USDA Official, Irwin
Inspect Three Alaska
'Experiment Stations
Alaska Agricultural Experi
Jment Station Director Don L. Ir
I win left early this week for
Petersburg where he will meet
Dr. Nolan F. Ferris, Inspector of
the Office of Experiment Sta
tions, U. S. Department of Agri
culture, Washington, D. C.
After inspecting the Experi
mental Fur Farm in Petersburg,
the pair will enplane for Fair
banks where they will join Ivan
Branton, agricultural engineer,
for a survey of work in progress
at the Fairbanks Experiment
Station.
All three men are expected
,to return to the Palmer office
early next week. Dr. Ferris will
remain in Palmer for a few days
to confer with staff members of
the Station on technical phases
of their project work.
Palmer Dogs
Win Top Awards
In Kennel Show
Palmer dogs walked away with
ribbons and prizes at the big all
*’ breed dog show of the Alaska
Kennel Club, June 10, in Anchor
age.
Mrs. E. L. Lacher’s Bedlington
terrier, Acadia Lodge’s Blue Ad
miration, was awarded five rib
bons and special honors, as the
only one in the show. Her dasc
hund, Cissy of Matanuska, won
best female in the hound class.
> Salina Esslinger’s Scottish ter
rier, Rebecca MacDoughal, was
judged best in that group.
Hugh Johnson Leaves
For Extended Trip
In Canada and States
Hugh Johnson was leapfrog
ging his way through several Bri
tish Columbia communities this
week as he started on an exten
ded plane trip which will keep
him away from his desk at the
Alaska Agricultural Experiment
Station building for most of the
summer.
Primary purpose of the trip is
an investigation of marketing
conditions in isolated areas. A
comparison of findings from such
areas in Western Canada and
some of the Lake states with
with those of similar areas in
Alaska may possibly assist in
stabilizing the economy of agri
cultural areas in Alaska that are
remote from large markets. Mr.
Johnson will talk with persons
concerned with such problems in
British Columbia, Ontario, Mani
toba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and
other areas of Northwest Canada.
Sandwiched in with his study
of isolated areas will be contacts
with marketing specialists in
Pacific Coast states. He will also
take in the Western Farm Eco
nomics conference in Reno, Ne
vada, and the American Farm
Economics Association meeting
at Guelph, Ontario.
Mrs. Kellie Wright of Glendale,
Oregon, is spending a 30-day va-j
cation with Mr. and Mrs. Loren
McKechnie of Palmer.
Mrs. Wright is a former long
time resident of the Valley, com
ing here in 1919. The past three
years have been spent Outside,
where she now makes her home.
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Summer classes of the Church
of God opened in Sutton, Mon
day, at 1 p.m. in the Road Com
mission building. High hopes are
held to build a church there. And
also on the future planning is the
desire to build a children’s home,
if the right couple can be found
to operate it.
The Church of God wants the
children's home on a farm where
vocational training can be given
in agriculture, dairying and simi
lar lines, with a location near
town or near the Sutton Commu
nity Church.
Successfully completed is the
church school in Palmer with an
average attendance of 51. At
“commencement exercises” be
ginners had a rhythm band and
good-bye chorus. The primary
students told the story of the
Flood with pictorial arks. Juniors
gave a walkie-talkie. Intermedi
ates displayed craft work, and al
so dramatized three of the para
bles. Teachers had a quartette.
Picnic was served at noon to 75,
held in the basement because of
the rain.
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