RANDOM RAMBLINGS OUT WASILLA WAY
By E. Hiellen
If the news in this column ap
pears to be skimpy—it isn’t be
cause things didn’t happen—I
just haven’t been home, long
enough to find it all out. Yep,
we’re home again—Gary from
Valperiso, Indiana and Alice from
Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital at
Sitka.
Fred Hurd of the ARC had a
tractor-trailer loaded with timber
for the bridge at Little Susitna
It seemed like a year since I
last saw Phil Coleman—but it
was only last March that he went
down to Chirikof Island to herd
sheep apd cattle. He’s back jump
ing bar at Johnnie’s for the win
ter.
The best thing about the fu
ture is that it comes only one day
at a time.
Mrs- Waldo Erickson brought
the sister home that their two
boys had ordered.
By the time you read this _
"‘Pee Wee" Dryden should have
a rew cast on his left leg that
will enable him to straighten his
k ree.
The Ernie Lines may oe read
ing this in their new home when
the Frontiersman comes out
Thursday night. Have some pipe
installations to make, yet. But
they’ll heat with Flamo until they
.get their coal pile in.
Flo Alice Tryck (nee Dinkle)
with her husband Bill and two
children are visiting in the Val
ley with the folks. When not
visiting — they were moose hunt
ing.
We have the same teachers at
the school system except for the
addition of George R. Harbeson
who took Miss Potter’s place in
the high school. Along with his
other duties, Mr. Harbeson is
scheduled to handle athletics and
physical education. The school has
154 registered—of which 30 are
hi-schojl students. Twenty of
these are boys. The coach should
have ample material for a point -
. scoring squad.
Extensions on the bus runs are
to the Hay Flats and Cottonwood.
Our Civil Defense program had
Pat Carter into Palmer to work
out a program with Mrs Sandell
for first aid classes. It is tenta
tively planned that these will
start October 13th. All interested
—leave names with May Carter
for Pat.
Was talking to the ‘-'guys who
know—and the grammar school
should be finished in time to be
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ANCHORAGE. ALASKA
a Christmas present for the pu
pils. Those who are working to
make it possible are: Ed Finnell,
Kelly Renfro, Dan, Ed and Pat
Carney, Eldor Hulke, Roy Lucus,
Roy Morrison, A1 Reeder, Thur
man (Bill) Mears, George Nel
son, Frank Clyde, Linn Hopkins,
Her.ry Hanson, Toi Utila, Matt
Niemi and R. B. Bowlby. Sup
ervising these men is Joe Dixon.
Stepping over a fallen moose
to cut its throat—Pat . Carter
found that he was astride a non
bucking animal. Before Ray Otto
could shoot it, Pat had sustained
a bruised forehead from the horns
of the moose. Guess the bull had
not seen a rodeo—didn't know
what was expected of it.
The King of Siam has a herd
of 100 sacred white elephants and
over 1,000 wives. No man needs
100 elephants.
Mrs. M. D. Snodgrass
Honored al Dinner
Mrs Margaret Snodgrass was
given the degree of honorary
member in Theta Chapter Beta
Sigma Phi on September 28 at
a buffet dinner held in her honor
by the sorority group at the
home of Dorothy B. Saxton
Francis Hulbert, exemplar mem
ber of the local chapter conferred
the degree. Mrs. Snodgrass be
came affiliated with the local
hapter during its formation four
years ago and served as director
of the group for three years.
Matanuska Valley products
were served at the semi-formal
dinner, w'hich included Valley
raised chickens, vegetables and
locally produced ice cream.
The home was attractively de
corated in fall colors and the
table in fall foliage and flowers.
During the evening the pledge
ceremony was held for Anne
Woodruff, new chapter member.
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PALMER BAKING CO.
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A Good Spot For Your Favorite Cocktail
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Dining room and snack bar in conjunction
Have You Tried Rosie’s Pastry and Pie?
They are out of this world!
Alpine Inn
Mile 61 — Glenn Highway Phone l-J-31
Kotzebue First Town
Pledged in AVA
Membership Drive
Kotzebue, Alaska,, the small arctic
coast community on the Seward
peninsula was the first town in
the territory to pledge its sup
port to the Alaska Visitors Asso
ciation by meeting its prescribed
quota on the first day of the ter
ritorial-wide membership drive.
Six new memberships were sub
scribed in the Association, accord
ing to word received by AVA’s
finance chairman, O. F. Benecke,
Edith Bullock, secretary of the
Kotzebue Chamber, in a report
to Benecke stated that Eph
Wheeler, agent for Wien Alaska
Airlines, conducted the fund
raising drive.
An appeal is being made
throughout the territory by the
Alaska Visitors Association for
memberships with a territorial
wide goal of $10,000. Money col
lected from the drive now being
carried on is to be used, along
with matching funds from a terri
torial appropriation for the 1955
advertising program, according to
Benecke
“Every dollar AVA spends to
create new business in Alaska is
a working dollar,” he pointed out.
“Less than four percent of our
money goes to expense and ad
ministration. Officers and direc
tors receive no salary, per diem
or travel expense. They volun
teer their own time, money and
energy,” he emphasized.
Explaining the reason the AVA
drive is held in the fall of the
year, he said: “Advertising to pro
mote the 1955 tourist season must
run in national magazines and
newspapers, and information for
travel agents must go out to them
in the months of January through
March. The $10,000 which we are
working to raise now, will be
matched with an additional $20,
000 by the Territorial appropria
DUCK STAMP SALES
SHOW SLIGHT DROP
IN 1954 FISCAL YEAR
Duck stamp sales for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1954, dipped
slightly below the previous year’s
all-time high record, secretary of
the interior, Douglas McKay has
announced.
A total of 2,271,430 stamps of
the 1953-54 issue was sold to
hunters of migratory waterfowl,
conservationists, and philatelists.
The 1954 total represents a drop
of 25,198 below last years record.
California which had headed
the list for the past five years,
yielded first place to Texas. Other
high ranking states in which
more than 100,000 stamps were
sold included California, Minne
sota, Michigan, NVisconsin, and Il
linois.
In Alaska 10,009 stamps were
sold in the 1953-54 season, an in
crease of 1,707 over the previous
year’s figure. Alaska’s total was
higher than ten of the States.
tion, providing $30,000 to carry
on our 1955 advertLing and pro
motion program.”
Area men assisting in the fund
raising campaign include: Edward
D. Coffey, A. B. Hayes and Lloyd
Olsen, all of Anchorage.
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Plumbing & Healing
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525 East 4lb Ave.
Phone 27701 or 54014
Anchorage
JOINT AGREEMENT ,
FOR WILDLIFE PLANNING
RECENTLY ANNOUNCED
An interagency agreement be
tween the Corps of Engineers
Department ot tne Army and the
Fish and Wildlife Service of the
Department of the Interior to
promote sound planning of fish
and wildlife facilities on river
basin projects, was recently an- :
nounced.
The agreement represents a ;
forward step in the program of
cooperation between the Corps
and the FWS and is designed to
provide for the preservation of
fish and wildlife resources in the
development of irrigation, navi
gation flood control and power
multipurpose projects.
The agreement provides, among
other things that both gains and
losses to wildlife will be consid
ered, and that the recommenda
tions of the FWS will be as
specific as possible as to purpose,
costs, results expected and relat
ed matters. The agreement also
provides that, as a general policy,
leases of project lands by the
Corps of Engineers for agricul
tural purposes shall specify that
the lands shall be open for pub
lic hunting and fishing. Reports
of the Engineers on projects
where effects on fish and wild
life resources are significant shall
include fish and wildlife conser
vation as one of the project pur
poses.
This agreement, which was ne
gotiated by Major General S. D.
Sturgis, Jr., Chief of Army En
gineers, and John L. Farley, di
rector of FWS, establishes defin
ite guidance for personnel of both
agencies in the preparation of
project proposals within the
framework of the Coordination
Act of 1946.
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Tuesday, October 5
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