MVFCA Plans
Fair-Time
Open House
As its own special contribution
toward activities of the Mata
nuska Valley Fair, the Mata
nuska Valley Farmer’s Co-oper
ating Association has scheduled
a three-day open house at the
creamery, it was announced this
week by James Wilson. Co-op
manager. Fair visitors will be in
vited to visit the creamery any
afternoon, during the three-day
week-end, to inspect the recent
ly-completed improvements in
stalled there.
For Co-op members only, there
will be a Friday afternoon prevue
at the creamery.
Creamery employes hope to
show their visitors the complete
operation necessary for process
ing milk, from the time it is
checked in at the receiving room
until it is bottled, or dispatched
to Anchorage for bottling. Man
ufacture of ice cream also will
be in process during the open
house period.
SMASHES THUMB
A1 DeJulio of the Anchorage
Shopping Guide, suffered a seri
ously crushed thumb last week.
The accident occurred when he
was helping unload crates of
heavy printing equipment.
Fair Gives Away
Plenty Of Fun
A seventy-five cent admission
ticket to this year’s Matanuska
Valley Fair is going to buy many
times that much in entertain
ment dividends. Fair Manager
Charles Dillon has planned a
three-day program that empha
sizes a variety of fun features
that will cost the fair-goer
nothing.
Free softball games, free races,
a free organ concert by Mary
Baird Stoeckle on Saturday eve
ning, a free band concert by the
770th Air Force Band on Sunday
evening, and free parking serv
ice for motorists are included in
Fair plans.
In addition, there will be a
multitude of prizes given away.
Contest prizes, daily gate prizes,
evening dance prizes and special
awards will be carried home by
many a lucky Fair-goer.
GOES ON HUNT
Leo Lucas left the Valley on
Monday to act as guide for a
stateside party of hunters head
quartered in the Post Lake area,
adjacent to Rainy Pass. Mr.
Lucas knew few details of his as
signment, which will be con
ducted under the Fish and Wild
life Service. He expects to be
gone about three weeks, he said.
LISTINGS WANTED—
Valley Real Estate
Twelve Buildings Needed
For Fair Exhibits
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up in the area at the end of the
oval, between the barn and this
building. Inside the Dairy Build
ing, there will be an exhibition
of the type of equipment used in
processing milk, and colored
movies of Valley dairy farms
will be scheduled regularly dur
ing the Fair period.
Buildings Eight and Nine both
will house the farm produce and
grain displays.
Building Ten is to be given
over entirely to the booth ex
hibits prepared by entrants in
the best farmer contest. Winner
in this class will be given an air
trip to Chicago.
Building Eleven will house the
fur and native craft exhibit, as
well as the educational exhibit.
Building Twelve, nearest the
gate, will provide space for the
special shows, concerts, plays
and contests, as well as the daily
jitney dance.
Each building will be num
bered at Fair time, so that vis
itors can make their way readily
to the displays they wish to see,
Mr. Dillon said.
Sunday’s band concert, Mon
day’s queen show, and the three
Fair balls will be held in the
Gymnasium.
Concession stands will line the
oval, being set up in the areas
between permanent buildings
and just beyond the entry area
at the Fair’s gates.
PRA Employe
Injured
Dave Vaneck, a PRA employe,
suffered a fractured right hip in
a highway accident last week.
Vaneck was driving a light truck
employed on road work near
Chugiak at the time of the ac
cident.
Mechanical difficulties caused
the truck to skid in loose gravel
and roll down a slight embank
ment. Mr. Vaneck was thrown
from his vehicle and pinned un
der the cab of the truck.
He was hospitalized at the
Valley Hospital, where he under
went surgery later in the week.
Erwin Long Again
Flies In Valley
Erwin Long brought another
plane to base on Valley airports
this week, swelling the plane
population to a total of four at
this writing. Mr. Long has pur
chased a Stinson 10-A, a two
pa§senger ship.
The pilot is conducting his
flights from the Merle Anderson
field. He is available for all char
ter hops and for hunting trips.
Mr. Long will be remembered
as the flyer who lost a Stinson
Voyageur at Big Lake last fall.
He has been employed by the
District Engineers at Anchorage
during the past winter, but he
hopes to fly regularly from the
Valley now.
BIG DAYS OF FUN — ENTERTAINMENT
GALA DANCES EVERY NIGHT
15-MINUTE SCENIC FLIGHTS OVER THE VALLEY AT $5
PER PERSON (price includes tax, taxi fare to and from airport)
FREE CONCERTS — GATE PRIZES — CONTESTS
BALL GAMES
MATANUSKA VALLEY FAIR
SEPTEMBER 3, 4 AND 5