic surgeon, 5005th
Airforce Hospital; and1 Dr. James
Pineo of Glenallen.
Medical College
Admission Tests
Set for May
Candidates for admission to
medical school in the fall of
i 1957 should take the Medical Col
lege Admission Test in May, the
Educational Testing Service an
nounced today.
The Service prepares and ad
ministers the test for the Associa
tion of American Medical Col
leges. These tests, required of ap
plicants by almost every medical
college throughout the country,
will be given twice during the
current calendar year. Candidat
es taking the May test, however,
will be able to furnish scores to
institutions in early fall. This is
when many medical colleges be
gin the selection of their next en
tering class.
Alaskan candidates may take
the MCAT May 5, 1956, or Oct.
30, 1956, at the University of Al
aska.
The Association of American
Medical Colleges recommends
that candidates for admission to
classes starting in the fall of 1957
MATANUSKA CREAMERY
FEATURED IN AD
The M.V.F.C.A. will soon be
getting national and international
publicity through a 44-inch ad
vertisement for Plasti Spray, a
plastic skin coating process for
home and buisiness interiors.
The original ad, which appear
ed in the Anchorage Daily Times
on December 3, was drawn up
by Glenn Egan of Anchorage for
the makers of Plasti Spray, and
centered about a Palsti Spray
treatment of cold storage rooms
in the Matanuska Dairy which
had just been completed.
The advertisement was chosen
by the manufacturers for publica
tion in newspapers throughout
the States, Canada, South Ameri
ca and Europe.
take the May test.
Applicatibn forms and a bulle
tin of information, which gives
details of registration and admin
istration, as well as sample ques
tions, are available from premedi
cal advisers or directly from Edu
cational Testing Service, 20 Nas
sau Street, Princeton, N. J.
FRONTIERSMANCLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
NOTES FROM YOUR
EXJENSION SERVICE^
By Lew E. Hanks,
District Agricultural Agent
Last week Mr. Branton and I
were in Juneau meeting with
farmers and others interested in
agriculture. At present there are
four dairymen in the area. Each
of them is milking forty or mor
cows. A couple of them are
milking twice that. They are
having some stiff comjpetition
with fresh milk shipped in from
the states right now. With their
rainy climate it has been pretty
tough to make hay. One farmer
has been using a blower coupled
to a five horse electric motor to
dry hay in his bam. He had had
pretty good luck. The main sec
ret seems to be to spread the hay
evenly over the bam ducts with
out trampling. It requires a lot of
hand work to spread the hay
evenly but this farmer figures
it is well worth it. We have a
much better climate than they do
to dry hay so the same idea
should work here. There are ohe
or two commercial vegetable pro
ducers there as well as several
poultrymen. There is land for
considerable expansion of their
present farming area if their
market ever justifies it. Their
land clearing problems are some
thing, though. They have big
timber, mostly spruce or hem
lock, that comes out hard. After
they get the timber cleared it’s
a job to bum stumprows in that
climate. When I think I’ve got
land clearing problems, I can
just think of the boys at Junfiau
and feel better immediately.
At a recent school for training
Scout executives for the Boy
Scouts of America, men taking
the course included leaders from
Finland, Brazil, Norway ,Burma,
and the Philippine Islands.
Carpenter*. Remember!
Carpenters Local 2251
Meets 2nd and 4ih Wednesday
Each Month
Valley Hospital Ass'n.
Announces it’s
1956 Annual Meeting
Place: High School Cafeteria, Palmer
Time: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m.
BALLOTS CAN BE OBTAINED BY PRESENTING MEMBERSHIP CARD AND
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SIGNED PROXIES AT THE DOOR. OPEN AT 7:00 P.M.
ij Persons selling Valley Hospital Association memberships ij
are asked to return all stubs and fees to A. H. Mick
i (Experiment Station, Palmer) by no later than 5:00 P.M. i
February 15, to permit assembly of registration lists for
the annual meeting.
This ad courtesy of following merchants:
KETCHIKAN SPRUCE PALMER BAR
Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. FRONTIER BAR
MOTOR-IN SERVICE WEEKLY FRONTIERSMAN
KIRKS SALES AND SERVICE BETTYS
HARTLEY MOTORS, Inc.
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