Dairy Conference
Held Here Jan. 28
Representatives of State and
Federal agricultural agencies
and the dairy industry met at
the Cooperative Extension Ser
vice office in Palmer. Jan. 28.
tc* discuss the problems and fu
ture of the dairy business in
Alaska.
The meeting was sponsored
by the Cooperative Extension
Service of the University of Al
aska, and was moderated by
Dt. Arthur S. Buswell, dean of
the Division of Statewide Ser-)
vices and director of the Ex
tension Service.
Some of the highlights of
the meeting were reports by
Hal Tye, State Division of
Agriculture, and by Alaska
Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion economists Charles Marsh
ar.d Dale Saunders.
Tye’s report showed an in
crease of about 1,000 dairy cows
in the state during 1960 to 1963.
During this period, the number
of heifers for replacement has
held steady at about 600 bead.
Tnis means dairymen can not
follow good culling practices
because of the shortage of herd
replacements, Tye said.
Economist Saunders then
pointed out the management
pr iblems brought about by the
increase in herd size. He said
economic studies of dairy op
erations in the state indicate
that in some cases the herd
size is too large in relation to
the size of the farm.
In some cases the increase in
herd size has required the hir
ing of a full time man as well
as the addition of buildings,
equipment and other invest
ments. This has often caused
inefficiency.
If a dairyman is losing
money with a 30-cow herd, in
creasing to a 60-cow herd is 1
no: likely to help the situation,” j
Saunders said.
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NEWS FROM
Suiton - Eska - Alpine
i By Sa^y Norris
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fisher1
and family of Pittman moved 1
to their home in Sutton on Feb.
4
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Geddes
and son Mike of Sutton moved
to Palmer on Saturday, where
they will live at the Pioneer
Apartments.
* * *
Billy Mrak of Sutton spent a
few days in Anchorage last
week. We are glad to see him
home and feeling fine.
Mr. and Mrs. William Kud
lacek of Sutton are the proud
parents of a nine pound, seven
ounce baby boy. He was born
Feb. 2. We are glad to hear
that both mother and baby are
feeling fine and hope to see
them home soon.
* * *
On Feb 1, bingo was held
at the Sutton Community Hall.
Sonny Smulick's name was
picked for the money but he
wasn’t there so he didn’t re
ceive it. The 25-cent game was
won by Joyce Leppanen.
Weekly
Frontiersman
Another management prob-;
lem exists in equipment invest-1
ment, according to Saunders.
Of 15 farms in one economic
study, the average investment
in machinery was $106 per acre.
The average machinery invest
ment per acre in the lower
states is around $35 or $40. We
have more machinery than we
need, he said.
"For example," Saunders:
said, “There are 26 combines :
in the Matanuska Valley to i
harvest about 3,000 acres of j
grain. That’s 115 acres for each
combine. This is not enough
acreage to justify the expense
of the combine.”
Charles Marsh reported on
the market available to Alas
ka’s dairymen, saying it should
increase from 140.000 people
now in the "railbelt" area to
about 175,000 by 1970.
He also said that if increas- 1
ed efficiency of production and i
processing could be passed!
along to the consumer in the
form of lower price, milk sales I
would increase.
Other topics discussed at the
conference included research, |
marketing, financing transpor-1
tation, processing and manage-1
ment.
Attending the meeting were
Dr. Allan H. Mick, Director of
the Alaska Agricultural Ex
periment Stations, and several
scientists from the station; A.
Q. Stine, supervisor of the
Farmers Home Administration
in Alaska, along with other
memebrs of his agency; Stew
art Durrant, general manager
of Matanuska Maid; Sigmund
Rested, director of the State
Division of Agriculture, and
members of his staff; Dr. Bus
well and all agricultural ex
tension agents from the Kenai.
Palmer, Fairbanks and remote |
areas; Paul Pownall, statist,- ;
cian with the Crop Reporting
Service: and Albert Hambright,
state office manager of the !
Agricultural Stabilization and [
Conservation Service.
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Credit Memorandum*
Garage Repair Order*
We supply business forms that aro
applicable to every form of Modern
Business record keoping.
j009 RECORDS «.«« GOOD IDSinCSS
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THE FRONTIERSMAN
Cast of New Play
Is Now Complete
Fatty Wade Palmer high
school senior, will play the part
of the maid in the forthcoming
Theatre Guild play, “Speaking
of Murder,” This completes the
cast, according to director
Harry Evans.
Others are Don Van Brunt,
playing Charles Ashton, a
wealthy architect; Midge Mel
endy will be Annabelle Logan,
Ashton’s private secretary;
Carol Arnold will play Connie,
Ashton’s second wife; Gladys
Hayes is Mrs, Walworth, an al
coholic family friend; Patrick
■ Riley will be Ricky, Ashton’s
12-year old son; Kathy Kincaid,
Janie Ashton, the nine-year
old daughter and Gary Brown,
detective Mitchell.
The play will be presented
March 1 and 2 in Central Sch
ool Auditorium.
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Sat., Feb. 16—Armory
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
THE INTERIOR. BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT. Land Office. Cordo
va Building, 555 Cordova Street. An
chorage. Alaska
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given the Richard
P Yakovac cntryman. o? Wiliow. Al
aska. together with his witnesses Em.I
.1 Stancec of Willow Alaska and Frank
Kos of Willow. Alaska has submitted1
final proof on his Homestead entry An
ch »rage Serial Number 045777 for a ,
tract of land described as
Lot 0. E'.EbSE'uSW^, Sec. 13. Lots 1 1
and 2. Sec. 24. T 19 N . R 5 W . S M . |
containing 78 26 acres, and it is now in j
the files of the Land Office. Anchorage, !
Alaska An> person., corporation, or
association having or asserting any ad
verse interest in, or claim to. the tract 1
of land or any part thereof sought. ma\
file in the Anchorage Land Office, dui -
ing the period of publication or within
30 days thereafter, under oath, an ad- |
verse claim setting forth the nature and
extent thereof, and such adverse claim-,
ant shall, within sixty days after the '
filing of such adverse claim, begin ac
tion to quiet .title in a court of com
petent jurisdiction within Alaska, and
thereafter patent shall be issued in con
formity with the final decree of the
court.
ALFRED P STEGER
Chief. Lands Section
Published February 7. 14. 21. 28 and
March 7. 1963
I
Malemutes Down Moose in Two Games
By Gene Rumpel and
Butch McKenzie
Coach Tremerello’s Fair
banks Malemutes proved to he
too much for the Palmer Moose
as the visitors put forth a win
ning effort here both Friday
| and Saturday nights.
1 Friday night’s game turned ■
into a rebounding contest led I
by Fairbanks Gary Wilkens,
who grabbed nineteen re
bounds. The Moose kept up a
scrappy fight all the way until
the beginning of the third
quarter when the superior
depth of the Malemutes led I
i them to a 53 to 39 victory. Pal- j
; mer was further weakened in I
the third quarter when guard
Andy DeVries fouled out. A
fiasco was in store for the Pal- j
mer J V’s as the Malemute ■
squad held them to a 60-31
loss.
Malemute scorers were Gary ;
Wilkens with 15 points. Russ
Gillespie with 14 points, fol
lowed by Don Helium with 10. i
Top man for Palmer gunners
was Frank McKenzie with 15
points, followed by Felzien and
Eckert with 10 and 7 points
respectively.
Saturday's return bout saw
the scrappy Moose get close to
the Malemutes only to lost? by
a score of 69 to 58. Fairbanks’
Wilkens again dominated the
boards and some fancy shoot
ing of his teammates led the
Malemutes to victory
Don Helium, Fairbanks
guard, showed what kind of
stuff he had when he dipped in
30 points for the Malemutes.
Gary Wilken and Russ Gilles
pie put up 14 and 15 points res
pectively. their total still over
i shadowed by Helium’s gun
ning. Leading again the scor
1 ing for the Moose was Frank
McKenzie with 20 points, fol
; lowed by Andy DeVries with
13, and 10 points each for
Charles Felzien and Wayne
Eckert.
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The Palmer team makes the
last road trip of the year when
they travel to meet the Seward
Seahawks this weekend.
School Lunch Mena
Feb. 11
Spaghetti Meat Sauce
Carrot sticks
Garlic bread
Milk Chilled fruit cup
Feb. 12
School boy sandwich
Potato salad
Milk Fruit cocktail pudding
Feb. 13
Pizza pie
Carrot sticks
Banana bread—butter
Milk Pumpkin pie
Feb. 14
Fried chicken
Country gravy
Sweet potato
Hot rolls — butter
Orange juice
Milk Valentine cake
Feb. 15
Scandinavian macaroni
Whole kernel corn, buttered
French bread — butter
Milk Fruit jello
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Sat., Feb. 16—Armory
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