Record Number
Of Participants
Expected at Fair
Exhibitors listed for the four
day Valley Fair indicate a wide
variety of commercial and indus
trial displays, along with a mid
way packed with food and enter
tainment concessions. A record
number of participants is expect
ed.
All exhibit space in the Snod
grass Exposition Building has
been sold for several weeks,
thousands of persons are ex
pected to pass through the build
ing during the 17th annual Mat
anuska Valley Fair.
Commercial exhibits to be
shown in the Snodgrass build
ing include Radio Station KENI,
Radio Station KBYR, New York
Life Insurance, Alaska Floors,
Anchorage Daily News, Blair
Vacuum Sales, Brady Floor
Covering, C. R. Lewis Pumps,
Heating and Plumbing, Niagara
of Alaska, Inc., Matanuska Val
ley Farmers Cooperating Asso
ciation, Midnight Sun China Co.,
Pfaff Sewing Center, Nick Pteset
sky, Encyclopedias, Royal Crown
Cola, Singer Sewing Center,
Vezina Furniture Co., and Alas
ka Party Sales. In addition, the
U. S. Army will have a recruit
ing booth as well as an educa
tional display; the U. S. Air
Force will have a display and the
Alaska Department of Agricul
ture and the Alaska Agriculture
Experiment station will have
displays of their respective work
in Alaska.
In the Sportsmen building
where the local sportsmen or
ganization will hold their annual
display of furs, trophies, fur gar
ments, and rifle club trophies,
the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game and the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife will have displays from
their respective departments
. showing their work in the terri
tory.
One of the featured displays in
the Snodgrass building will be
valuable dairy cows. Schedules
will be set up so that interested
persons may see these big milk
producers being milked. Improv
ed dairy milking machines will
be used during the demonstra
tions. Last year the floor in this
VALLEY FAIR DEPARTMENT SUPERVISORS
KARLA DUFF. Supt.
Dept. G — Needlework
Mrs. Loren McKechnie, Supt.
Dept. F — Handwork
LILA NEWVILLE, Supt.
Baked Goods, Confections
VERA RORRISON
Baked Goods, Confections
MARY- FREY, Assistant
Department F — Handwork
NINA STOCK, Supt.
Department J — Home Canning
section of the Snodgrass build
ing was literally covered with
flash bulbs as the result of
thousands of pictures that were
snapped of the dairy cows.
Educational Department
The schooi exhibits will be
shown in a Pacific hut along the
midway in the educational build
ing.
Also housed along the mid
way will be the Homemakers
booths and the 4-H booths and
CONGRATULATIONS
to the
MATANUSKA VALLEY FAIR BOARD
Grasser's
Hardware and Sporting Goods
“Home of Dutch Boy Paints”
exhibits.
Space on the midway has been
reserved for the following or
ganizations and individuals:
Wasilla P-TA, food concession;
Pythian Sisters, food concession;
R & K Concessions, cotton candy,
popcorn, carmel corn, and candy
apples; P. I. Scherrer, food con
cession; Gertrude L. Slocum, hot
dogs, hamburgers, pop, coffee;
Moose Lodge, Alaska’s favorite
game; Lazy Mountain Childrens
■Home, food and articles from the
home; Leppanen and Cottrill,
food concession; Roger Brager,
food concession; Blanche Avila,
darts and fish bowl games; Beta
Sigma Phi, chili dogs, coffee;
American Legion, food conces
sion; Altar and Rosary Society,
hot dogs, cake, coffee, pop; Ham
ond Organ Studios, organs; Chu
giak Boy Scouts, baseball pitch,
bottle throw; Baha’i Area Teach
ing Committee, literature; Joe’s
Sales, snow removal equipment;
Hill and Hobby; Sportsmen Club,
shooting gallery; Universal Pro
ducts, soup, doughnuts, pie; Mrs.
McKenzie, food concession; A. L.
Long, baseball and dart games.
Sitka is to be featured in the
next issue of America Illustrat
ed, according to word received
by the Alaska Visitors Associa
tion news bureau last week. The
news bureau provided pictures
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