VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
■filtered as second class matter on Oct. 21, 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Improved Itineraries, New Sailing
Time Highlights Cruise Schedule
Improved itineraries and a new
sailing time highlight the Alaska
Steamship Company 1951 cruise
schedule just announced, H. N.
Peterson, general traffic manager
of the line, said today. All pas
senger vessel departures from Se
attle. effective with the sailing
of the steamer Denali. January 19.
are set for 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m.
as heretofore.
The new schedule outlines sail
ingsTthrough September 21, 1951.
with departures each Friday and
in addition a Wednesday sailing
each week during the peak of the
tourist season, June through early
September.
“As more and more people come
to recognize the splendid cruise
possibilities of May and the pe
riod from Labor Day through
early October, we anticipate in
creasing our service during these
periods,” Peterson said.
The steamers Alaska and Den-;
ali will sail on successive Wednes- \
days and the Aleutian and Bar- j
anof on successive Fridays.
Passengers making the round i
trip on either Wednesday steamer !
will have opportunity to visit two !
Alaska capitals—the present cap- I
ital of Juneau and the former j
capital, Sitka. The Denali will i
also call at the yet earlier capital j
of Kodiak.
The complete summer itinerary !
of the Alaska includes Ketchikan, j
Petersburg, Juneau, Seward, Val
dez.^ Cordova, Sitka and Ketchi- !
kant The Denali ports are Ketchi
kan, Sitka, Seward, Seldovia!
Kodiak, Juneau, Petersburg and I
Ketchikan.
Ports of call of the Aleutian
will be Ketchikan. Juneau, Cor
dova, Valdez, Seward, Juneau,
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Wrangell and Ketchikan. The
Baranof ports are Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Seward, Val
dez and Ketchikan.
The popular Golden Belt Line
tours, covering the interior of
Alaska through the Seward or
Valdez gateway, will be available
in connection with each Alaska
Liner this year. The port of Val
dez was added to the itinerary of
the Baranof to help meet the de
mand for these trips.
“This should be the Alaska
year for American tourists,”
Peterson said when discussing the
schedule. “That tremendous north
land has experienced greater
growth in the last ten years than
any other section of the United
States. We are planning for a big
season in 1951 and expect to carry
more passengers than we have in
any year since the wrar.’1
In addition to regular year
around weekly passenger service,
The Alaska Line offers frequent
freighter schedules.
CONSERVATION
NOTES I
By Lew Hanks
Don’t forget the Forage Clinic
to be held next Thursday, Jan
uary 25, at the Palmer Grange
Hall. Come one and all and even ■
bring Mamma—she would enjoy j
it, and we haven’t made the ar- ;
rangemnt anyway for a stag show, i
Besides, the Grange Hall hasn’t |
too many stoves. We have the j
Grange ladies to sell lunch so I'm
! sure it would be safe ofr all to at-1
! tend. The weather bureau says j
; 20° above and no wind that day. i
; They get a case of beer if they’re
right. I’ll see you there,
j The next item on my agenda is i
i the Alaska Certified Seed Grow-1
i ers Association. This Association j
j can be one of the best things to j
! hit Alaska as far as Agriculture is j
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certified seed is basic to crop or
variety improvement in any man’s
country. If we’re going to com
pete with Outside products in the
long run we’ve got to grow the
best varieties available and keep
seed of these varieties on hand
and uncontaminated.
A seed association can make
rules and regulations to assure
this before it releases certain seed
varieties. Golden Rain oats and
Edda barley are good examples.
There is enough seed of these va
rieties available to tak care of all
who desire to raise them for seed.
To assure that growers are able
to raise pure seed the fields
should be inspected and rogued.
Seed should not be planted on
new ground or on ground that
has been in oats or barley the last
couple of years. The socks should
be tugged at harvest and cleaned
under proper conditions. This
type of regulation is not set up
EPISCOPALIAN SERVICE
SET HERE SUNDAY EVENING
The Right Reverend William J.
Gordon BishoD. Bishop of Alaska,
will arrive in Palmer Sunday to
hold an Episcopalian service, it
v.as announced here this week.
The service has been set for
7:30 p.m. at the Lutheran church
with an invitation extended to all
Episcopalians of the Valley to at
tend. According to the announce
ment, if the weather is too severe,
the service will not be held.
by a government or territorial
agency but by farmers themselves
in their own associations. They
make the rules, release the seed
to growers and do the certifica
tion. It’s a good deal. See Parker
Lester or Irving Newville about
it. Newville was selected as tem
porary chairman in the Palmer
area.
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