PALMER SCOUTS LEAVE FOR
KINGS LAKE CAMP SUNDAY
Summer camp for Palmer Boy
Scouts will open Sunday after
noon at Kings Lake, Scoutmaster
Harry Wimmer announced today,
and continue until June 7.
The 1953 camping season of
ficially opened Sunday, May 31
with a light enrollment of about
40 boys from three Third Divi
sion troops. It is possible tLat
Scouts from Homer will atttwri
this week, raising the enrollment
figure.
Second and third week enroll
ments will run to capacity, ac
cording to Maurice Powers, Scout
executive and camp director.
Other staff members for the
three weeks of Scout camping
include Kenneth H. Ubbelohde,
Norman Lowenstein, Dick Wyatt,
and Fred Van Horst, on the cen
tral staff, assisted by junior staff
members Ronnie Peterson, Ken
neth Haisten, Mike Olsen, Dale
Clarke and Bernard Hollenbeck.
Wyatt will be waterfront director;
he is explorer advisor for Elmen
dorf Explorer Post 778.
Parents of Palmer Scouts are
requested to take their youngsters
to camp, planning to arrive
around 3 p.m. and are invited
to visit and inspect the camp
while there. Boys attending will
be housed in tents and will re
quire bed rolls or sleeping bags
and other camping gear.
Any Scout who does not have
transportation to camp is asked
to contact Scoutmaster Wimmer
before Sunday.
CORPUS CHRISTI DAY
OBSERVED AT ST. MICHAEL'S
The Feast of Corpus Christi
was observed at St. Michael’s
Catholic Church this morning,
June 4, with a Mass celebrated
at 8 a.m. by Rev. James P.
Snead.
White vestments were worn by
Rev. Snead. While not a holy day
of obligation, Corpus Christi is a
day of devotion observed by
Catholics in commemoration of
the Institution of the Eucharist
with joyful ceremonies forbidden
during Holy Week.
CONSERVATION
NOTES
By Lew E. Hanks
Outside of a few days’ wind I
would say we’ve had an ideal
spring so far. I’ve never seen the
grass come any better than it has
this year. You can sure tell the
difference when the fertilizer was
really put on. There is another
item also. Well fertilized young
grass produces a forage with a
high protein content. That means
you need feed a lot less concen
trate at the barn if you are pas
turizing first class fertilized
brome. That is where some real
money saving comes in.
Perhaps you’ve noticed some
thing about your grass lands.
Brome grows fast after it gets
going. It shouldn’t be grazed un
, til it’s about five inches high.
Then a week or two later it is
ten inches high and the cows can’t
keep up with it. Then is the time
to have that field sub-divided.
Confine the cows into small
enough areas that they will graze
it off uniformly. That young grass
in the ungrazed areas would
make a top quality high protein
feed if you are willing to sacrifice
a little quantity for quality. Cut
it early, let it air dry for a day
or so, rake it up and head for the
bam. It will save you a lot on
concentrates if you chop it up
and feed it next winter.
If the grass is still damp when
harvested, build a long rack in
the hay mow three or four feet
from the floor. Spread out your
loads on this rack and as it dries
both from above and below re
distribute this barn dried hay on
to the hay mow floor itself. This
method works. It is also work, but
worth it!
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CEREMONY HONORS
VETERANS OF ALL WARS
Memorial Day services conduct
ed by Matanuska Valley Post No.
15, American Legion at the Pal
mer Cemetery May 30, were well
attended.
Post Chaplain, Seth Cook pre
sented the invocation followed by
Dr. Foster Sims who sang the
“Lord’s Prayer.”
Members of the Legion, Palmer
Moose Lodge, city fire depart
ment and members of the Fire
Control station had burned off
weeds and brush in and around
the cemetery previous to the cere
mony. Veterans graves were dec
orated with poppy wreaths by
members of the American Legion
Auxiliary and each was marked
with a small American flag plac
ed in a Legion standard. Other
graves in the cemetery were also
decorated in honor of the dead.
Members of the Legion and
Auxiliary displayed their post
colors and furnished their respec
tive color guards.
A tribute to sailors who lost ]
their lives in service to their
country was paid by a group of
pilots from the Matanuska Air
mens’ Association who flew in
formation and dropped a wreath
of flowers into the Matanuska
River during the services.
Wasilla Honors Dead
Members of the Wasilla Veter
ans of Foreign Wars held Memori
al Day services at 11 a.m. May;
30 in the Wasilla cemetery. Two ■
troops of uniformed Wasilla Boy
Scouts assisted in the program.
The only veteran’s grave in the j
Wasilla cemetery, Philip Olson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Olson
was decorated by members with
a red, white and blue emblem
and an American flag. Boy Scout
Garret Hjellen sounded Taps at
the close of the ceremony.
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WASHINGTON
NEWSLETTER
Rivers and Harbors
In passing the appropriation
bill for the Corps of Engineers
this week, the House applied a
48 percent cut against the Tru
man budget for construction funds
for river and harbor and flood
control projects and a 24 per
cent reduction of the Eisenhower
revised budget.
Funds were allowed for con
tinuation of projects under way,
and no money was recommend
ed for starting any new projects
authorized over the years.
Radio Debate
Senator Smathers of Florida
and Delegate Bartlett will take
opposite sides on the Alaska state
hood issue when the subject is
debated in New York on June
9.
The debate will be heard on
“Town Meeting of the Air” which
is broadcast throughout the na
tion. *
Health and Education
Appropriations
The House overruled its Appro
priations Committee this week
and restored $2,501,500 for the
Office of Education for instruc
tion funds for land-grant colleges
and universities throughout the
country.
The action was taken when the
House passed the 1954 fiscal year
appropriation for the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare.
If the allowance is sustained in
the Senate, it means that the
University of Alaska for the first
time will come within the pro
gram of the Office of Education
which allocates funds to supple
ment the budgets for instructors
at land-grant colleges. Alaska’s
share would amount to $21,500
made possible through an auth
orization bill sponsored by Dele
gate Bartlett which became law
last year.
No charge was made by the
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HUGE CROWD SEES
HOLIDAY BOAT RACES
Hundreds of spectators viewed
the first boat races of the season
held Memorial Day at Lake
Lucille in Wasilla. Alaska Rail
road cars brough many hundreds
to the lake, while many others
drove to the area/
Lewis Fitzgerald of the Anchor
age Outboard Club took top
honors with a total of 2,000 points,
with five firsts. Glen Brewster
finished second and Pic Pickens
placed third. They are also mem
bers of the Anchorage Club. Only
Fairbanks winner was J. D. Rank
who finished third in the D-hydro
class. Two other Fairbanks dri
vers were unable to start their
motors.
The boat, motor, rod and reels
awarded during the day all went
to Anchorage area residents.
House in approving the commit
tee’s recommendation of $1,082,000
for the disease and sanitation in
vestigation and control program
cooperatively operated by the Al
aska Department of Health and
the Public Health Service. The
sum represented the amount
recommended in the Eisenhower
budget, $25,000 below the $1,107,
000 sought in the Truman budget.
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We would like to express our
gratefulness and thanks for the
prayers, help and friendship of
fered by everyone in our time of
need. We do believe that all of
the best people must be here in
Alaska. We only hope we will be
able to pass all the kindness
shown us, on to someone else
during their troubled times.
We especially want to thank the
group of men who worked so hard
all day and night near Little Su
sitna.
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