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. ayin0 flock of Leghorn-Jersey
innt cross*
If you are planning to have seed
tested at the Extension office,
please plan t : have it done within
the next two weeks.
The Wasilia Homemakers Club and
husbands were invited to a meeting
held at the Franz home in Wasilia
on Tuesday evening, March 9, at
which tine a discussion of ,_arden
planning was conducted by the Ex
tension A^ent. AIs - the'same films
which were shown at the Eutte meet
ing were shown. At the close of
the mectin<_ a lunch was served by'
.Mrs. Franz.
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ALL BOYS of twelve years and over
are urjed to be present at a Scout
Hally to be held in the Community
Hall on Sunday, March 14th., at
3:30 p.m. This is the first re
organized n meeting for the Pal
mer Boy Scout Troops.
GENERAL BUCKNER LAUIED
An interesting article appeared
in the March number rf ‘‘Readers
Digest", entitled “Report cn the
Aleutians" by William Clemmens,
that should be of special interest
to the people of Alaska, F--r if
this article is true, then the
people of Alaska were in creat
danger from invasion when the raid
was made on Dutch Harbor, last year
The writer states that Japan had
a lar_e force to invade Alaska at
that time, one pronc of two spear
heads directed at Hawaii and Alaskr
The battle of Midway disposed of
one pron~ but the other directed at
Alaska mi^ht have succeeded for a
clever defense plan directed by
General Buckner. Dutch Harbor had
inadequate defenses for a f .rce of
this kind fmf1 would have been eas
ily disposed of but a hidden Air
field located on one of the lower
Aleutians provided facilities for
operations f r land based Army
I lanes,and shortly after the attack
on Tutch Harbor, and with the Jap
force past the hidden field an at
tack was made that Caused plenty
damage to the Japs, who evident
|ly feared an attack from the rear
#in force that would endanger their
lines to the east, so they withdrew
to the west and landed the remnant
of their forces 'n the three is
lands ,
Clemmens states that but for the
well planned defense by General
Buckner, the Jap, attack would have
probably been successful and that
■ ■ full i
Alaska w 'uld probably be w veined
by a Jap. General from Juneau and
that lacific coast cities w uld be
on the receiving end of tw ton
“block-busters**. The writer is
sure that General Buckner is en
titled to all the praise that he
may receive, for we have had a
chance to observe the manner in
which the A.L.C. is conducted, and
we feel sure that if a General
like Buckner had been in c mmnnd at
Honolulu cn Eecembor 7th., 1941,
that there would have been prepara
tions for the assault that ca~e.
We remember July 4th., five m n
ths before Pearl Hnrb r, when the
A.L.C. called an'alert at noon and
had men t > meet any emergency with
clear heads., to man their j. ns, ’.Vo
feel that Safety First should be
considered before pleasure at
times like this,
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS
TO ALLOW PORTO RICO TO ELECT GOV
ERNOR.
In n recent message to C n' ress
President Roosevelt has asked that
legislation be enacted to ;,r vif’e
f r the electi~n f the Governor
of i rto Rico, by the people.
This little possession has been
^ ever nee1 by a Governor appointee3 by
the 1 resident* nnd is under the
supervision of the Dept, f the
Interior.
Guy Tu^well, one of the ri^inal
New Lealers, has been Govern r and
also head of the University in
forto Rico. There has boon a lot
of trouble in if rto Rico f r s me
time, and the solution has.nwt been
furnished by the executives appoint
ed by the U.S» iorto Rico has a
very dense p opulation and it has
been found difficult t ' j.r vide
capital f r industries that can be
operated successfully, or t pro
vide a plan that wmld enable the
1ort Ricans to make a dGCCnt liv
ing Evidently iresident R sc
velt must believe that the r o plo
should be Oivon the ope rtunity to
elect officials of their own choog
in^, and to pub the questin up to
the people there, as to what
should be done.
Although Alaska is ab^ut f ur
times as far from Washington as
I'orto Rico, the Edit; r is inclined
to believe that we miuht als be
able to convince the .resident that
we, the people f Alaska,micht be
able t provide better so^Luti ns
for our problems than appointed off
icials, if we were t make m of*
fort to do so. Anyway if mistakes
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