Airmens’ Club Will
Erect Airport Signs
Sixteen new members were ad
ded to the growing list of mem
bership the newly organized
Matanuska Airmens’ Association
at their meeting held November
20, according to Tommy Thomp
son, secretary- “Aviation Oddit
ies” and other interesting films
were shown following the busi
ness meeting.
New Airport Signs
Curtis Dearborn and Dave Al
garin are in the process of build
ing two large direction signs that
will help visitors locate the Pal
mer Airport more eradily. The
signs are expected to be approxi
mately four foot square and will
be erected near Hartley Brothers
Co. and the Co-Op Garage.
Other business discussed includ
ed a proposed flying club. There
will be a special meeting for
members Friday, November 28 in
the Co-Op club room at 7:00 p.m.
for further discussion. If organiz
ed, the club would offer flying in
structions with a club-ow ned
plane, to new students.
The next regular meeting will
be held Deecmber 18. Anyone in
terested in attending the meeting
is invited to do so.
CANNERY OPERATORS’
CEILING PRICES
SAME AS 1951
JUNEAU—Fred G. Hanford,
Territorial director for the Office
of Price Stabilization, said this
week that cannery operators’ ceil
ing prices for the 1952 pack of
canned salmon will be the same
as the ceiling prices for the 1951
^Hanford said the 1952 pack is
expected to be about the same
size as the 1951 pack and indica
tions are that there will be no
substantial difference in the over
all cost of production.
“In view of these circumstan
ces, and since the 1951 level of
ceiling prices for different species
has been found by the industry
to be reasonable” Hanford added,
“it is felt that the continuance of
the 1951 ceiling prices for the
1952 pack is a fair basis for setting
the ceiling prices for the 1952
pack.”
V-BAR—LIQUOR STORE
Mile 40 — Palmer Highway
Blahs Beer S6.25 case
VALLEY 4-H WINNERS LEAVE FOR CHICAGO
WILL ATTEND NATIONAL 4-H CONGRESS
Early Monday morning, Richard Blue of the Extension Service,
drove two Valley 4-Hers to Anchorage where the youngsters en
planed for a flight to Chicago, Illinois where they will attend the
National 4-H Congress, opening November 31. The Congress will
be held at the same time as the International Livestock Show and
the 4-H members will be guests for a day at the Horse Show.
Dorothy Hoffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman and Lewis
McDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald were two out of
three Alaskan 4-Hers to win the trip to Chicago. Third winner
was Gerald West of College who also made the Chicago trip. Miss
Bernice Luthro, Home Demonstration Agent from Homer ac
companied the winners.
While in Chicago, the youngsters will be guests of the National
Committee on Boys and Girls club work with headquarters at the
Conrad Hilton Hotel. Delegates from all the 48 states along with
the Territorial winners will have four days of special events when
they will participate in discussions, appear on television and radio
programs and read about themselves in the newspapers.
The events will be sponsored by various donors, including the
Spool Cotton Co. who sponsored Miss Hoffman’s award and the
Dearborn Motor Company, sponsors of McDonald’s award.
Th following articles explain part of the work and pleasure
that went into their selected projects.
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Dorothy Hoffman
Winning a trip to the 4-H Con
gress in Chicago has been one of
the most thrilling times in my
life—especially since I have never
been outside Alaska.
My parents came to Alaska in
1931 from Albuquerque, New
Mexico and began farming on our
present farm in 1937. I have two
brothers who go to the Univer
sity of Alaska and two younger
sisters.
4-H clubwork has been a source
of pleasure as well as great bene
fit to me. My special interest has
been clothing which I have taken
for six years. When I was eleven
I made my first dress of which
I was very proud but each year
as I attempted more difficult pat
terns even I noticed improve
ment. This past summer I made
a winter coat and several gar
ments for school.
The club to which I belong is
the Mixing Bowl 4-H Club led by
Mrs. Henning Blunck who has
been a wonderful leader. I feel
that my achievements in 4-H have
been largely due to the great in
terest and help my leaders and
the extension agents have given
me and the encouragement and
willing co-operation of my par
ents in all my 4-H projects.”
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TRICYCLES
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SLEDS
TINKER TOYS
GUNS
GRASSER'S
DOLLS
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DOLL HOUSES
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Sheet Metal Work
Furnaces Stokers Pre-fab Chimneys
Stainless Steel Work
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PALMER SHEET METAL & HEATING
Box 1797 John Weisenberger
Phone: 62J3
Palmer
Lewis McDonald
Lewis McDonald came to Alas
ka via the Alaska Highway in the
fall of 1946 with his parents. Al
aska didn’t look as they had
dreamed and the only reason
they did not turn around and
start right back was the Hiway
Dust. Before his mother could put
out a washing his father found a
colony farm for sale and within
a week’s time he and his four
brothers and one sister were stu
dents in the Wassila Territorial
School.
Lewis, now a freshman in Was
illa High, has been a 4-H mem
ber for six years and has com
pleted 8 projects including: rab
bits, dairying, gardening, and
four years of poultry. He started
with a single rabbit in 1947, but
in not time at all this became a
family project. That was when
you had to take your own hutch
to the fair to exhibit rabbits.
In 1948 he began first year
poultry by raising 200 New
Hampshire red chicks. He realized
a profit of $166.21 after charging
his silf $86.00 for labor. He had
one year of gardeening but soon
decided that he preferred live
stock.
Lewis owns a cow and an eight
months old heifer, both which he
has raised. He feeds all the family
stock and milks his own cow. He
learned to milk while raising his
first heifer so as to be able to
milk when she came fresh. But
the fact that his mother said “no
more teaching boys to drive until
they can milk” may have possibly
speeded up the learning. He now
has a special driver’s permit as
he is not yet 16 and eligible for a
regular license.
His project for 1952 began the
first of October 1951 when Lewis
moved 200 white leghorn pullets
into a freshly cleaned laying
house. These had been purchased
in April as baby chicks from the
“Heisdorf and Nelson Farm” of
Kirkland, Washington; flown here
when one day old. A few of the
200 pullets were already laying
and by the middle of October
they were laying 50%. They aver
aged 129 eggs a day through De
cember and a little less for Janu
ary due to a cold spell.
Lewis does not use any heat in
the laying house except unit un
der the fountain to try and keep
the water from freezing. Eveen
this fails after several nights of
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28
PLANES LEAVE FOR NOME
Basketball Game, 10 a.m.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
KIWANIS CLUB, Co-Op Club
Room, 12:05 p.m.
BETA SIGMA PHI, Extension
Craft Room, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2
P-TA EXECUTIVE MEETING,
School Library, 8 p.m.
MAT. LODGE MASONIC MEET
ING, Carpeneters’ Hall, 8 p.m.
ST. MICHAEL’S ALTAR & ROS
ARY Society
BOY SCOUT MEETING, United
Protestant Church, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Co
Op club room, 12:05 p.m.
MAT. VALLEY SPORTSMEN,
Club quarters, 8 p.m.
LADIES AID, United Protestant
Church
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 4
AMERICAN LEGION & AUXIL
IARY, Carpenters’ Hal, 8 p.m.
BLM SETS ASIDE
MORE LANDS
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment has set aside 7,400 square
miles in the southern part of
Skagway and Taiya river valleys
to allow for surveys and classifi
cation “so that lands may be
made available to the public on
an orderly basis and so that pure
speculative entries which could
block dvelopment may be pre
vented.”
An order given some time ago
set aside 84 square miles in the
Taiya Valley area for industrial
and community development.
Vernon D. Northrup, acting sec
retary of the Interior department,
said that the reservation would
not hamper private development
of the Taiya Valley and will “pro
vide opportunity for large and
small business and veterans and
others seeking homes to obtain
land more easily under present
and future legislation.”
This is the area which the Alu
minum Company of America is
planning a $700,000,000 tin pro
cessing plant.
GLENALLEN SCHOOL
NEARING COMPLETION
Edwin Crittenden, architect,
recently announced that new
quarters for the Alaska Territori
al school at Gleenallen will be
ready for occupancy late this
month. There are two classrooms
servicing 63 grades and high
school pupils and living quarters
for the teachers. The school is
located in the Alaska Road Com
mission area in the Glenn High
way community. Other projects
Crittenden is working on include
the new Palmer High school.
-40°, so he empties the water at
night and refills with warm water
the next morning. The litter and
1 droppings freeze and stay frozen
for as long as six weeks some
times and the windows ice up un
til you can’t see out. But if it
doesn’t get cold enough to freeze
their combs, it doesn’t especially
bother egg production.
The last of September, 1952,
concluded his project and balanc
ing the record book and adding
up the figures showed Lewis that
he still had 150 hens, had sold
3,493 dozen eggs at $1.00 per doz
en, had fed 19,160 pounds of feed.
After deducting $288.00 for labor
for his work, had a profit of $1,
379.05.
Caipanltn, Remember I
Carpenters Local 2251
Meets 2nd and 4lh Wednesday
Each Month
.. —a
Corsages, Plants
and
Cot Flowers
For All Occasions
Anchorage Music and Flower Shop
746 4th Ave. Anchorage Tel. 42325 or 23351
SURVEY STARTED ON
WATER CONNECTIONS
Mayor Alfred Hagen announc
ed this week, that following auth
orization from the City Council,
surveying has been started for the
location of water service con
nections.
In making the announcement,
Hagen asked that home owners
cooperate with the men who are
doing the survey. “This is the
only opportunity the home owner
will have to acquaint the con
tractor with his line connections,”
Hagen pointed out. This spring
when the contractors are ready
to resume work on the water sys
tem they will have to know the
location of water lines on private
property. If they do not know
the location the lines will be run
into the property at whatever an
gle is to their greatest convenei
ence. By acquainting them with
the connecting points previous to
the actual work, the contractor
will be able to make the connec
tions at a far more reasonable
cost than if located in an incon
venient spot, he pointed out.
DON'T FORGET FREE SKI
RALLY NOVEMBER 21
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CO-OP HIRES NEW
CREAMERY HEAD
Keith Walker of Seattle. Wash
ington has been hired by the Ma
tanuska Valley Farmers Cooper
ating Association as department
head in the Creamery, it was an
nounced this week by Fred M.
Zieke, general manager. He will
replace Clarence Bell who re
cently resigned.
Walker is a graduate of Colo
rado A. and M. and presently em
ployed as superintendent at Con
solidated Dairy Products Com
pany in Seattle. Manager Zieke
said Walker will come to Palmer
with the highest of recommenda
tions from Dr. Louis Arrigoni,
director of the Consolidated Dairy
laboratory and Dr. Ben Dickson
of Washington State Agriculture
College.
He is expected to arrive in the
Valley around December 15 and
will bring his wife and three
children with him at that time.
The children are seven and five
year olds and a six month old
baby. They will make their home
in the Co-Op housing area when
space is available.
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J. VIC BROWN & SONS
"The Alaskan Jewelers"
523 Fourth Ave., Anchorage Phone S20tl
WATCHES DIAMONDS
SILVER NUGGET AND JADE JEWELRY
Prompt Attention to Mail Orders
Serving Alaskans for 35 years—ask any old-timer
Special!
FRESH FROZEN
Green Beans
FRESH FROZEN
Apricots
10 oz. 7Qr
pkg. A"l
1,129c
pkg.
FRESH FROZEN
Crab solid pack $1.29
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PALMER COLD STORAGE
WITH ALL
THE
TRIMMIHGS
Give mom a treat this year on Thanksgiving Day.
Bring ihe whole family io Alpine for a delicious big
turkey dinner, complete with all the trimmings.
You'll find the food at the Alpine has that delicious
home cooked flavor that will please everybody.
Let mom take it easy this Thanksgiving
treat's on you!
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Alpine (nn
Mile 61 — Glenn Highway
Phone l-J-31