TO VISIT ALASKA
Dr. Hugh Evans and Dr. J. Earl Jackman,
prominent churchmen, will leave the States
the day after Easter for a two-week trip
through Alaska. Dr. Evans, moderator of
the Presbyterian Church, is pastor of the
V/estminster Presbyterian Church at Dayton,
Ohio, and Dr. Jackman is secretary for the
Unit of Work in Alaska for the Board of
National Missions of the Presbyterian
Church with headquarters in Nov; York.
Dr. Jackman will head up a party of 20
persons this summer to conduct seminars at
various points in Alaska.
I RAINING PROGRAM
The Matanuska Valley Nurses' nssocictior
is very gratified with the number of men
and women in the Valley who are now en
rolled in the classes being given for Nur
ses' .aides and Medical Aides,
The following groups are currently tak
ing the course, and it is estimated that
thore will be approximately one hundred
lay people in the Valley who will be trail]
cd to assist the doctors and nurses in
giving care to the sick and wounded, if
necessary:
1. Civic Center group, Men's Medical
^ides Instructor—Max Sherrod. G.Steph .n
2. Civic Center group, women's Nurses'
..ides— Instructor—Florence Eby.
3. Palmflssila Homemakers, Instructor
Mrs. Florence Flack.
4. Cheechako Homemakers, Instructors
Betty Shaw; Phyllis Long.
5* Glaciarvicw Hamem-.kers, Instructors
i,nn Damming; Grace Reid.
6. 12:30 Homemakers, Instructor--Claire
Kopporud.
7. Lnik <Sc Wasilla Homemakers, Instructor
--Florence Jones.
This training program is part of the
Civilian Defense plans for the Valley, ..s
soon as the medical casualty stations
have been designated £>y the Defense Com
mittee, the graduate nurses, nurses’ aides
<_nd medical aides will be ready to staff
the stations, in twenty-four hour shifts.
iTIOVE TG AOCHOltfibE
Mr. and Mrs. John Raker are moving to
..nchorage to live. Mr. Raker hr.s been the
phr.rm.cist at the Palmer Drug for the past
year.
no nomflGE at fire
TJk. Valley Volunteer Firemen were called
to a small fire at the .J?C trailers south
of town, at noon, on Tuesday. No damage
was done by the fire which resulted from
a blow-torch used to thaw frozen pipes in
the trailer occupied by the Hensley f.omilji
1. good beginning As half the work.
SEED GROWERS' ASST! (THIS
The meeting of the officers of the -ad
visory Board of the Certified Seed Growers
association, was held this week according
to Parker Lester, agriculture'll agent for
this district.
Mr. Lester stated that practically all
of those who mr.de applic .tion for the Gold
en Rain Oats received the entire amount
applied for, but that the Edda Barley was
cut down, due to insufficient seed to fill
all requests.
-11 applicanto who filled out the quest
ionaires and returned them to College,
have been t .ken care of, Mr. Lester stated.
finm-eofne cellar ms mnoE
F-IRB-NLS.-Plans for immediate construc
tion of root-emergency cellars in the Fair
banks and Palmer areas, have been announc
ed by Clyde Sherman, territorial commiss
ioner of agriculture. Cooperation of the
military has been assured in the supply
ing of salvage materials and use of e
quipment, nd labor will be furnished by
the farmers.
Ten of the root collars are to be built
in the farm area around Fairbanks, mostly
on the Farmers1 Loop Road and Steel Crock
Road where the hillside adapts it3clf to
easy construction, and perhaps a few down
the Richardson Highway. Twenty more ..‘ill
be built in the Palmer and -nchorage ar^a.
Farmers on -.hose land the cellars arc
built, will have use of them for vegetable
storage. In emergencies they will provide
warm quarters for the civilian population,
each cellar boing large enough to sleep
300 persons in addition to storing 200
tons of potatoes.
Col. Ralph E. Loon, chief of staff at
Elmendorf ~FB, has informed Commissioner
Sherman that salvage lumber in small a
mounts, centrally located is available for
construction purposes; that there are 50
to 55 steel drums available at Elmendorf,
small numbers at Ladd and Eielson and a
large quantity in the —leutians and at
Nome, but that transportation costs would
have to be borne by the agricultural de
partment. He also stated that one D-S
bull-dozer each at ..nchorage and Fairbanks
would be available for use in root cellar
construction.
The plan, says Sherman, is to use 500
steel drums for a collar, the drums to com
prise the walls, four barrels high. Mat
erials for roofing, rafters -and insulation
would have to be purchased. The estimated
cost for the cellars in the Fairbanks area
Sherman places at $5,000.
The cellars, says Sherman, would permit
farmers to increase production greatly
because of giving increased storage space
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