5 YEARS
AGO TODAY
By plane, truck and
train, the produce of
tho Matanuska Valley
Farmers is being dis
patched to Alaskan com
munities facing severe
food shortages.
A Matanuska Valley
agency reported this
week that thus far'A
laskan communities have
been provided with ap
proximately 1+00 tons of
valley produco, and it
appoars that practic
ally all valley crops
will be absorbed this
year by the Alaskan
market.
At present valley
farmers are delivering
l+OO gallons of milk per
day to the railbelt
market. A low point in
milk production was re
ported two v/eoks ago,
and tho supply of milk
from the area's 700
cows is starting to in
crease. (It should
1+00 gallons of milk per
day is pretty low from
700 cows) or(perhaps
the dairymen should get
some now blood in their
herds.)
Lettuco, cclory and
cabbage are scarce, but
there is always a sup
ply of carrots and ruta
bagas .
Mat anus ka Valley farm
ers produced an estim
ated l,lj.00 tons of po
tatoes during the past
season. The army and
civilian markets in the
territory are expectod
to consume practically
all of tho valley's
I9I1.6 potato crop.
TRAVEL OVER THE HIGH
WAY CONTINUES, 107 cars
arc reported as having'.,
come over tho Alaska
Highway during 29 days
of Octobo’r. During this
same time $2 cars were
outward bound over tho
same route. #(This is j
pretty good for this
time of the year..)
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil
McVickers of ..nchorage
have the distinction of'
having brought the most
precious cargo over the
Alaska Highway from the
States. The cargo con
sisted of a sack of dia
monds • Wo do not know
the size of the sack,
but it wouldn't have to
bo very large to bo
very precious.
JALMER KERTTULA, who is
president of the Inter
national Relations Club
at the University of A
laska, led the round
table discussion of
"The Communists in
China," at a recent
meeting of that group.
The attitude of the A
merican Government on
internal affairs in
China was one of the
main points in the dis
cussion, in which a
large number of inter
ested club members took
part.
Jcssen's Weekly
Miss Elsie Uoffers,
freight clerk and book
keeper for the MVFCA,
has tcndcrod her resig
nation which will be
come effective this Fri
day > Novombor 15#
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