Alaskans Consume 80 Million Eggs
All But 10 Percent Are Shipped In
Take 30 million eggs. Stretch
Uxem end to end and! they would
extend some 2,000 milfes Crack
■them and scramble thar msidtes.
They would make a giant egg
treat weighing 10 million pounds.
Alaskans eat such a tremendous
quantity of eggs each year—im
'jettfed cold storage, air borne and
v
fresh local. They like their eggs
scrambled, fried sunny sidfe up,
fried1 once over lightly or hard
yolk; hard boiled, soft boiled, as
omelets, baked, creamed or poach
ed. They digest eggs disguised in
cakes, soufffles, milk shakes, pud
dings and meat dishes. They eat
eggs for their proteins, vitamins
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and minerals, and just because s
they taste good. i
By far the greatest quantity of ]
Alaskan consumed eggs are ]
shipped here ih cold storage con- ;
tainers by ship or barge, with a i
small percentage (about 10 per
cent) arriving by air. Only 10 per
cent of the present consumption
is provided by Alaskan hens. The
feathery “ladies” lay approxi
mately 8 million eggs in Alaska
each year.
March being National Egg
Month, Alaskan poultry raisers are
putting particular stress on their
growing efforts to capture a
greater share of the territory’s
egg market.
In Alaska now, according to ex
tension service figures, there are
approximately 50 persons or con
cerns raising chickens for com
mercial distribution of eggs.
Flocks range from 100 to 2,000
layers. There are poultry farms in
the Fairbanks area, the Palmer
area, the Anchorage area, the
Seward area, the western Kenai
Peninsula and Southeastern Alas
ka. White leghorns are by far the
most popular bird with Alaska
poultry raisers.
Latest figures show that some
33,000 hens are laying eggs in
Alaska. Eggs made up 11 per cent
of the Alaskan production in 1956
for a total dollar value of $338,
112. Figures for 1957 are not yet
available, but egg production in
creased over the 1956 figure, ac
cording to H. Prentiss Gazaway,
agricultural economist with the
Alaska Agriculture Experiment
Station.
Pioneer Airline
Now Offers Stock
Ravmond I. Peterson, President
and General Manager of Northern
Consolidated, has announced a
company offer to Alaska residents
of $240,000.00 in debentures bear
ing 6% interest per annum and
60,000 shares of company common
stock at its $1.00 par value. The
package will consist of a $100.00
debenture and 25 shares of com
mon stock at a sale price of $125.
The company has ordered three
Fairchild F-27 Propjet aircraft,
two to be delivered in August and
September, 1058, and the third
April, 1959. The airline has also
ordered four spare Rolls-Royce
Dart engines for delivery in June
and July of 1958. The three air
craft and four spare engines will
cost approximately $2,000,000.00.
A ten-year loan commitment in
this amount by the National Bank
of Alaska, Anchorage, Seattle
First National Bank, Seattle, Wells
Fargo, San Francisco,, New York
Trust, New York City, and the
American National Insurance
Company, of Galveston, Texas,
has befen made to the company.
$600,000 has already been taken
down fof prepayments on the new
aircraft and engines. The acquisi
tion of an additional $300,000.00
through the sale of stock and-or
bonds is a requirement of the
loan.
The debentures, subordinated to
the $2,000,000.00 equipment loan
entered into on November 4, 1957,
Will be due in 1969 and are to be
Friday
Game Night
8:30 p.m.
at
V. F. W.
old only to bonafide residents of
Uaska. Interest payments are
>ayable on the 1st day Of April,
.959, and semi-annually there
rfter on the first day of October
ind' April of each year.
Polio Clinic Today
A polio clinic will be held at
;he Kodiak Health Center from
LO a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, March
29. All children ages 3 months
through 19 years of age will be
given first, second or third shots
as necessary. Children must be
accompanied by an adult.
Court of Awards
Held bast Week
Merit badges were awarded to
qualifying scouts from four Kodiak
Troops and four from the Naval
Station, at the Girl Scouts Court
of Awards held Friday evening,
March 14, in the high school audi
torium.
The well attended event saw
curved bar awards made by Mayor
Merrill Coon, to Pat Snider, Dawn
McDonald, Linda Reid and Pat
Nye.
Rev. Charles Hirschy gave the
invocation. An entertaining pro
gram of square dancing was per
formed by th girls of Mr. Curry’s
Troop 9. The girls had been in
structed' in* the dances by Kim
Claris and Henry Breckburg. Mrs.
Emerson’s Troop 2 followed with
a humorous style show.
Girls from Mrs. Dalton’s Troop
served as ushers, and a delegation
from Mrs. Hatcher’s group pre
sented the colors. Refreshments
were served by members of Mrs.
Green’s Troop.
A Reverse Party
At VFW Hal'
A party “in reverse*” has been
announced by the Cootiettes, when
they sponsor a buffet style din
ner, Saturday, March. 29, at the
VFW Post Hall.
The dinner, beginning at 8 p.m.r
will be attended by the group
dressed “in reverse”-^the men in
women’s clothing and the women
in male attire.
The public is invited.
NOTICE
The Christian Science Society
in the Chapel Annex on the Base,
of Kodiak holds services & Sun
day School every Sunday at 11 a.m.
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APPEARING NIGHTLY
vocalist
Judy Merrill
“The Songbird of Alaska”
and
Mary Foster
“The First Lady of the Keyboard”
at the
Town Club