Valley Frontiersman
12 LOCAL BOYS TO ATTEND ANNUAL
SCOUT ENCAMPMENT AT KING'S LAKE
Twelve local boys of Palmer
Boy Scout Troop Number 654 will
head for King’s Lake Camp Sun
day afternoon for a week packed
full of planned recreation and
badge-producing opportunities.
The Palmer Troop boys will be
joined by nearly 60 other Scouts
from troops scattered all over the
vast Chugach Council area.
Members of the local Scout com
mittee will take turns being at the
camp to offer help and supervi
sion. Acting Scout Master Harry
Wimmer will depart with the
boys at 2 p.m. Sunday and stay
over night. Although his summer
job at the Experiment Station de
mands his day-time, he wiK
“camp out” with the boys each
night. Rev. Brian Cleworth and
U. S. Marshal Walter Huntley
each plan to spend one whole day
with the Scouts at camp.
Packing up their camping gear
this week in preparation for the
week’s outing are Henry Gallant,
Roger Brager, Neil Herman, Gor
don Ganschow, Steve Hamilton,
Ronald Shook. Billy Wimmer,
Ronald and “Corky” Aklestad,
Johnny Maze, and Laddie Hunt
ley. Bradley Inman is already at
the camp this week and will re
main on for another week with
the members of his troop.
Parents of the boys may pick
them up at the camp some time
Sunday afternoon, August 10, al
though members of the local com
mittee will provide transportation
for those who need it.
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FRAGILE,
APPROACH WITH CARE
Business should be brisk in in
suring plate glass windows this
week.
A passing car sent a smallish
boulder flying through one of
Kosloky’s large plate glass win
dows. Luckily, Koslosky’s already
had insurance for glass damage.
Last Sunday’s breakage was the
second within a week in down
town Palmer. At 11:30 p.m. of the
previous Sunday, an altercation
between two servicemen resulted
in the shattering of the glass door
in Betty’s new store. The service
men were released after agreeing
to pay for replacement cost.
INSURE TODAY—SEE RAY!
BETTER STILL—SEE BILL!!
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SAWMILL TIMBER • CONSTRUCTION
Here’s the saw that’s designed to
lessen work and raise income on the
farm. You can take it anywhere —
up hill and across swampy land if
necessary— because it weighs less
than 25 pounds. And cut anything
— heavy timber, limbs, hardwood,
softwood, frozen wood—because it
has a full 3 horsepower.
Many other features too make
the McCulloch 3-25 tops on any
farm: automatic clutch, built-in
chain oiler, recoil starter, and full
power operation at any angle.
18* Wad.
4 MODELS 24'bl.d.
AVAILABLE 30* Wad.
15* bow taw
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OVER 100 ATTEND
OPENING OF BETTYS'
SPACIOUS NEW STORE
In spite of the drizzly rain out
side, over 100 persons dropped
in for the formal opening oi
Betty’s dazzling new store Mon
day.
Spaciousness is the keynote tc
the new establishment, spacious
ness punctuated by attractive
glassed-in show cases and natur
al- finish cabinet work foi
shelves, garment compartments
and dressing rooms.
Several* beautiful bouquets ar
ranged tastefully throughout thf
store lent mute testimony of the
givers’ pride in this new additior
to Palmer’s business section. II
it a store that would be a credil
to any large community.
Special feature of the new store
is the area set aside for the Alaske
Crippled Children’s Associatior
show case of Alaska gift items
Proprietors Betty Mears and Min
nie Clark have donated this space
to ACCA for this special prcjeci
which is sponsored by the Chee
chako Homemakers in the Valley
Several members of the club tool
turns at the booth on opening day
They will continue to take ovei
operation of the booth during
rush periods and the regular store
personnel will carry on at othei
times.
The cabinet work on the win
dow showcases and within the
store was done by local contract
ors Carl Nylund and Jack Land
Mrs. Herlee Stineberg and sor
Ernest returned to their home a1
the Station this week after being
Outside since last April.
WEEK DAY SPECIALS
Full Course and A la Carte Dinners
HOME MADE SOUP AND PASTRY
FRIED CHICKEN — STEAKS — CHOPS
VI RO CAFE
No. Palmer on Glenn Highway
Phone 61Y1
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Good Year
TIRES - TUBES & ACCESSORIES
SEE US FOR NEW AND USED CARS
1952 LI20 International 3/a ton Pick Up
USED
1947—1 ton Ford Stake Truck
1949—3/4 ton International Pick Up
1949—3U ton Jeep Pick Up
1947—1V2 ton Studebaker Truck flat bed
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INTE RNATIONAL 4^ TRUCKS
PARTS SERVICE ACCESSORIES
OUR NEW SUPER SERVICE STATION IS
Open Seven Day a Week, 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.
Co-Op Garage
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
Lew Hanlcs
I’ve been doing a lot of talking
about getting grass hay in early.
I haven’t been doing so hot my
self. This must be confession day,
because I’ve got some hay in the
swath, too. I sure hope we get
some sunshine for a few days.
Next year that hay is going to
be in the bam by July first. I
also became a good believer in
something else. Mr. H. J. Hodg
son of the Experiment Station has
often told me light applications of
fertilizer don’t pay. I tried to put
on about three hundred pounds of
ammonium phosphate per acre.
While guessing on the adjustment
on the fertilzer spreader, I got
about two hundred pounds per
acre on part of the field and about
five hundred on the rest. There is
only a difference in yield of
about eight times as much on the
heavily fertilized part.
George Woodruff tells me Ted
Knutson used a heavy disk to
break new land and chop up roots.
According to reports, he did a
pretty nice job and has a fine
green manure crop growing on
this field. It costs pretty close to
fifty dollars an acre to pick up
roots and clean up a piece of
land. Otherwise, you plow sticks
down one year and up the next.
If we can disk and chip up a lot
of these roots, we might save a
lot of that fifty bucks. You don’t
see many moldboard plows out
side any more. Disks and sub-sur
face tillage have taken their place.
Maybe we’re just a little bit be
hind up here. Incidentally, if you
have a green manure crop in, re
seed a cover crop of grain back I
on the field for winter wind pro
tection. That will keep your field
at home this fall. You cleared it.
Why give it to the north wind to
| leave at your neighbor’s on the
| south? He probably wouldn’t even
appreciate it.
Certified Seed
Growers Have First
Potato Inspections
Dr. Donald Coe, plant patholo
gist of the Alaska Experiment
Station made his first inspection
this week of the potatoes grown
in the Valley for certified stocks
under the Alaska Certified Seed
Growers program.
Dr. Coe is the acting executive
secretary of the association, hav
ing replaced Irving Abbott, who
resigned several weeks ago from
the University of Alaska Exten
sion Service. He spent a day in
the Fairbanks area last week in
specting fields of four growers
in that area who are growing
potatoes for certified seed. Next
week he will complete the first
inspection when he visits the four
certified potato growers in the
Kenai Peninsula. The second and
last inspection of tubers during
their period of growth will follow
in about three weeks. The seed
growers’ program also calls for in
spection of stored tubers about
the first of the year.
Growing potatoes for certified
seed in the Valley are Joseph Gis
lason, R. F. Davis, Loren Weider
keh, Carl Fritzler, Ed Blom, Lloyd
Short, Otto Senske, and Harold
Harris. The first five named are
growing for increase the new
Alaska Experiment Station vari
ety known temporarily as Num
ber 57. Not until the stocks of this
new variety have been increased
sufficiently will it be offered for
commercial production.
Inspection of seed grain in the
Valley will be made in a few
weeks by Roscoe Taylor of the
Alaska Experiment Station Agon
omy department.
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Fanners and Persons Interested in
Alaskan Agriculture
You are cord-ally invited to attend the
Annual Field Day at the Matanuska
Experiment Station
MONDAY THE 4TH OF AUGUST
Field Day will be held Mon
day the 4th of August. The
day’s program will begin at
10 a.m near the station
barns. Projects in Agron
omy, Horticulture, Entomo
logy and Soil Science are
scheduled to be shown in
the afternoon.
Pot luck picnic lunch, coffee
furnished, will be served
from 11:30 to 12:30.
COME AND BRING THE FAMILY
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