. WESTERN
Farm Crops Bril
The broad, rich farm country
of the west paid off this year
through a combination of the
high stateside food prices, bet
ter efficiency, and good luck, a
survey made by the New York
Times at the end of last month
shows.
Farm income in Nebraska, for
instance, is expected to pass the
billion-dollar mark. Kansas will
reap almost two billions for its
crops, livestock, and minerals.
Individual reports of farmers’
success is enough to make one
giddy: Dan Sheriff of Sheffield,
Iowa, sold 472 head of hogs and
got a check for $57,871, the
Times reported. Dan Thorton,
who owns a ranch near Gunni
son, Colo., sold three purebred
Hereford cattle for $35,000 each.
These exceptional remit
* tances, however, have brought
the opinion from many farm
ers that the prices are too high.
These persons admit that
everyone—farmer as well as
city dweller—would benefit
in the long run if farm prices
ewere lowered
The abundance of cash and the
fact that at no time in recent
years has there been such a
world-wide demand for food has
brought a heavy buyer’s market. |
The Mid-west farmers have
had their share of luck, too. For
the past seven years the weather
has given the farmers a break.
Better seeds, and machinery
have added to the quantity and
quality of the crop.
Since 1920, American agri
culture had doubled in value
until it now is worth about
111 billion dollars. Stateside
farmers, naturally, have ap
plied the cash to reducing
mortgages and at present coun
try banks are bulging with
money.
‘BONANZA’
ig Record Prices
The fly in the ointment is the
fact that under a merciless war
time schedule of planting to the
maximum, many farmers have
neglected to safeguard their soil
and conservation methods have
lagged.
Ten Winners
To Receive Gift
Of Frontiersman
Ten names were drawn for
one-month subscriptions to the
Valley Frontiersman at the Val
ley Theatre last Friday evening.
The drawing ended the month
long offering of a free subscrip
I tion 1o 10 theatre-goers each Fri
day evening.
The Frontiersman lists were
swelled by these subscribters in
Friday’s drawing:
Wayne Bowens, Marcella Vas
anoja, Tony Schnabel of An
chorage, John Postiches, June
Granger, Bob Sterkel, George
McBride, Philip Erickson, Jean
Dickson and O. R. Mitchell.
Duel In The Sun
To Thaw Palmer
Early Next Month
Another “first to be shown in
Alaka” movie is due to arrive
at the Valley Theatre soon.
“Duel in the Sun,” released in
the states in April, is coming
here very early in November.
This much-discussed movie has
been filmed in technicolor with |
stars Gregory Peck, Jennifer
Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lionel
Barrymore and many other Hol
lywood big-names.
Dates of the Valley showing
will be announced very shortly.
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| Aurora Carries
Kermit to Park
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Superintendent Carl Snelling
and the ‘Valley Frontiersman edi
tor, who had checked all Palmer
entries in the contest, listened
as the boy eagerly planned his
trip. Both knew that an Anch
orage woman had been an
nounced the winner. Both hoped
that there was some possible er
ror, for they too, knew that Ker
mit had written Aurora on his
entry blank.
Three long distance calls were
placed to Anchorage that morn
ing. Only then, were the hy
phened syllables explained. But
who was 10 tell Kermit?
Then Valley residents be
gan to hope that perhaps the
boy need not be told. It was
decided to call railroad heads
and ask that some recognition
and an alternate trip be given
the boy. Railroad officials re
plied that it would be impos
sible, for others had submitted
the name as Kermit wrote it.
But there was still a way. Ker
mit could be sent as a paying
guest and still have a week at
McKinley Park as his prize. More
long distance calls to Anchorage
revealed tnat the railroad would
not allow a child accommoda
tions at McKinley for a week’s
stay.
By then the glow was begin
ning to fade from Kermit’s eyes
and his faith to waver. School
mates told him that he was not
a winner. They said he would
not get a ride on the streamliner
nor a vacation in the park.
But Kermit’s story had been
repeated, and there were those
who heard it who believed, as
he does, that Aurora is Aurora,
no matter how it’s written Ar
rangements finally were com
pleted last week that will give
Kermit his prize trip. He is to
stay with Mrs. Laura Mommsen,
wife of a park employe. He will
live with the Mommsens, visit
the rangers, and will be taken
on trips and excursions to points
of interest in the park.
Kermit's trip was made pos
sible through the help of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Stiver of
Anchorage. Mr. Stiver former
ly was recreation director at
McKinley hotel, when the
park was a war-time army
restcamp. It was he who told
Mrs. Mommsen Kermit's story,
and through him an invitation
was extended to the boy to
spend his week in her Park
home.
Mrs. Mommensen, who had
been visiting in Anchorage, was
to meet Kermit at the train to
begin the trip with him. Aside
from the fact that it’s his first
ride on the streamliner, a trip he
feels he’s earned because he
helped name it, Kermit has an
other special reason for being
released—it will be his first trip
“north of Palmer,” he told a re
porter last week.
Kermit will be armed with a
new ballpoint pen, new camera
and notebook. He’ll be back this
week-end with a daily record of
his stay in the Park. He plans
lo share that McKinley vacation
with Valley residents, through a
printed account of his trip. Ker
mit’s story will appear in the
Valley Frontiersman next week.
Remember? — Adv.
Coffey Insures Everything—
Advertise the Valley. Send a
Frontiersman back home.
Win a Thanksgiving
Dinner
CHICKEN. HAM. TURKEY
FO RPRIZES
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at Valley Theatre
(Sponsored by Fire Assn.)
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