WASILLA FARMER BURNS
property.
NEW HANDBOOKS READY
Farmers who are plann
ing to participate in
the 1952 Agricultural
Conservation Fro~ram car
now pick up the new 195^
handbook which lists al]
the practices and spec
ifications. If you have
already made your appli
cation we will send you
a handbook. Remember,
applications close the
1st of March in the Pal
mer, Wasilla areas.
Bernice Johnson, sec
retary in the Extension
Office in Palmer, re
turned to work on Mon
day of last week. She
was confined to her home
previously due to illness
Dr. and Mrs. Richard
Washburn arc the parents
of twins, born at Valley
Hospital last week.
••COWS WIN NEW
P R E ST IG E I N
E'lATA.NUSKA
VAL LEY
EDITOR'S MOTE: Back In
19k5 an article appear
ed in the Surge News on
15 Surge users living
in Alaska's famed tlat
anuska Valley. Seven
years Later, those Sur
ge users have increased
to around ip5 and these
dairy farmers are ex
panding their herds.
While the military is
trying to make Alaska
into a "bear" trap in
stead of a potential
invasion doorstep, the
farmers in that terri
tory's best known ag
ricultural section are
going right ahead milk
ing cows and growing
more potatoes.
Folks of the Matan
uska Valley are 3till
up against a pioneering
proposition, but new
faith in the dairy bus
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OPS NEWS continued
JUNEAU--John J. McDonn
ell, -OPS enforcement
liaison officer for reg
ion ll;., arrived in Jun
eau from Washington,
Sunda~.
Mr. McDonnell super
vises enforcement act
ivities for the OPS in
all the territories and
possessions. He will
spend about ten days in
Alaska conferring with
Territorial CPS offic
ials, federal judges
and United States at
torneys. Ho wi11 make
a trip to Anchorage and
Fairbanks during the
week of January II4.-I9.
McDonnoll, who re
ceived his law degree
from Georgetov/n Univer
sity in Washington, was
formerly with the Treas
ury Department and the
Department of Justice,
ie joined the OFS en
forcement staff in Wash
ington la st May.
COLONEL GL.'.SBY con’td
fund for the new Valley
Presbyterian Hospital.
The Valley Hospital
fund raisin." committee
believes that the Val
ley is most fortunate
in being privileged to
hear Colonel Clasby and
his choir before it is
disbanded.
The program will be
given in the school
gymnasium starting at
8 p.m. Sunday, January
Following the program,
Colonel Clasby and the
members of his choir
will be served refresh
ments by Eeta Sigma Phi.
Louise Kellogg and
Florence Eby Returned
last week from their
recent trip to Homer.
Betty Hears was named
to the Territorial cent
ral committee to rep
resent the 3^d Division
along with Marion Smith
and Robert McFarland
of Anchorage.
ALASKA D3PAKTJIEKT OF
HEALTH con’td.
Department of Health.
Mrs. Marshall Hoppin
is president of the ACCA
which has its territor
ial headquarters in An
chorage, where it was
organized in I9H6.
JUNE/iU—^laskan resid
ents who arc known to
be using imported fresh
milk which doc3 not meet
the milk sta dards of
the territory, were
warned of its possible
health hazards by the
ADH in letters mailed
last week, Dr, C. Earl
Albrecht, Commissloner
of Health, said today.
Discussing the import
ation of this milk into
the territory, he said,
"the Board of Health de
cided at its recent
meeting that regulations
would not be changed to
permit sub-standard and
unsafe milk to be
brought into Alaska,
thereby possibly en
dangerin' the health of
the residents."
He said the Board of
Health directed that the
Health department advise
the people concerned of
facts about the milk
and sanitation methods
used in its production,
and roquosted that u
laska's attorney Gen
eral determine ways and
means for preventing
sub-standard milk from
entering the territory.
The Board of Health
reaffirmed its stand to
maintain a safe milk
supply for the people
of Alaska in stating
that "because it feels
that it is its duty to
the citizens of ..laska
to prevent the territory
from being made a dump
ing ground for the low
est grades of milk pro
duced outside of Alaska,
both from the continent
al United States and
from Canada, standards
must not be lowered."
In taking this action
to prevent importation
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