Moment of Truth
It's time for a lesson in self
diseipline if you find you are
spending all day getting out of
-a morning's work.
Alaska was discovered in
3741 by Vitus Bering, a Dan
ish navigator employed by
Russia.
U of A Horticulturist Advises
Takino Soil Samples Now
COLLEGE.,—ii a gardening
time! Well, not exactly plant
ing time. But it is about the
ast chance you're going to get
to dig in the ground.
According to Harold W. Pills
SUNRISE BAKERY
i
OVER 35 VARIETIES
OF BREAD
DELIVERED FRESH DAILY TO YOUR FAVORITE GROCER
"IF ITS FRESHER THAN SUNRISE
IT HASN'T BEEN BAKED"
bury, horticulturist with the
Cooperative Extension Service
of the University of Alaska, if
you had some failures in your
garden, you will want to know
what kind of fertilizer to order
this winer. In other words, you
need a soil sample. This means
rushing out there in the gar
den before the ground freezes
too deep, and the snow drifts
get too high, and collecting a
soil sample to send to soil test
er Paul Martin.
I
If you’re a bit foggy on how
to take a good soil sample, and
a bad one is worse than none
at all, then call your nearest
For FAST Results—Use
FRONTIERSMAN Classifieds!
Ex tension Service office and
ask for advice or a copy of
“Sampling Soils”.
Once you get your samples
n the mail to Paul at the Alas
ka Agricultural Experiment
Station, P. O. Box E, Palmer.
Alaska, you can lean back in
your easy chair and plan next
year’s garden.
Pillsbury suggests you start
planning early so you can gra
dually reduce the size of your
dream garden, as winter moves
along, so it will be down to a
realistic size by spring.
“It is early for garden plan
ning,” Pillsbury admitted, “but
it's great for morale during the
first depressing stages of win
ter.”
Episcopal Women
Plan Annual Dinner
Plans were made at the last
meeting of the St. Bartholo
mew’s Episcopal Church wom
en for the annual roast beet
and apple pie dinner, which
will be served at the Elks hal.
in Palmer on Nov. 8 from 5 tc.
7 p.m.
Tickets are now on sale, and
may be purchased from any
Episcopalian church member,
Mrs. Richard Demming, presi
dent of the women’s group,
said this week. The charge will
be $2.50 for adults and 75c for
children under 12.
A baked goods table and a
gift table are also planned.
Special emphasis will be pla
,ed on gift aprons, with a 11
kinds — utilitarian, novelty,
guest—being offered.
In the past century, Wash
ington's gold production has
exceeded $78 million.
ALASKA MUST
• • • •
or DIE
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MIKE STEPOVICH
If we continue to spend all our income on state administration, we face ec
onomic stagnation and tax increases. More tax increases will drive families
and industry alike out of Alaska. We must reduce the cost of state govern
ment, then devote our oil lease money to building new payrolls.
We must conduct an immediate inventory of our resources, then
determine what we can sell through the use of the most modern
marketing techniques.
We must invest some of our oil lease revenue in the
Alaska Development Bank. We must provide our own
source of capital to finance new industry.
3 We must open an intensive program to promote our natural re
B sources and scenic attractions. This is not a task for some small
office in our state government. It should be a major effort. We
must attract investors, developers, tourists and new residents.
AND HERE ARE SOME OTHER POINTS IN MY PROGRAM:
4.
Let's get our schools out of politics by pla
cing them under a Board of Education as
provided for in Section 26 of our State
Constitution.
C Let's forget about politics and hire the finest minds in
Alaska to administer our state government. When we
have good administrators who have the freedom to get
a job done, then we will see our state make progress
on highways and other programs.
6.
Let's give our Native people adequate voca
tional training. When they are trained, and
can hold good jobs, they will be more able
to stand on their own feet.
H Let's provide real incentives for Alaska employers to
• hire only Alaska residents. We must end our tremend
ous economic loss brought about by seasonal, non
resident workers.
O Let us assist our fishermen by listening to local Fishery
advisory boards, and by employing state fisheries per
sonnel who are familiar with the area in which they
work.
Watch this newspaper for more details of my program to
put our people and our resources to work building a
prosperous state.
Mike Sien04McJt
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(THIS AD SPONSORED BY THE STEPOVICH FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE, BRAD
PHILLIPS, P.O. BOX 34, ANCHORAGE, CHAIRMAN, WHICH REMINDS YOU THAT
WHEN MIKE STEPPED DOWN AS OUR LAST TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR, HE LEFT AN
ACTUAL SURPLUS OF $12,000,000 IN THE TREASURY AND NO INDEBTEDNESS
AGAINST THE NEW STATE.)
Palmer, Alaska
October 23, 1962
DEAR EDITOR:
Vve more often fail in our
responsibility as neighbors
through plain thoughtlessness
than we do through positive
intent. None of us aim to be
poor neighbors, but often are
nevertheless, through thought
less deeds. And one simple
point of contention on my
mind is our present accept
ance of the old habit of
“Trick or Treat.” This seems to
have been originally a very
folksy visitation of neighbor
hood children upon other
neighbors, who were known to
them. And part of the fun of it
was the guessing game about
who was behind the disguise.
But it seems that this very
innocent practice has disinte
grated to simple, begging, with
little thought upon the beggar’s
mind except how much loot he
can bring home. One resident
confesesd last year that she
ran out of ‘goodies’ after the
150th visitation of unknown
urchins in devils clothing! And
it is doubtful if she could have
named ten of the 150 children,
even if they had stayed for that
kind of nonsense.
Is this not another area that
should be brought back to the
family? For all of this is prop
agated either by parents’ direct
design, or by their default.
This is a challenge to be
more thoughtful toward our
neighbors EVEN ON HAL
LOWEEN!
Sincerely,
Paul A. Moyer
Douglas, Alaska
The Frontiersman
Palmer, Alaska
Dear Editor:
I am very much a cheecha
ko. My husband and I moved
to Alaska only fifteen months
ago eager to contribute to the
development of this state and
anxious to help realize its great
potential.
If Initiative No. 1 succeeds,
or—in the event it is defeated
—if a way is not devised to pre
vent the repetition of this type
of proposition year after year,
we do not intend to stay in
Alaska. While Alaska may pos
sibly not miss our efforts in its
behalf, we wonder how many
others feel as we do.
Who can afford to invest in
a home or business ANY
WHERE in Alaska if the value
of his investment is liable tc
be shattered anytime ample
signatures can be secured on
an initiative petition? With sc
much to be done, how can
Alaska afford to waste its mon
ies and the efforts of its resi
dents for a project of such, at
best, questionable value and a
project which quite conceiv
ably could wreck the state fi
nancially?
In order to make inroads on
its many problems, the state,
more than anything else, needs
cooperative endeavor, and the
present discord makes real ac
complishment improbable if
not impossible.
Yes, we live in the Juneau
area, but we own no real es
tate. Yes, I am a volunteer
worker for Alaskans United,
but I write this as an individ
ual — an individual concerned
for the future of Alaska.
Sincerely,
Ann Shephard
Homer, Alaska
To the Editor:
The proponents of thermal
electrical generation may well
be proud of Mr. Carroll J. Har
dy, Associate Director of the
National Coal Marketing Assn.,
for his recent comments at the
Alaska State Chamber of Com
merce convention at Anchor
1 age. Development of the coal
resources of Alaska has been,
and is, a long standing need
not unlike almost all the other
resources of Alaska. As a mat
ter of interest the first record
ed commercial production of
i coal in Alaska shows the pro
| duction to come from Kache
! mak Bay in 1896 with 15,232
short tons.
A statement was made by
Mr. Hardy that small hydro
electric dams do not produce
cheap power. Bradley Lake
was specifically mentioned.
Such a statement appears to be
in direct conflict with the facts.
According to the 1960 report of
the Federal Power Commission
entitled “Hydroelectric Power
Resources of the United Sta
tes”, there are 73 hydro power
plants with capacities of 100,
000 kilowatts or more, repre
senting about 4 per cent of the
total plants in the U. S. There
are 1,612 plants with less than
100,000 kilowatt capacity with
the average per plant being
close to 8,000 kilowatts. It is
so unlikely as to be ridiculous,
that the United States govern
ment would build 1,612 hydro
electric plants that do not give
cheap power!
It has been said in Homer,
and I think it bears repeating.
“The Good Lord hasn’t changed
the rates for rain in a thousand
years and is not expected to in
the future. It is doubtful that
the proponents of thermal gen
eration will ever be able to
make a similar statement con
cerning thermal generation.
Homer S. Thompson
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