Backing Sought
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help in the mailer.
Mr. Hagen read a suggested
form letter, incorporating a num
ber of points to be stressed in
the letters of individuals. This
letter announced that sites had
been secured for the hospital,
and pointed to the Valley advan
tages of climate, food supply, and
recreation.
Copies of this letter may be se
cured from Hagen if other resi
dents are interested in writing in
support of the project.
Annual Meeting Planned
The annual meeting of the
congregation of the United
Protestant church will be held
next Sunday, it was announced
today by Rev. Victor Alfsen. A
potluck dinner will be served
immediately following Sunday’s
morning services, and the busi
ness meeting will begin immed
iately after the dinner.
A review of the past year’s
work will be presented, and
plans and the budget for the
coming year will be discussed.
New officers also will be elected
at this meeting.
PALMER COLD STORAGE & LOCKER SERVICE
for
Choicest Cuts of Meats of All Types
Competent, efficient service for processing
of your own meats and vegetables in our
lockers.
Attention, Butte Residents
We've Changed Our Bus Schedule
Just for YOU
Commencing January 15
Buses Will Run at the Following Hours:
TO ANCHORAGE:
6:30 a.m. (Daily Except Sunday).
8:00 a.m.
4:00 p.m. (Via the Butte)
TO PALMER:
11:30 a.m. (Via the Butte).
4:30 p.m. (Daily Except Sunday).
7:30 p.m.
Matanuska Valley Bus Lines
Changes Suggested
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ing the hunting of moose,
mountain goat, mountain
sheep, bxown and grizzly
bears, black bears, mink, land
otter, fox, lynx, weasels,
muskrats, beavers, martin, and
game birds were retained in
their present form by unani
mous vote of the group.
Mr. Larsen briefly outlined
the work in extermination of
predatory animals which the
Fish and Wild Life Service ex
pects to begin this year. He
said $25,000 had been allotteo
his department to begin experi
mental work in this field. That
sum will be given for the next
three years, and he feels in that
time the Service will have gone
far toward eliminating the
wolves, coyotes and wolverines
which now make large inroads
on Alaska’s game animals.
Before the hearing was
closed, Mr. Larsen issued a spe
cial word of warning in regard
to the final resolution, which
moves the shooting area for
moose back to within a quarter
of a mile of the highway.
“If this passes, he said, “you
are going to have to help us by
living up to it. Everyone of you
caught closer in is going to be
booked. We can be a little len
ient on a mile or even half a
mile, but when it comes as close
as a quarter of a mile, you're go
ing to have to live up to the let
ter of the law.’’
Community
Calendar
FRIDAY
BOY SCOUTS meet in United
Protestant church at 5:30 p.
m.
SATURDAY
BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEAD
ER. PHS vs. 10th Rescue at 8
p.m. Shamrocks vs. 175th Sig
nalCo. at 9:30 p.m.
MONDAY
DAIRYMAN'S ASSOCIATION
meets in Extension office at 8
p.m.
SENIOR GIRL SCOUTS meet in
Lutheran church at 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
WOMEN OF THE MOOSE ini
tiation at Grange hall, 8 p.m.
12:30 CLUB MEETS
Members of the Twelve-Thir
ty Homemakers club will meet
at the home of Mrs. Glen Woods
next Wednesday for the regular
January meeting, Mrs. Mildred
Moebius, secretary, announced
today.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember? —Adv.
VALLEY
THEATRE
FRIDAY. SATURDAY
“Secrets of a Co-Ed”
Olio Kruger, Tina Thayer
news, carloon, musical
SUNDAY. MONDAY
VALLEY
THEATRE
Tanana Farmers
Want Seed Spuds
Of Local Growers
Farmers of the Tanana Valley
are seeking 20 to 30 tons of cer
tified seed potatoes for use by
members of the Tanana Valley
Cooperative Association, it was
innounced this week by Parker
Lester, Extension agent here.
Mr. Lester said he had written
he head of the Tanana Co-op,
mclosing a list of names of Mat
.inuska Valley farmers who hold
.ertified seed potatoes. Any
.armer whose seed has been cer
ified may write directly to the
Tanana Co-op at Fairbanks con
cerning the need there.
Mr. Lester also has further in
formation on the order on file
at the Extension office.
Common Problems
l’o Be Studied
By Farmer Groups
The organization of an agri
cultural committee, which has
been in the planning stage at the
office of Parker Lester, local Ex
tension agent, for the past sever
al months, is progressing well,
Mr. Lester announced this week.
The purpose of this committee
is to unify agricultural endeav
or and to establish a definite
program in the field, Mr. Lester
said.
"It is a known fact that
Alaska's agriculture is on the
upward trend," he stated. We
have many more problems to
contend with now than ever
before. In order to confront
these problems systematically,
so that the major ones will
come first, it was decided to
establish committees in each
community or trading center
of the territory."
He explained that the chair
man, or his designee, within
each community will constitute
a district committee. Each dis
trict chairman will be a member
of the territorial committee.
Through a process of elimina
tion, only problems of territorial
interest will be dealt with by the
territorial committee. However
these problems will originate
within the communities and
their solution will represent a
program which must meet with
the approval of that local com
mittee.
‘‘In other words, it’s an agri
cultural program originated by
the people and for the people I
of Alaska,” he concluded.
Mr. Lester said the commit
tees will be appointed within
the communities through local
organizations. In the Valley the
two Granges and the Chamber
of Commerce will be asked to
name a committee to work with
Mr. Lester in establishing the
agricultural program here.
Early problems expected to be
Work Planned
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winter. It is their job to learn
of what the soils in the Valley
are composed, and what soil
shortages are here.
This work is a prerequisite^for
all nutrition, Mr. Irwin explain- i
ed, adding, “We must know
what the soil lacks before we
can know what to add as nutri
tional replacement. Our nutri
tional work will not be started
until we know what is in our
soils.”
Under field and horticultural
crops, this year’s problems of
feed production, processing and
preservation will be studied
Cereal varieties as a foundation
for feed production will be test
ed, as well as methods of pasture
and range improvement. Ex
perimental work will be con
ducted in potato breeding, in an
attempt to develop a potato
adapted to Alaskan conditions.
In animal and dairy hus*
bandry, a number of exp$pi
ments are now in process. A calf
feeding project is being con
ducted in the Valley, and the
effect of light on the physical
condition and production of
dairy animals is being studied
in a controlled experiment at
Fairbanks.
Cod liver oil dosages for
poultry flocks are being lest-,*,
ed on hens at the Valley ex
periment farm.
Two original research pro
jects will be conducted in Alas
ka this year. One, now in pro
gress at Petersburg, seeks to
develop improved methods of
refrigeration through a method
whereby air is not blown di
rectly into the freezing room,
but circulates between walls. If
successful, this experiment is
expected to be beneficial to all
farmers, for it will cause much
less dehydration of stored vege
tables.
A similar experiment is in
progress in the Valley, where
potatoes are stored in a cellar
below an ice room. The air is
blown across the stored ice and
forced indirectly into the potato
bins.
MINISTER VISITS
Pastor M. L. Miles of Anchor
age spent last Saturday in
Palmer, when he conducted
communion services for mem
bers and visitors of the Seventh
Day Adventist church here.
Reverend Miles later was the
dinner guest of Dr. and Mr»r
Harold Lamberton of Palmer.
studied by these agricultural
committees include problems of
soil conservation, over-all mar
keting, legislation, research,
transportation and other press
ing topics immediately effecting
agriculture.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember? Adv.
THE VALLEY BARBER SHOP
is now open for business at its new location in quarters
formerly occupied by the photography shop.
DARYL MEEKS, Prop.
There’s an O’HARRA bus leaving...
PALMER FOR ANCHORAGE
Daily at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
ANCHORAGE FOR PALMER
Daily at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
(Except Sunday)
Sunday bus at 9 ajn. and 6 p.m.
PALMER FOR WASILLA
Daily at 1 and 8 p.m.
Connections for Gulkana. Fairbanks and Whitehorse
On Monday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a. m.
O’Harra Bus Lines