EXTENSION SERVICE STARTS NEW
RATIO ROMS PROGRAM
Mrs. Lydia F^hn-Hnnsen, Ik me
demonstration leader for the Uni
versity Extension Course, and her
assistant, Mrs, Gray Tilley are in
charge of a program, ”Airways to
Agriculture," to be broadcast over
KFAR weekly, starting this morning
at 11:30. Homemakers are invited
to listen to the informal chat a
beut homemaking in Alaska.
A radio correspondence class in
nutrition is being planned by the
University Extension Service, and
those wh want t. take pert may ac
quire the Red Cross text b 'k to be
used in the course from the Univer
sity Extensi n Office in the Feder
al Building. The book costs
25 cents.
TIRES ANT TUBES ALLOTET FOR TEE
MONTH OF DECEMBER.
RECIPIENT
COMMOEITY SERIAL NO
Matanuska Valley
Farmers Coop. 1 tire
Earl Hecker
1 tube
5136176
5136174
Arthur Pierson
Arthur Piers'n
1 tire
1 tube
5136177
5136176
E.C.Christensen 4 tires 5136173
Clair Patten 2 tires 5136179
WAR PRICE & LOCAL RATIONING
BOAR! NO. 11.
By.K.LAI2E.3. .JOHNSON
Clerk.
Extension Mews..January 5, 1943.
Karols Rice, the District Extension
Agent, is back at the office follow
ing a business trip to the States
and a six-week seice cf bronchial
pneumonia.
Activities in the States along ag
ricultural lines are in a difficult
situation due to the lack of labor
and farm employees being placed in
the armed services. Crops in the
Midwest were exceptionally good,
this past season. There has been
considerable switching from corn
production to soy bean production
along with the Soil Conservation
program.
Numerous small towns are practic
ally desolate with the only inhab
itants being the depot agents be
cause of the movement towards the
defense work area, From Seattle
to Chicago, people are working long
h^urs in defense industries.
The food situation may be critical
within a year unless every precaut
ion is taken curing the cerrin0 year
to produce every pound of f ^stuff
possible.. The U,S. Secret'ry of
Agriculture, Claxide Wickart, has
called for a ten per cent increase
in production, but the agricultural
pe 'pie arc wondering how this is go
ing to be pr educed with the labor
situation as it now is.
Everyone in Alaska is boint ir0ed
to make plans now to gr w food
stuffs for the coming year.- The
amount of foodstuffs which has been
gr wn in the Territory is nly a
minimum of what might be grown here
Every family should be makint plans
for purchasing of seeds and fertil
izers, as undoubtedly they may be
difficult to get.
Mae Stephenson, District Heme Dem
onstration Agent, is spending a
week at the University of Alaska
and is teaching a clothing school
there.
The Sour-deugh Homemakers Club will
meet at the C.V. King, Sr. home,
January 12.
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with other people. One can easily
check the spread of this disease in
the family itself. Let the sick
person sleep by himself, keen his
own towels enr1 clshcs, separate
from the rest, not participate in
family chores—and there is no con
tact to spread the mumps t others.
There is ino important thing all
mothers can do to help in this. All.
children should be lbrked ver for
the possibility of illness before
sending them to schoc 1 in the morn
ing. Any youngster showing si^ns
of cold, enlarged glands, headache,
or other indisposition, better be
kept home when whooping cough,
measles and mumps are around. It
is likely to be one of these dis
eases. And a day of rest, away
from exposure to cold, will go a
long way In helping overcome in
fection and prevent complicate ns,
besides being of help in checking
the spread to other children. It .
is far better tc err in the. direct
ion of greater caution. Nothing
much can happen to a youngster hav
ing an extra day of vacntJ n, but
think of all the anxiety, 1 ss of
'health, time, money, a complication
like Irritation of the spinal cord.