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Palmer, Alaska - Docember 19, 1935
No.- 18
SATURDAY TO BY THE BIG DAY
IE XUIS SHI? HOLDS SCHEDULE
Unless something unforeseen de
lays the Alaska Stcamshio Company's
Christmas Shin Santa and. his entour*
age of entertainers will arrive at
Palmer about four-thirty Saturday
afternoon.
True to his word, Hank Colisch,
foreman of construction at the Com
munity Center, has the big hall all
housed in and the heat on. As soon
as possible after arrival, Santa
and his gang will put their show on
there. There is need of making it
early as they are scheduled to give
another show that srme evening over
* Station KFQf) at Lsnchorago.
In the matter of transportation
so that every one in the valley can
come, Mr. Irwin has drawn uo the
following route schedule for busses
and trucks.
A bus will leave rasilla at 2:15
and will come past Camp 4, the Kinh
ere n place, and to Palmer by Finger
lake Road.
Another one leaves Ray T ilkes’
alace at the same time, coming to
Palmer by way of Camp 2 and Matan
uska. This same bus will return to
Camp 2 for another load as soon as
ohe first is discharged.
Still another bus will leave
Camp 7 at 2:15 and come in by the
i .way of Camp 5. It will return from
Palme*?., turning north around the
Loop at the Henry Roughen corner
md coming in by the way of Camp 6;
A bus will be at Jack Hermon’s
olace at 5:45 and will come to Fal
ser along the school route taken in
lie evening when returning from the
Aatanuska school.
Trucks with tarpaulin.covers will
augment this fleet and will make
special trios wherever necessary.
"no will go to the George Vcnne
none, massing .along the road by
■;alter Huntley's place, and return
ing bv the FAS. Leo corner.
Trucks will leave the Camp 10
area beginning at 2:50.
After the show end the distribu
tion of candy, nuts end fruit by
Idle ‘Mines Ship Sente, end his eides
eh ore will bo e brewing for the 50
seeds end wagons hold by the com
ensnare<• Names of every child will
)?, put into a hat, from which Bill
rsouwens will pick the lucky ones.
That, if is considered, will bo
the fairest way of distributing the
sleds , It is too bod that there sre
nou enough on hand to go around, but
evonnaa]iy every child will bo able
bo got one.
Understand, boys, those arc not
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NO MARKETING PROBLEMS AT
FAIRBANKS EXPERU'ENT FARM
In an article appearing in the
December issue of the "Farthest
North Collegian," President Chas.
E. Bunnell of the University of
Alaska compiles some very convin
cing figures on the sale of nro
duce from the U.S. Agricultural
Experiment Station to tho College
Kitchen.
After itemizing the quantities
and values of the dairy products
raised at the farm and sold to tho
school, President Bunnell says:
"If today the unit had twice
ns many acres under cultivation,
a barn twice as large, silos, and
twenty cows instead of ten, the
record would he so outstanding
that no one could or would say
that agriculture in interior Al
aska is not one of our most val
uable assets.
"In this small dairy, produc
ing and selling to the University
Club 810 g"lions of whole milk at
60^ ncr gallon, $486.00 for the
month of October, is unable to
meet the requirements of whole
milk for a group of scarcely more
than 100, what is inevitably bound
to be the result when agriculture
produces rnd furnishes the farm
nroducts for a community as large
as Fairbanks?
"If I om correctly informed
there were shipped into this sec
tion during the yer.r ending June
30, 1934, aoiry products to the
volue of over $125,000.
"Then the President of the Uni
ted Stotes finally decided upon on
ogriculturol nrojcct for hlosko,
it wrs becouse he could sec the
imnorto.ncc of developing o basic
industry in llosko copoble of fur
nishing food for its ooople. No
foiluro will bo recorded becouse o
the plon for it is fundamentally
sound. If there is <o foiluro, it
will be becouse of the hum on equa
tion, lock of tronsportotion foe
ilities, lock of coordinotion be
tween production end distribution
or the foiluro of some other mo jo ;
factor to function efficiently. ,
ond I believe the ncoplo of the
United Stotcs generolly r.nd of '.I
osko u^rticulorly ought to toko
advantage of the opportunities hi.
osko hos to offer with the evowed
objective, of rnoking this Northland,
o land of homes ond using the
weolth the Territory possesses to
moke increasingly better homes.
" The ogr i owlIai rrul 1 nlu stry
ought to receive the serious con
siders! loii of every industry in
the Territory. . . . .