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CO-OP Asked To Submit Bid For Army Milk
Anchorage Man
Ceases Photo Unit
Of Palmer Store
The. entire photography section
and basement darkroom of Pal
mer Photo Art has been leased |
to Gene Gyeriak of Anchorage,!
it was announced this week by
partners Irwin Plitt and William
Rempel of Palmer Enterprises,
Inc. Mr. Gyeriak is expected to
be on duty at the Photo Art
buildjng on March 1.
The new photographer is a spe
cialist in portrait work. He has
been with Alaska Photographic
Service for the past tv.o years.
Prior to that he was a photog- •
rapher with the Army photo lab
Fort Richardson.
Mr. Gyeriak will be available
for any photographic assignments,
and will do all types of commer
cial photography, including news
assignments.
The photographer again will
bring to the Matanuska Valley
facilities for the local processing
of black and white film. For the
past several months, all photo
finishing of Palmer Photo Art
has been done in Anchorage.
Mr. Gyeriak will bring his wife;
and small son from Anchorage to
make their'home in Palmer.
SPRING WORK STARTS I
FOR FREIGHT HAULERS
!
First signs of spring v.ere evi- j
dent in Fairbanks last week when ’
three freighters left that city for I
the Salcha winter trail with a <
tractor and wanigan. The trio 1
will open the winter trail to the 1
gold dredge located on Caribou i
Creek and will begin to haul in *
supplies for its summer opera- 1
tion.
Cub Handicraft Is 1
Displayed At Photo Art - 1
A handicraft exhibit of Pal- *
mer’s Cub Scouts is on display *
in the windows of Palmer Photo f
Art this weekend. The exhibit f
has been prepared as the Cubs’ s
part in the fortieth anniversary
celebration of Scouting.
Food Handler's School
Set For Next Week
Pre-registration for the
school for food handlers, to
open here next Monday for a
three-day session, was contin
uing at press-time today. Miss
Louise Kellogg, president of
the Matanuska Valley Health
Council, said Council members
were making personal visits to
all restaurants, bars, meat
markets and creameries, to in
vite personnel to attend one
section of the course. •
Classes will be given at 2
p. m. on Monday, Tuesday and
-Wednesday, and will be re
peated at 7 p. m. in the eve
ning, in order to accommodate
employes working on either
shift. Some business estab
lishments are planning to re
ease all but key personnel,
during class sessions, to per
mit a perfect attendance rec
ord.
All businesses engaged in
the handling of food, whose
entire staff attends the three
day series of lectures, will be
given a placard of recognition,
awarded by the Valley Health
Council.
Labor School To Be
Meld In Anchorage
Arrangements are now being
:ompleted for a labor school, to
>e held in Anchorage some time
luring the next three months, it
vas announced last week by
ienry A. Benson, territorial com
nissioner of labor. Similar
chools will be held at Juneau,
Cetchikan and Fairbanks.
The schools will deal with la
>or management relations, col
ective bargaining and labor leg
slation needed by both unions
nd management. Instructors in
he classes will include union of
icials, government representa
ives, business men and profes
ional men.
“These schools are planned,”
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LAMES TO PLY HAMMERS, ELBOW OREASE
IN TWO-WEEK FURNITURE REPAIR COURSE
Valley housewives will greet
spring with a fix-it campaign, as
a two-weeks’ long lesson in furni
ttire repair gets under way at
the Grange Hall at 9 o’clock next
Monday morning. Miss Mary
Robinson of the Anchorage Ex
tension Service office will be in
charge of the course, which will
i teach the reconstruction and re
s pair of any item of household
furniture from a footstool to a
chesterfield.
Miss Robinson requested that
all ladies signed up for the course
(and others may come on Mon
day morning, even though they
have failed to pre-register) come
Equipped for work with proper
tools. Included on her essentials
list are:
Screwdriver, hammer, old
clothes to work in. tacks. No.
14 lacks (lor all who will need
to Ho springs or slraich web
bing). lack hammer, paial or
Tarnish romoTer. rags, and
newspapers.
Kibitzers will be welcome, the
Extension Service representative
said. Also, those with minor re
pair projects may feel free to
come for only a short session.
Women who had signed for the
two weeks course, at press-time
today, included:
Mrs. Alberta Hayes. Mrs.
Alava Roetman. Mrs. George
Plack, Mrs. Emma Fogg, Mrs
Lila Newville, Mrs. Vera Ror
rison. Mrs. Nina Slock, Mrs.
Ann Niemann, Mrs. Eva Plum
ley. Mrs. Karla Duff, Mrs. Rulh
Estelle, Mrs. Charles Wilson,
Mrs. Don Parks, Mrs. Arlene
Day and Mrs. Nan Curtis.
Meandering At Midnight Lays
Moose Child Six Feet Low
There’s probably a junior moose
standing somewhere in a Mata
nuska Valley, thicket right this
minute, surrounded by a circle
of admiring friends and cousins,
as he spins a yarn that goes like
this:
“I tell you, I saw it with my
own eyes, and I know it’s true,
Ma’d told me some of those tall
tales about the white ghost shapes,
in feather hats that come out at
midnight to shoot a noiseless,
feathered bullet, but then you
know how mothers are.
I “So, I decided to take a little
gander of my own about mid
! night last Sunday. I strolled along
through this cemetery, see, and
! everything was as calm and
1 peaceful as a graveyard, when I
saw it . . . tall, and thin and
i creepy-looking it was, . and it
pointed something right at me. I
turned to leave, but quick, when
boom! The ground opened up
with a clap of thunder right in
front pf me, and I didn’t, know a
thing, until the next morning,
when I woke up to find myself
six feet underground in this
grave.”
Anyway, that's the only way
Palmer folk can account for the
young moose that was occupying
an open grave in Palmer Ceme
tery last Monday morning. A
group of civic and photographic
ninded Palmer-ites rigged a sling
hoist and hauled the adolescent
wanderer back to solid earth
again.
He departed for home and ma
ma in a great hurry, with a story
that ought to make him the king
pin of the Matanuska moose herd
for some time to come.
EXPERIMENT STATIONS
ISSUE NEW CIRCULARS
FOR 1950 CROP SEASON
Recommendations on the kinds
of crops to plant in Alaska in
1950, and the kind of fetrtilizer
that will make those crops grow,
are incorporated in two new’ cir
culars published by Alaska Ex
periment Stations, and released
this month, -The first, “Recom
mended Varieties of Field Crops
for Alaska”, has been prepared
by H. J. Hodgson, Dr. S. C. Lit
zenberger and Basil Bensin. It is
issued as Circular No 11 and can
be obtained from Extension Serv
ice offices at Palmer, Anchorage
and Fairbanks.
“Fertilizer Recommendations
for the 1950 Crop Year” was re
leased yesterday as Circular No.
10. This booklet gives the proper
fertilizer applications for field,
garden and greenhouse crops.
Copies of the circular may be
obtained from Extension Service
offices in , Fairbanks, Anchorage
and Palmer, from Soil Conserva
tion offices in Fairbanks and
Palmer and from all agricultural
instructors o fthe veterans’ on
farm training classes.
Also of interest to Alaskan
farmers is the recently published
study of the economics of Alaskan
farming. This report, entitled
“Some Economic Aspects of
Farming in Alaska with Chief
Attention to the Matanuska Val
ley”, is based on farming experi
ences of commercial farmers for
the year 1947.
This study of farming econom
ics may be obtained from all Ex
tension Service offices in Alaska.
Ellington to Go
To Portland In March
Emmett Ellington of the local
Soil Conservation office will
leave immediately for Portland,
Ore., upon his return from Fair
banks next week. Mr. Ellington
w ill spend a week at an admin
istrative conference to be held at
Portland during the first week
in March.
Paul Nelson
Interred Wednesday
Paul Nelson, long time resident
of the Valley, died at the Butte
home of his son, Paul, last Fri
day evening. Mr. Nelson, who
would have been 84 years old
next month, was born in Sweden.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the United Protestant
Church on Wednesday afternoon,
with Rev. Victor Alfsen officiat
ing. Miss Sylvia Bray was or
ganist for the service. Interment
followed in the Palmer Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Olaf and Paul
Nelson, John and Alfred Church,
Vernon Moonier and Glenn De
long.
Hospital Board Will
Accept Church Offer
The newly elected board of
directors of the Valley Hospital
Association last Tuesday voted
to accept an offer of help for the
Valley Hospital, and to enter into
negotiations with the Presby
terian National Board of Missions
to effect a working agreement.
Officers of the Association also
were named at this meeting. They
are:
Jack Newcomb, president; Rev. j
George Geiwitz, vice-president;
Rev. Victor Alfsen, secretary;
Clyde King, Sr., treasurer. '
The board meets again tonight
at the Valley Hospital, to fam
iliarize themselves with hospital
operation, and to make plans and
policies for the coming year’s
work.
BRYANS ENJOY TOUR
THROUGH WEST
Word coming from Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert G. Bryan this week
reports that they are enjoying a
leisurely tour through the states
on their way to Mr. Bryan’s new
assignment at Washington, D. C.
They had reached Denver, Colo.,
at the time of writing.
ARMY SEEKS FIRM
fO SUPPLY ALL
ICE CREAM, MILK
■ • Matanuska Valley Farmers
Cc-Operating Association, income *
pany with many other territorial •
and stateside dairying • concerns,
has been asked to quote figures
to the Army on the cost of furn- ....
ishing total milk and .ice cream .
needs for Alaska,, it was an
nounced this week by James Wil
son. Co-Op manager. The .Co.-Op’s. ..
board of directors had not decid
ed. at press-time,' whether the
s organization would bid jan the
, project.
-Army needs are estimated at
7.000 gallons of ice cream month
ly. and 50,000 gallons of fresh
milk.
Since there is not sufficient
; fresh milk in the Territory to ’ "
meet that demand, the success
, ful. bidder would be required to
recombine milk, Mr. Wilson said.
That is the process by which
water is added to powdered milk
and whole milk is manufactured
again.
Mr. Wilson said it would be a
number of years before Valley
farmers could produce the desired
quantity of fresh milk. ‘‘There is
some question in my mind,” he
stated, “whether the Valley farm
er can produce milk in Alaska at
a price the Army would be will
ing to pay for troop issue.” The
Army now is reported to be pay
ing 15 cents a quart for fresh
frozen milk shipped from the
states.
Total Co-Op milk production
averaged about 30,000 gallons a
month during the past year. How
ever, because a number of dairy
men have switched to an inde
pendent marketing agent, the
1950 total is expected to fall be
low that figure.
Bids on the milk project will
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P-TA TO SPONSOR
MARCH SNOWING
OF “6IINGA DIN”
A movie, “Gunga Din,’* was
selected this week as the P-TA
fund raising method for this year.
Presentation date of the show, to
be held in the Valley Theatre,
had not been fixed at press-time.
It is planned to stage a pre
date ticket selling campaign,
which will open immediately. Al
though details were not definite
at Tuesday's meeting-time, it is
believed there will be an after
noon matinee for children and
one evening show for adults.
Albert G: Rivers, grade school
principal, asked the P-TA’s ap
proval of the purchase of two
Junior Library Guild member
ships for junior high school stu
dents, with money remaining in
last year’s P-TA fund for the pur
chase of schoolroom equipment.
The purchase was unanimously
voted.
The nominating committee,
scheduled to report at this week’s
meeting, asked postponement of
their announcement of candidates
until the April meeting.