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Marylou Rideout, Extension
Service home demonstration
agent, is back at her desk follow
ing several weeks leave.
Dr. C. C. Bailey who has been
ill at his home the past several
weeks, is up and about again.
Charles W. Wilson, SCS con
#ervationist, returned to Palmer!
Monday afternoon following a
business trip in the Territory. He
now is on a trip to Fairbanks
where he will meet the new
Work Unit Conservationist who
is replacing Cliff Marcus who re
cently transferred to Palmer.
Cliff Marcus, his wife Francis
and nephew Steve, have moved
to Palmer from Fairbanks and
have located in the Pat Murphy
home on Wasilla Road. Marcus,
Work Unit Conservationist, is re
placing Lew Hanks who recent
ly resigned from the Soil Con
servation Service.
Louis Pinkham of the Faith
Hill Home for Children, left Pal
mer Monday enroute to Hamp
den, Maine. He will stop in New
Jersey and pick up Mrs. Pink
ham who with one daughter has
been visiting her folks, and pro
ceed to the home of his parents in
Maine where the couple’s second
daughter has been vacationing
the past month.
Mrs. Mary Tucker, 85-year
young grandmother of Robert
Hardisty of Palmer, will arrive in
the Valley August 4 for a visit
with her grandson and son, Bob
Hardisty of Healy. This is Mrs.
Tucker’s first trip to Alaska.
Mrs. Beatrice A. Huntley, post
mistress recently received a 500
Hour Club certificate from S. G.
Schwartz, Portland Regional
Operations Manager. The certifi
cate gives special recognition to
postal employees who use sick
leave only for its intended pur
pose.
Mrs. Henry Liebing and infant
daughter Bridget Louise, are
visiting in Spokane where Mrs.
Leibing was called at the death
at her mother, Mrs. Eliza Rice.
Mrs. Rice, who visited in the
Valley two years ago, passed
away July 20 while visiting her
sister in Oakland, Calif.
Postmistress Beatrice Huntley
is enjoying her annual vacation.
She will be away from the Post
Office for a 30-day period, dur
ing which she said she plans to
** . . . just do things I feel like
doing and hunting when moose
season opens”.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Stadler, Sr.
are visiting at the home of their
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Emil Stadler of Palmer.
This is the Senior Stadler’s first
visit to the Valley for four or five
years. Their home is in Wash
ington.
The Rev. Victor Alfsen, former
pastor of the United Protestant
Church, and now of the First
Presbyterian Church of Fair-'
banks, recently returned to that
city following attendance at the
annual Synod of Washington.
Rev. Alfsen’s family remained in
the States for a visit with Mrs.
Alfsen’s parents at Curlew,
Wash.
Sandra Sherrod arrived in Pal
mer on Monday of this week
from her home in Dexter, Michi
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gan and is staying with her cous
in, Mi's. Wendall Lewis and visit
ing with her uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. Max Sherrod of Palmer.
Maud Hosier of Maud’s Flower
Shop and the Matanuska Valley
Gardens is spending each Tues
day in Anchorage where she is ;
taking specialized training at j
Bagoy’s Flower Shop. Her train
ing is under the supervision of
Mrs. Mary Bagoy Lakshas, pion
eer Anchorage Florist. Mrs. Alice
Smith of Palmer will operate
the flower shop in Palmer during
Mrs. Hosier’s absence on Tues
days.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stone of
Corvallis, Ore. are making their
first visit to the valley and are
vacationing with their daughter
Mrs. John Dunlap.
Mrs. Charles (Vivian) Schaver
is recuperating at her home fol
lowing a stay at Providence Hos
pital.
More than 100 insects and dis
eases that attack vegetables are
described in the new federal
handbook, “Insects and Diseases
of Vegetables in the Home Gar
den” which is now available
from the Alaska Extension Ser
vice district office. This bulletin
(No. 46) has four color plates and
45 black and white drawings of
insects to help gardeners iden
tify them.
The University of Alaska sch
ool of mines will intensify its in
struction in the field of petro
leum geology starting with fall
semester, September 14, when it
employs Dr. William J. McMan
nis as a “soft rock” geology pro
fessor.
F. Ray Winegamer has writ
ten home that letters from his
friends in the Valley would be
welcomed, although he hasn’t
much time to write letters him
self. His address is: Cadet Fran
cis R. Winegamer 299K - 2d
Squadron, The Air Force Cadet
Wing—U. S. Air Force Academy
—Denver 8, Colorado.
Mrs. William Bouwens of Pal
mer went by plane to California
this week. She will attend the
wedding of her son, George.
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