THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879
3. DeJulio__— Publisher-Manager
Editor _Virginia Gallant
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EXTENSION SERVICE
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By H. W. Pillsbury
Horticulturist
NOW IS THE TIME for you
folk that plan to have early to
matoes this year to get them
weeded. By the time tomatoes are
a«ady to transplant into your
greenhouse there should be no
trouble with maintaining ade
quate heat.
For home use a small flat will
start more than enough plants.
For those who want more plants,
base your figures, on 8,000 ma
ture seeds to the ounce. Approxi
mately half of these should form
strong healthy plants. It is
strongly urged that you use var
ieties recommended in the Vege-<
table Variety List for 1958, Cir~f
cular 450. These tomatoes have
been tested under Alaskan condi-'
iions. To estimate the number of
plants you can use, first decide
bow many square feet of green*
bouse space you will allot to to
mato production. Divide by foot
if you are in commercial produc
tion. Home gardeners often crowd
plants into three square feet or
ryen less per plant but produc
tion per plant will be. reduced ac
cordingly.
Seedlings should be ready for
transplanting about two weeks,
after planting the seed. The
younger seedlings are transplarvt
the faster they recover and
HOLY COMMUNION
WILL BE CELEBRATED
AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH
Communcant members of St.
John’s Lutheran Church are re
minded that Holy Communion
will be celebrated on Sunday,
March 2 at the regular church
service beginning at 3 p.m. The
Rev. Joseph Frenz, from the An
chorage Lutheran Church, has
chosen for his sermon topic “The
Woman Who Dared to Say Yes!”
Everyone is invited to attend.
start growing
If space is available transplant
directly in four or five inch pots
or bands. You can save space by
making an intermediate trans
plant into other flats. Set plants
two inches each way and they
will not need to be moved for
another two to three weeks. The
plants should then be placed in
larger bands or pots to avoid
checking the growth seriously.
They may be set directly in the
greenhouse if the heating system
is adequate. One should main
tain night temperature at ap
proximately 60 degrees F and
day temperature not over 80 de
grees F.
Plants should be eight to ten
inches tall eight to ten weeks
from seed germination and the
first fruit buds starting to show.
You should have ripe fruit from
45 to 55 days after the first flow
ers are fertilized.
HEW BABIES
Pettit
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pettit of
Redondo Beach, California, and
formerly of Palmer, have an
nounced the birth of their third
child, and son, Mark Donald,
bom on February 3, weighing
seven pounds, 11 ounces* Mrs.
Pettit is the former Bernice Trap
hagen, who was school nurse
when she resided here. The Pet
tit’s other two children are twins.
Patrick
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Patrick of
Althe, Kansas, are parents of
their fifth child and son. He was
bom January 11, and has been
named James Gregory. Mrs. Pa
trick is the former Jerry Vickary
ous of Palmer and while living
here Mr. Patrick was employed
at the mine and drove one of the
Matanuska Maid trucks. James
Gregory was bom just an hour
and a few minutes before his
cousin, Linnus Anthony DePrlest,
who was the first baby of the
year here in Palmer.
TAXPAYERS ADVISED
ON CHECK PAYMENTS
District Director of Internal
Revenue William E. Frank once
again advises that taxpayers may
be liable for a penalty if they
send a check which will not
clear the bank. The law requires
that a one per cent “penalty be
assessed on amounts of $500 or
more. If the amount of the
check is from $5 to $500, the pen
alty will be $5.00. If the amount
is less than $5 the penalty will
be the amount of the check.
Checks for payment of taxes
should be made payable to the
“Internal Revenue Service” and
taxpayers should make certain
that checks are written on the
correct bank, are complete in de
tail, are dated currently, and that
sufficien' funds are on deposit.
By doing so ,they will avoid a
return check penalty as well as
RIFLEMEN TAKE
TWO MATCHES
FROM TANANA TEAM
Riflemen of the Matanuska
Valley Sportsmen and the Tan
ana Valley Sportsmen rifle clubs
have started their second postal
and have shot their first two
matches with the local shooters
taking both matches with their
first and second teams.
Match No. 1 saw the local
shooters winning 1564-1548 and
the second team winning 1515
1499. Ken Westenbarger was
high man for his team in this
.match with a total of 394 points.
Warren Woods was high man
in the second match with a total
of 393. The first team took this
match 1564-1534; the second team
by 1542-1502.
i Box scores of the Palmer shoot
ers were as follows:
Match No. 1 P S K oh toL
(Team one)
Westenbarger 100 100 96 98 394
N. Woods _100 100 99 94 393
P. Jones_ 99 99 99 94 391
S. Lowe_ 99 98 97 92 386
(Team Two)
D. Fleming — 99 97 95 92 383
B. Smith_100 99 91 90 380
B. Wakeiand —100 97 93 86 376
M. L. Johns —100 95 94 87 376
Match No. 2 P S K oh tot
(Team one)
W. Woods_100 100 96 97 393
Westenbarger 99 100 98 94 391
V. Donaldson- 100 100 96 94 390
N. Woods _100 99 98 93 390
(Team Two)
P. Jones_100 99 99 91 389
E. Bellringer -100 100 97 90 387
S. Lowe_99 98 98 91 386
B. Wakeiand —100 99 97 84 380
save the Government the costs
involved in handling such checks.
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