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ley fruits, vegetables and meats
for re-sale through the firm’s
Anchorage retail outlet.
Anchorage Shopping Guide, Inc.
Although the Anchorage Shop
ping Guide, Inc., is no newcom
er to Palmer and the Valley, the
firm has just finished settling
into new quarters in the Valley
Theatre Annex, where extensive
renovations have been in prog
ress for some time.
The Guide transferred to its
present quarters in June, and
since that time it has added
many fine new pieces of printing
equipment, according to shop
foreman A. J. DeJulio.
In addition to its former small
model five Linotype, the Guide
now has in operation a much
larger machine, a model twenty
six mixer. Also new in Guide
equipment is the Kelly B press,
suitable for printing small news
papers, magazines and job work.
COFFEY INSURES EVERY
THING — REMEMBER?
QUONSET HUT FOR SALE —
See M. D. SNODGRASS
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VALLEY
THEATRE
FRIDAY, SATURDAY
Sept. 23, 24
7:15 and 9 p. m.
Saturday matinee at 2
SUNDAY, MONDAY
Sept. 25, 26
7:15 and 9 p. m.
Sunday matinee at 2
( VETONiCALAKt
JOAN CAULFIELD • BARRY FlTz6£RAU
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY
Sept. 28, 29
(Shows at 8 only)
Gary Cooper
Paulette Goddard
in
Cecil B DeMille’s
(In Technicolor)
This press can turn out jobs up
to 17 by 22 inches in size.
Other presses include two
Chandler and Price ob machines,
Chandler - Price job machines,
one 8 by 10 inches in size and the
other 12 by 15 inches. The Guide
is doing newspaper work on a
hand-fed Babcock press at pres
ent, but shop crewmen are look
ing forward to the arrival of a
new web press, expected to be
unloaded here within the next
two weeks. Guide employees al
so are expecting, momentarily,
to be uncrating a new 36” power
cutter.
New type, totalling more than
$3,000 in cost now fills the latest
in modern type cases in the
printshop.
Other new equipment, install
ed within the past few weeks,
includes an electric casting box,
an electric drill and two electric
saws.
It all adds up to the most com
pletely equipped shop in this
part of the territory, according
to Mr. De Julio and owner E. O.
Ezzell.
Now that all the new printing
gadgets are installed and un
limbered, the pair expect to re
turn to production of the An
chorage Shopping Guide next
week. The advertising throw
away has not appeared since late
May.
Future plans for the Anchor
age Shopping Guide, Inc., in
clude several publications, as
well as all types of job work.
Matanuska Valley Gardens
New plans for Matanuska Val
ley Gardens also center about a
change in location. Work is now
being speeded on a cement base
ment for the greenhouses of Mrs.
Maud Hosier, at a new site on
the Anchorage highway.
Mrs. Hosier, now located sev
eral miles south of town, ex
pects flower-starved Alaskans to
beat a much broader path to her
doorway, if she moves to a spot
where they can see that door.
She will be living next to the
new F. R. Sims home, when the
transfer is made.
Co-op Creamery
While the MVFCA creamery is
about as old an installation as
anyone could find in a search
for new developments in the
Valley, its recent remodelling
and renovation have shoved it
right to the head of the class
in the Valley’s push toward
progress.
It’s not that these remodel
lings are particularly extensive
now, but carpenters have pushed
back walls and made room for
the installation of new machin
ery as it’s needed, creamery
manager Clarence Bell points
out.
The present 9,000 pounds of
milk being received daily at the
creamery aren’t causing any
strain on seams, but when the
summer peak of 14,000 pounds
began pouring through the two
pipelines from the receiving
room, creamerly personnel be
gan to suspect that they'd have
occasion to need a great deal
more space in the near future.
So walls were pushed back,
new partitions placed and new
■mnrhinprv installed whprp it
was needed. And during the pro
cess, the entire creamery got a
gleaming new coat of white ena
mel, and in one or two in
stances, a shiny new piece of
stainless steel equipment.
Of the present daily average
milk delivery, about 8,000 pounds
of the milk received go to An
chorage, yet it’s not nearly suf
ficient. Mr. Bell said milk pro
duction could be expected to
drop back monthly from now
until Jan. 1, when it probably
will reach its lowest level and
will hold until it begins to pick
up next March.
In addition to the milk, the
Creamery produces about 150
pounds of cream a day, although
that amount varies with the
amount of skim needed to stan
dardize the bottled milk. Milk is
tested as soon as it is received,
and dairymen are paid on the
basis of the butterfat test.
As milk passes along pipelines
to the pasteurizing room, it is
processed through one of the
new pieces of equipment that is
helping to make the Co-op’s
creamery a thoroughly modern
plant. All equipment in the pas
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ACREAGE
HOUSES
DAIRY FARMS
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PIONEER
Insurance and
Realty
Wright Building
Palmer
Agents for
Mt. McKinley Airways
Freight and Passenger Service
WE CARRY
QUANTITY RACK GROCERIES
Coffee, 5 lb. and 20 lb. sizes
Vinegar, gallon jars
Avoset, qt. jars
Mayonnaise and salad dressing, gal. jars
Vegetables and Fruits, No. 10 cans
PALMER
Cold Storage & Locker Service