Hay Fever
• Sufferer Seeks
Relief in Valley
Sniffed any ragweed here
abouts lately?
If you have you’d be doing1
Murl S. Peterson a favor if
you’d let him know about it. I
Murl is an employe of the War!
Assets Administration in Tulsa.!
Okla. He's heard all about the
Matanuska Valley and says he’d
like to come, but—well, you
know ragweed. It makes him
tr.ee ze.
Murl wrote for information
about lots of things in the Val
ley. He'd like to know about
food prices, climatic conditions,1
and opportunities for work. He’s
got to make a change soon since
apparently Tulsa’s got a thick
growth of ragweed and—a-a- i
choo. Well, you know how it
is with hayfever.
Anyway, it will comfort Mr.
Peterson to know the Farm Se- j
Airity Administration says rag-j
weed has been found in the Val- j
ley in "scattered places” and it’s
not at all abundant.
Late Hunters
Hurry Out
For Final Try
With moose hunting season
in this area scheduled to draw
to a close on Saturday, Sept. 20,
belated parties of local hunters
were hurrying to the woods this
week for a last chance shot.
Among the late hunters this
week were Mr. and Mrs. Gilman
Lindsey, Lloyd King and Rev.
Victor Alfsen. The party left for
Willow on Tuesday, and expect
ed to be back within a day or
two.
Caribou hunters will have un
til Sept. 30 to get their quarry.
Doctor and Son
Leave for States
Dr. Bernice Andrews and son
Ifbbert left the Valley by bus
last Monday morning on the first
lap of a trip which will carry
them across the United States
to Chatanooga, Tenn.
Dr. Andrews planned to make
the trip by air. She left Anchor
age on Monday’s late afternoon
plane. Dr. David Hoehn,.husband
of Dr. Andrews, already is in
Tennessee.
The Hoehn farm in the Valley
has been leased.
VISITS PARENTS
Miss Delores Schrock, former
Valley resident now living in
Seldovia, visited her parents at
Wasilla last Monday. Miss
Schrock is nursing in the Sel
dovia hospital, at present.
Some 45.000 acres of homestead land opened recently by In
terior Secretary Julius Krug are shown above in the shaded
area of the map. This map was drawn from plans and informa
tion supplied by the District Land Office. Veterans may file
application on homesteads in this land on Sfept. 27 (Actually
Sept. 29 sin^e the Land Office is closed on Saturdays).
New Homestead Lands
Open September 27
.ruiiy-iive muusana acres or
land in the Wasilla-Goose Bay
area will be thrown open to land
hunngry veterans for homestead
sites on Sep%. 27.
. Filings will be accepted on
that date bv Lowell M. Pucket,
regional administrator of the Bu
reau of Lard Management in
Anchorage. Puckett’s office is on
the ground floor of the Federal
bulding.
Realizing the importance of
further developing the Mata
r.uska Valley Secretary J. A.
(Cap) Krug of the Department of
the Interior has freed the land
from general domain for home
steading.
The area is suitable for farm
ing although most"of the land
is unimproved.
* The new homesites may not
exceed 160 acres. The land is
free. A filing fee of $5 is charged
for tracts not larger than 80
acres. A S10 fee is charged for
tracts over 80 acres, plus a com
mission of £1.50 for each 40
acres.
The land which is located on
the northeastern end of Knik
Arm is about 25 miles west and
southwest of Palmer.
The Land Bureau paints no
rosy pictures of what lies ahead
for a homesteader who may file
for a tract of land in the area.
The office says frankly that very
little land has been cleared.
“Kcmesteaders will have to
start practically from the ground
up for there is no housing avail
able,” the office claims.
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atanuska Valiev Bank
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Saturdays 10 a.m. to 12
Friday Evenings 6 to 8
1 p.m. to 3
'ay, Sept. 20, 1947
ine original announcement
from Krug’s office in Washing
ton set the date for filing at
Oct. 17. However, soon after it
| was decided that preference-right
, veterans of World War II can
: bring their applications in as
early as Sept. 27.
j The so-called 90-day “prefer
ence period” begins Get. 17.
Puckett will accept any appli
cations brought in between Sept.
27 and Oct. 17, but he points
j out that all these applications
iwill be considered as though they
had been filed at the same time.
' In case of a conflict, it will be
necessary to hold drawings to
oetermine who gets the site.
' The general public has its first
, crack at land sites in the newly
opened area next Jan. 15.
Actual settlement will be per
mitted six months after the ap
plications have been processed
and approved.
Cld-timers in the Valley are
wondering whether the old ghost
town of Knik—once a thriving
community about 40 miles south
I west of Palmer on the north side
' of the Inlet—would be revived.
Much of the homestead area
I thrown open is in the general
vicinity of Knik where now only
a building or two still stands.
(Once it was a prosperous com
: munity, oldtimers recall.
| A center of supply for the Wil
low creek mining area, in 1912
Knik had about two dozen build
ings. This same year the school
house went up and had 15 stu
dents.
! For a few more years Knik
enjoyed its status as the point
through which passed 60% of the
supplies used by the proprietors
in the area. But by 1319, the sup
ply center for the miners shifted
to Wasilla on the new Alaska
Railroad. Slowly, the town’s pop
ulation dropped off.
Plagued by a scarcity of build
ing materials in those days just
as r ow, some of the structures
in Knik were torn down and
brought by boat across to the
infant town of Ship Creek (An
chorage) and put up again as
buildings there.
One by one the residents left
and today the old ghost-town con
tains one while family and a
few native families.
With the new homesteading
opening up in the area, Knik
may stage a come-back and per
haps even grow larger than for
merlv. as a renter of supply for
the surrounding homesteads.
! A hunt: NG THEY WENT
V/A'-JLLA — Two local resi
dents, Jim Kennedy and Thoma.
Cm .er. left Thursday for a final
attempt at their winter's meat
sunply. The men planned to hum
i unt*l moose season ends on Sept
j 23, but shortly before their liav
1 ing thev were still unheeded a
to the snot where they would do
their hunting.
Wasilia School
Pupils Planning
Student Council
WAS1LLA — Abandoning the
more formal type of high school
student body governme.it for the
first time this yt nr, pupils of
Wasilia high school, under the
guidance of high school teacher
Ernest Line, are now planning
the organization of a student
council.
Officers cf the council al
ready have been elected. They
include:
Juanita McDonald, president;
Don Dinkel, vice - president;
Katherine Peterson, secretary;
Bobby Ford, treasurer.
The officers of the council are
at present in the midst of revis
ing tiie lormer student body con
stitution for use under the coun
cil form of government. A cal
endar of the year's activities in
the school is also under way, but
will not be completed until a
little later in the term. Many
students of Wasilia school were
absent this week, time of the
potato harvest in the Valley.
Miss McDonald explained that
under the newly initiated coun
cil type of government, students
expect to assume more responsi
bility for the routine police
duties of the school.
"Well watch the halls, take
charge downstairs, take care of
the washrooms, and things like
that," she said.
VALLEY
VISITORS
AT THE LODGE—C. L. Chase,
G. L. Payne. Ray Heller, Harvey
Solfcerg, Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Baier, Peggv Elfson. Anchorage;
Paul Healv, Kenneth Boyd, Fort
Richardson; C. D. Sellers. Se
attle; Roy Palmer, Fort Richard
son; Ralph Neville, ARR: Moen
j lued Bogue, Juneau; Naomi Tal
bitzer. Anchorage; Thomas Ash
burn, Anchorage: W. T. White.
Portland, Ore.; D. P. Hafferty,
Anchorage; R. E. Lee Dulutn.
Minn.; Paul Stockard, Fairbanks
W. A. Knight, Anchorage.
Homo Makers Elect
Members of the BuLe Home
makers club, wnich met at the
home of Mrs. Vivian Goodrich
last week, named new officers
for the coming season’s work.
| Club members who will hold
I office are:
| Mrs. Marv King, Resident:
! Mrs. Peggy McKechnie, vice
j president; Mrs. Vivian Goodrich,
■| secretary-treasurer.
PLAN V/EDDING
Miss Roxy St. Thomas of Tac
cma. Wash., and J. A. Carney of
Monett, Mo., made application
| for a marriage license in Palmer
| this week. They said they plan
! ned to be married here later in
. e week.
PrizeWinner
Takes Trip
Lynn Sandvik and‘his
Mrs. I. jvl. Sandvik. left Palmer
this w*»k ci.route to Portland,
Oil its gm "ts of Ci !u . in Air
Cargo service. Lynn s trip war
ire prize-winrmg award riven to
th< best 4-II elub garden cisj»lay
at ilw recent Matanuska Valley
f«:ir.
Lynn, who Ir a 16-year < Id stu
dent in Palmer high si tool, is
a seven-year veteran in 4 II club
work ii« re. Prize w inning i . al
rrii st a habit for him now, for
he was the winner of a $50 war
bend for a top 4 H garden ex
hibit last year.
His 4-11 projects this y<; r were
gai doming and poultry, and he
entered exhibits in both classes
-it the* fair. In addition, lie* has
entered these two division s in
the National Gardening and Na
tional Poultry contests.
4-H activities have occupied
much of the time of this teen
age Palmer c outh. Besides com
pleting work in his chon n fields,
Lynn has attended 4-11 tamps at
King’s Lake for the past several
years, last year went to Fair
banks to attend the 4-If Roundup
at the University, and this year
is a junior 4-H leader of t!.“ Butte
Beys' club and a member of the
4-H Council of Matanuska Valley.
| Gardening has been his chief
| interest throughout the years, for
| he has undertaken a gard en pro
Iject in each of the seven years
j he has competed in 4-H work.
Glo ve Class
[Planned Here
Mrs. Bernice Johnson of the
' Extension office is now organ
izing a class in glove-making
open to all Valley women, she
announced this week.
Materials for the course have
been ordered, and should arrive
in the near future. All interested
women are asked to register for
the course at the Extension of
fice, indicating their preference
I for time and day on which they
| wish to meet.
4 District Worker
Corning Tuesday
| Mrs. Margaret Hafemeisfer,
district worker of the Depart
' mer.t of Fublic Welfare, will
come to Palmer next Tuesday
and Wednesday on her regular
business trip.
She will make home calls
around the Valley and asks that
' anyone wishing to see her please
leave word at the Rcc hall. Mrs.
1 Hafemeister asks that people try
to make an appointment Tues
day aiiernoon.
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