NOTES FROM YOUR
EXTENSION SERVICE
BY RICHARD BLUE
ACP Approval Forms
Farmers who have completed
their ACP work for the year are
urged to return their notice of
approval to the Extension Ser
vice. This will help the Soil Con
servation Service which has to
make final inspection on land
clearing applicants and will also
speed up the paper work neces
sary for payment.
Kirsch Hospitalized
Eugene Kirsch, local Vet in
structor, returned from a week’s
visit to Providence Hospital in
Anchorage. He is feeling as well
as can be expected but will not
return to the Vets’ program until
October.
Valley Farms to Change Hands?
Besides the well known Frank
Linns’ leasing their farm and go
ing Outside, there are reports that
the Scheibl place may be going
to a local farmer and, while at
Arvid Johnson’s last week, I was
introduced to a gentleman inter
ested in buying some local farm.
Lester Takes New Job
Parker Lester who recently re
signed as District Agent has taken
the position of Vets on the Farm
instructor in the Chugiak area.
The former instructor, Tom Mur
ton, had resigned the first of Sep
tember.
4-H Council
The 4-H Council will meet on
Wednesday evening, September
26, at the home of Marylou Lash
brook. Plans will be made for 4-H
Achievement Day.
4-H Members
Time to get that project book
completed! October 15 has been
set as the deadline for 4-H boys
and girls to get their project up
to date and record books complet
ed and turned in to the Extension
office. This is a “must” to reach
the “finish” line and receive your
4-H pin at Achievement Day.
Homemakers
The Homemakers’ Council will
meet Monday, October 1, at 10:30
in the basement of the Lutheran
Church. The retiring officers and
newly elected officers will plan
for Achievement Day and pro
gram for the new year. Election
of Council officers also to take
place. Pot luck dinner.
Miss Marylou Lashbrook, dis
trict home demonstration agent,
has gone to Glen Allen to attend
the Copper Valley Homemakers’
Club meeting to be held Tuesday,
September 18. Miss Lashbrook
will make home visits and plan
the year’s program for the club.
She will visit homemakers in
Gulkana, Gakona, and 'Copper
Center.
October 11 is the deadline for
homemakers to register for the
short course to be held the lat
ter part of October. If you plan
on attending, drop in at the Ex
tension office and let us know.
SCHOOL TO HAVE BAND
Seward high school will have
a band this year. Mrs. F ina Lee
Dixon will act as full time music
supervisor, with instrum nts fur
nished through the sch ol on a
rental basis. The band will be
available for basketbr games
and school affairs, with 5tudents
participating from gra. s seven
through high school. _
Coffey Insures Every hing
Remember?
Aggressive Salesman Hears
JOHNNY MEARS, super salesman, and bicycle prize he won in
the recenl Frontiersman subscription contest.
OPS UPS SALMON
OEILING PRICES
Juneau—New ceiling prices on
Alaska red salmon were announc
ed by the Office of Price Stabili
zation today following a meeting
of cannery operators and OPS of
ficials in Seattle last week.
Increases for the reds amount
to approximately 10 per cent over
the prices set forth in Ceiling
Price Regulation 65, issued Au
gust 8. OPS said the increase was
granted to allow for anticipated
losses resulting from a very small
pack during the current season.
The reds will account for about
15 per cent of the total pack in
Alaska this year.
New ceiling prices for Alaska
reds are:
One-pound tall—$32 per case;
the previous ceiling was $29.
One-pound flat—$33, as against
$30.
One-half-pound flats—$19.25 as
against $19.
All prices are F.O.B. car at Se
attle. Bellingham, Everett, or As
toria.
OPS officials said the red pack
as of August 11 was 766,336 cases
as against 1,087,917 cases on the
corresponding date last year. In
Bristol Bay the pack was the
smallest in 54 years.
There still is no ceiling price
placed on fresh fish, OPS said.
LAND DONATED FOR
NEW CHURCH SITE
James McPhearson of Sutton
has donated an acre of land on
the Glenn highway at Sutton as
the site of the proposed Sutton
Church of God, it was announced
by Rev. George Geiwitz this
week.
The land includes an Indian
burial ground, which the church
intends to fence in and leave as
a memorial site.
Fellowship Dinner
A fellowship pot-luck dinner
will be held Sunday noon, Sep
tember 23 at the Palmer Church
of God in honor of Rev. and
assist in the church work here
and at Sutton, and Miss Evelyn
Heinrich, church worker and
Palmer school teacher who re
cently returned to Palmer follow
ing a vacation in the States.
All church members and their
friends are invited to attend the
dinner. Afternoon church services
will follow at Sutton.
Mrs. Helen Crites is vacationing
this week from her job as secre
tary to the manager of the Co-Op.
250 ATTEND ELKS
FIRST GET-TOGETHER
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At one of the largest social
events held in Palmer recently,
the newly formed Palmer Elks
lodge held a very successful get
together September 15 at the Fair
administration building.
During a short business meet
ing held previous to the social
hour, the following men were
elected to the honor of being the
first holders of their respective
offices in the new lodge: Matt
Onkka was chosen as the Exalted
Ruler: Leonard Kygar, leading
knight; Clarence Bell, loyal
knight: John Reed, lecturing
knight: L. C. Stock, secretary: .
Tom Lepak, treasurer, and Lloyd
Short, teller. All have been ac- '
tive in the organization of the
Palmer lodge.
A social evening including a _
clam chowder and King crab feed '
and dancing was enjoyed by more '
than 250 Elk members, candidates !
and their ladies.
Snow Stalls Hunters i
But Exp't Station Men 1
Plow Thru With Archie
More than 40 cars and 100
trucks and trailers, mostly filled
with hunters, were stalled along
the Richardson Highway Satur
day when a 2-foot fall of snow
blockaded traffic from Carnegie
Creek to Glen Allen, but Experi
ment Station Soils men plowed
through successfully with never
a chillblain for their passenger,
Archie, herd bull from the Fair
banks Station,
Drs. Allan Mick and Winston
Laughlin were in the truck with
Archie, while Paul Martin, Neil
Michaelson, and Laddie Dinkle
followed in the Station sedan. The
Soils Department workers were
returning from Fairbanks where
they had harvested potatoes
grown on experimental plots. The
yields from these plots ranged
from two to 17 tons per acre, in
dicating a very good potato year
for that part of the country, ac
cording to Mick. He reported that
commercial growers are expect
ing above-average yields of four
to eight tons.
Week end before, two Experi
ment Station men on the horti
cultural detail brought an animal
back in four pieces. Dr. Curtis
Dearborn and Harold Dinkle ran
into a herd of moose cows on the
highway as they were returning
from Fairbanks. Dinkle, reason
ing that the cows’ menfolk prob
ably wouldn’t be far away, fol
lowed his hunch for two miles
CONSERVATION
NOTES
By LEW E. HANKS
There’s one thing about our
weather here. Every year it is
iifferent. Last fall there was no
'ain at all. This year we wonder
f it is ever going to stop raining,
from talking to farmers I find
:hat potato yields this year are
surprisingly good, considering the
iry spring we had. I think a lot
if this is due to the better farm
ng methods we are using each
fear. I’ve seen a number of green
nanure crops worked under this
fear.
Our soil really needs humus,
ilumus, you might say, is the
;atalyst that makes your fertilizer
work more efficiently. It also
seeps your fertilizer from wash
ing away in the fall and spring
rains. The best thing of all, tho,
las been that every one of these
farmers started a second cover
rrop for winter protection as soon
as they worked the first green
nanure crop into the soil. That
s really getting on the beam.
Two farmers seeded a cover
irop of grain. The others secured
a volunteer cover crop by work
ing the green manure crop in a
irashy manner. They only disced
ir plowed under about two-thirds
if the first crop. A lot of it start
ad growing again and now they
aave a winter cover crop at no
axtra expense.
Those cover crops will really1
aay off in protection when the
winter winds start howling. I
wish that time was farther away,
[’m not ready for winter yet.
and returned with the kill.
Enroute to Fairbanks Saturday,
2. Ivan Branton, Experiment Sta
ion Agricultural Engineer, was
among those marooned at Sour
iough Lodge by the unexpected
mowfall.
Director Don Irwin and Emil
Sanschow were taking no chances
vith the highway when they left
or Fairbanks Tuesday. They took
he train.
Valley
Theatre
Friday, Saturday
September 21 and 22
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
Saturday Matinee at 2 p. m.
Sunday, Monday
September 23 and 24
Shows: 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
Sunday Matinee: 2:00 p.m.
"She Wore A
Yellow Ribbon"
with John Wayne, Joanne
Dru, John Agar and Harry
Carey, Jr.
Wed. • Thursday
September 26 and 27
Double Feature
Showing: 7:15 and 9:40 p.m.
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