L06AL SKI CLUB
COMPLETES TOW;
INVITES MEMBERSHIP
Members of the Matanuska Ski
Club have announced the com
pletion of their ski tow, located
at Little Susitna.
In official operation for the
first time this past Sunday, users
reported it was wonderful to no
longer have to make the long
climb back up the slopes.
The announcement follows the
work and plans of nearly two
years by the still “very young”
club. Formed in the early spring
ot 1950 as the Matanuska Outing
Club, the name was changed when
it became apparent that the prin
cipal activity of the group was
skiing. The club has progressed
and expanded as rapidly as finan
ces would permit. Early this sum
mer the ski tow equipment lo
cated at Sheep Mountain Lodge
was purchased from A1 and Vir
ginia Johnson and moved froml
there to the club’s site at Susitna. j
approximately a mile and one half
above Little Susitna Lodge.
The use of the tow and hill
rules have been established by
the club. Anticipating a large re
sponse to the announcement, the
club has already started work on
a 600 foot extension to the tow,
that will make a total of 1200 feet,
-one of the longer tows in the area.
Tentative plans for a ski chalet
to be built by the club sometime
in the future are being discussed.
Skiers, and non-skiers are re- j
minded that the club is open to
membership and invites participa- j
ti6n by anyone interested. Four
free ski lessons will be given to
all new members of the club by
professional ski instructors. These
classes will be conducted at the
tow site and will include begin
ners and advance lessons as well
as proper use of the ski tow and
hill courtesy.
CUB SCOUT NEWS
Cub Scout Pack 354 held their
monthly Pack meeting in the
school gymnasium the evening of
December 22 unde4> the leadership
of C. H. Dearborn, assistant Cub
.Master and Den Mothers, Mrs.
Richard Jones, Mrs. Pat Laughton
•'and Mrs. Wright, A new mem
ber, Bert Curie was welcomed
into the pack and badges were
awarded for past accomplish
ments. Mrs. Wright’s den dis
played homemade Christmas dec
orations and candles and sang an
appropriate song. The Pack then
sang Christmas carols accompan
ied by Larry and Barry Dearborn
- at the piano. The highlight of the
•evening was supplied by Mrs.
Kopperud. A Christmas tree hung
with beautifully decorated Christ
mas cookies proved a hit with
cubs and parents.
The theme for the January
meeting is "Transportation” and
the Dens look forward to an in
teresting Pack meeting January
26.
BARTLETT PAYS OFF
SEWARD 'DEBT'
At least 16 Sewardites who laid
a dollar each on Ike against Ad
lai with Delegate Bob Bartlett re
cevied the payoff this week.
‘T have notably damaged my
reputation as a political prophet
and have put myself in the posi
tion of debtor to you. The en
closure is to wipe out that rela
tionship and get us on an even
financial keel again,” Bob writes,
the enclosure being a dollar bill.
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
I have been sounding off about
the winter wind for years. I’ve
contributed my share to its vol
ume. The last few days we have
had a sample of our annual blow.
We never miss it—every winter
we get our share of a soil erod
ing wind.
This year may be particularly
bad. We have no snow cover on
the ground to furnish even partial
protection. Even without snow
cover, however, windbreaks fur
nish good protection. You can
identify eroded areas by the
smooth, fattened look fields as
sume, the disappearance of fall
tillage marks, and the collection
of dirt behind piles of crop resi
due left in the field. Walk over
your field and look for them. See
how far out from your present
windbreaks the protected area ex
tends. That will give you a pretty
good idea how far out from a
windbreak you can afford to
plant row crops.
Due to our topography, the di
rection and intensity of the wind
varies. You on the farm are bet
ter qualified than anyone else to
mark the location of necessary
windbreaks. Mark them now.
Then you will know where they
should be when you start plant
ing them next spring.
Windbreaks are easy to start.
Just leave a strip uncultivated,
plow in a line of cottonwood and
willow brush next spring, and you
are in business. Nature will take
care of most of the planting. Look
at your old fence rows if you
don't believe it. When you get
that shelter started, plant some
strawberries, respberries and cur
rants on th lee side. That way you
can keep your wife happy too.
4-H NEWS
The Matanuska Valley can
boast of four state winners in 4-H
contests with the award of de
fense bonds to Neola D. Sandvik
of Palmer and Joyce Dinkel of
Wasilla.
The other two winners, Doro
thy Hoffman and Lew*is McDon
ald of Palmer, have returned
from Chicago where they attend
ed the National 4-H Club Con
gress. Lewis won his trip with his
poultry project and Dorothy for
clothing achievement.
Neola and Dorothy worked to
gether to win the team bread de
monstration contest prize of $50
bond and medals. Both girls have
been in 4-H for six years and are
members of the Mixing Bowl 4-H
Club led by Mrs. Henning Blunck.
Joyce, who went to Chicago last '
year, won her $50 bond and medal
in the individual bread demon
stration contest. In addition she
took 11 first prizes with her can
ning exhibit at the Matanuska
Fair and helped her mother as
assistant leader of the Happy
Snappy Snippers 4-H Club.
Sponsors of the state contests
are Standard Brands, Inc., for
both bread demonstrations; Spool
Cotton Company, clothing
achievement; Allis - Chalmers,
gardening; Thomas E. Wilson of
Wilson and Company, meat ani
mal, and Dearborn Motor Cor
poration, poultry. These and other
awards will be available for all
4-H boys and girls interested in
entering the 1953 contests, Mrs.
Lydia Fohn Hansen, acting 4-H
state leader, said.
In addition the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation is sponsoring garden
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CHRISTMAS CARDS boxed
and singles, many with Alas
ka designs.
Machetanz’ books.—Original
paintings and drawings.
Water colors, drawings, cards
by Robert Mayokok.
JEWELRY—nugget, hematite,
ivory, jade, in earings, brace
lets, cuff links, etc. English
bone chaina cups and saucer,
ceramics, lamps, crystal etc.
Bavarian fine China dinner
ware in open stock. Fine table
linens—infant handmade soak
ers, booties, mittens, ESKIMO
SLIPPERS.
TREASURE CHEST
Northern Lights
Described by Doctor
Dr. Sydney Chapman, interna
tionally known physicist from
Queens College, Oxford, England,
and advisory scientific director
of the Geophysical Institute at
the University of Alaska, capti
vated his audience at a recent
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce
meeting with his discussion of the
aurora phenomena in down-to
earth terms.
Source of Light
The aurora, or northern lights
is not like a rainbow, he said, but
a definite source of light. This has
been determined by photographs
with star backgrounds which def
initely locate the thin sheets of
light about 60 miles above the sur
face. They can be seen within a
1500-mile diameter and are most
frequently observed in a magnet
ized area at the ends of magnetic
axes of the earth.
The thickness of these sheets of
light have not yet been determin
ed but the brightness appears the
same at all distances, he pointed
out.
The aurora borealis centers in
northwest Greenland and aurora
australis center is at a point in the
Antarctic south and west of Aus
tralia. The lights are seldom ob
served from the southern tip of
South America or in the tropics.
Types of Lights
Dr. Chapman said that there are
the two types of aurora—the arc,
which might be part of a circle,
and the corona in which lines
seem to converge at the zenith the
sky. How they appear is a matter
of perspective.
Regarding the question of whe
ther or not the lights make
sounds, there are differences of
opinion. He would not deny it, he
said, but a tape recording of the
sounds if they exist, would be in
teresting.
Magnetic Storms
The phenomenon is connected
with magnetic storms which upset
cable and radio communications;
and have been known to even put
aut large power systems..
An analysis of their spectrum
shows that they are caused by
atomic hydrogen nitrogen and
axygen gases from the sun travel
ing from the sun into the earth’s
atmosphere. They travel more
slowly than light and take a day
to make the trip. These electric
charges are subject to deflection
and are speeded up when they
contact the atmosphere down to
about 60 miles above the surface.
It will be some time before the
aurora is completely understood
ne concluded.
ng contests with individual
arizes of $10 and a grand prize
af $25 for any community with at
east 15 gardens entered.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
NORTHLAND PIONEER GRAN
GE, Grange Hall, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY. JANUARY 10
KIWANIS INSTALLATION OF
OFFICERS, United Protestant
Church basement 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY. JANUARY 11
GREAT BOOKS GROUP, Chas.
Wilson home, 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY, JANUARY 12
KIWANIS CLUB, Co-Op club
room. 12:05 p.m.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13
MOOSE AND WOMEN OF THE
MOOSE, Moose Hall, 8 p.m.
BOY SCOUT MEETING, United
Protestant Church, 7 p.m.
GRANGE HOME EC, Grange
Hall, 8 p.m.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING, Co
^p club room, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14
CARPENTERS LOCAL, Carpen
ters’ Hall, 8 p.m.
DEMONSTRATIONS
TO BE POSTPONED
The all-day demonstration of a
new potato grader and subse
quent program planned for Janu
ary 24 by the Matanuska Valley
Farmers Co-operating Association
and the Territorial Department of
Agriculture has been postponed
it was announced this week by
Fred M. Zieke, Co-Op general
manager. New equipment and a
demonstrator will not be avail
able immediately Zieke said in
making the announcement. New
date will be announced as soon
as possible.
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KIWANIS PRESENTS
$600 SCOUT FUND TO
FIELD EXECUTIVE
Clifford Smith, field executive
for the Chugach Division of the
Alaska Council, Boy Scouts of
America was a guest at the regu
lar Kiwanis meeting held Janu
ary 5. During the meeting the
sum of $600 collected in the Val
ley during the December Boy
Scout Fund raising campaign was
turned over to Smith who ex
presed his gratitude to all who
helped in so many ways to make
the campaign such a success.
Other guests at the meeting
were Mrs. Justine Parks of Ma
tanuska Electric Association; J.
Tice, manager of the Homer Elec
tric Association and Arthur Bene
dict of Yukon Equipment of An
chorage. all guests of Cy Brewer,
MEA manager.
HOMEMAKERS SPONSOR
I. F. Y. E. DELEGATE
June Sproul, International
Farm Youth Exchange delegate
will tell of her experiences in
France this past summer at a
public meeting to be held at
Grange Hall under the sponsor
ship of the Homemakers’ Coun
cil. The meeting will be held
Monday, January 12 at 8 p.m.
Miss Sproul has many color
slides to illustrate how France
operates today.
Coffee and cookies will be ser
ved at the conclusion of the pro
gram.
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Homemakers Calendar
Riverbend Homemakers
Meets January 15, home of Mrs.
Vernon Williams
The Homesteaders
Meets January 14, home of Mrs.
J. Leppanen
Nugget Homemakers
Meets January 8, Extension Craft
Room
Glacier View
Meets January 20, home of Mrs.
Ruth Estelle
Sourdough Homemakers
Meets January 13. home of Mrs.
Harold Thuma
Chugiak Homemakers
Meets January 8, Chugiak Com
munity Hall.
Project Leaders
Mrs. Audrey Davies home dem
onstration agent in the Anchorage
area will be in Palmer on January
27 at 10:30 a.m. in the Extension
craft room to conduct a leaders’
training meeting. The topic for
discussion will be “Newer Fabrics
and Care.”
JUNEAU—A preliminary in
junction was issued December 30
restraining a Juneau eating es
tablishment from violating ceiling
price regulations. The order was
signed by Federal Judge George
W. Folta against Mike’s Place.
Complaint had been made by the
office of Price Stabilization. The
O.P.S. presented evidence to show
that Mike’s Place had raised prices
last summer in violation of OP.S.
regulations.
Regularly
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in
1953
At the beginning of the new year is a won
derful time to start a regular savings plan.
The important things is not how much you
save . . . but how regularly. Come into The
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plan a savings program to fit your budget!
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Palmer, Alaska
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