Community
Calendar
TODAY
MATANUSKA Hotel basketball
Dractice at Gym at 8 p.m.
CHRISTMAS party of Northland
Pioneer Grange at Grange Hall
at 6:30 p. m.
GLACIERVIEW Homestead
ers meet with Mrs. Irene Bey
land.
PALMER school Christmas play
at Gym at 2 p. m
Friday
WASJLLA farm-training class at
Community Hall at 8 p.m.
PHS vs. 500 Q. M. at Gym at 7:30
p. m.
Saturday
MIDNIGHT mass at St. Mi
chaels’ Catholic Church at 11:45
p. m
SUNDAY
WASILLA Church of God Sunday
School program at 10:30 a. m.
ST. JOHN’S Lutheran Church
Sunday School program at 5
p. m
Monday
VETERANS’ farm training class
in former library at 8 p.m,
ROCKETS basketball practice at
Gym at 7:30 p.m.
SHAMROCK basketball practice
at Gym at 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday
KIWANIS Club luncheon in for
mer library at noon.
IMMUNIZATION Clinic at the
Health Center at 1:15 p. m.
WASILLA GRANGE at Com
munity Hall at 8 p. m.
CHRISTMAS party for children
of St Michael’s parish at home
of Mrs. Richard Mohan at 7:30
p. m.
MATANUSKA Hotel Indepen
dent basketball games at Gym
at 7:30 p. m.
SEASONS
A BEST
A truly Merry
Christmas
to our good
friends and
CLUB
GREEN'S FLYING SERVICE
STUDENT INSTRUCTION, GI TRAINING
CHARTER AND SCENIC FLIGHTS — PASSENGER RIDES
Two- and Four-Place Planes Available
PHONE 67 PALMER AIRPORT
Advisory Committee Studies
Alaska's New Aid Laws
Interest in the effect of new ag
ricultural legislation passed for
Alaska, its application and con
trol, and a joint study of all prob
lems faced by the various branch
es of the U S. Department of Ag
riculture in Alaska, occupied the
time of the USDA’s advisory com
mittee of Alaska at its Fairbanks
meeting last week.
Attending that meeting from
Palmer were Charles Wilson, ter
ritorial soil conservationist, Her
bert Bryan, Alaska representative
of the Rural Electrification Ad
ministration, and Don Irwin, head
of the Agricultural Research Ad
ministration.
Mr. Irwin, reporting on the
meeting, said the agricultural
acts recently passed which' affect
Alaska, include the extension of
the Federal Land Bank Act to the
territory, extension of the Farm
Tenant Act to Alaska, extension
of funds of the Capper Ketchum
Act to Alaska, a new act extend
ing the benefit of loans to home
steaders, and the Alaska Public
Works Act.
Wednesday
CARPENTERS’ Union at Carpen
ters’ Hall at 8 p m.
Thursday
MATANUSKA Hotel basketball
practice at Gym at 8 p. m
Potted Plants
Cut Flowers
MATANUSKA
VALLEY GARDENS
SEASONS
Wishing you
every Happiness
for Christmas.
Mae’s Plumbing
& Heating
The Federal Land Bank Act
permits long-term loans and
makes possible enlarged develop
ment loans for Alaska. The Farm
Tenant Act provides financial as
sistance for development purpos
es to those who do not own the
land they farm The Capper
Ketchum funds will enlarge the
appropriation of the territory’s
Extension Service by about $34,
000.
The homestead act is of pri
mary importance to Alaskans be
cause it permits the USDA to
make loans to homesteaders for
the purpose of erecting buildings
and for clearing land to produce
the first crop. This assistance is
available to the entry man before
he obtains title to his land, and
is protected by a lien against the
homestead. When the entryman
obtains title, this lien becomes a
mortgage against the property.
If an entryman leaves his
homestead before he pays off the
CHEERIO/
Best wishes and
good cheer for a
Merry Christmas
Season.
BROWN’S
CLEANERS
loan, anyone taking over the
property must assume the indebt
edness against it.
Loans also are available to
cover the cost of farm machinery,
seed and fertilizer
Land loan covers periods as
long as 40 years They draw 3 '/fe
per cent interest and are re
repavable in annual installments,
the first of which falls due two
years from the date of the loan.
Benefits of this loan act are
available to farmers owning their
land, as well as to homesteaders.
The Alaska Public Works Act
extends a limited amount of
housing aid to the territory’s
farmers. At present, there is
only about $10,000 in funds avail
able for this legislation.
All money available under the
new legislation for Alaska will be
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