Vol. 5
Palmer* Alaska - - June 19, 1942
No. 24
PAL MEll PLANS CELEBRATION
FOUR TH OF JULY
COMMITTEE IS WORKING UP EXCELLENT PROGRAM
Plans are being formulated for a celebration in Pal
mer on July 4th. Details will be given in next week's
Valley Settler. The committee in charge of the event
includes Dick Engle* the Rev. Woodrow Kurth, Walter
Huntley* Frank Pokorny and Harold L. Thumn.
It was voted at a meeting of the committee to contin
ue C. C. Brix as treasurer of the organization.
OCCUPATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE
TO BE MAILED TO REGISTRANTS
OVER MILITARY AGE.
Within the next few
weeks Occupational Question
naires will be mailed to
registrants who are over
military age, between the j
ages of 45 and 66, who reg- j
istored in Alaska on May 20,
1942. These Occupational
Questionnaires have already
been sont to those who reg
istered on February 16 and
the Local Board is now com
pleting the mailing of these.
Questionnaires to regis
trants of the First and Sec-i
ond Registrations who hake i
been inducted into tho armed
forces. '
Explaining the use of thej
questionnaires. Territorial
Director McCormick states as
follows* "The nation will j
have pressing need, by late i
autumn, for around 10*500,
000 additional war workers.
It is from the men beyond
the military age that the
War Manpower Commission
expects to obtain most of
the malo recruits for this
work* However, many war i
workers also will bo ob- j
tainod from classos defer
red for physical defects,
as many men who aro unfit
for military service are
well qualified for civil
ian activities*
"The Occupational Ques
tionnaires, aro being sont to
all Selective Service regis
trants who have not been, or
cannot be, inducted into the
AT MATANUSKA VALLEY
HOSPITAL
Mrs. Harry B. DeLand
and her new daughter have
returned to their home.
lire. Dick Engle and
baby eon returned home on
Thursday.
Joo Higgins of the Gold
Cord mine has been admit-j
ted to the hospital.
Blood typing cards have
beon returned from the Ter'
ritorial Laboratory and
those who were typed since
March 1 are asked to call
at the hospital for their
cards.
Also - Health cards are
at the hospital for food
handlers. Please call
for thorn._
armed forces and are not
to be confused with the
regular Selective Service
Questionnaire upon which
classification for ailitarj
sorvico is based. • • The
two questionnaires are en
tiroly separate in purpose.
The Occupational Question
naire is sent to a regis
trant of military age, onl)
boeause of the possibility
that he may not be quali
fied for military service.
He then, however, will be
available for civilian war
effort. He must fill out an
return both questionnaires.
OUR ENEMIES LAND ON
ATTU ISLAND AT TIP OF
THE ALEUTIANS
The navy announced June
15 that army and navy air
craft in the vicinity of
the Aleutian Islands dam
agod throe Japanese cruis
ers, one destroyer, ono gun
boat and one transport.
This is a total of six on
omy warships damaged in ac
tion following tho navy's
first announcement that the
Japs had landed on Attu Is
land at tho tip of the Aleu
tians and that onemy ships
were sighted in the harbor
at Kiska.
EPIDEMIC OF HOG iCHOLERA
THREATENS VALLEY
A fow casos of hog cholera
have been reported to Harold
Rice, Extension Agent, by
the local voterinarion. If
any of tho farmers are in
terested in vaccinating, it
would bo advisable to call
• at the Extension office and
i leave your name and the num
ber of hogs, as all virus and
serum must be ordored from
tho Statos, and this will
take approximately two woeks
if sent by air. Hog cholea
is a very highly infectious
disease of hogs. It is
causod by a filterable virus
An outbreak may occur as the
result of hoalthy hogs com
ing in contact with diseased
hogs or from healthy hogs
being transported in infoct
od trucks, trailors, or cars.
The cause of the disease may
be carried from the pons of
dissased hogs to healthy
hogs on tho feet of caretak
ors or attendants, or by
dogs, cats, rats, mice, or
birds. If you have cholorc
on your farm, take special
precautions in disinfocting
your shoes boforo going on
the farm of your neighbors,
especially if they have hogs.
ISYMPTONSt
There are two types of
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