Palmer's Progress
Flirts With Weather
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teurizing room is new, although
the bottling equipment, next on
the assembly line, is still some
thing less than up-to-date.
Very little milk is bottled in
Palmer, except that needed for
local wholesale distribution to
stores and markets. Milk destin
ed for Anchorage is piped imme
diately to a tanker truck and
bottled at the Anchorage Dairy.
While milk plays an impor
tant part in any dairyman’s
thinking, it’s the Matanuska
Maid ice cream in its 15 different
flavors that have Valley milk
men chuckling in rose-colored
dreams. The ice cream depart
ment is the big business depart
ment of the MVFCA’s dairy.
A new 500-gallon stainless
steel pasteurizer and mixer has
just been installed in this de
partment. “Its the most expen
sive piece of equipment of its
kind in Alaska,’’ Mr. Bell boasts.
And it will probably pay for it
self faster than any other
piece of equipment that could be
purchased for the creamery.
The big machine turned out
1,500 gallons of ice cream last
week, and it can do much better
than that when demand curves
up during the summer season.
From the mixer, the ice cream
mix goes to a storage room to
cool off at 35 degrees for at
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least 12 hours. Then it’s ready
to go into one of the two 10-gal
lon freezers, to be combined with
a true fruit flavoring and emerge
as ice cream 10 minutes later.
These freezers turn out an aver
age 500 gallons of ice cream
daily.
Last new piece of equipment
for the creamery for the present
is the machine purchased to
package the ice cream in bricks.
Processed and packaged in the
modern and convenient quarters
of the MVFCA’s creamery, the
ice cream finally is stored in a
3,000-gallon capacity storeroom
to await a twice-a-week delivery
to Anchorage.
Future plans of creamery man
ager Bell and his six employes
have a new bottle washing ma
chine on the head of their want
list. But almost as near the top
on that list is their “want” for
an even bigger ice cream busi
ness—they can handle it, they
know, for they’ve planned the
MVFCA creamery so that it can
accommodate new machinery to
take care of almost any volume
of business.
Meanwhile the Valley’s 37
Grade “A” dairymen eye the
mounting figures in black on the
ice cream ledger and begin to
wonder if they oughtn’t to trade
cows for ice cream freezers.
Palmer Photo Art
Although the Photo Art and
Legion Buildings have been a
building most of the summer,
they’re still a part of Palmer’s
newest construction. Both build
ings, which sit neighbors to one
another across from Koslosky’s,
are expected to be ready in Oc
tober.
The Photo Art Building will
house a drug store, fountain,
men’s wear store and art and
gift shop in addition to the pho
tography shop.
Legion Hall will furnish base
ment quarters for the Valley Le
gion post and Auxiliary this
winter.
AHA Lab
The Agricultural Research Ad
ministration’s two story struc
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ture is sprouting rapidly. Walls
and the second story are to be
poured by the end of the week,
with the roof slab scheduled to
be finished by Oct. 5. Employes’
hopes for office housing before
Christmas still flicker, although
the prospect of occupancy that
soon does not appear too likely.
Union Oil
Union Oil’s new service station
and garage is daily taking on
more of the appearance of a fin
ished structure. Manager Palmer
Ickes has promised a full prog
ress report, as well as a peek into
the planned future, within the
next few days.
Off For College
Miss Gayle Eckert of Palmer,
valedictorian of last year’s grad
uating class, left the Valley re
cently to attend college Outside.
Gayle will go to Washington
State College at Pullman, Wash.
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To Go Outside
Mrs. Don Parks expects to
leave Palmer shortly with her
son Dean. She will fly to Port
land, Ore., where the boy will
enter Shriner’s Hospital for
treatment. Mrs. Parks was un
certain whether she would re
main in Portland this winter, or
will return to the Valley.
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PROGRESS
Electricity has played a tre
mendous part in the ad
vancement of farming
methods. On modern farms
of today electricity is an
inexpensive helper. Makes
life easier and production
higher. We are proud that
we have had a hand in
supplying this progress. We
are always ready and will
ing to serve you.
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( Incorporated )
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“Serving the Valley since 1942”
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PHONE 81Y1