EXTENSION CLUBS ACTIVITIES
The Homemakers Council is sponsoring a
dance Saturday evening, July 4.
The Liberty Girls 4-H club will moot
in the Ladies Lounge Wednesday, July 8.
The '.Vasilla 4-H club will hold an af
ternoon picnic on Friday, July 10,
The Riverbend, Hilltop, and Wasilla
Homemakers clubs will hold an all-day pic*
nic at Olson's Island at Wasilla Wednesday,
July 8. Sedge grass, which will be used
for basket making, will be collected.
All the members and their parents, of
the Defenders for Alaska 4-H club, will
meet at the Albrecht home Thursday,July 9,
The clothing girls are required to bring
all their sev/ing and the canners one jar
of fruit or vegetables,
A regular meeting of the Butte Agricul
tural 4-H club was held at the Sandvik
home on Wednesday evening. Plans for the
4-H club camp were mad'’ and the scrap rub
ber campaign was discussed by the Extensio j
Agent. Linn Sandvik demonstrated the
transplanting of cabbage plants.
The Mic'night Sun 4-H club went on an
overnight hike and field trip to Fish Creo ;
last Tuesday evening, returning late 7/ed
nesday. They v/ere accompanied by the Ex
tension Agent. The next meeting of the
Midnight Sun 4-H club will be held at the
home of Don Hanson on Monday evening.
The Homemakers Council sponsored an
all-day picnic for the homemakers of the
Valley at King’s Lake June 24. The day
was devoted to swimming, boating and visit"
ing. The picnic supper was participated
in by 200 persons. It was served at 8 o*
clock after which stunts were put on by
the following Homemakers clubsj Glacier
View, radio skit} Butte, “knows all and
tells all" act; Tfesilla, portrait painting;
and a special stunt demonstrating First Aic,
Community singing was led by Mrs. Holland
Warner.
The first Anchorage 4-H club camp was
held at King’s Lake on June 27 to 30 under
the direction of.Miss J, Hazel Zimmerman,
Territorial 4-H club leader. A program
of recreation, handicraft, nature study,anc
health was given. Miss Helen Johnson,
Public Health nurse, Harry 'flfimner - 4-H
Council president and the local Extension
Agents assisted with the camp together with
several leaders from .Anchorage,
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to go that day - then let them do the same
by you,
4, Plan your buying in town so as to
save trips.
5. Pick up all nails, pieces of board,
broken glass, jagged rock in the highway
and around your own buildings and drive
ways,
6. Make sure that you carry an inflated
spare tire, or jack, air pump, and patch
ing kit. A ruined tube or casing now
is a tragedy.
7. Arrange to keep larger supplies on
hand - things like fuel, purchased feed,
and groceries. This will not only save
trips but will assure having them on hand
in time of possible transportation tie
ups,
8. arrange storage space so that you can
hold your produce at nome for a time, in
oase of transportation shortage,
9. Cut down on some of the youngsters'
trips xrto town and rides just for fun.
10. Eliminate driving in bad weather so
far as possible. Wet roads, ict and mud
are hare on tir«. s.
11. Have a place where your car and spare
parts can be locked up securely, and keep
the car and. truck under lock, especially
at night.
12. Finally, look ahead a year or two or
throe. How will you be fixed then for
car or motortruck?
According to a recent release of the
V/ar Production Board, the amount of cop
per used in tractor manufacturing is lim
ited. This regulation is designed to
make more tractors available without re
finements than would be available if re
finements were incorporated into the pro
duct. Among other things, it means that
tractors will have cranks for starting
and that they will not be equipped with
lights.
A Now York city hospital has equipped
mattress pads with canvas loops thru which
polos cata be slipped to permit their con- ,
version into emergency stretchers.
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^ Welshman who was very proud of his
voice was describing a v/onc erful dream
he'd had.
"I was in u mighty ch->ir," he saidi
"5,000 sopranos, 5,000 altos, 5,000 tenors
all singing together double forte."
"It must have been wonderful," said
the listener. "But whet about the bass •
os?"
"That was it," saic. the dreamer."Sud
denly the conductor stopped, the choir anu,
turning to me, saidi 'Not quite so loud
in the bass, please, Mr. Jones'!"
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No more do we joke o'er the ladies queer
hats; v.
They may roll them or twiet them or
flare them;
And as long as their faces are smiling
beneath,
’.Thy, bless their dear hearts, let them
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