THE FRONTIERSMAN
Entered as se<*ond class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office
at Palmer. Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879
T. O. SCHMIDTKE
Publisher
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News Editor
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WORDS OF A “PART-TIME” ECONOMIST
A University of Alaska economics professor, George
Rogers, recently downgraded AAatanuska Valley farmers
as "part-time plumbers, fishermen, carpenters, truckers
trying to made ends meet. Federal subsidy for their
meager results is useless." Called the state's top econo
mist in the Washington (D.C.) Daily News Scripps-Howard
feature story which quoted his comments, Dr. Rogers
has published several books about Alaska, although his
latest volume, prepared with the help of a foundation
subsidy, overlooks many accomplishments by Alaska's
farm pioneers, this is the first time their annual buying
and selling to the tune of $20 million has been declared
worthless to the state's economy
Thanks to a 15-year research effort, plenty of facts
are now at hand to refute such irresponsible statements.
A few hours discussion with their own experiment station
staff would have saved Dr. Rogers and the University
administration considerable embarrassment.
While it is true that many Anchorage people some
times take their plentiful food resources for granted,
those who know recognize the SIVi million dairy proces
sing plant now under construction on Northern Lights as
tangible evidence of faith on the part of 50 dairymen on
whom the burden of its financing ultimately rests.
Alaska's government agencies and the labor unions also
recognize its value.
It is indeed fortunate that the U S. Department of
Agriculture still accepts major responsibility for encourag
ing the state's agricultural development. Judging from
Professor Roger's comments, Alaska's farmers and con
sumers would indeed be at the mercy of a capricious
institution were it not for the stabilizing influence of a
competent research staff supervised by an experienced
administrator.
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By Dan Halligan
Dear Dan: I would like a (girl) pen pal of 10 or 11. My
name is Cathy Monaghan and my mailing address is Route 3.
Box 386. Enumclaw, Wash.
Dear Dan: I attend a parochial school and would like your
opinion on our uniforms—navy blue skirts and white blouses.
We have to wear them five days a week. —Complaining Girl.
Dar C.G.: Your school uniforms have some advantages
—being easy to maintain, less expensive on your parents
and they do solve the problem of "what to wear" from
one day to the next. But I certainly can understand your
reluctance toward the same costume day after day—es
pecially on Monday mornings.
Of course, as long as you attend your parochial school,
you really have no problem because your uniform is
mandatory. That solves that.
Dear Dan: I always thought when a girl and boy were
walking along together, like after school, and the girl had
books in her arms, the boy should offer to carry them. Is
that right? The boy I'm referring to seldom takes books home
so he could carry mine if he wished. —Amy.
Dear Amy: Younger boys, eighth and ninth graders,
usually don't make the offer because of embarrassment,
potential razzing by their buddies and because they don't
know the score.
Some of the older boys just aren't thinking properly—
usually because they're so dazzled by the personalities of
the girls they're walking home.
Dear Dan: I’m a girl of almost 20 who has been working
on my own for more than a year. I stay in town from Monday
through Friday and never complained when my parents in
sisted I come home every week end. Once I get home, I’m not
allowed to go out or even have friends out to see me. I didn’t
really mind until recently when I met a young man of 21
whom I would like to have come to the house but my parents
feel if I see him more than once a week, he’ll lose respect
for me.
Recently I was outside with my younger sister when he
came driving up to return something of mine I had left in his
car. Naturally, I was happy to see him and we talked for a
few minutes until my mother very rudely called me into the
house. You can imagine how this young man felt when he
wasn’t invited.
This problem of embarrassment is not new to me since
I was never allowed to go out during my entire school life.
Whenever I try to discuss it with my parents, they get mad
and refuse to have anything more to say. How can I get them
to understand it’s only normal for a girl to want to have
some decent fun in her life? —Desperate.
Dear Desperate: This could be a case where your
actions will do more than any amount of arguing. Your
parents may still believe they're protecting a wide-eyed
girl of 15 and they're not. Neither does their philosophy,
of the boy losing respect for you if he sees you more than
once a week, make sense.
I can understand how they want to monopolize your
weekends but I also can understand your feelings and par
ticularly wanting to be treated the age you are.
I think if sometime on a Friday you phoned your folks
and told them you wouldn't be home for the weekend
because you're dated up, they just might realise that
sharing you with a young man isn't the worst thing in the
world for them. You are of legal age, you know.
(Dan Halligan will answer all questions submitted by teen
agers and children. Address him care of The Frontiersman. For
personal replies enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.)
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WASILLA-BIG LAKE NEWS
By Phyllis Edwards
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' open on Wednesday evenings
from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and on
| Fridays from 11:30 a.m. until
4:30 p.m. The school students
1 use the library each Friday,
and the parents are reminded
that a membership card for the
whole family is just $1, pay
able now. The money may be
sent to school with the student
at any time. It would be most
appreciated if this would be
done promptly. Also, if you
have an overdue book, please
return it at soon as possible,
so others may have the op
portunity of checking it out.
Mrs. Mary Carter of Belling
ham, Wash., and Ellis “Red”
Robinson of Minot. North Da
kota. are guests of the Thomas
“Pat” Carters of Wasilla.
Mrs. Beulah M. Hobson of
Big Lake announces the en
gagement and forthcoming
marriage of her daughter, Pat
ricia Louise Beery, to Peter
Allen Hjellen of Wasilla. Both
are graduates of Wasilla high
school.
* * *
Wasilla School Lunch Menu
Monday, Sept. 23
Baked beef pie with vegetables
Lime Jello Salad
Biscuits Butter
Peanut butter cookies Milk
Tuesday. Sept. 24
Baked beans with pork
Cottage cheese and pineapple
salad
Corn bread Butter
Apple crisp Milk
Wednesday. Sept. 25
Baked pork chop with dressing
Cream Potatoes Green beans
Cake Milk
Thursday. Sept. 26
Spanish rice with meat
Buttered peas
Tossed green salad
Muffins Butter
Baked custard Milk
Friday. Sept 27
Peanut butter & jelly sandwich
Mixed fruit salad
Peach cobbler Milk
i'UOO ilLlV.ll
ored at a surprise bridal shower
at the home of her parents in
W a s i 11 a Saturday evening.
Hostesses for the affair were
Mrs. Pat Carney and Mrs. Neil
Thomas. Guests attending were
Mrs. Charles Carney, Mrs. Ed
Carney. Mrs. Dan Flecken
stein, Mrs. Pat Carter, Mrs.
Rod Cottle and Miss Colleen
Carter. The group dressed the
“bride” in a wedding gown
fashioned of newspapers and
presented her with a “bou
quet” that consisted of cauli
flower, carrots, cabbages, and
radishes.
1965 Conference
In Anchorage
Commissioner Henry Roloff,
of the Department of Economic
Development and Planning an
nounced today that the Alaska
delegation to the 50th general
conference of the Pacific
Northwest Trade Association
was successful in its bid to
have the conference meet in
Anchorage in the fall of 1965.
The theme of the conference
at that time, according to Rol
off, will be “Trade and Mar
keting Opportunities—The Pa
cific Rim.”
The Alaska delegation at
tending this year’s conference
included, in addition to com
missioner Roloff, Jack M. An
derson, vice president of the
Pacific Northwest Trade Asso
ciation from Anchorage; Claire
O. Banks, executive director of
the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce; and former terri
torial governor, Frank B.
Heintzleman. About 400 per
sons attended the conference,
which closed Tuesday in Harri
son Hot Springs, British Col
umbia.
The Trade Association mem
bership is composed of busi
nesses, industries and cham
bers of Commerce from Ore
gon, Washington, British Col
umbia and Alaska.
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THOUGHTS
OF A
LAYMAN
BABY MOSES
Moses was a man of God, |
who came into his own at the
age of 80, when most of us
are either retired or buried.
Forty years in the heat of the
Sinai desert he led a million
Hebrews, a multitude which
ceased not to complain and
to curse. From babyhood he
had been taught about the
living God by his own mo
ther. At the court of Pharaoh
he had been versed in mathe- :
matics, astronomy and phil
osophy. It was not strange
therefore, that in the Penta
teuch there are a number of
Egyptian expressions. Moses
has left a mark on every civ
ilized nation. The Decalogue
is the very basis and founda
tion of our present day laws.
Three distinct groups, the
Jews, the Christians and the
Samaritans use the Penta
teuch as their Scriptures and
guide for better living. It is
there that we have the first
prophecy concerning Christ,
“The seed of the woman
shall crush the head of the
serpent."
WOOTEN ARRESTED
Ray L. Wooten. 19, of Palmer
was arrested last Saturday by
state police, following on in
dictment by an Anchorage
grand jury for alleged dam
ages to personal property and
injury to a building (the
Green Acres restaurant and bar
on Wasilla Lake), early Sun
day, Aug. 25.
Wooten has been released on
bail.
The man with his back to
the wall seldom gets h square
deal.
St. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church
Morning Prayer 10 A.M.
Church School _11 A.M.
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HORTICULTURIST ADVISES TAKING
SOIL TESTS BEFORE GROUND FREEZES
Did you have a good gar
dening year? This is the end
of the growing season but it s
a good time to take a look at
your garden, lawn, and shrubs
and to figure out what prob
lems you had according to Har
old W. Pillsbury, horticulturist
with the Cooperative Exten
sion Service of the University
of Alaska.
Fall is the best time to take
PAVING PROJECT
ADVERTISED
Advertising began Wednes
day for paving of 16.079 miles
! of the Glenn Highway between
Glennallen Junction and Tol
sina. acting highways commis
sioner B. A. Campbell said this
week.
The bituminous surface treat
ment will be applied on a new
ly reconstructed section of this
; highway, he said. An aggregate
, base course is included in the
work. Bids on the project will
be opened Oct. 17, and work
is to be completed on the job
, by Oct. 16, 1964.
Four other highway projects
are also being advertised cur
! rently, Campbell said. A bid
I opening is scheduled today
I when proposals will be consid
! ered on grading and drainage
! of 20.877 miles of roadway and
| construction of six bridges.
a soil test and send it in to the
Extension Service. With the
soil test results you can plan
next year’s planting at your
leisure during the long winter.
If you wait until next March
before thinking about soil test
ing, you may find it pretty
hard, digging for a sample It
may even be hard to find the
garden among the snow drifts!
By sending in a soil sample
now, you will be able to order
the right kind and amount of
fertilizer early in the season
and be all ready to go when
the snow melts next spring.
Send your soil sample to
your district Extension agent,
or to the Cooperative Exten
sion Service, University of Al
aska, College. If you are in
doubt about how to take a good
soil sample, ask your Exten
sion agent for a leaflet on how
to take one.
ST. JO.HN
LUTHERAN
CHURCH
ttev. R, H. Fritz, pastor
Palmer, Alaska
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Monday
Isaiah
51:1-11
Tuesday
Ruth
Wednesday
Galatians
5:13-26
Thursday
II Timothy
3:1-7
Friday
Psalms
Saturday
Psalms
116:1-19
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Ecclesiastes
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