Postpone Annual
Valley Hospital
Association Meet
Anouncement was made this
week that the annual meeting of
the Valley Hospital Association,
Inc. will be postponed until after
bids for the new Valley Presby
terian Hospital are opened on
February 20. The decision was
made at the board of directors
meeting held February 6.
In the meantime, board mem-,
bers urge everyone to take out
membership in the Valley Hos
pital Association. Annual mem
berships are being sold by mem
bers of the. board or can be had
by sending five dollars to Rev.
Brian H. Cleworth, secretary of
the board. A membership entitles
each person to participate in the
activities of the corporation and
to vote on matters brought be
fore the annual meeting of all
members.
A revision of board committees
was made during the last board
meeting by Association President
G. E. Smith. The following per
sons will serve on the named
committees: Personnel: Mrs. H.
Dexter Bacon, Rev. Brian H.
Cleworth, Hugh Johnson and
President Smith. New Construc
tion and Equipment: Harlow
Hodgson. Jack Newcomb, Max
Sherrod. Mrs. Bacon & Smith Hos
pital Policy: Sherrod, Mrs. Bacon,
Johnson and Smith. Membership:
Mrs. Rivera Hiber, Hodgson, Mrs.
Roy Morrison. Mrs. Lee McKin
ley, and Newcomb. Finance:
Hodgson. Mrs. McKinley, John
son, Newcomb and Rev. Cle
worth.
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CONSERVATION
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By Lew E. Hanks
I have been looking over some
new material published on “Kril
lium" and other new soil condi
tioners. These materials seem to
have the ability to hold soil par
ticles together in a sort of crumb
like structure, after the crumb like
grouping is formed by proper til
lage ,We hop$ to run some tests
on this material 'this summer.
You have all seen soil from a
road bed. It’s just like flour. That
is a good example of a soil whose
entire structure has been lost by
mechanical stirring. Did you ever
pick up a handful of soil from a
good green house bed? Do you
remember the crumbly granular
feel and look of it? That’s what
we mean by structure.
Heavy continuous cultivation
can make your field approach that
road bed state. Cultivation is like
castor oil. A little of it may be
good but a lot of it is not a lot
better. How much do you actually
work the soil in a greenhouse
bed? Not very much—and you
have a pretty good looking soil,
don’t you? YoUr greenhouse soil
is also well supplied with organ
ic matter. This decomposing hu
mus performs the same function
as Krillium. It holds the particles
together in that crumbly struc
ture that makes crops grow best.
We can begin to approach that
greenhouse soil condition by fer
tilizing green manure crops and
working them lightly into our
soil. We can work a grass crop in
to our rotation and build up our
soil. We can’t do it by continual
heavy annual fertilization and
then removing the crop from the
soil.
There are soils in the states
in which the top seven inches
has compacted until it weighs a
third more than it did fifty years
ago. The yields have decreased at
even a faster ratio than the weight
increased. This was all accom
plished by robbing the soil of its
organic matter and structure by
continuous cash cropping and ex
cessive tillage. You can deplete a
soil of its fertility just the same
way as you can rob it of its top
soil. The end results is the same—
a worn out farm and a worn out
farmer. That’s not good.
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RENDEZVOUS OPENS
TODAY FOR 12 DAYS
A 56-page Fur Rendezvous sou
venir program featuring a com
1 plete schedule of 1953 events, a
history of the Rendezvous and ar
ticles on Alaska went on sale lo
cally this week.
The fully illustrated booklet is
highlighted with photos of past
Rendezvous events.
The annui\ Anchorage event
opened this noon with ceremonies
on the City flail lawn. Events
and celebrations are planned for
a 12-day period, including the
famed Eskimo pageants featuring
authentic dances by Eskimos from
Nome. These pageants will be held
nightly during the Rendezvous in
the high school auditorium.
Other events include the Eski
mo blanket toss; sled dog races;
an ice show; exhibits of art, pho
tography. needlework, models and
crafts, homemaking, lapidary and
stamps will be displayed. Exhibits
are scheduled to be held in the
YMCA and in the basement of the
i Catholic Church.
CORDOVA HOSPITAL RATES
RAISED FEBRUARY FIRST
The Cordova Community Hos
pital has put into effect a new
schedule of charges, it was an
nounced by their administrator,
Howard E. May, Jr. The increase,
amounting to about 10 per cent,
was necessitated because of in
creased salaries to nursing and
non-professional staff last fall, and
continuing rising costs of foods
in particular, he said.
HOMEMAKERS CLUB
NOTES
. Cheechako Homemakers
The Cheechako Homemakers,
club had their regular meeting at
the home of Mrs. Idabelle Blue,
with fifteen members present.
Evelyn Bush gave a detailed re
port of the Homemakers Council
meeting, bringing the club up to
date on progress of the Council.
Roll call was answered with
“My experience with the newer
fabrics!” <Lucille Whnmer, q#r pro
ject leader for the month, gave an
interesting and infromative re
port on the uses and care of syn
thetic fibers. She brought articles
of clothing made from nylon,
spun nylon, dynel and embossed
cotton which requires no ironing.
Samples of several new fabrics
were shown.
The next meeting will be March
9th at the home of Loretta Tal
cott.
Glacier View
The last meeting of Glacier
View Homemakers’ club was held
at the home of Ruth Estelle, with
I nine members and four guests
present.
Since no special project was
scheduled for the meeting, those
present surprised the hostess with
a shower following the business
meeting. The birthday of the club
president, Grace Reid wras also
celebrated with a prettily decor
ated cake made by Mrs. Estelle.
The next meeting will be held ,
at the home of Lillian Eckert
Tuesday, February 17. !
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ALASKA SALMON ARE PRECIOUS RESOURCE,
Entries submitted in the Alaska Salmon In
stitute’s $1,200 Student Essay Contest show
that Alaska’s boys and girls are well aware
of the salmon industry’s vital role in the
growth and development of the Territory.
The following essay won Carroll Haggard
of Denali School in Fairbanks first prize of
$300 in the Elementary School Division of
the contest.
Is the salmon industry very im
portant? Yes, to people all over
the world, salmon is a popular
food. Most people know it at least
by taste. Also the salmon industry
gives work to many people.
There are several kinds of com
mercially used salmon. They are
sockeye, humpback, Chinook, chum
and coho.
When salmon hatch from their
eggs, their mother is nowhere to
be found. She has left them in a
jelly-like substance called milt,
which they will eat until they are
strong enough to find food for
themselves. Soon they have a feel
ing they want to go to the sea.
Oh! just to feel that fine salt
water. They swim day after day;
finally they reach the sea. After
they have been there two years,
they want to go back to where
they were born. They leave the sea.
They go on a journey upstream to
spawn. As they go upstream many
are caught in a trap or by fisher
men. If they get to their birth
place, they lay their eggs in a
spawning bed and then try to re
turn to the sea. Usually they die
on the way. Soon the little salmon
start over again and do just like
their mothers.
There are four ways of catch
ing salmon. One is with a gillnet.
It is called a gillnet because when
fish try to get out, they are
caught by their gills and cannot.
Pound nets were used by the In
dians long before whitemen came
and they are still very common.
There are two kinds of traps in
Alaska: standing or pile, and
floating. There are over 400 traps
in use in Alaska. By hook and line
is another way. The salmon caught
in this way are usually frozen or
cured. The last way of fishing is
purse seining. A little boat and a
bigger boat work together. One
end of a net is attached to each
boat. Then the little boat rows in
a circle as a school of fish passes
by, and the fish are caught in the
net.
After the salmon are caught
they are canned. The fish are
dropped into a large bin. Then
they are carried to the cannery
on a moving belt. At the cannery
their heads and tails are cut off.
Another machine scrapes off the
scales. The insides are taken out,
the fish are washed. They are cut
into pieces and put in cans. The
lids are put on the cans loosely
and put in the sealing machine.
Afterwards they are labeled, then
sent to stores all over the world.
Salmon not only feeds people
every day, it furnishes jobs for
18,000 people in Alaska. Millions
have been invested in the equip
ment needed. The industry is
Alaska’s chief source of tax rev
enue. It was the search for gold
that first brought people to
Alaska. Now another precious re
source attracts many workers.
Perhaps that is why salmon are
called ‘The Silver of the Sea.”
Alaska Salmon Institute
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