Anchorage C of C
Invites Palmerites
On Tokyo Trip
Local business men this weel
received an invitation to partici
pate in a goodwill trade missior
to Tokyo and other Japanese cit
ies which the Anchorage Chambei
of Commerce is sponsoring to en
courage development of a new
international trade route bctweer
the Territory and Japan.
The agenda, as proposed by the
Japanese Government, calls foi
eight days in Tokyo, two in Mag
oya, two in Kyoto, one in OsakE
and one in Kobe, a total of 1^
days. Among activities schedulec
is a visit to the Imperial Palace
Cost of the flight is $1,022.40
the regularly scheduled round
trip Northwest Airlines fare be
tween Anchorage and Tokyo. De
parture date has been set for Feb
ruary 15 and those persons resid
ing outside Anchorage are asked
to plan to arrive in the city before
midnight February 14. The return
date is March 3.
Documentary requirements are
comparitively simple. One pass
port, with the separate visas foi
the countries to be visited. The
passport, which should be applied
for at once, will be sent to the
Japanese Consulate in Seattle for
visas by the Anchorage Chamber.
In sponsoring the trip, mem
bers of the Anchorage C of C
point out that geographically, Ja
pan is a logical market for a good
portion of Alaska’s output, the
shorter ocean distance via the
Great Circle Route providing a
ready-made protective tariff
against lower-cost export materi
als produced in British Columbia
and the Pacific Northwest ,as well
as certain of the Atlantic Coast
States.
Today, they add, Japan is hard
pressed for raw materials. Jap
anese industrialists are express
ing much interest in Alaska as a
potential source of supply.
Those familiar with the trade
potential report that now is the
time to develop the market, which
has every indication, they feel,
of being on a long-range, rather
than on a short-term basis. Once
establisxhecl, these trade experts
assert, the export business fast
would become one of the Terri
torys principal commercial activ
ities. It is believed the goodwill
trade mission would do much to
achieve that objective.
1 In conjunction with the flight,
Northwest Airlines are offering
additional service to those who
might wish to visit other places
in the Orient following the Jap
anese trip.
Installing officer will be Mar
garet Snodgrass. Installing mar
shal, Rivera Hiber and installing
-chaplain, Lula Sandvik.
KETCHIKAN WOMAN
NAMED CO-CHAIRMAN
1954 MARCH OF DIMES
Mrs. James O. Whaley of
Ketchikan has been appointed co
Chairman of the Alaska March
of Dimes Campaign for 1954 it
was announced by John J. O’
Shea, Alaska chairman.
Because of the tremendous need
for funds to finance the all out
assualt of polio through newly
developed vaccines and gamma
globulin and to provide patient
care for polio victims, Mrs. Whal
ey has been called upon to share
with Chairman O’Shea the re
sponsibility of co-ordinating al
March of Dimes activities in Al
aska in the approaching Januarj
campaign.
Mrs. Whaley is Alaskan Advis
or on women’s activities of th<
National Foundation for Infantili
Paralysis and is an executiv
board member of the Southeast
ern Alaska chapter.
CLEVELAND HAD CANCER
President Grover Clevelan
was secretly operated on for car
cer of the jaw in 1893. Becaus
such operations were rare thei
it was kept secret to avoid publ:
alarm. Today, the American Cai
cer Society points out, thousanc
of patients are cured of cancer t
surgery every year.
EARLY CANCER CURABLE
Cancer is defined as an “uncoi
trolled growth of cells.' It can 1
cut out by surgery or dcstroyi
by radiation in most cases, if d
tected early, the American Ca
cer Society says.
IFYE YOUTH WRITES
HOME FROM ECUADOR
(Editor’s Note: Roger Woods,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Woods
of Palmer has been sending in
teresting. informative letters to
his parents pertaining to his visit
at Ecuador as an International
Farm Youth Exchange delegate.
From time to time, parts of these
letters will be printed in The
Frontiersman through the cour
| tesy of Mr. and Mrs. Woods. Fol
lowing is the fourth installment.
It’s another beautiful day in the
tropical province of Manibi.
The other day, Thursday to be
exact, I went with Don Angel to
pick up cheese in all the nearby
towns. Market days in most of
the towns are Friday and Satur
day, so in order to distribute the
cheese to the larger markets we
had to get it on Thui’sday. We
started off in the truck at 9 a.m.
and went to Rocafuerte, Riochico,
and Tosaugua, as well as other
hamlets along the way. During
the day we picked up about a ton
and a half of cheese. We distribut
ed cheese that night from Porto
viejo to Jipijapa, and finally got
home to Santa Ana at 3 in the
morning. Cheese-brokering is one
of the many things that Don An
gel does. He gains about 3000 suc
res, or about 180 dollars a week
this way.
In Ecuador the meat for eating
is always freshly killed, because
there are no refrigeration facilit
ies here. I visited a slaughter
house about 11 p.m. one night be
fore market day. They kill a few
animals every night, but they
work all night before a market
day and it is really a spectacle!
The cattle and hogs are killed
and laid on the cement floor,
where they are cut up with axes
and machetes, meat, tripe, brains,
and liver was lying everywhere
that night all mixed up. In the
morning everything, including the
feet and heads, is taken to the
market, which is a roofed plaza
where there are many^ small
booths and tables. The meat is
hung on hooks where a customer
may see it, and when some is
bought, it is cut from the chunk
with a large butcher knife. They
have no idea of how to cut meat
here, and sometimes it hurts to
see a beautiful steak massacred
the way they do it.
Renan Arteaga had two cous
ins who were sworn enemies since
they were about 8 years old. Early
1 one morning when they were
both 28 years old, they met on a
hilly road in the country. One
was going to see the grandfather
that the other had just left. With
out bothering to dismount, each
drew his pistol and fired 3 times
at the other, over a distance of
about 350 ft. I saw the crosses that
marked the spot where each man
died, each with 3 bullets in his
body. That was six years ago.
Many men carry pistols in some
parts of Manabi as a protection
against robbers. Another reason,
is to protect black-market and
illegal interests. For instance,
bootlegging whiskey seems to be
quite a business here. Don Angel,
has a son-in-law who is chief of
the secret police, who round up
the bootleggers and bring stills
and the product in. One night he
brought two stills, five 1-gallon
jugs whiskey, and about 200 lbs
of pinuela mash, from which the
whiskey is made. He has been
gone 3 days and he looked pretty
tired. People who have trucks
stop for passengers anywhere
along the road, and collect a small
fare when the passenger departs.
It’s not uncommon to pick up a
lad carrying 2 jugs of bootleg in
• an especially made cloth sack. In
> teresting people here . . . but don’t
! worry about me.
; On Sunday July 5, I went to
' Manta with the Arteaga family
for a swim and a picnic. We really
had quite a time. The ocean was
warm and so was the sun. The
I pelicans were near-by fishing
- peacefully, and the breakers were
e not too large. We swam for about
i, an hour, tumbled on the beautiful
c beach for a while, then took a
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quick dip and went to eat. Anc
boy, did we eat! We had friec
chicken and beef, barbequec
chicken and beef, platino chip:
(which are like potato chips, bu
fifty times as good) cheese, ;
pastry made of corn and peanuts
sweet bread, oranges, watermel
on, and a non-alcoholic beveragi
made from corn. All was ver:
good, especially the barbequei
chicken and beef. After this, w<
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the March of Dimes is moving toward blessed
freedom from polio’s threat, with a trial vaccine which is the
most hopeful aspect of a bold Polio Pevention Program, and,
WHEREAS this humanitarian Program is pledged to provide
an increased amount of gramma globulin to the national stockpile
during 1954, and,
WHEREAS the cost of gamma globulin and the field trials
of the vaccine will total $26,500,000 in addition to the costs of pa
tient aid, scientific research and professional education financed by
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and,
WHEREAS the need is thus greater and more urgent than ever
before, amounting to $75,000,000 for all four programs, and,
WHEREAS the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
must continue^ to give hope to those who already have fallen
victim to polio s crippling as well as to the many who must yet be
stricken,
, J? Frank Heintzleman, Governor of Alaska,
do HEREBY PROCLAIM the month of January “Morch of Dimes
Month and call upon every citizen's enlightened generosity so that
a gieat cause may be continued and a thrilling victory hastened.
B. FRANK HEINTZLEMAN
Governor of Alaska
went to Pichiche to an agricultur
al fiesta. They had a business
meeting and a dance.
Not all children here go to
school. Many of them work in
stead They sell “dulces” (sweets
and pastries) shine shoes, run er
rands sell lottery tickets, and cig
arettes, and so forth. I have seen
a little boy about 4 years old rid
ing a donkey already loaded with
firewood or bananas, switching
the burro every step of the way!
Of course, the more fortunate
kids, who don’t have to help their
parents make a liying, go to
school. I would guess that it is
about half and half.
Houses, most of the, that is, are
constructed with rough poles,
bracing and spot bamboo siding.
That’s all. Some of them have un
even board floors, but most have
bamboo siding for floors too. They
have a roof thatched of grass or
banana leaves, or some other ma
terials. Most of the middle and
higher class people have plumb
ing for toilets, and some have
plumbing for baths. I say plumb
ing, it is crude, make-shift and
obsolete, mostly, but it does the
job. Brick and cement construc
tion is being started but it isn’t
prominent yet. Some of the peo
ple are putting stucco-like finish
on the split-bamboo walls. Many
of the older richer buildings have
beautiful iron grill-work over the
windows. Electricity is prominent
everywhere but telephones are
scarce in all cities other than
Quito and Guayaquil.
Shoes are hand made, suits and
most clothing are tailor-made,
timbers are hand sawed into
boards, women wash their fam
ily’s clothes in the river, and road
workers break rocks with sledge
hammers. Such is the industry of
a small town of 20,000. On the
other hand there are a few cot
ton gins, rice mills, breweries, and
factories of one sort and another
in the more favored locations.
Few of the roads are paved . . .
those that are are narrow There
are some fairly good dirt roads,
and many very poor ones. Some
of the city streets are paved or
cemented, but only the main
ones. Ecuadorians hasten to tell
me of all the things they need.
What they are saying, actually, is
that they admit that their con
ditions are poor, even according
to their own standards. I don’t
think they do this for my bene
fit .. . they tell each other the
same things. When they mention
something poor, I tell them worse
conditions that I have seen in the
States. Most of the people here
can understand that there are
necessarily poor facilities along
with the good. I am generalizing
when I say “Ecuadorians” and
“most of the people.” I am really
speaking only of the more pro
gressive ones. I admire them for
wanting to better their living con
ditions.
(To be continued)
The first cancer operation for
removal of a lung occurred 20
years ago. The patient is alive and
well today, the American Cancer
Society says. But in that same
period deaths from cancer of the
lung have increased five-fold.
Time to Call Mac -
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beard before the water gets
hot enough to shave with!
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basement — but what he
needs is a CIRCULATING hot
water system — one that
brings hot water INSTANTLY
to every faucet! No house is
modern without one; if you
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GUESTS AT ANCHORAGE
INSTALLATION DINNER
Several Palmer Kiwanians and
their wives attended the instal
lation of officers and ladies’ night
held by the Anchorage Kiwanis
Club in the Idle Hour Country
Club on December 30.
Following a chicken dinner and
ceremonies, those attending were
entertained by Mandrake, the
magician. Those attending from
Palmer were: Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Hurley, Dr. and Mrs. Allan Mick,
Mr. and Mrs. John Weisenbarger,
Mi\ and Mrs. Harlow Hodgson,
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Smith and Emil Gan
schow.
to the citizens of Anchorage and
the Alaska Council. Many Anch
orage area business organizations
participated in this joint venture
to help Scouting.
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