Chamber Leaflet
Goes To Press
The revised leaflet of Mata
nuska Valley facts, prepared by
a committee of the Valley Cham
ber of Commerce, was sent to the
printer yesterday. The folder is
expected to be available for dis
tribution in about a week.
The leaflet includes a section
on Valley history, business, farm
ing, recreation, business oppor
tunities and community life. New
pictures have been selected and
the leaflet is to be printed in
sepia ink.
Every effort has been made to
include only the latest and most
accurate information in this re
vised edition. It is planned to dis
tribute 10,000 of the leaflets at a
railroad fair in Chicago early
next month.
Sarah Ratliff
Plans Marriage
Mrs. Valeria Ratliff of Palmer
this week announced the engage
ment and coming marriage of her
daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, who
will marry Pfc. James Thorn
low of Fort Richardson. Private
Thornlow’s parents reside in De
troit, Michigan.
The young couple plan to be
married at St. Michael’s Catholic
Church in Palmer on July 4.
Hospital
Ins and Outs
New patients admitted to the
Valley Hospital late this week
included:
Ivan Watson, Mrs. Juanita
Wooten and Mrs. Walter Charlie.
Patients who were dismissed
were:
Myron Newby, A1 Gregorson
and Gerald Harrison.
Still hospitalized at press-time
were:
Mrs. Robert Klem, Mrs. Pete
Jordan, Doris Chilligan of Hous
ton, Clyde Clark, Jack McCar
ney and D. T. Lowery.
Four Chaplains Stamp
Now On Sale Here
Stamp collectors who have
been awaiting the Wisconsin
commemorative issue of the four
Swedish chaplains, now may pur
chase that stamp at the Palmer
postoffice, postmistress Beatrice
Huntley announced today.
The issue memorializes the
sinking of the S.S. Dorchester, a
troopship, which went down in
the Atlantic. Four chaplains, all
of different faiths, went down
with the ship.
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The Alaska Railroad
Offers Valley Residents a complete passenger and
freight service—daily except Sunday.
SCHEDULE
Leave Palmer .3:30 p.m.
Arrives Anchorage .5:30 p.m.
Leave Anchorage . 9:30 a.m.
Arrives Palmer .11:30 a.m.
RAILBUS SERVICE
Can be slopped at any point along the route
Leave Palmer .8:30 a.m.
Return from Anchorage at.4:30 p.m.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Fare—$2.55 one way; $3.40 round trip
FOR INFORMATION
Call Palmer Depot — or Anchorage. ARCO 11
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SAFETY IS A HABIT
WITH MT. McKINLEY
Mt McKinley Airways assumes a high re
sponsibility for passengers and cargo carried in
its planes. So much so that Mt. McKinley Air
ways provides the same standard of mainte
nance required by CAA for scheduled Air
line operation.
AIRFREIGHT SERVICE
To and From Seattle and Any Point in the Territory
Mt. McKinley Airways
521 E Sl„ Anchorage
Agent at Dow Freight Lines, Palmar
Phone Main T46
Phone 8
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Soil Conservation
Practices For ’48
Are Listed
Benefit payments for 10 soil
conservation practices are listed
in the 1948 regulations of the
soil conservation benefit pro
gram. Applications for this year’s
program are now on file in the
local Extension Office. They
must be completed, at the office,
before Aug. 1, to qualify for
1948 payments.
Three signatures are required
on the current soil conservation
forms; Ihese signatures ape most
important, Extension Office per
sonnel warned. Last year several
farmers did not receive their
payments because necessary sig
natures were lacking on the farm
worksheet and performance
forms.
Soil conservation practices on
which benef it payments will be (
made to Valley farmers include: j
(a) Applying fertilizers to pas- j
lures, cover or leguminous crops.
$5 per 100 pounds available
P-2 0-5 or K-2 O applied.
(b) Planting leguminous cover
crops in rotation with other
crops. $3 an acre.
(c) Using leguminous crops for
green manure. $5 an acre.
(d) Using red clover, alsike
clover or sweet clover for green
manure, $1.50 an acre.
(e) Construction of permanent
ditching with a minimum cross
section of 2.7 sq. ft., on land of
6 per cent or more average slope
with suitable outlets for surface
water.
When constructed on land re
quiring ditching to be done en
tirely by hand labor, 80 cents a
linear foot.
When constructed on other
land, 40 cents per 100 linear
feet.
(f) Applying ci'op residue on
the surface of soil subject to
wind erosion. 10 cents per cubic
yard of material applied.
(g) Establishing a permanent
cover on steep slopes or in wa
terways to prevent erosion, $4
per acre.
(h) Establishing or improving
permanent pasture with good
seed of perennial grasses or le
gumes which do not require soil
preparation. 20 cents per pound
of seed sown.
(i) Clearing woodland for till
age. $10 an acre, but the cost
of clearing must be at least $20
an acre.
Tasty Dishes Are
Stewed and Brewed
Of Alaskan Weeds
Pine-needle tea, chickweed
salad, seaweed stew and baked
skunkcabbage may soon become
common dishes on Valley dinner
tables, if farm wives treat the
contents of a recently published
Extension Service bulletin with
proper respect. The bulletin
maintains they’re all good ex
amples of what’s new and dif
ferent to eat in Alaska.
Aside from these items, the
bulletin, F-40, lists a half dozen
common weeds that can be boiled
into an acceptable substitute for
spinach, if anyone happens to
want a substitute for spinach.
Even a flower is included as a
dinner possibility in this Alas
kan book of menus. It’s the ane
mone, or wildflower, which the
writer maintains makes a per
fectly delightful dessert if beaten
“to a creamy consistency with
seal oil” and frozen.
Weed edibles recommended in
the bulletin include chickweed,
curled dock, dandelion, several
different kinds of ferns, fire
wced, goose tongue, hemlock, In
dian potato, Indian rice, smart
weed, lamb’s quarter, various
kinds of moss, mountain sorrel
(this is unique in that it passes
for spinach when cooked, but
also tastes like rhubarb when
sweetened), nettles, pigweed, sea- j
weed, silverweed and many oth
ers.
The pamphlet, a mimeographed
leaflet, contains sketches and
botanical descriptions of the
recommended plants, as well as
a section on the few poisonous 1
weeds and berries of Alaska.
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