HOME, FARM BUILDING FLAKS
HOW AVAILABLE TO ALASKAHS
i-'ians tor nome ana tarm Build
ings are now available to Alas
kans through the University of
Alaska Extension Service, asso
ciate director, Arthur S. Buswell
said today.
C. I. Branton, head of the agri
cultural engineering department
at the Alaska Agricultural Ex
periment Station, and C. R.
Fahnestock, an engineer in that
department, selected building
plans from services in the states.
“We tried to pick home and
farm building plans that Alas
kans could use either directly or
adopt to meet their needs”, Bran
ton explained.
The plans are shown in Bulle
tin 802, “Buildings for Alaska”,
which may be obtained from the
district Extension Service office.
These district offices are in Pal
mer, Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Homer and Juneau.
Log, frame and masonry house
plans are pictured along with
several expansible type homes.
Farm structures listed include
loose housing bams, stanchion
bams, milking plants, milk hous
es, vegetable and root storage,
poultry and hog houses and ma
chinery sheds.
All plans should be ordered by
NCUCOPTER USED TO
OCT EIRE FIGHTERS
TO KING RIVER FIRE
A fire, nine miles off the Glenn
highway near King River, was
fought by seven fire fighters,
under the direction of Bill Ad
ams, forester, from the Palmer
Fire Guard station last week.
The fire was first sighted
by the Fire Control plane. Be
cause of its isolation it was nec
essary to enlist the aid of a heli
copter to get men and equipment
into the fire. Pickups were made
at the Palmer Airport. The fire
was believed started by hunters
preparing camps for the opening
of hunting season. •
James Wilson, commissioner of
agriculture, is spending a few
days in Juneau where he will
attend the Resource Development
Board meeting and attend to
other Department business.
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number and money for the plans
sent directly to the University of
Alaska Agricultural Extension
Service office at College. Resi
dents who do not have a district
extension agent near them may
write directly to Farm Building
Plans, Agricultural Extension
Service, University fof Alaska,
College.
IFYE CONFERENCE
HELD IN MICHIGAN
EAST LANSING — Scottish
kilts, Indian saris, Spanish som
breros, and he familiar types of
American dress added to the
world wide flavor of the interna
tional festivities at the National
IFYE (international Farm Youth
Exchange) Conference held at
Michigan State University in
East Lansing, August 4-7. Ninety
five IFYE exchangees from 26
different countries and 200 alum
ni from nearly every state in the
Union attended the fourth annual
event. These rural people have
lived and worked with farm fam
ilies around the world.
Alaska has had delegates to
other countries working for
world peace by creating an un
aersLanding at tne tamily level.
These rural young people in
clude: Herbert Lang in Sweden,
Iva June Sproul in France, Rog
er Wood of Palmer in Ecuador
and Rosalind Miller of Palmer,
Italy. Mr. Lang is now working
in the Department of Agriculture
office in Palmer as loan agent
for the Territorial Farm Loan
Board. - -,s
The IFYE program began in
1948 and through 1954, 512 dele
gates had been sent from the Un
ited States to some 41 other coun
tries and 498 foreign exchangees
have come to the United States.
MOTHER OF PALMER
WOMAN DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Word was received in the Val
ley this week of the death of
Mrs. Leroy Kellogg, of Pasadena,
California, mother of V. Louise
Kellogg of Palmer. Mrs. Kellogg
passed away on August 17 fol
lowing a lengthy illness. Funeral
services were held August 23
with interment in the family lot
in the Oakwood Cemetery in
Chicago, 111. Mrs. Kellogg is sur
vived by three daughters, all of
whom were with her at the time
of her death. Miss Kellogg ex
pects to return to Palmer around
September 7.
FLYIN' AROUND
AT THE
PALMER AIRPORT
Members of the Flying Club
are waiting for the good word on
a new plane they want to pur
chase to replace the Cub which
was washed out in an accident
two weeks ago. As soon as the
selected ship arrives in Palmer
Instructor Rene Neilsen will
check the pilots out on it and
the club will be back in business.
Lots of field activity at the
Palmer Airport this week with
pilots and their friends and fam
ilies flying out on moose, caribou,
sheep and goat hunts. Dr. Foster
Sims, and Ralph Koslosky are
down around Cordova way on a
deer hunt; Les Green’s hanger is
practically surrounded by cars
hunters have left behind; The
Bixby family flew north and
were successful in getting two
caribou; Marylou Johns got a
moose up around the Knik glac
ier section while on a flying trip
with the A1 Dickows and Ralph
Crothers; Walt Cooper and his
son are busy making repairs to
their aircraft hoping to get it air
borne again before the hunting
season wanes. Pilot Hutchinson
flew up the highway after game,
as did Don McKechnie.
The Flying Club is planning to
operate a food concession at the
Matanuska Valley Fair and will
offer fish and chips as their spec
ialty on the midway.
The Civil Defense quonset hut
has been moved to the Palmer
Airport and will be set up as the
CD Aviation Aid station. Trans
ASC BALLOTS
DUE AUGUST 26
Ballots for the annual Palmer
County 1956 Agriculture Stabil
ization Committee election must
be mailed to the Extension Ser
vice office by August 26, 1955, or
returned in person by that date,
Lew Hanks, district agent, an
nounced this week.
The ballots will be tabulated
August 29 by the election com
mittee consisting of C. C. Hoff
man and Howard Estelle.
Five area farmers will be elect
ed to the 1956 committee. Nomin
ees are Hugh Adams, A. R. Car
son, Victor Falk, Jr., Joe Gisla
son, Lester Klatt, Gary LaRose,
Allen Linn, Leonard Moffitt, Earl
Ray, Harold Thuma, and Ted
White.
Eligibility for voting is defined
as any person who is of legal
voting age and who has an inter
est in a farm as owner, tenant,
or sharecropper and any person
not of legal voting age who is in
charge of the supervision and
conduct of the farming opera
tions on an entire farm shall be
eligible to vote for committee
men in the country in which he
has such an interest if there is
being carried out on the farm one
or more of the current program
practices approved1 for the State
by the State Committee.
portation costs of moving the hut
from Anchorage to Palmer have
been underwritten by members
of the Matanuska Valley Air
mens’ Association.
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First P-TA Meet Set for Sept. 20
The executive board of the
Palmer P-TA held their first
meeting of the school year on
August 23 at the home of P-TA
president, Mrs. H. P. Gazaway.
Program plans for the coming
year were discussed and projects
for proposal to membership were
worked out.
The first regular membership
meeting will be held at Central
School September 20 at 8 p.m. j
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During the meeting all teach-?* ■■
will be introduced to the mem
bership, a program will be pres
ented and the office of treasurer
will be filled by election.
All parents of Palmer school
system children are invited to
attend the meeting.
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BREAD WRAPPERS
AND WIN
A ROADMASTER BICYCLE
A roadmasier bicycle will be awarded at the end of
August and one at the end of September to the boy
or girl turning in the greatest number of Donald
Duck bread wrappers.
Watch your paper and listen to Uncle Rex Show on
radio station KFQD, 11:00 to 11:30 A.M. — Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
AND KEEP SAVING DONALD DUCK
BREAD WRAPPERS!!!!
Palmer Baking Co.
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