RTA Officials Stress
Need to Organize
More than 30 persons have in
dicated their interest in forming
a RTA in the Valley by having
signed and turned into board
members, applications for mem
bership, Lew Hanks announced
this Week.
The figure was announced at
the board meeting held Friday,
March 13, when it was also an
nounced that a membership sur- j
vey has been started and applica
tion blanks are being distributed.
Those desiring application blanks
will find them at Clara’s Variety,
the Valley Grocery and other
plgces to be designated.
Dr. Allan Mick spoke with RTA
officials while on a trip to Wash
ington, D. C. and found them
fully aware of the present diffi
culties in the Valley. Officials en
couraged the formation of a RTA
cp-Op or non-profit corporation,
Mick said. Such an organization
Would have to provide area-wide
coverage they tod him. Applica
tions will receive the full support
by the Washington RTA office and
although no funds are at present
available for RTA loans, the of
fice is optimistic concerning avail
ability of funds for 1954, the next
fiscial year, Mick reported.
Officials stressed that applica
tions must be on file before a loan !
can be considered.
Hanks said the committee will
try to obtain applications through
the various local organizations
and groups rather than attempt
the more difficult and lengthy
house-to-house canvass.
MRS. BEN HUDGINS
NEW P-TA PRESIDENT
Mrs. Ben Hudgins of Palmer
was elected president of the Pal
mer P-TA at the meeting held
March 17 in the school lunch
room.
Elected to serve in other of
fices were: Mrs. James Cottrell,
vice-president: Mrs. Richard Mo
han, secretary and Gottfried
Stevhan treasurer.
Installation of these newly
elected officers will be held at
the April 21 meeting.
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Tea/ in States
Thomas A. Moyer, publisher of
the Valley Record, left Palmer
this week for a ten-week lecture
throughout the States.
His tour will include states cov
ering the entire penninsula
■ from the % South up to Michigan.
I He will show films of the Matan
1 uska Valley and Alaska, most of
which he has taken himself, to
church groups and high school
assemblies.
i While in Michigan, Moyer
f hopes to attend the' Evangelical
United Brotherhood convention,
scheduled from May 10 to May
17. He said he also hopes to at
tend the 25th reunion of his grad
uating class of the Evangelical
Theological Seminary. He plans
to make old contacts while Out
side; take new subscriptions for
his publication and promote the
cause of the Church of God’s
childrens home, here in the Val
ley.
He plans to return to the Val
ley around the first week in June.
NEW PULP AND NEWSPRINT
PLANT PROPOSED
FOR ALASKA
The Georgia PaciPc Company
of New York recently proposed
the construction of a $56,511,000
pulp and newsprint plant near
Juneau. National Production Au
thority confirmed a filing by the
company of an application for a
certificate of necessity. renort
ed by Rep. Westand (R-Wash).
It was the second recent de
velopment in use of Alaska’s vast
timber resources. Pacific North
ern Timber Co., of Portland, Ore
gon recently received a certificate
of necessity and has been granted
tax amortization on 40 percent
of the proposed $4,502,570 cost of
a saw mill and pulp chip plant
near Wrangell.
Technical Manual
"The First-Aid System"
Issued by FCDA
How to plan and operate a
first-aid system to handle casual
ties following an atomic attack
on a major area was outlined re
cently by the Federal Civil De
fense Administration in a new
technical manual, “The First-Aid
System.”
One first-aid station of the tpye
recommended in the manual
would be required for each 1,000
casualties, FCDA assumes. Each
first-aid station will require train
ed persons including doctors,
nurses, aides, litter-bearers and
ambulance drivers, plus ambu
lances and a suitable building.
Underlining the importance of
first-aid, the manual points out:
“The longer medical care for a
seriously injured casualty is de
layed, the less his chance for re
covery. Casualties hemorrhaging
from wounds will die if loss of
blood is not stopped immediate
ly.”
Conies of the f'rst-aid manual
are on sale for 20 cents each at
the Government Printing office
and is not being destributed to
civil defense offices.
ESC CRACKS DOWN
ON Ul CLAIMANTS
As a result of the Employment
Security Commission's continued
efforts to crack down on attempts
to draw unemployment benefits
fraudulently, several more cases
have been prosecuted, it was an
nounced this week.
Before Judge Folta. U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Buckalew filed
four charges of making false
statements to obtain benefits
vhile employed, against William
M. Zook of Valdez. Zook who
aleaded guilty, was fined $100
md ordered to make restitution
or $141 collected in benefits and
vas sentenced 120 days in jail,
■he latter suspended..
James Howard of Kodiak
aleaded guilty before U. S. Com
nissioner Rose Walsh for mak
ng a fraudulent statement in re
tard to his dependents and was
'ined $50 and sentenced to 15
lays in jail.
Robert L. Casto, college student
n Bellingham, Wash, was charg
ed with giving false information
>n claims involving seven weeks
>f unemployment. Because of his
muth and prior good record, he
vas granted a deferred sentence
or one year, on condition that
le make full restitution to the
Uaska Employment Security
Commission of the $184 he wrong
ully obtained.
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EXTENSION SERVICE |
ACP Deadline
All farmers who plan to parttc- |
pate in the Agriculture Conser
vation Program must file their
applications in the Extension of
fice before April 1. In making
the announcement, officials re
minded farmers that the office
will be closed all day Monday,
March 30 in observation of Sew
ard Day.
Atlemi Meet
Among those attending the Al
aska Territorial Conference at
the University of Alaska this
week are Dr. Allan Mick, Dr.
Curtis Dearborn and William
Sweetman of the Experiment
Station; Richard Blue district
agent, and Marylou Rideout,
home demonstration agent of the
Palmer area and John Hardcastle,
district agent at Homer; Bernice
Luthro, HDA of Homer; Audrey
Davies, HDA at Anchorage and
Haleen Price. HDA at Juneau.
Advance Made in War on Insects
Deerflies and mosquitoes may
have met their match if the ex
periments of entomologists of the
Oregon Experiment Station and
U. S. Department of Agriculture
continue successfully. The ento
mologists inject chemical lindane
>>nder the skin of cattle to kill
the insects. The lindane is car- j
ried bv the bloodstream to all I
parts of the animal’s body so that
a fly or mosquito that pierces the
animal’s skin in an attempt to
feed, is dosed with insecticide
instead.
Research has discovered that
lindane injections continue to kill
a high percentage of the deer
fies and two-thirds of the mos
quitoes feeding on test animals
for two to three weeks after the
injection. These same cattle were
*ept free from horn fies by the
injection.
This new approach to the old
problem of saving valuable milk
and meat animals from blood
sucking insects is still in the ex
perimental stage, the entomogo
gists said.
Heathy Chicks
Chickens raised in new, clean
luarteis and fed a normal diet
grow more efficiently than chicks
fed an antibiotic in “old” quart
ers previously used for chick
raising, U. S. Department of
Agriculture researchers said.
Antibiotics stimulate growth
by giving partial protection to the
chick during the weeks just after
hatching while it is adjusting to
the harmful bacteria in its envir
onment. If the antibiotic is re
moved after 4 weeks, the chicks
already in the old quarters con
tinued to grow without slowing
down the rate. However, chicks
moved from new quarters to the
old after 4 weeks showed a slump
in growth rate temporarily until
they became adjusted to the
harmful bacteria.
Researchers noted that since
most poultry producers are un
able to start chicks in new quart
ers every year, their chicken
houses compare to the old quart
ers used in the experiment.
Lindane Vapor Also Kills Flies
Lindane vaporizers can effec
tively control flies in some com
mercial buildings under most con
ditions, Department of Agricul
ture entomologists said. Although
in some open buildings such as
daii”' barns, where flies can
readily enter or leave the build
ings, insecticide vaporizers have
not proved altogether satisfact
ory. .
Typical lindane vaporizers that
disperse about one gram of lin
dane a day will control flies in
a ventilated but screened rodm
within three hours, the research
ers said. In tests in a large room
with three big windows and two
doors, even with the doors and
windows open, less than 7 parts
of vaporized lindane to 10 mil
lion in the room atmosphere kill
ed from two-thirds to three
fourths of the fhes. With doors
and windows closed, the fly-kill
was nract’cally 100 percent.
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CALENDAR
THURSDAY. MARCH 26
NORTHLAND PIONEER GRAN
GE No. 1, Grange Hall 8 p.m..
FRIDAY. MARCH 27
SATURDAY. MARCH 28
“BROTHER GOOSE,” Senior
Class play. School gym.
MONDAY. MARCH 30
KIWANIS CLUB, Co-Op club
room, 12:05 p.m.
BETA SIGMA PHI, Backward
Party, Carpenters’ Hall, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Co
op club room, 12:05 p.m.
MAT. VALLEY SPORTSMEN
CLUB, Club quarters, 8 p.m..
THURSDAY. APRIL 2
AMERICAN LEGION & AUXIL
IARY, Carpenters’ Hall, 8 p.m.
PAPER BY THE TON
FOR BILL RECORDING
Three and one half tons of
mimeograph paper was used for
running off bills, then rerunning
them after amendments had been
made, House Speaker George Mis
covich (R-Flat) announced last
week when he appealed to repre
sentatives to start sidetracking
bils with no chance of passage.
Nine were withdrawn by spon
sors. Legislature has set new rec
ords in bill introductions this
year, having introduced 200, com
pared to the record 162 last ses
sion.
1952 ANNUAL FWS REPORT
INDICATES BUSY YEAR
According to the annual report
of the Fish and Wildlife Explor
atory Fishing Investigation, ser
vice personnel engaged in marine
fishery management and patrol
activities in Alaska during 1952
used eight sea-going patrol ves
sels, 11 speedboats and about 60
outboard-powered small craft.
In addition 10 airplanes were
used and the total mileage cover
ed for the year was nearly a quar
ter of a million miles.
Five companies and 248 indi
viduals were found guilty of vio
lations and fines, forfeitures of
bonds and sales of confiscated fish
totaled more than $73,000.
DEADLINE FOR WASHINGTON
VETS CLAIMS IS MARCH 31
Deadline for filing applications
for the Washington State World
War II veterans’ bonus is March
31, Robert W. Mott, officer-in
charge at the Veterans Adminis
tration in Fairbanks announced
this week.
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