University Helps for Homemakers to Be
Stressed During Home Demonstration Week
Nationa] Home Demonstration
week begins Sunday, April 30. In
the Valley, as throughout the na
tion, it will be a period of sum
mation of the year’s work, as well
as a time of increased effort on
the part of leaders to initiate
new work, organize new home
makers’ clubs nad enroll new
members.
In addition, Miss Mary Lou
Lashbrook, home demonstration
ag'ent of the Valley, wishes to
make it a time of saying “thank
you” to all of the women who
have participated in club work
this year. Her thanks go espe
cially to the women who have at
tended club meetings and contrib
uted to those meetings, committee
workers, project leaders, 4 H Club
leaders, and to all women who
have furthered the homemaking
work with their help and sug
gestions.
In Alaska, demonstration agents
hope that this week of April 30
to May 6 will be a week when
the work of the University’s Ex
tension Service can be brought to
the attention of even more Alas
kants. “We don’t want flatery,”
Miss Lashbrook stated. “We do
want to inform more people of
the work of the Extension Serv
ice.”
At present, there are five home
demonstration agents, a special
ist and a home demonstration
leader in Alaska. Offices are lo
cated in Fair-banks, Anchorage, j
Palmer, Juneau, and Ketchikan.
During the past year, the num-!
ber of homemakers’ clubs has in-1
creased and three new councils
have been organized. There are
now 43 clubs in existence. They
have a membership of 651 women.
Workshops in furniture repair
have been conducted in most of
the larger towns, where women
have repaired more than 100
pieces of furniture. Other work
shops have been carried on in
tailoring, sewing, craft work,
lampshades and glovemaking.,
Agents teach these skills, and also .
teach project leaders so that they'
•nay instruct those women who I
cannot attend the workshops. j
This year clubs have carried on
community work, as well as I
studies to improve homemaking
skills. The various organizations
throughout Alaska have partici
pated in national drives, have
mended for hospitals, have con
tributed services to the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Associations,
have directed activities for child
ren, repaired community build-!
ings and have collected clothing
for the needy.
Palmer’s clubs have participat-!
ed in school activities by helping I
to finance the purchase of uni-!
forms for the Palmer school band, j
The culminating activity of
Home Demonstration Week in the
Valley will be the Homemakers’!
tea, to be held at the parlors of j
the United Protestant Church on
May 4, Miss Lashbrook reminded.|
Tea will be served from 1 to 3:30
p.m. A demonstration of club
members’ handicraft also will be
on display.
All women are invited to at
tend this tea.
Allis-Chalmers
WD
demonstrates
new
earth-gripping,
traction
Extra traction
when you need it... auto
matically. That is how the Model
WD’s hydraulic Traction Booster
increases the pulling power of the
tractor.
The 4-cylinder hydraulic pump
automatically shifts weight to the
rear wheels as the load increases.
The WD’s quick-mounted plow,
with two 16-inch bottoms at your
control, bites deep and stays deep.
The Traction Booster also works
with other rear-mounted imple
menus.
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Let WD engine power ad
just rear wheel spacing.
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vantages. Adjusts its own rear
wheel spacing with engine power.
Has new two-clutch system to con
trol power take-off driven
machines independent of
forward travel.
Here is down-to-earth
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Box 1539
2-5101
Fairbanks Lodges Give
Boy Scout Magazine
To Interior Yificge Boys
A number of Fairbanks civic
organizations last v.eek decided
to send the official Boy Scout
magazine, “Boys’ Life,” to village
schools and orphanages through
out the Midnight Sun district of
the Alaska Council.
The Kiwanis Club is sending
the magazine to boys at Bethel.
Rotary has subscribed for the
boys at the Moravian Children’s
Home at the village of Nunapit
singhak.
The Elks Lodge is sending
“Boys’ Life” to Nenana, Healy,
Ladd Air Force Base, Takotna,
Candle, McGrath, Fairbanks and
Big Delta. The Lions’ Club is
mailing a subscription to Nenana,
Kiana, Tok, Suntrana, Northway,
Tanacross, Wainwright and Point
Lay.
Project Leaders to Meet
At Extension Office Monday
There will be a project leaders’
meeting at the Extension Office
from 2 to 4 p.m. on May 1, it was
announced today by Miss Mary
Lou Lashbrook. All clubs are re
quested to send two leaders. The
topic to be discussed will be “The
Newer Fabrics and How to Care
for Them.”
Buttons 'n Bows
Needles and Thread
All Sewing Needs and Notions
Loberg’s Variety
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A Few Words
To the Wise —
Some will laugh and others
won’t even give this story a sec
ond thought. But it’s an old story,
and it could be yours.
A father was stretched out on
an easy chair on Sunday morn
ing with the Sunday funny pa
pers. His son, Dick, was called
in from play by his mother to get
ready for Sunday School. Dick
doesn’t want to go, and he finally
asks his father if he must. The
father replies that he must.
At last Dick said, “Dad, did
you go to Sunday School when
you were a kid?”
“Yes, son,” the father replied,
“I was there every Sunday. Run
along now, and don’t be late.”
Now what could the reaction of
this boy be, but, “Well, I’ll go,
but it won’t do me any good
either”?
But if we studied our Bible, we
would see that we have a duty to
our children. Prov. 22:6 says,
“Train a child in the way he
4-H Club Enrollment
Is Still Continuing
“4-H Club enrollment is fine,
but there’s room for more mem
bers,’’. Miss Mary Lou Lashbrook,
home demonstration agent, sum
med up this week. Since regis
trations still are coming in, no
accurate count of club members
is yet possible.
Miss Lashbrook is predicting
that Valley membership will go
well over the hundred mark this
year.
should go, and when he grows
old, he will not depart from it.”
No picket line keeps our young
sters from Sunday School. If it
were something as tangible as
that, we could make plans to fight
it. But we are almost helpless
against this type of unthinking
father and mother in the home.
And how is it in your home?
Why not bring Dick or Joan in
stead of sending them?
William Edwards.
Church of Christ.
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