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row some of all of these, you
'ould have plenty of variety in
Ur diet.
Harold W. Rice, District Exten
sion Agent, left Palmer Friday morn
ing, March 26, to report to the arm
ed services at Fort Richardson. To
date, his successor has not been
named.
John Witt received news from VV.C.
Jones and Francis P. Henry this
week. Mr, Jones and Mr. Henry were
employed by the R.E.A. during the
construction period and for a time
after it was finished. Mr. Jones
went to the Isle of Trinidad in the
B,W.I. and is located at Port of
Spain, where he is employed. He
would like to hear from friends in
Palmer. Mr. Henry was confined to
the Hospital in Portland for some
time, but went to Grants Pass, Ore
gon later.
Mrs. Witt was operated upon for the
second time on March lcth., and
• Tie through in good condition ac
cording to a letter received.
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and consuming members, without equi
table compensation for the benefit
of the management and the employees,
who usually demand larger salaries
and more important positions, then
a dangerous situation is met. Mem
bers lose interest and eventually
the Cooperative fails for lack of
interest and support. A happy med
ium must be struck so that it is
adjusted on a fair basis.
A telegram has just been receiv
ed at the Extension office that
the Soil Conservation program for
1943 will consist also of a paymenlj
of approximately $4.00 an acre to
those farmers who plant thirty
per c.ent of their crop land to es
sential food crops. According to
the wire, this applies only to po
tatoes and truck crops, and not to
rains and livestock feed, states
Lorin T. Oldroyd, Director of Ex
tension and representative for the
Soil Conservation Service in A
laska. Further information will
undoubtedly be received at the
local Extension office in the near
future.
BUY WAR BONDS AND WAR STAMPS
Ralph Moore parted with his ap
pendix on W^^esday morning and is
now convalescing in the hospital.
Pastor and Mrs. Herman Beyer an
nounce the arrival of Lawrence
Wayne at the hospital on the morn
ing of March 24. When Carl, aged
5, was told the news, he said, "Oh
Phooey”-he wanted a sister!
Maud Mooers, R.N., was a most
welcome sight to the hospital em
ployees on Monday nitht. She is
one of the three long-looked-for
nurses, and has been since January
1st., trying to get passage from
Seattle. Miss Mooers, a native of
Idaho, is a graduate of the Port
land Hospital and Sanitarium where
she was employed until leaving for
Alaska.
Mrs. John Witt recently underwent
surgery at the Portland Hospital
and Sanitarium. After convalescing
she will be coming back to Palmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Frakes and nine
months old son, David Joe, recently
arrived in Palmer from the outside.
Mr. Frakes is the new hospiti1
maintenance man. Already he is
hard at work doing some much-needed
repairing, putting in plumbing fix
tures and making a number of im
provements for the benefit of the
workers and patients.
The Board of Directors have re
quested all sales slips for the
fiscnl year, 1942, be segregated sss
to departments and turned into the
Cooperative office. These slips .. '•
are for the months of December 1941.
through and including November 33,
1942 •
According to the Anchorage Radio
land Newspapers, we are led to be
lieve that Howard Estelle has been
appointed Extension Agent to suc
ceed Mr, Rice who is leaving to
join the armed forces, Mr. Estelle
held this position previous to the
time that Mr. Rice was appointed to
succeed him. Mr, Estelle has been
farming part time since he loft Pal
mer and was also employed in defense
work, Mrs. Estelle was formerly
Home Demonstration Agent and was
married to Mr. Estelle after bein&
associated with him in extension
work for some time. A hearty wel
come awaits their return to the
i Valley.