Wasilla Family
Writes of Trip
li Flooded Areas
Mr. and Mrs. William Betts and
three sons of Wasilla left on De
cember 18 by plane for Seattle
where they visited Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Lynch, formerly of Indepen
dence Mine, and where they pick
ed up a new car.
In a letter received by Mr. and
Mrs. Heinie Snider this week they
described their trip by car to
Lancaster, California where they
are visiting.
Mrs. Betts (the former Marie
Snider) wrote that they traveled
through the flooded areas in the
coastal states. “We had to make
several detours which really
slowed us down”, she said, “We
were held up in a little town for
about four hours, traffic snarl
caused by weather and a traffic
accident. When we finally got
turned loose from there, we had
to pass traffic for about 10 miles
—counted 20 cars a minute going
by—this was at night and pour
ing rain . . . we kept going be
cause we were afraid we would
get in between two washed-out
places and be there several days
. . . we took some pictures . . .
it rained from the time we hit
Seattle ’til we got here . . . ran
into snow going over the pass be
tween Oregon and California—at
night, too, but we didn’t have
any trouble, at least we were
Aamiliar with that.” Mrs. Betts
said the flooded areas are really
rough. Houses under water, roads
under water and mud slides.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
"always BRING RESULTS
RENDEZVOUS RACES
TO OFFER TOP MONEY
FOR DOG RACERS
Plans for the 1956 Anchorage
Fur Rendezvous sled dog races
are being formulated and a total
purse of $6,500 will be awarded
to the winners.
“This is the larges prize money
in recent dog racing history,”
Bill Stookev, chairman of the
event, said this week. “The dog
racing will be handled under the
sponsorship of the Alaskan Sled
Dog and Racing Association with
rules of the organization govern
ing racing events,” he stated.
With the exceptionally large
purse this year, officials hope to
attract teams from the Arctic,
Canada, and other points, with
the hope of attracting many more
racers.
Racing will consist of three
days of 25 miles each. Day money
the first day will be $750; $1,100
day money for the second day,
and $1,500 day money for the fin
al day. A total of $3,150 will be
awarded for total elapsed time.
An entry fee of $25 will be re
quired for each team entered,
Stookey said. Entry fees, or in- j
formation requests should be di
rected to Alaska Sled Dog and
Racing Association, Box 1177,
‘ Spenard.
GREAT BOOKS GROUP
TO MEET JANUARY 9
Members of the Great Books
group will meet next Monday
night, January 9,^at the Experi
ment Station in Palmer, St.
Thomas will be discussed at the
meeting. All interested persons
are invited to attend. The meet
ing will begin at 7:30 p.m.
OWN A
Western Auto
Associate Store
We are expanding in Alaska and are looking
for an aggressive associate for Palmer.
Our stores carry tires, auto parts, washers,
dryers, TV, refrigerators, sporting goods, out
board motors, paint, tools, wheel goods, etc.
About $20,000 to $30,000 required. No experi
ence necessary — we train you.
For information write:
WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY GO.
Wholesale Sales Department
BOX 5602, KENTON STATION
PORTLAND 17, OREGON
PAY BY CHECK - HERE IS WHY
• You save time and steps, paying bills. No standing on
line. No bother.
• You avoid the risk of losing large sums. You carry your
fountain pen!
• Your cancelled checks are receipts that stop arguments
before they start.
• You have a permanent record (on your stubs) of how
much you spend and for what.
MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK
PALMER. ALASKA
Open Thursday Evenings 6*8 P.M.
Daily 10 A.M. - 3 P.M.
Feeding Roughage
To Farm Animals
High Energy Feeds
Help Digestion
High energy feed supplements
help sheep digest low-quality
roughage. Sheep can digest two
thirds to three-fourths of the nutri
ents in a feed mixture containing
50 per cent of either ground corn
cobs, sugarcane bagasse, or low
quality hays, plus 50 per cent of
high-energy feed supplements. Use
of high energy supplements in this
mixture increases the digestibility
of the roughage by more than 10
per cent, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture reports.
ARS scientists determined this
improved digestibility of low-grade
roughages combined with half and
Ground eorn cobs proved
most efficient In tests to deter
mine which roughage would
work best with high energy
feed supplements in feeding
sheep.
half supplements in tests at Belts
ville, Md. They fed three lots of
sheep a concentrate composed of
10 per cent blackstrap molasses,
20 per cent alfalfa meal, 30 per
cent ground corn, 30 per cent dis
tiller’s grain with solubles, 18 per
cent soybean oil meal and 2 per
cent salt. Each lot of sheep was
also fed an equal weight of rough
age—cobs, sugarcane bagasse, or
poor grass hay.
The high-energy supplement
makes for rapid multiplication of
bacteria in the sheep's rumen (first
stomach). The bacteria work on
the roughage celluloses, breaking
them down into volatile acids.
Sheep digest the acids, and most
of the high-protein bacteria as
well. Cobs, proved the most effi
cient of the three roughages. Crude
fiber and dry matter in bagasse
and poor grass hay was less well
digested.
Cattle and goats, like sheep,
have an extra stomach that predi
gests rough feeds. The scientists
believe that feed for these animals
represents a large and potentially
valuable outlet for roughage that
now has little market value.
Iowa Program to Aid
Heart Disease Victims
The first program designed to
help farmers with heart disease
continue to lead productive lives is
under way in Iowa, under the spon
sorship of the American Heart As
sociation and its affiliate, the Iowa
Heart Association.
The “Cardiac-In-Agriculture”
project is a one-year pilot study
among farmers of Iowa's Washing
ton County and it is hoped that
findings here will provide a pat
tern for similar projects through
out rural America.
Objective of the Iowa project is
to determine the physical capacity
of farmers who have heart disease
and to help them through medical
and social counseling, to remain
active within their physical limi
tations.
As a forerunner of the Iowa
study, a five-year research project
was launched last year at Purdue
University. Its purpose is to deter
mine energy requirements for var
ious farm tasks to provide infor
mation on time and work-saving
short cuts for the cardiac farmer.
Enrollment in the Iowa study
will be limited to persons at least
16 years of age who are employed
in agriculture and suffering from
coronary, hypertensive, rheumatic,
congenital or other heart disease.
The Navy’s huge aircraft car
rier USS FORRESTAL contains
1,240 watertight compartments.
The new warship was commis
sioned October 1, 1955.
Tax Examiner
Jobs Open With
Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service
announced this week that appli
cations are leing accepted for
Tax Examiner positions located
throughout eight Western States.
These positions are concerned
with the office examination or
completion of tax returns to de
termine correct income tax liabil
ity. Experience including the an
alysis of financial statements,
bookkeeping, accounting or aud
iting work of a commercial type
and legal or quasi-legal wrork is
considered, qualifying.
The positions pay from $3415 to
$3670 yearly. Both a written and
an oral examination are requir
ed. Applications should be filed
with Internal Revenue Service
Board of Examiners, 870 Market
Street, San Francisco, California.
Further information can be ob
tained at most Post Offices, Civ
il Service and Internal Revenue
Service Offices.
Assimilation
By Bob Klem
A little Chee Chalker, so wan
and pale
Came north, to escape her woes
Like many another, she staked a
claim
On the heart of a Sourdough!
Swift as the passing of summer
days
Bright as a morning in May—
She either succumbed to a heart
of gold
Or a Sourdough’s taking ways.
FRONTIERSMAN CLASSIFIEDS
ALWAYS BRING RESULTS
ARMY MANPOWER
The Army has requested a 3,000
increase in monthly draft calls
and a 16,000-man rise in over-all
strength .to help train youthful
volunteers under the new six
months Reserve plan. The pro
posed increase in manpower
would give the Army 1,043,000
men on June 30, 1956, compared
with the present goal of 1,027,000
set under the cutback manpower
program.
SLUM CLEARANCE
The Federal Housing Adminiv
tration made its £irst mortgage
commitment in a program design -
ed to enable private enterprise 1»
replace slums with modern hous
ing. The commitment covered the
$1,000,000,000 urban redevelop
ment project in Harlem.
THERE'S MUSIC in
s &
the air here ... for
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dancing, romancing, \
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Some like it hot . • . some like it cool |
, . some like our music for romancin’ . . |
some come here just for the dancin . |
Whatever your mood, you'll like it here!|
Alpine Inn i
• ALL FOR FUN . , . FUN FOR ALL" 1
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P Twenty Years of Progress
This year millions of farm people across the nation are celebrating a birthday. They are
marking the anniversary of the coming of the electric age to rural America. Twenty
years ago, President Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Rural Electrification
Administration and a new era of living and working on our farms.
It is hard for many of us to remember what farm life was like before electricity came.
There are millions of youngsters on farms today w-ho have never experienced the
dark, cold, uncomfortable life that would have been theirs had it not been for the rural
electrification program. Like this little girl, many youngsters of today look at an oil lamp
as a curiosity. Electricity has given them a better life and a more promising future.
The twenty years since the creation of REA have been years of remarkable progress
of which this nation can be justly proud. But as we celebrate we must also look ahead.
The job of rural electrification has really just begun. Hundreds of thousands of farm
families are still without electricity. New' lines must be built. Old lines must be
repaired and heavied up. New sources of power must be found to meet the expanding
rural uses of electric power.
As in the past, locally owned and locally operated rural electric systems will meet the •
challenges of the future as they have those of the past twenty years.
"Electricity is Your Best Buy"
ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP!
Mataanska Electric tan.