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HISTORIES
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Homesteaders Club
By Mrs. Rodney Johnson
As new families settled along
the highway near Sutton, we
‘'older settlers” got together to
welcome the newer arrivals and
make them acquainted with each
other.
In March 1952 we felt the need
of a club and organized a home
makers’ club with 17 charter
members. Since the most of the
members were homesteading we
adopted the name of Homestead
ers’ Homemakers’ Club.
Like any homesteader we were
up to our neck in unaccustomed
activities almost immediately.
Our club was asked to assist with
the Home Demonstration Week
Tea being given in May 1952.
Quite an ordeal for our club of
two months—or so we thought.
But we plunged in and did our
best.
Next we had dropped in our
lap the operation of the Home- j
maker sale both at the 1953
Fair. . . . And so it has been. We j
■have enjoyed it all and have !
learned while we worked.
Our club membership has in
creased to 24 to include ladies
from Jonesville and Eska.
This year our project is to as- J
sist the Father Dunfey Home for
Boys, in Anchorage. Also we have
sponsored a 4-H club each year,
whose leaders were Homestead
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WATERFOWL SURVEY
-PLANS COMPLETED
Plans for the annual waterfowl
breeding ground surveys to be
conducted in Canada and the
United States (including Alaska)
this spring and summer were
recently announced by Secretary
of the Interior Douglas McKay.
Basic informaton to guide of
ficials of both countries in draft
ing approprate regulations for ,
hunting wild ducks, geese, and i
coots during the 1954-55 season
will be gathered.
Aerial and ground observa
tions, beginning in May and ex- j
tending to the hunting season, ;
will bring forth pertinent facts
about breeding pairs, water con- j
ditions, and the new generation j
of birds.
Emphasis will be placed on .
banding operations as a basis for
future studies of hunting pres
sures, mortality rates, and bird j
distributions.
Mr. ar.d Mrs. C. H. Heller, Jr. :
and family of Burlington, Iowa
arrived in Palmer last week and
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Merle !
■Puddicombe and family. The
family plan to make their home :
in the Valley.
OVERSEAS CALLS TO
COST MORE JULY I
The spiraling cost of commod
ities and services which has pre
vailed in recent years has neces
sitated an increase in rates for
telephone calls between Alaska
and the United States, Colonel
M. R. Kunitz, commanding of
ficer of the Alaska Communica
tion System, announced this
week. The new rates, which will
be effectvie July 1, wrill reflect
the first increase since 1945.
Four civilian employee w'age
increases since World War II,
increased shipping and transpor
tation costs to and within the ter
ritory, and the high cost of main
taining a communications system
under adverse weather conditions
and in rugged terrain, were indi
cated as factors which contribut
ed to the necessity for a rate in
crease at this time. The telephone j
user in Alaska is also obtaining
better quality and faster long
distance telephone service as a
result of recent expansion of fac
ilities and modernization of tele
phone plant by ACS at a con
siderable cost.
The rate adjustment will am
ount to a 25-cent per minute in
crease in the rates for long dis
tance calls between Alaska and
the U. S., however, the present
maximum rate of S9.00 for a
three minute call will not be
changed. For example, a person
to-person three minute day rate
call from Juneau or Ketchikan to
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eral tax, as compared with S4.50
plus tax under the old rate sch
edule. The same type call from
Anchorage or Fairbanks to Seat
tle will cost $6.75 plus tax, as
compared with S6.00 plus tax. It
was pointed out that the reduc
tion in the federal tax from 25
percent to -10 percent, effective
April first, practically negated
the impact of the rate increase.
Col. Kunitz further stated that
since 1945 the price of most
- everything people buy in Alaska
has gone up over 33 percent,
whereas this telephone rate in
crease will amount to an aver
age of about 11 percent to the
using customer—far lower than
increased cost of most other pro
ducts and services Alaska resi
dents buy.
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Bernie Kosinski of the Anch
orage Daily Times staff was re
cently reappointed territorial
commissioner of the National
Baseball Congress, world-wide
non-professional baseball pro
gram. Kosinski will have com- j
plete charge of the program in
Alaska, including affiliation of
circuits in the NBS Association of
Leagues, the Organization of
Umpire associations, and deter
mination of the championship in
the final Alaska playoff.
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NOTES FROM YOUR
EXTENSION SERVICE
Mrs. Willie Powell will succeed
Mrs. Audrey Davies as home
demonstration agent in Anchor
age to work with Mrs. Carol Win
ey, Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen,
home demonstration leader/an
nounced during the annual home
demonstration week tea on May
7. Mrs. Davies resigned after
three years on the University of
Alaska Extension Service staff
to conduct a homemakers’ pro
gram on television station KTVA.
Vena Clark, resident faculty
member of the University of Al
aska, will join the Agricultural
Extension Service for the sum
mer to be home demonstration
agent on the Kenai Peninsual.
Miss Clark will make her head
quarters in Home.
PAVING MORE THAN
70 MILES AT MILITARY BASES
ANCHORAGE—A vast paving
program is underway at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base and Fort
Richardson in the Anchorage
Area, Col. Carl Y. Farrell, Alaska
District Engineer, Corps of En
gineers, declared today.
Enough paving will be accom
plished to completely hard-sur
face the streets of a major city.
Total amount of work exceeds
$13-million in value. More than
70 miles of 20-foot wide pave
ment will be laid. Major contrac
SUMMER SESSION AT
UNIVERSITY OFFERS
SUMMER WORKSHOP
The 1954 summer session of the
University of Alaska will offer
a post-session Work Shop on
Alaska 9-13, William R. Cashen,
dean of men and director of sum
mer sessions, announced this
week.
The workshop will follow the
regular summer session June
28 — Aug. 6. Dr. William Keller,
professor of education and head
of the department, will be acting
director of both sessions. The
workshop will be an intensive,
five-day course dealing with an- j
thropology, education, geology,
history and wildlife of Alaska, i
There will be class lectures,
demonstrations and field trips.
Participants will receive one
semester hour of credit. Persons
seeking admission should address i
the Director of Summer Sessions,
University of Alaska, College.
tors who are doing the fast job
are Birch-Lytle-Green of Seattle,
S. Macri and Sons of Anchorage,
and Lease and Leigland and Mil
ler of Anchorage.
All departments of the Co-Op |
will be closed Monday of next
week in observance of Memorial ;
Day. In addition the Trading Post
will be closed on Tuesday for
inventory and the Warehouse
and Garage will be closed Tues
day and Wednesday for inven- |
tory.
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