THE llAT^NUSIiA VALUE’' PIONEER
Published Thursdays at
Palmer Alaska
Task Allman, Editor - Publisher
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UPON GOIKf OEE IL'JjF COOKED
xi rumor, unless it be started
with the downright vicious intent
of misleading others, is usually a
matter of someone going off half
•■■‘c eked j
A stateiia- nt can be carelessly
reseated so as to out an entirely
different meaning to that intended
by tie quoted oarty; or it can be
misunderstood and made to contain
that which had no cart in the au
thor’s words.
aimer is rife with harmful ru
mors. During the oast ten days one
has been informed that:
"The F2P.A has folded uo end
there will be no more money with
whi ch to corap lets t': a ^ro ? e ct •
"The Suoreme Court of the ”,
has seen as Lad to oass upon the
constitutionality of estab 1 ishin{■
uermanent homes for sere relief
clients while others starve.'"'
"This is a war measure, and t1 ey
don’t "are what it costs. :
"This is an experiment patterned
after the Russian Collective harm
■■ y st era. ’1
"This whole thing is just a mat
ter of redistribution of wealth and
it don’t make any difference what
it costs as it is creating employ
ment and giving everyone a chance
to earn a few dollars."
In fact, one could hear almost
anything. cone of th- done was im
agination -remnant; mire fiction.
Some of it had foundation in fact
but was embellished by the individ
ual viewnoint of those who relayed
it.
Here is an illustration of how
these things can start. On Wednes
day evening, in a conversation with
a colonist from the rutte section,
we were giimn to unch rstand that an
order had issued from hr. i' eely’s
office to the effect that each col
onist' was to have ten acres cleared
by snring or take the consequences.
This was entirely new to us and
naturally we were interested. An
inquiry disclosed that there had
been no such order; that Hr. Shoely
had said, in the presence of t1 is
man, that he would LIKE to see ten
cleared acres on each tract, but
that such on order wouldn’t be fair
because the clearing of ten acres
on some tracts would entail no more
work than the clearing of two on
other carts of tlie croiect.
T s false resorts made the A'0
vires, asseared in t^.e Thursday
^nchorar e Times and. v/as broadcast
by J. ?. over "tat ion VFQT . be
cause of the obvious unfairness of
such a ruling;, there is little
doubt but whet it has bred a feel
ing of dissatisfaction in the minds
of many of tie colonists wvo have
heard or read of it.
Here is another instance show
ing how in the matter of going off
half cocked one can create useless
worries.
On Tuesday evening T. ^. read
over the air the following item
f roin the Anc1 mrsge Times .
"Approximately two million dol
lars has been scent on the liatan
uska Valley government croject
s 1 nce inceotion a year ago, H. VT*
0 r i f f i n , secret- ry o f 1 a ska, re
sorted todayM
There arc now 16 7 farm lies liv
ing in the . atanuska colony, indi
cating that °lose to )12,000 has
been expended in federal aid for
each f a mil'’."
lesnite the fact that there is
net one v.ora in this resort which
•states the Indebtedness of the in
dividual canonist, there have been
a number croc into the office who
: re fully convinced that they owe
11'e cornoration h12,000.
Two small fires, one at the old
: os'oital vf ich is new being used as
^ bunk house , and one at the bi.3
tent housing. tve caterpillars, have
nrcven t>e effi^ienc^ of our volun
teer fire department, but for the
purpose of savins time Father °uls
man has inau. urated the following
sign .1 system* to be sounded on the
0 o w e r ] i c u s e wh i s 11 e .
1 long 1 short Com. Center
1 P VT of p p rp-r-P O'
• • o- • • 4, m Jl • • _L -L O. •
1 3 .. In the country
The general alarm will be sue cessiv
shorts and \ hen the f ire is cut it
will be announced with two long
blasts.
If you snot a fire give one
extra long ring on the nearest tel
ephone and caive location together
\ ith number of whistles to be
biown 10 w•:rich.ever answers, 0it’er
the fire hall or the powerhouse.
Ass emb 1 e s. t y. ^. cross! ng w ith
all fire fighting equipment from
your bunkhouse whenever an alarm
is sounded.
Paine r isnTt the only soot in.
Alaska that nets a bit of wind now
and ayain.
burin,... a storrr. at r itka recent ly
a high wind tolled th> bells of the
Cathedral for eight hours. Tt also
did consic!creble damaye to orooerty