Tour of King's Lake Camp Offered
On Girl Scouts' Sunday Visitors' Day
Sunday afternoon visitors at
King’s Lake Camp were met at
the camp gate by a long row of
Girl Scouts, anxiously scanning
each car for members of their
families.
Even though each day at camp
is packed with fun, visitors’ day
is rather hollow for a young Girl
Scout if she doesn’t have her vis
itors to squire around the camp.
The grand tour of the Susitna
Council Girl Scout Camp begins
at the recreation hall, presented
to the camp two .years ago by
Anchorage Elks. There in the cen
ter of a huge room is a welcoming
, fire in a square fireplace, open on
. all four sides.
The procession leads on to the
dining hall, where Hola Weather
Bureau chart is tacked on the out
side » wall—a special project for
campers of Knob Hill unit 2.
There are a home made gadget
for measuring humidity, a record
ing of the temperatures, pasted il
lustrations of the cloud forma
tions of the day, and the daily
weather flag. Sunday’s prediction
“Cloudy or local showers” was
all to true, and the day’s clouds
were numbus and stratus. In
side the dining hall the weather
didn’t seem to matter, for there
were rows of long tables served
fro;,i a kitchen at the rear. On
/fhe wall was the Kaper Chart,
showing the special kapers (dut
ies) of the day for each of seven
groups.
From the dining hall, the tour
proceeeded to the empty infir
mary; to Camp Director Marjorie
Kafer’s cabin; the bath house
with its warm fire—the special
province of the counselors’ aids;
the trading post, where little can
be purchased this year except
postage stamps (because of the
boat strike.
The tour of the campers’ quart
ers stopped abruptly after in
spection of “Little Plateau” where
the younger girls have their tents.
The visitors over 20 were warned
that it was quite a climb to
“Knob Hill,” where the cider
campers have their tents. They
were warned again before ascend
ing the last hill to “Shining Star,”
where dwelt the oldest (13-15
years) on their Olympic heights.
Each camp unit has its own out
door chapel, where the Girl Scouts
have their daily “Scouts’ Own.
The greater number of Palmer
girls at camp this week were liv
ing on “Knok Hill.” Betty Jo Wil
son, Dorothy Lentz, Sally Reed,
Susie Ellington, Jean Brunner,
and Barbara Anderson were liv
ing there. Only Palmer girl on
“Shining Star” was Rosann
Branton. Down on ‘ Little Plat
eau” were Muriel Hanks, Eliza
beth Shook, and Roberta Uzelac.
On “Knob Hill” 29 girls are
housed in five tents. Their four
counselors have a tent to them
v selves, but they’re almost within
whispering distance of then*
charges.
Down on the waterfront, the
first unit girls were already in
the water for their afternoon
swim. In spite of the rather dis
agreeable weather, the Girl Scouts
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haven’t missed a day of swim
ming. The prevalence of red caps
Sunday showed that most of the
first unit girls were non-swim
mers. They have to be able to
swim from the dock to their rope
boundary and be able to float for
a couple of minutes before they
can graduate to green caps and
the deeper water beyond the arm
of the dock that’s horizontal to
the shore. A few green caps were
in evidence but no blue ones nor
white ones. The green caps are
for beginning swimmers, blue for
good swimmers, and white for ex
pert swimmers. Judy Inman was
the only white-capped camper in
the two-week camping period
that ended a week ago. She swam
all the way across the lake and
back with scarcely a trace of
panting. A junior life saver, Judy
was also the only camper to pass
tier boating test. Also doing their
best during the two-week camp
were Palmer Girl Scouts Carla
and Sandra Driggers and Donna
Horton.
At the end of each camping
period, Girl Scouts put on a speci
al program, which marks the cli
max of days of planning and im
provisation. Last week, at the
end of the two-week camp period,
the girls put on a Magic Carpet
program, with each tent exhib
iting folk songs and dances of one
special country as the carpet land
ed tnere. From bits of information
gathered here and there, it ap
peared that the program to be
given last night might be a rodeo,
with the “Knob Hill” girls in the
roles of Indians.
Today, the second Girl Scout
camping period ended at noon
and the Brownies take over for
the next week. Palmer Brownies
who started camping today were:
Polly Ann and Sarah Moffitt,
Victoria Graves, Judy Everett
Viva Martin and Joan Stewart.
LATE DR. AND MRS. WITZEL
REMEMBERED IN WASILLA
Dr. and Mrs. Roger Witzel who
died recently as a result of a CAA
plane crash are well remembered
in Wasilla, where they spent one
week in March of 1950 when the
Alaska Department of Health
Railbelt Unit visited that city.
Both Dr. and Mrs. Witzel were
physicians on the Alaska Depart
ment of Health staff.
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4-H CLUB NEWS |
Butt* Boy* Club
June 9th we had our regular
meeting at Sandviks. Mrs. Galla
gher had charge of the meeting
while Mrs. Sandvik was attend
ing the 4-H Council meeting. We
decided on 10c dues to be used
for a picnic at the end of the
projects. We learned the 4-H
pledge and sang songs. Then we
played games. Tim Gallagher was
our visitor. On June 16th we met
again at Mrs. Sandvik’s home.
Mrs. Sandvik was in charge of
our meeting and our president.
Elden Sandvik conducted the
meeting. Mrs. Sam Johnson was
our visitor. We discussed a fish
ing trip but postponed the plans
until the next meeting.. All stud
ied from our new officer’s books
which Mrs. . Sandvik brought
home from the Council meeting.
We discussed 4-H camp and dem
onstrations. Then we sang songs.
Mrs. Martin Olson of Wasilla
brought ice-cream and Mrs. Sand
vik served cookies and fruit
punch. We played games. Jerry
and Mike Gallagher set out
cabbage plants and put on cut
worm dope until nearly 11 p.m.
Roddi Yohn, reporter
Butte Girl Club
The Butte 4-H Girls baking
class met at the home of Marcina
Hartner, Monday June 16. There
were eight girls present. Marcina
Bartner gave a demonstration on
gingerbread. The next meeting
will be at Rosalie Burnham’s.
Wooden Spoon Club
We met June 19 at Mrs. John
son’s house. There was a visitor,
Karen Cottrell. She sang a song
for us. Three members were pres
ent.
Vice-president Nancy Gulick
called the meeting to order. The
secretary read the 4-H constitu
tion and by-laws. They were
adopted as read.
Karen Grover demonstrated
how to make biscuits. For re
freshments we had biscuits with
butter and punch.
After the meeting we hiked to
Sherrod’s, and Mrs. Sherrod
showed us around the garden.
Ruth Henry, club reporter
Bureau Beavers
The second meeting of the
newly organized Bureau Beavers
took place on June 20 in the
home of Lee Ann Westgate at
two o’clock.
The two leaders, Mrs. M. E.
Suess and Mrs. S. S. Westgate,
seven club members and two
visitors Ronney Burke and Billy
Westgate were present.
Lee Ann gave a demonstration
on making gingerbread. All the
club members will make ginger
bread to be handed in at the next
meeting.
The Bureau Beavers have de
cided to hold bake sales to earn
money for a three day 4-H camp
being held in July.
Refreshments were served and
the meeting adjourned at four
o’clock.
Vegetable Growers
We held our fourth meeting
June 20. All the members except
one were present. The business
meeting lasted from 1:30 to 2:20.
Roy Felix was elected game lead
er.
After the meeting, refreshments
were served and we played
games.
Our next meeting will be July
11 at 1:30.
Club Reporter, Larry Trowbridge
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BOTHERED BY WEEDS?
SEE EXPT, STATION'S
NEW CIRCULAR 18
Released by the Experiment
Station this week was the long
awaited Circular 18, “Chemical
Weed Killers and Their Use” by
Dr. C. H. Dearborn, Experiment
Station horticulturist.
Copies of the circular will be
mailed to farmers in the Valley
early next week. Anyone not on
the Extension Service mailing
list may pick up a copy at the
Extension office in Palmer.
Back for the summer from the
University of Washington is
Esther Kerttula. She will be a
senior at the university when
she returns next fall.
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