KENAI DAYS TO
BE AUG. 24, 25
Kenai Days annual celebra
tion is scheduled for August
24 and 25 and will start with
a parade at 1:30 p.m. imme
diately following the dedica
tion of the Standard Oil refin
ery at Tort Nikiski.
110 pe rsons including Gover
nor Egan and other govern
ment officials and officials of
Standard Oil Company will
fly to Kenai for this dedication.
This ceremony will start at 10
am at the refinery and end
with a luncheon in the Kenai
High School gym.
The theme of the parade will
be ‘Village with a Past, City
with a Future.”
The theme of the Kenai
Days Celebration, which will
feature a Beluga Whale Hunt
is "From Whale Oil to Stand
ard Oil.”
Also planned for the celebra
tion are a carnival, conces
sions, a whale barbecue, fly in
breakfast, exhibits by the army,
and numerous exhibits by local
merchants and organizations, a
Coronation Ball and a drawing
for a new 1963 Chevrolet Bis
cayne.
Prizes for the whale hunt in
clude $100.00 cash for a suc
cessful whale hunter.
The drawing for the new
1963 Biscayne Chevrcle* will
be held at 4:00 p.m. Sunday on
the fairgrounds and the auto
awarded to the lucky whiner.
FACE THE FUTURE
Spend every minute of today
in preparation for the bigger
things that tomorrow will \
bring.
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EGAN PROCLAIMS AUG. 11 - SEPT. 8
EIGHTH ANNUAL ALASKA FARM MONTH
The period of Aug. 11
through Sept. 8 has been pro
claimed by Governor Egan as
Alaska Farm Month.
This year's Alaska Farm
Month is* the eighth campaign
to promote the sale and the use
of Alaska’s farm products.
“Alaska’s farm production
has become big business,” said
Sigmund H. Restad, director
| of the Alaska division of agri
j culture in Palmer. “A farm’s
health is the state's wealth," he
1 declared.
Last year the sale of Alaskan
! potatoes alone amounted to
$635,000. Cabbage totaled $32,
500, and carorts $59,000. Crisp
Alaska lettuce sales brought in
$113,000, and the total of the
49th State's other vegetables
came to $27,000
The thirty-day period select
ed each year for Alaska Farm
Month parallels the high pro
duction weeks on the state's
dairy farms. It also embraces
the dates of the four agricultur
al fairs: the Tanana Valley
Fair and August 15 through 18.
the Homer Fair August 23
through 25, the Alaska State
Fair at Palmer August 30 thro
ugh September 2, and the Nin
ilehik Fair September 7 and 8
There is a triple play in con
nection with Alaska Farm
Month, Restad said. The local
merchants are able to buy the
plentiful, fresh products at rea
sonable costs to them. The lo
cal farmer is able to sell these
products, washed, graded, and ;
packaged in attractive contain
ers. And the local housewife
can take advantage of the
farmer / merchant teamwork
and buy a portion of Alaska’s
bountiful harvest for the fam
ily table. Thus, the merchant,
the farmer, and the housewife
are the winners.
Alaska’s radio and TV sta
tions will be featuring Alaska
Farm Month “nugget-buys.”
Local Chamber of Commerce
will help spread the word.
There is no more inexpensive
way to share in Alaska’s boun
tiful, health-giving harvest
than to partake in the Alaska
Farm Month activities.
AMU Announces
New Scholarships
Charles R. Allen, develop
ment officer at Alaska Metho
dist University, announced that
the Sears Roebuck Foundation
has established a $1,000 schol
arship award at AMU. The
: amount is to be awarded equal
ly to two students each year,
with preference being given to
Alaskan residents.
Mr. Harold Ellers, manager
for Sears-Roebuck in Alaska,
said, “By beginning this sch
olarship at Alaska Methodist
University, the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation intends to provide
greater opportunity for out
standing young people to de
velop their potential for aca
demic achievement and com
munity leadership.”
Dr. Fred P. McGinnis. Presi
dent of the University, ack
nowledged the grant and said,
“This initial grant on the part
of the Sears-Roebuck Founda
tion will certainly provide ad
ded incentive for deserving
students to seek a college edu- !
cation at Alaska Methodist
University.”
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PALMER
Sportsmen Plan
Trophy Exhibit
Persons who would like to
display their game trophies at
the Alaska State Fair this year
are asked to notify Dan Con
tini at Koslosky’s Department
| Store, Gene Kirsch, president
I of the Matanuska Valley
Sportsmen's Club, said this
| week.
The Sportsmen will again j
I sponsor the popular exhibit,
which is one of the truly Al
askan dispin;. - shown at the
fair.
Mounted animals and tro
phy heads, bear rugs, mount
ed game birds ad game fish
will all be welcome additions
i to the exhibit.
Exhibitors are asked to bring |
their trophic to the Snodgrass
Building before 8 p.m. on
Thursday, At ; 29.
Every prjiuui'on will be
taken to protect the trophies,
which will v covered by in
surance. Kir a n said.
YOUTH GROUPS
EXHIBITS TAKEN
UNTIL AUG. 29
Displays in the youth organ
izations division of the 1963
Alaska State Fair will be ac
cepted untii 6 p.m. on Aug.
29, Mrs. Canos Driggars, chair
man, said yesterday.
Youth groups such as boy j
scouts, cub scouts, girl scouts,
campfire girls, church organi
zations, and 4-H are eligible to
participate in this division,
Mrs. Driggars said, emphasiz
ing that he exhibit should re- j
present the organization rath- j
er than its individual units—
for instance, the church school
rather than its individual clas
ses; cub pack rather than den.
Booths will occupy area four
feet square and four deep. Ex
hibitors are asked to include a
decorative cover for the frame
work of the booth, which will
be constructed of raw lumber.
The Palmer Kiwanis Club
will contribute cash prizes for
the exhibits. First prize will be
$30, second will be $25, third
$20, fourth $15, and fifth $10.
WASHINGTON AND
''SMALL BUSINESS”
By C. WILSON HARDER
The average working person
during 1963 will work 2 hours
and 21 minutes out of each 8
hour day to pay Federal, state
and local taxes.
* * *
The same average worker
will only work 1 hour and 24
minutes out of each 8 hour day
to sup
housing
housing
eratlon.
* * *
Thus,
roof over
head c o
less than
the cost
taxes.
* • * C. W. Harder
Of course, the great gulf in
these comparisons is that the
average worker is supporting
more than one roof. Sen. Rob*
ert Byrd of W. Va., on the com
mittee that administers civil
affairs in Washington, D.C.
picked 236 district welfare cas
es at random and found about
60% of these cases did not de
serve welfare payments in the
first place.
* * *
And the bitter fact remains
that every taxpayer is not only
burdened with the welfare load,
but also with the salaries and
expenses of almost 10,000,000
people employed by federal,
state and local government
• * •
While the major attention Is
focused on the coots of federal
government, it is a fact that
state and local governmental
costs are contributing mightily
to the cost of existence.
O 0 o
As the situation now stands,
in ten years federal spending
on non-defense items has
a nasd r*Se»ito» of IihIumSmi Swans
jumped from approximately
$23% billion to $63Mi billion,
and at the same time state and
local spending has jumped
from $22 billion to $49 billion.
* * *
The nation’s independent
businessmen, voting through
the National Federation of In
dependent Business, feel
strongly that a reduction In in
come tax rates is essential to
preserve a free economy, and
to provide more employment.
* * *
Yet, the nation’s independent
business proprietors have also
voted strongly in favor of cut
ting government expenses to
offset, at least in part, a tax
cut.
* * *
As shown by the above fig
ures, there is plenty of water
to be wrung out of governmen
tal spending to provide size
able tax cuts.
* * *
On the other hand, reflection
on these figures cause wonder
if the water must be wrung out
of the federal budget alone,
or whether at the same time
local governments all through
the land should be forced to cut
back on their expenditures.
* • *
Today, the public debt of the
federal government is over
$100 billion more than the com
bined public debt of all the
free nations of the world com
bined, yet these nations re
ceive billions of U.S. dollars in
foreign give away funds.
* o o
Thus, perhaps Castro is not
the greatest concern of every
American.
see
Perhaps of far greater ooo
oern is the actual solvency of
the nation.
MEMPHIS NEWSMEN WANTS ALASKA
VEGETABLE DISPLAY FOR FAIR THERE
Wanted: the Matanuska Val
ley's biggest cabbage, potato,
beet, rutabaga, turnip, what
ever you have that’s big en
ough to win a prize at the
fair.
Eldon Roark, newspaper col
umnist with the Memphis
Press-Scimitar, Memphis,
Tenn., has written to Curly
Sutton, manager of the Alaska
State Fair, Inc., to ask that the
most whopping of local vege
tables shown here be sent to
him for display in his “Muse
um of Unnatural History”,
which he describes as a “big,
free, non-commercial feature”
of the Mid-South fair in Mem
phis.
The timing would be just
about right, he pointed out,
since the Alaska fair closes
Sept. 2 and the Memphis fair
opens Sept. 20.
“Our fair will run 10 days,
Sept. 20-29, and will draw
about 500,000 people," he said.
“My museum will be in the
very center of the big General
Exhibits building, a modem
brick structure. I will be glad
to give your *biggest’ exhibit
a place of honor, and I will tell
about it in my newspaper col
umn. I’m sure it would cause
many people to read, talk, and
think about Alaska.”
Sutton has also received a
letter from Sen. Gruening, a
personal friend of Roark’s ask
ing that the request for big
vegetables be given every con
sideration.
"VEN KEEL
Aggressiveness is an essen
tial for success, but everyone
needs common sense for ball
ast.
Henry Ford once turned
down a billion-dollar offer for
Ford Motor Company with the
observation that he’d have the
money but no job.
SILVER SALMON
FISHING GOOD
IN LOCAL CREEKS
Silver salmon fishing is good
at the mouths of Caswell and
Montana Creeks, Dan W. Mc
Ginnis, sport fish biologist for
the Palmer district, said this
week.
The fish average 24 inches
in length, and best baits are
fresh cluster eggs, mepps, and
golf tees.
Some chum (dog salmon)
are also being taken at the
same locations, and success is
good for silvers between the
road bridge and the mouth of
Willow Creek for boat anglers,
the game department official
said.
Success is spotty at present
for silvers at Wasilla and Cot
tonwood Creek tidewater
areas, the angling being fair
when fish are moving through.
Fair to good fishing for chum
! salmon may be had at the high
way bridge areas of Willow
and Sheep Creeks, McGinnis
added.
I
FRIENDLINESS
Make cheerfulness a habit—
the chronic crank soon comes
to a turning point in his car
eer.
To Henry Ford, 100 errors
simply meant that he had
learned 100 ways not to do
something he thought could be
done. This year is the Centen
nial of the birth of the famed
auto pioneer.
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