645 LAND PATENTS
GRANTED THROUGH
AREA OFFICE IN 1954
As about 4,000,000 acres are
under oil and gas leases in Alas
ka, most publicity relative to Bur
eau of Land Management activ
ities has been about oil and gas
recently, according to Lowell M.
Puckett, area administrator. How
ever, there has been no slow down
in other land office functions in
Alaska, he said. A total of 770 pa
tents were issued in the Terri
tory during 1954. Of these, 645
came through the Anchorage
Land Office and 125 through
Fairbanks.
Hundreds of small tracts were
leased and are proceeding to pa
tent and practically all of the
leasable islands to the southwest
are under grazing lease, the of
ficial said. Homesteading contin
ues brisk although the new law
requiring veterans to cultivate 1/8
of the total area, the same as all
other emrymen, seems to have
slowed the rate of filing among
ex-military men, in the opinion
of BLM land office personnel. A
number of sale at auction of busi
ness sites were conducted during
the year.
BLM has the responsibility of
disposing of timber and other re
sources of the land and of direct
ing fire fighting and fire suppres
sion on the public domain. There
were a total of 168 timber sales,
involving a total of slightly over
11 million board feet. There were
also 249 permits issued for free
use timber involving almost 2%
million board feet.
During 1954 there were 10 grav
el sales by BLM totaling 69,150
cubic yards and 74 free use grav
el permits involving a total of 2,
296,120 cubic yards, principally to
other government agencies. The
permits for sales and free use of
timber and gravel were widely
dispersed throughout the Terri
tory. Efforts are now being made
to prepare pre-sale inventories
and short summaries of the in
formation as to species and vol
ume present in order to attract
prospective purchasers. The cut
ting regulations, which are de
signed to leave the areas in a
productive condition, are not so
1940 SELECTIVE SERVICE
FILES TO BE DISPOSED OF
John L. McCormick, director of
Selective Service for the Terri
tory of Alaska, announced this
week that he has been advised
by General Lewis B. Hershey, na
tional director of Selective Ser
vice, that individual files of regis
trants of the Selective Training
and Service Act of 1940, as Am
ended, are now in the preliminary
stage of being disposed of, as they
have served all discernible ad
ministrative purposes.
Mr. McCormick advises all men
who registered in Alaska under
the 1940 Act, desiring information
from their files, and agencies who
have been authorized to obtain
information from these files, to
do so immediately as it is contem
plated that there will be a cut
off date in the very near future
for access to information contain
ed in these files. Inquiries should
be made to Federal Records De
pot, Selective Service System,
P. O. Box 2691, Juneau. McCor
mick states further that the above
pertains to World War II records
and is not to be confused with
the present records of the Select
ive Service Act of 1948.
restrictive that they would incur
any handicap on an operator, it
was pointed out.
During the 1954 calendar year,
266 fires burned approximately
1,431,000 acres, according to E. V.
Zumwalt, a BLM official. The to
tal expenditure for fire suppres
sion costs was about $612,000.
Twenty-four percent of these fir
es were caused by lightning and
these lightning fires accounted for
about 90% of the total area burn
ed. Most of the lightning fires
occurred within remote areas and
were in many cases either econ
omically or geographically inac
cessible by the time ground con
trol action could be taken, Zum
walt said.
During the past 15 years there
has been a gradual increase in
the number of fires, but the acre
age burned has varied greatly
from year to year depending pri
marily upon- weather conditions.
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HOMEMAKERS CLUB I
NOTES
Homesteader Club
A special meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. Mary Estep on
December 17. Ten former Home
steader Homemakers’ club mem
bers formed a new club which
is called the Suttonette Homemak
ers’ club. The large membership
of the Homesteaders club occas
sioned the formation of the new
club.
Officers are as follows: Mrs.
Nadine Gabbett, president; Mrs.
Mary Estep, vice-president; Mrs.
Lorraine Johnson, secretary; Mrs.
Marie James, treasurer.
Two guests, Mrs. Midge Yer
bic and Mrs. Edna Johnson, from
the Homesteaders’ club attend
ed our meeting and presented us
with half of the funds which both
clubs had worked for.
The program and meeting plac
es for the year were discussed, a
lovely lunch was served by the
hostess. The next regular meeting
will take place Tuesday, Jan. 25
at the home of Mrs. Mane James.
The Butte Homemakers’ club
will meet at the home of Eva
Plumley on January 20.
Browning-Barber Bites .
Performed on January 15
In a candlelight ceremony on
January 15, Mrs. Feme Barber
and Arch Browning of Palmer
were united in marriage in a
double ring ceremony performed
by U. S. Commissioner Dorothy
B. Saxton.
For her wedding Mrs. Brown
ing chose a two-tor.e grey suit
with which she wore winter
white accessories. Her flowers
were beautiful deep purple or
chids. Mrs. E. O. Dugas, her only
attendant, wore a grey knit suit.
Her flowers were white gardeni
as and pink roses. Attending Mr.
Browning was E. O. Dugas.
Following the ceremony, a re
ception, given by Mrs. J. W. Daw
son, sister of the bride, was held
at the Matanuska Hotel.
Following a short wedding trip
to Fairbanks, the couple will be
at home at the Matanuska Hotel,
where Mr. Browning is manager.
NO WELL CHILD
CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK
Jeanne Shaver, public health
nurse, will not be in Palmer on'
Wednesday of this week, and for
this reason the Well Child Con
ference will not be held this week.
Regularly scheduled conferences
will continue on Wednesday
; afternoons each week.
With only one public health
nurse now on duty for the Val
ley area, it has been necessary
to make schedule changes. On
Monday and Thursday Miss Dol
ores Mattila, who recently re
signed, visited Wasilla. This visit
has been cut to Thursday only.
Miss Shaver, who was making
Tuesday and Friday trips to Chu
giak, now goes only on Tuesday.
Well Child Conferences held in
Chugiak the first and third Fri
days is now held on the first
Friday only.
Mrs. Ivan Branton is in the
public health office every after
noon except Wednesday.
“Deb” Anderson and family re
turned to Palmer last week end
following several months in the
States. “Back for keeps”, they
stated.
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Kiwanis International
Observes Fortieth
Anniversary
The Kiwanis International of
which the Palmer Club is an af
filiate will observe its fortieth
anniversary Jan. 21
The International was founded
in Detroit, Michigan, Jan. 21,
1915. The organization now boasts
almost 233,000 business and pro
fessional leaders on its member
ship rolls, with nearly, 4,000 Ki
wanis clubs in the United States,
Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Civic leaders and Government
leaders at all levels in the United
States and Canada as well, have
expressed their appreciation and
felicitations upon the occasion of
the Club’s Fortieth Anniver
sary and for its years of diligent
and voluntary community service.
George Meany, President of the
American Federation of Labor
commented: “Permit me to ex
tend my congratulations on the
40th Anniversary of the found
ing of Kiwanis International. Its
record of service to the business
community and to the public
guarantees even greater achieve
ments in the years to come. The
American Federation of Labor
shares your devotion to the free
enterprise system and your sup
port of the free way of life. In a
oroad sense the workers, the
» business men and the farmers of
i this country are working toward
the same goal—a better America.
As representation of one of the
largest cities in which Kiwanians
serve, Martin H. Kennelly, Mayor
of Chicago, said: “The contribu
tion of community welfare, to im
provement in local government,
to the general betterment of each
locality in which it functions—
which have been made by Ki
wanis International—can hardly
be over-estimated. Kiwanians are
among the foremost of our cit
izens.
Henry R. Luce, Publisher of
Time and Life said: “Kiwanis has
nourished in American and Can
adian hearts the fire of ‘Practical
Idealism.’ May it burn brightly
in the coming years and guide ten
thousand neighborhoods to even
greater progress through progress
and friendliness.”
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a good driving record during Ex
ercise Snowbird, being held in Al
aska Jan. 13—Feb. 13. Last Febru
ary during Alaska’s Exercise
North Star, the records show that
Army motor vehicle accident rate
was .33 per 100,000 miles driven.
Total miles driven during the ex
ercise was 300,666, with one motor
vehicle accident.
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