JUNEAU
FOURTH ANNUAL
FARM FORUM
PALMER HIGH SCHOOL
FEB. 28 & MARCH 1
The Frontiersman
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
VOLUME 11. NUMBER 19
PALMER, ALASKA THURSDAY. FEB. 27. 1958
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4TH ANNUAL FARM FORUM OPENS FRIDAY
CORDOVA DUE HERE
TOMOROW FOR
ANNUAL BB GAMES
Two Cordova Airlines planes
are expected to arrive in Palmer
tomorrow morning bringing
members of the Cordova Moose
and Cordova Imperials basket
ball teams, as well as several of
Xbeir staunch supporters.
Present plans call for a dele
gation of Palmer basketball play
ers and fans to meet the planes
at the Palmer airport, transport
them to the Elks hall, where a
breakfast of hot cakes and moose
sieak (if enough moose steaks
can be rounded up) will be serv
ed to the visitors.
Two double header games are
slated for Friday and Saturday
'evenings in the school gym.
Starting at 7:30 p.m. the Palmer
Elks Girls will take on the Im
perials, followed by a game be
tween the Palmer Elks men’s
team and the Cordova Moose
team.
The games are expected to be
some of the best of the year and
all basketball fans are urged to
turn out—welcome the visiting
Cordova “clamdiggers” and sup
port their local league teams.
With the basketball season draw
ing to a close, fans will have few
opportunities to see additional
games this year.
As a highlight between gafnes
on Friday night members of the
high school girls’ drum corps will
present a program.
Following the games on Fri
day and Saturday evening, mem
bers of the Elks lodge will host
the visitors and Elks teams at
their lodge. There will be feeds
after the games, followed by
dancing. Friday night’s music
will be some of the nation’s top
bands (via the platters) or a small
local ensemble. Saturday night
.an Anchorage band will furnish
the music.
SHOW TAILORS
USE DARK GLASSES
Tailors, preparing coslumes for
the Kiwanis Minstrel Show end
men, were forced to wear dark
glasses, according to Jim Wilson,
?how producer. Brilliant new fab
rics were obtained last week and
local seamstresses will be at work
on these and other costumes.
Several new musical acts are
practicing as are a dance act and
one specialty number which will
not be revealed before the show.
Wilson did not deny that some
revelations of great economic
significance to the valley would
be made at the show.
JAYCEE'S TO MEET
Members of the Palmer Junior
Chamber of Commerce will hold
a regular meeting in the base
ment of the City Hall tomorrow
evening at 8 o’clock. All mem
bers are urged to attend.
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Frank Teuton, information offi
cer for the Agricultural Re
search Service, will present an
interesting phase of the Fourth
Annual Farm Forum on Friday
evening. The forum is being
held in the Palmer high school.
City Closes
Gas Pumps at
Palmer Automotive
i
A1 King, owner and operator
of the Palmer Automotive on
Valley street, was on Wednesday
served with papers charging him
with violation of City Ordinance
No. 74 which prohibits the oper
ation, installation or maintenance
of gasoline pumps or any other
type pump, in any street or side
walk space along such streets. He
is to appear in City Magistrate
Court Monday at 2 p.m.
King said this morning that
when he was served the papers
he was told he could not even
operate his garage—that he must
close all operations. “I feel the
city is trying to put me out of
business-—the city wants the
building but they don’t want to
pay for it—at least, that’s the
way it looks to me”, he stated.
However, City Attorney John
Shaw denied such a statement
was made by the officer who
served the complaint. He said the
officer cautioned King against
any continued sale of gasoline on
that day (Wednesday) or any
subsequent day.
King will be represented by an i
Anchorage attorney. 1
The problem of the location of
the gasoline pumps at Palmer
Automotive first arose last year
when planning was started for
the street paving to be done this
summer by the Bureau of Public
Roads. At that time it was dis
covered that the pumps at Pal
mer Automotive were so located
that to service a vehicle it was
necessary to use sidewalk space.
The location, installation or
maintenance of gasoline pumps
in such space is prohibited in
Palmer in Ordinance No. 74. Be
cause of the acuteness of the
problem, members of the Palmer
City Council have been seeking
an amiable solution and at one
time offered to lease the upper
section of the garage from Mr.
King. Had the offer been accept
ed, the gas pumps would have
been removed by the city.
Dr. Charles Logsdon, plant
pathologist at the Experiment
Station, is in Chicago where he
is attending meetings pertaining
to potato pathology.
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forum Speakers
To Present
Varied Program
“Tourism in Agricultural Alas
ka” is one of the many informa
tion topics on the fourth annual
Alaska Farm Forum to be held
here Friday and Saturday. Brad
Phillips of the Arctic Travel Ser
vice will present this program.
The general public is invited
to attend the forum, which will
be held in the Palmer high
school.
Both rural and urban residents
will find topics of interest. There
will be programs on'“Managing
Your Farm Power”, “Hair Styl
ing and Beauty Care,” and many
other interesting programs thr
oughout the two-day forum.
Six young women will appear
Friday evening to illustrate mod
ern uses of agricultural products.
Their appearance is being ar
ranged by Frank L. Teuton of
Washington, D. C., information
specialist with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agricultural research
service. Teuton has been a farm- j
er, county agent, and taught agri
culture in Tennessee, Kentucky
and North Carolina high schools.
Since 1953 he has been informa
tion officer for the Agricultural
Research Service. In June, 1955,
he received the Department’s
superior service award for de
veloping and presenting visual
demonstrations that have effec
tively increased public apprecia
tion of agricultural research and
its benefits to farmers, industry
and consumers.
Also visiting the territory and ■
the Palmer forum will he Dale !
Hull, professor and Extension, |
agricultural engineer from Iowa
State College. He was appointed
to the College staff in October,
1945 and promoted to associate
professor in 1954 and to professor
in 1957. During graduate work
Hull was a research associate for
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion. He is a member of the Am
erican Society of Agricultural
Engineers, the Society of Auto
motive Engineers, Alpha Zeta
and Phi Kappa Phi.
Others on the program include
specialists from the local Agri
cultural Experiment Station and
representatives of the Alaska
Agricultural Extension Service.
The program begins at 1:30 p.m.
Friday and continues through
Saturday evening, when a din
ner will reveal the territorial
winner of the “Outstanding
Young Farmer of the Year”,
sponsored by the Anchorage
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
BOWLING ALLEYS
ARRIVE; START
INSTALLATION WORK
Robert Johns of the Palmer
Bowling Center announced this
week the arrival in Palmer on
Wednesday of the new bowling
alleys and other equipment.
The shipment weighed over
25,000 pounds and was shipped to
Alaska by boat and then trucked
to Palmer from Seward. The
shipment includes the alleys as
well as other related equipment
including bowling balls and
shoes.
Four additional carpenters
went on payroll on Wednesday
and will be kept busy installing
the alleys under the supervision
of Olaf Nordquist, bowling alley
installation specialist. Nordqiiist
is qualified by the American Ma
chinery Foundry Co. from whom
the top-rated equipment was pur
chased, to supervise the installa
tion.
Johns said the automatic pin
setters will be shipped as soon as
the alleys are ready for their in
stallation.
DALE HULL
Pictured above is Dale Hull,
iowa Stale College professor
and Extension Agricultural En
gineer who will appear on the
program at the Fourth Annual
Farm Forum to be held in Pal
mer February 28 and March 1.
EMERGENCY MILK
MEETING HELD HERE
An emergency milk meeting
was called yesterday by Com
missioner of Agriculture James
Wilson to consider the fundamen
tal causes for the present disas
trous milk marketing situation in
Alaska and to devise ways and
means of alleviating the situa
tion. Meeting with him were re
presentatives of the United Dairy
Producers, Matanuska Co-op, Ma
tanuska Valley Chamber of Com
merce, Alaska Rural Rehabilita
tion Corporation, Alaska Agricul
tural Experiment Stations and
Anchorage-Palmer Fresh Milk
Association.
Normal surpluses, greatly ag
gravated by the competition of
“C” Grade recombined milk,
have resulted in close to a third
of present production being sur
plus to need Wilson stated. He
reported that investigations in
,0 the possibility of increasing
military purchases of fresh milk
were underway but that two
principal obstacles were in the
way—first, the competition of
concentrated milk sold in com
missaries without freight charge
and second, the fact that troop
issue of recombined milk was
largely subsidized by commodity
credit funds of U. S. D. A., mak
ing the use of local fresh milk
unattractive.
A committee was selected to
work with Commissioner Wilson
in preparing a statement of the
present problem and possible at
tacts that might be made. The
committee consists of Dr. Allan
Mick, chairman of the U. S. D. A.
field committee, James Hurley,
manager of the A.R.H.C. and Ro
land Snodgrass, a valley dairy
man and secretary of the Anch
orage-Palmer Fresh Milk Asso
ciation.
HOSPITAL AND HEART
FUND BENEFIT FROM
BOXING MATCHES
Wilson Woods, chairman of the
local Heart Association, announc
ed this week that the sums of
$153.75 each were turned over to
the Valley Presbyterian Hospital
special fund and to the Heart
Association. The money was real
ized from the benefit boxing
matches staged in the Palmer
school gym on February 15.
Woods expressed his apprecia
tion to the many individuals who
participated in the program with
out charge and to those who sup
ported the project by ticket pur
chases.
TOURNAMENT PLAY
BEGINS TOMORROW
FOR PALMER TEAM
The Western Alaska Basketball
Tournament gets under way in
Anchorage today, with Fairbanks
meeting Nome and Anchorage
playing the Seward Seahawks.
The Palmer Moose, who drew
a bye in the tournament, start
their play tomorrow night when
they meet the winner of the An
chorage-Seward game at 8:30
p.m. The team will be leaving
Palmer at 5:30 and will be stay
ing overnight in Anchorage.
If Palmer wins their Friday
night game they will play again
on Saturday night for the Rail.-,
belt championship title. However,
if they lose their Friday night
game, they will be playing Sat
urday morning and will meet the
winner of the Kodiak and/or
Fairbanks-Nome game.
Two school buses will trans
port members of the high school
pep band and the drum corps to
Anchorage for the games. They
will be leaving at 9 a.m. Satur^'
day and will return to Palmer di
rectly following the final game
Saturday night, whether Palmer
plays in the morning or evening.
Keith Smith, high school princi
pal, said the group will remain in
Anchorage for the final game.
The winner of the A division,
in which Palmer will play, will
be meeting the winner of the
Southeast Alaska Tournament in
March for the Alaska High
School Championship. The win
ner of the B division, in which
Wasilla will play, will be named
the Western Alaska B Champion
but will not play in additional
tournaments. Wasilla also drew a
bye in their division and will
not see action until tomorrow
when the team will play the win
ner of the Ft. Greely-Cordova
game.
’57 Vehicle Plates
Expire Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the deadline, for
vehicle owners who plan to con
tinue driving on Alaska high
ways and byways, to procure
their 1958 registration plates,
U. S. Commissioner Dorothy Sax
ton reminded today.
February 28 is the deadline
and there are no grace periods—
there will be no warnings—and
locally vehicle owners have only
until 6 p.m. tomorrow in which
to make their purchase or the ve
hicle becomes an unlicensed ve
hicle.
Mrs. Saxton reminded vehicle
owners that they must take the
vehicle title or the 1957 registra
tion with them when applying
for 1958 plates. This is a must
and plates may not be issued
without such records.
School taxes of $10 are due
for 1958 and may be paid at the
same time, she added.
VARIED PROGRAM
WIU. OFFER NEW
AGRICULTURAL IDEAS
The Fourth Annual Farm For
um opens in Palmer tomorrow
afternoon at 1:30 in the high
school cafeteria, with Eugene
Reid, president of the Matanuska
Valley Chamber of Commerce,
presiding. Mayor Kenneth Lynn
will’ welcome forum-goers on be
half of the City of Palmer and
other participants in the forum
will be introduced.
“Tourism in Agricultural Al
aska” will be presented by Brad
Phillips of Anchorage as the first
forum topic. Phillips, a member
of; the Anchorage City Council,
is owner of the Arctic Travel Ag
ency in that city and will talk
on the tourist picture as it relates
to the agricultural economy.
[Dr. Robert Weigman, vice
president of the University -of
Alaska, will speak on “The Acad
emic and Community Program
of the University of Alaska”.
This will be a presentation of the
University program and services,
primarily as it relates to the
community.
Concurrent sessions are plan
ned to begin at 3:30 p.m. and will
include: “Managing Your Farm
Power”, an illustrated talk on
getting the most out of a tractor.
This will be presented by Dale
Hull, Extension Agricultural En
gineer from Ames, Iowa. Another
session will be presented by the
Anchorage Hairdressers’ Unit on
“Hair Styling and Beauty Care”.
C. Ivan Branton engineer with
the Experiment Station will pre
sent potato harvesting equipment
movies at 3:45 p.m.
The Friday evening program
will begin at 7:30 when Frank L.
Teuton, agricultural research in
formation officer from Washing
ton, D. C. will present an inter
esting and original program
which will include an exhibit re
view' of new and interesting uses
of agricultural products, using
local models to display these
wares. Volunteer models who are
expected to participate include:
Mary Beth Paey, Gladys Jones,
Betty Crowther, Sylvia Sisley,
May Corey, Leona Keenan, Gret
chen Esslinger, and Janie Hanks.
An interesting 30-minute
dramatic production, involving a
ghost, a farm, and a scientist will
be presented by film Friday eve
hing.'The film, “The Man in the
Dobrway" is sponsored by the
American Cyanamid Company.
A full day and evening pro
gram is slated for Saturday, be
ginnng a 10 a.m. when Marian
Larson, Alaska 4-H leader, pre
sents “4-H in Alaska”. At 10:30
concurrent sessions begin: “Labor
Saving Methods in Storing and
Feeding Forages”, Dale Hull;
“Disease Resistant Varieties of
Tomatoes”, Dr. M. F. Babb, hor
ticultprist with the Experiment
Station; “Potato Varieties", Dr.
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