Vol. 6
Tv C- 6
01 r ” SOL5’, BLACKED OUT
Last Thursday, Feb, 4th, the
Citizens of the Matenuska Valley
had the privilege of observing one
of the meet unusual si0hts that
people or inarily get to see once
ih a lif time and that was the
total eel'pse of the Sun, About
three o'clock in the afternoon, the
I moon came directly in line with
nearest 1‘ne to the Sun from our
1 vicinit. , and. for about eleven min
utes we ..ere privileged to see the
moon cov * the line of vision from
the Sun to Earth.
As tk- moon covered the Sun' s
path, tk a was a period like sun
down and then the dawning when it
passed. The period cf total dark
ness was imiinr to .night. There
were no cuds ir. tre sky vlTTe>V"fk:eT
■Eclipse o -cured so that it co’.ild
be ohaerv.d fully.
Some of our Oldtimers are try
ing to ti nk back to the time when
a gale o the proportions that the
One we bv last week developed in
to, had ’ ?u experienced in
part cf , c.ska Considerable dam
age was done to buildings end it
caused tr• cancellation of several
social ev nts, some employees were
unable i -report for duty at the
Co-op. he roads were in bad con
dition for awhile but as the stoim
continued the snow was ’slowed of i
the road, and most of the highways
are now o en. According to Radio
reports he old.timers say that 3 ta
has been over twenty years since
wind cf .is kind had occurred.
COL. OHL-ION GETS KATE REDUCTION ON
FEED FOR LIVESTOCK.
Col. OK Is on reports that..he. tyr.s ,
been able to get the Alaska Steam
ship Co. to cooperate in the act -
ion teken to get a reduction of '
50$ on freight rates i or the ship I
ment on feed for livestock, in the I
Rail Belt portion of Alaska. This
rate will apply until May of this
year when it is hoped that grass
will be available by thn.t time,
Col. QMson is deserving of •
praise for his efforts in behalf
of the Farmers who are finding
their feed supplies insufficient
for the r st of the winter.
BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS.
JUVENILES HAILED INTO C0MMI3S- -
I CHEF'S COURT OK COMFLAIMT OF
00-OPERATIVE.
'Warrants were served on Five boys
r<n>ns of local residents, by the man
agement of the Cooperative last week
and, on Monday the Assistant Dist
rict Attorney, Hr, Arnell of Anch
orage came over to Palmer arid Com
missioner Huntley heard the cases.
The charges were, that the de
fendants had broken into the Coop
erative warehouse, through locked
doors and had stolen cigarettes,
handy. ci0ars, fruit, faum, cookies
.and rifle shells and some money has
[been taken from cash registers.
Evidence showed that several
other boys and other nersons had
iso curbed some of the loot out the ev
|id~n ;e '‘was "not; "sufficient to warrant
the' issuance of other warrants.
Caches were found containing
[some of the goods and the hiding
[place of one of the cang was dis
covered which, led to the apprehen
sion cf the hoys who were prosecut
jed.
The result cf the trial was that,
[two of the boys were fined £50 and
ux months in jail, two more were
lined .£>25 and six months in Jail.
/'ho fifth boy was snowed in and
could not gut to the trial but will
-e tried later.
Later, the Commissioner suspend
ed the jail sentences and pieced the
. oys on probation for a year, pro
viding that they behave themselves
'■ nd stay off the streets after 3 p.m
unless accompanied by their parents.
Each will have to report to the Com
missioner each 31011th with a detail
ed statement of their activities
during the previous month.
It is the hope of the Cooperat
ive management that this action
•will prevent further damage and
thievery to the buildings and &oods
belching to the Association,"it"
has been a trying period for the
persons responsible for the care of
the business of the Cooperative dur
ing the last few monchs, when so
much trouble has been experienced
by actions of this kind. Only a
short time ago it was necessary to
take action against two other youth
of tho community for damaging build
ing belonging to the Association.
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We saw two Alaska Robins sitting
on a shock of oats last week. Ev
idently their weather observer gave
them a bum steer.