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<lort Buckets, members of the
Anchorage City league, in the
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The preliminary game will
feg n ■ j.30 p.m.. followed at
ft P m ty the main game.
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ferma .3 Club president. Bob
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COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP SPIRIT
WILL BUILD HISTORICAL MUSEUM
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Community Friendship is the
seed, which when sown in good
soil, produces growing, success
mi’“ radius of each other.
Close-knit friendship of the
community went along in a
sort of idyllic manner until
1935 when the arrival of the
Colonists seemed to swamp this
friendship. However, the en
thusiastic optimism of the new
comers became so contagious
that Community Friendship
thrived and each homesteader,
realizing their success was de
pendent also on the success of
the other homesteaders, work
ed with a community spirit un
til soon there were houses to be
proud of and highway systems
throughout the entile Matanus
ka Valley.
During the transition from
an almost primitive settlement
of two families and three bach
elors many interesting things
have taken place. The old piow
has given way to the motor
powered vehicle, the barrel
stove to the oil or coal burning
furnace, the- old coal-oil lamp
to the modern eleetirc lights,
and the woodburning kitchen
stove to the gas range.
Al! these household utensils
and the old farm equipment us
ed in the fields have become
museum Dieces and are looked
upon with interest by people
passing through our valley
Aside from the pleasure of
building a museum there is the
economic view of attracting
hundreds of tourists to .-.top in
our community . . . and tour
ists' dollars h.r.e proven to he
a valuable asset to many states,
all inter-dependent, is the spirit
Moose Sponsor
Teenage Dance Party
All valley teenagers, between
the apes of 13 and 19 years, are
invited to attend the dance par
ty being sponsored by the Pal
mer Moose Lodge on Saturday.
February 24 at Moose hall.
Dancing will begin at 3 p.rn.
and those wishing to take fav
orite records to the dance are
invited to do so. There will be
a number of records on hand.
Admission will be 25 cents and
refreshments will be served.
There will be adult chaperones
on hand during the dance
party.
HOUSTON NEWS
By Mildred Bryant
The Homesteaders Club met
February 14 at Mrs. Walter
Glaser's home at Rocky Lake.
Members plan sponsorship of a
iocal area Civil Defense organ
ization to encompass the Hous
ton, Big Lake and Pittman re
gion. Committees were formed
to further purchase of a build
ing suitable for community
purposes and to make arrange
ments for a public meeting for
Civil Defense at 1 p.m. March
18 at the Baptist Church at Big
Lake Junction.
* * *
Area Re-development plans
for the Seventh Election Dis
trict were discussed and stud
ied at a meeting of the local
AKA working committee in the
MEA board meeting room Feb
ruary 13. A spot-check of popu
lation growth and percentage
of unemployment is being un
dertaken in the Houston-Wil
low areas. General reports on
local resources were given by
committee. Committee mem
bers are Mason LaZelle, chair
man. Rose I’almquist, secre
tary: James Hurley, Ray John- {
son and Phil O'Neill.
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havior of prices in the face of a
real or threatened surplus. As
an example members point to
a recent event when a West
coast surplus of potatoes result
ed in a successful Januray bid
of $4.34 per cwt. to the armed
forces near Anchorage by a
Washington firm. In February
this same firm bid $4.83. Faced
with the possibility their pota
toes might remain unsold, local
farmers entered an average lo
cal bid of .0427 55 cents per
cwt below the competitive
stateside offer. Applied to the
entire crop, this could reduce
income of railbclt farmers un
necessarily by nearly $60,000, it
was pointed out. This will not
happen, they added, because
there is no major surplus. How
ever. in 1958 a small surplus
broke the price by 50 per cent
and income of potato producers
was reduced in excess of $150,
000.
Market-wise, Alaskan farm
ers are on the far end of a
one-way street, the asociation
states. There are no alterna
tive markets . . . high costs
and small volume preclude
efficient conversion of their
suppluses into other commo
dities such as starch and al
cohol in the case of potatoes.
They benefit by neither sup
port nor diversion prices as
extended to their stateside
A thiyd reason for market
ing orders, according to the as
sociation, is in the nature of
outside competition. Reliable
reports indicate that whole
sale prices of at least three lo
cally produced commodities
have been lowered by stateside
sources for export to Alaska
only, the association reported.
If so, they state, this constitutes
‘‘dumping” and in effect, ex
porting unemployment to Al
aska farmers.
It was pointed out that
J farmers are not strangers to
preferential freight rates, for
they have frequently been
used to encourage production
in new regions. At present,
preference is used in reverse,
they report. Among the cost
1 items for importing milk to
[ Alaska is the return of the
insulated tank, which is sim
ilar in size, weight and meth
od of handling to a small
house trailer, and is about
twice as valuable.
Freight rates approved by
the Federal Maritime Commis
sion for shipping these two
comparable items from Anch
orage to Seattle are 31.9 cents
cwt on the tank, and $10.20
cwt on the house trailer. As
suming equal weight, the frei
ght bill wouid be $23 on the
tank and $734 on the house
trailer. A differential of 30 to
I 1 in favor of a commodity di
rectly in competition with local
production.
The road to success is a pub
lic highway—not a deadend
street.
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BOROUGH SIZE
TO BE DISCUSSED
A meeting with the Anchor
age Borough Committee on
February 17 resulted in an
over-whelming majority in fa
vor of three areas of borough
government in the Cook Inlet
drainage, according to Robert
Vroman, area representative to
the meeting.
Anchorage area study
groups plan to confine them
selves to an area between
Knik Bridge and Portage.
However, there is pressure
from the planning committee
to include the McKenzie
Point area, Vroman said.
“Our borough committee of
the Matanuska-Susitna valleys
intends to provide data favor
able for inclusion in our peti
tion,” Vroman said, “as well
as conducting meetings in the
area.”
An education team is sch
eduled to conduct meetings
at Montana and Talkeelna on
February 24 and 25, respect
ively, and return with data
from those areas. On Febru
ary 26 a meeting for all in
terested person will be at 8
p.m. in the Wasilla school.
On March 5, following a sug
gestion of Wiliam A. Zahradni
cek, superintendent of schools,
a joint meeting of the Palmer
Independent School District
board of education. Palmer
City Council and all State Sch
oll Advisory Boards in the
area will be held. Representa
tives of the State Education
Department have been invited
and it is hoped that a plan for
integration of the borough
school system can be formulat
ed; anticipated costs developed,
as well as transitional phasing
of the existing systems.
The public is invited lo al
lend fhe March 5 meeting
which will bo held in the
Wasilla school, especially
those interested in schools.
Committees have been estab
lished to cover other phases of
the borough formation problem
and additional representation is
needed from Sutton, Butte area,
and Willow. Committees need
ing the most effort are schools,
boundaries, service areas, and
revenues. Persons willing to
work on these committees are
requested to contact Vroman at
j FR 6-3244 or by writing to him
i at P.O. Box 716, Wasilla.
University Dean
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j at the present time for storage
of such documents would be
the University of Alaska,
j "I am really thrilled at the
efforts being put forth in the
| Matanuska Valley to create a
| museum,” Dr. Heller told his
listeners. “This museum will
provide public relations value
beyond your greatest estimate
... it will last and build up
through the years. The museum
will attract people to the val
ley and Palmer in great num
bers. This is the one thing vis
itors will seek out while here,”
he said.
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