BIKE PROVES ITSELF
ON MATANUSKA RIVER
A constant threat to farmlands
.'in the Butte area each spring, the
Atatanuska river this year is not
■causing the erosion damage along
the banks that it has» in past
'years.
A long dike, created from
junked cars and trucks and held
together by chains and other
lashings, has “turned the tide”.
'The Vic Falks, Sr. and Jr. and
'Wilson Woods are well pleased
’■with the results of the strenous
'work in building the dike. Woods
■said today that when the river
first started rising considerable
sBt was carried into the dikb by
the slow moving waters. This was
exactly the way the men had
hoped it would work and the
silt has now created a well-func
tioning dike, as may be seen bj
the swift and turbulent waters
rushing in the middle of the
stream, and not against the farm
land riverbank as in past years.
A reading taken June 3 by
70- S. Geological Survey showed
mrtt feet of water flowing under
'the Ma unaarkstSHRDTHSHiRL
the Matanuska river bridge. It is
believed that this is now higher,
4iue to the hot weather this week.
Hospital Convention—^
(Continued from page 1)
’Other programs scheduled this
morning included Alaska Depart
ment df Health regulations; ad
mission procedures; credit and
collection procedures; employee
relationships and a question and
-answer period.
This noon Palmer Kiwanians
"were hosts at a luncheon served
by women of the Grange at
Orange hall and this evening a
’dinner will be served by the
American Legion Auxiliary at
Sjegion hall. This evening a tour
<af the Alaska Agriculture Experi
ment Station will be conducted
by Dr. Allan Mick station direc
'ttff and president of the Valley
iHcspital Association.
vK^v. May stated that election
officers for the coming year
will be held sometime Friday.
In addition to Rev. May, others
■attending the convention include
She following:
Melvin Scheflin, San Francis
es©, Ass’n. Western Hospitals, ex
««Uve director; Guy M. Hanner,
* IRhoeriix, Good Samaritan Hos
pital, administrator, Howard Hat
's. fifeSd, iLong IBeadh, Long Beach
* 'Community Hospital adminis
trator; Mrs. Howard Hatfield;
"WSBiam Knight, Oroville, Cali
vtjimiav Oroville Curran Hos
' p'Ml, oswner; C. J. Kretchmer,
Seattle, Washington Hospital Ser
‘ vice, director; Mrs. Howard May,
Jr.,G<5ordova; Mrs. Jeanne Mac
■ Petersburg General
^Hospital: administrator; Helen
l*®ike, Sitka Community Hospit
vai, administrator; Ruth Murrell,
Seward General Hospital, super
visor: George Gree, Seward Gen
eral Hospital; Paul Nelson. Sew
<aid Sanitorium, administrator;
.Sister Urseda Maureen, book
-keeper and Sister Stanislaus, ad
asninistrator, both of St. Joseph’s
"Hospital, Fairbanks; Sister John
v»5 the Cross, director and public
relations, Sister Mary of Nazar
«gih, administrator, Sister Bene
'Hk't, purchasing agent, and Mrs.
Huby Andres, accounting, office
ananager all of Providence Hos
pital, Anchorage.
Also attending the convention
*are-; Sister Mary dementia, St.
Ana's Hospital, Juneau, book
keeper; Sister St. Doothy and
JS&ter St. Hilary both of Kodiak
driffin Memorial Hospital; Mrs.
.©nth Everett office; Mrs. Anne
IDemming, director; Eve Papez,
■'assistant head nurse; Mrs. Mar
igaret Sharrow, head nurse; Do
tkeres Pommier, bookkeeper; Mrs.
ILee McKinley, director; all of
* Ttaimer; Margaret Lloyd, sub
-area supervisor, medical records;
’©ay Stithem, finance manage
"9R*ent officer, Mrs. Elyn Wing,
■budget analysist, all of Alaska
-Native Health Service Hospital,
Anchorage; Dolores Zeis, Alaska
Worses Association, Juneau; Mrs.
■Catherine Gair, Nurses Ass’n.
jpresident, Juneau, and Dorothy
Batterton, lab technician, Palmer.
Hospital supply firms are re
presented at the convention by
"She following: John Koonce, San
’ Francisco, American Hospital
Supply Corporation; James Tap
-sroott, Anchorage, American Hos
'pital Supply Corp. and Don Bax
ter Company. John Sweeney,
'•Oakland, Don Baxter'Co., Rusell
Charter, Seattle, Riddle & Crow
diner; and Walt Smith,'Anchorage
"yukon Office Supply Co.
Hospital Owners—
(Continued from page 1)
relations in the community rests
with each individual Knight said.
“When you move into a com
munity those advantages you
find are your heritage—it is your
responsibility to add to them to
better the place in which you
live” the hospital official said.
Two very important means of
pror.toting public relations he
pointed out, are by a smile and
through courtesy, neither of
which cost one cent. “Have you
ever tried to be angry with a
person who is smiling?” he ask
ed. Courtesy means tolerance
from day to day ... all of us
have our idiosyncrasies. Public
relations are not intangible—
they operate on a sound business
proposition and are applied as a
measure of economy, happiness
and gains, he concluded.
River Causes—
(Continued from page 1)
er said, “But we are doing every
thing we can—checking transmis
sion—putting in regulators—and
other work needed to bring our
voltage up to sufficiency. We do
appreciate the aid we are getting
from the Co-Op and the splendid
Voluntary cooperation being
shown by M.E.A. consumers.
Everyone is showing their inter
est in our problem”.
It was learned today from a
reliable source that when the
power failed in the M.E.A. sys
tem the City of Anchorage im
mediately offered any help need
ed, including men or materials.
The M.E.A. manager asked that
housewives keep a check on their
electrical appliances that are op
erated by small motors. “Some of
; the new machines have automatic
trips that will cut off the motors
if there is an overload or a stall,”
he said. A local appliance supply
man suggested that housewives
watch their electric lights. “If
there is an appreciable dimming
of the lights, it will indicate that
the voltage is low. A good correc
tive measure would be to pull the
switch on the appliance and wait
until the power has stabilized be
fore starting the motor again”.
“As soon as the power is okay
again, we will notify the M.E.A.
Snodgrass—
(Continued from page 1)
graduated from Kansas State in
1901. She was librarian at the
college at the time of her mar
riage.
The couple has seen Alaska
grow and has had a lot to do with
the agricultural development of
the territory. On arrival in Alas
ka Mr. Snodgrass built and oper
ated the Department of Agricul
ture experiment station at Kodiak
and in 1915 picked the site for the
Matanuska experiment station. In
1917 they went to Fairbanks to
that experiment station where
| Mr. Snodgrass established wheat
! growing.
He was a member of the terri
! torial Senate in 1923 at which
| time he was instrumental in get
ting the initial appropriation for
the Alaska Agriculture College
and School of Mines, later chang
ed to the University of Alaska.
He later served in the House of
Representatives.
For a great number of years,
following his work with the ex
periment station, the Snodgrasses
operated a farm in the Matanus
ka Valley, where M. D. initiated
his support of the Matanuska
Valley Fair; support which has
never dimmed in the many years
the Fair has been operating. He
■is a lifetime member of the M.V.
Fair Association as well as the
Matanuska Valley Chamber of
Commerce.
Mrs. Snodgrass has been an ac
tive Granger for more than 50
years and in 1935 voted to or
ganize the Northland Pioneer
Grange No. 1. In the early days
of their arrival in the valley Mrs.
Snodgrass taught school at Mat
anuska in 1924-25 in a one-room,
one-closet two story building. She
has been very active in Home
makers, church, Grange, was the
first matron of the local Eastern
Star chapter and is a charter
member of the local Beta Sigma
Phi sorority.
The entire valley offers their
best wishes to the Snodgrasses
on their 50th wedding anniver
sary.
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