Photo-Interpreter Team Activated
In Local ORC Training Program
A new photo interpreter team
activated this month under Lieut
Marvin Udevitz of the Bureau ol
Reclamation Eklutna project be
comes the third detachment in the
local organized reserve corps
military intelligence unit which
has been meeting every Wednes
day night at the agricultural re
search administration building
since March 1 in a three-year
training program laid dowm by
army field forces.
The new team is designated as
the 345th detachment. So far, only
four non-coms have been signed
up. They are Sgt. Jack Newcomb,
Cpl. Rolland Snodgrass, Pvt. Pe
ter Galli, and Pvt. Ray Vanek.
Basic Training
These men and members of the
other two detachments are pres
ently engaged in basic training.
Military instruction under the di
rection of Lieut. Col. James H.
Mahoney, senior army instructor
of ORC for the Territory, includes
such subjects as elementary map
reading, weapons training, eleva
tion and relief, terrain forms and
nomenclature, mines and booby
traps, military courtesy and dis
cipline. Sgt. Jack Newcomb re
cently lectured on the topography
of the Brooks range. As the train
ing goes on, it becomes more
technical; it is designed to train
the teams to function in the ca
pacity for which each was or
ganized under mobilization con
ditions.
The other two teams, the 454th
detachment under 1st Lieut. Cur
tis Dearborn, and the 453rd under
2nd Lieut. Tom Murton, are both
language interpreter detachments
at the present time. Under Lieut.
Dearborn are Sgt. J. K. Dunlap
and Pfc. Lauritz Loberg. Mur
ton’s team did consist of Sgt.
Newcomb and Pfc. James Carl
son, although Newcomb is now
claimed by the newest detach
ment.
Territorial ORCTP plans ulti
mately to substitute one of the
language teams for either a head
quarters detachment or another
photo interpreter team, allowing
the unit at College, Alaska, to add
another language team. So far
there has been no instruction in
a foreign language; it is assumed
that each man has some know
ledge of at least one such langu
age.
Need More Recruits
Col. Mahoney, who attends the
weekly meetings with Master
Sergeant Clyde Thomas, would
like to interest at least three more
local men and a lieutenant officer
in joining the local ORC unit.
The officer would either have
to have a commission or be eligi
ble for one. Ages 21-28 are the
limits for a 2nd lieutenant, and
extension courses and training
schools are available for men who
would earn such a commission.
According to Col. Mahoney,
there’s no lack of military ma
terial in Palmer, but too many
reserve officers here are field
grade officers. The local unit is
set up with a captaincy for the
highest ranking officer. Majors
C. Ivan Branton, Allan H. Mick,
Byron G. Felkner and Samuel 3.
Westgate are “attached to" the
local unit, but are not members
of it. They receive no pay for
their attendance, but merely keep
their reserve commissions active.
The three-year training pro
gram calls for 48 paid assemblies
and 15 days of actual field train
ing per year. Plans are afoot to
obtain in Palmer a temporary
type building for an armory to
be used as the regular training
center. Snodgrass and Newcomb
have made an offer of land; but,
according to Col. Mahoney, it will
be up to the U. S. army engineers
to make all arrangements for the
building.
P-TA Membership Drive
To Close October 16
The 1951-52 membership drive
for the Palmer P-TA started off
with over 100 paid up member
ships, received at the September
18 meeting, membership chair
man, Mrs. George Whetstone, an
nounced this week.
Memberships may be pur
chased through any school child
or teacher and for the conveni
ence of those who may not have
children in school but who would
like to join the P-TA, member
ship cards may be obtained at the
Valley Frontiersman office. There
will be three money prizes, $15,
$10 and $5, for the room with the
highest percentage of new mem
bers. The prize money will be
used for the purchase of equip
ment of the students’ choice.
The drive will close at the next
regular P-TA meeting, October
16. During the meeting, nomina
tions for the office of secretary
also will be held, according »o
Mrs. James Kindler, president. A
two dollar room-attendance prize
will be awarded to the room with
the largest percentage of attend
ance. At the September 18 meet
ing, the third and seventh grade
rooms of Miss Barbara Rumball
and Miss Betty Jo Riddle, tied for
first place.
A play and discussion is tenta
tively planned for the October
meeting, with the program com
mittee promising an interesting
evening for all.
SPECIALISTS TOUR
ALASKA THEATER
A much - traveled instructor
team of seven military men, who
have completed their rounds of
continental United States and
Europe, is now in Alaska. Early
this week the joint air-ground in
struction team conducted lectures
to military personnel of Elmen
dorf air force base and Fort
Richardson. They will also have
made presentations at Ladd air
force base and Big Delta before
leaving for the States on Satur
day.
The team members are special
ists in the methods of close air
support and have given presenta
tions to all army divisions, regi
mental combat teams, and all air
force units of the tactical air
command in the United States
and Europe.
NINA STOCK'S FATHER DIES
Mrs. Clair Stock left by plane
Monday for Kelso, Washington,
after word received here that her
father, W. R. Mitchell of that city,
had passed away Monday morn
ing. Mr. Mitchell is also the fath
er of O. R. “Mitch” Mitchell who
works in Bert’s Drug store.
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Remember?
WILD COWS OF
CHIRIKOF ISLAND
TO HAVE NEW MATES
The wild cows on Chirikoff
Island are slated soon for some
new male interest, according to
plans afoot by Palmer Cold Stor
age.
Seventeen white-faced Here
ford bulls are to be dropped
among them—literally from the
skies—sometime early in Novem
ber. Harry Ryan, of the local cold
storage company, said last week
that 16 of the bulls have already
been purchased from Sidney Olds
of the Kodiak Cattle Ass’n., and
one has been obtained locally.
They will be flown to their new
mating grounds where the Chiri
koff Cattle association has a lease
on the island. They won’t have
much competition from their pre
decessors, either. There will soon
be nothing left of the old bulls
but hamburger.
This won’t be the first time the
wild cows of Chirikoff have had
an influx of foreign bulls. Back in
1925, Ryan said, Jack McCord put
some new bulls on the island
when he first leased it. Earlier, in
1912, the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture experiment station men
also tried to improve the quality
of the herd by bringing in new
bulls.
At present, according to Ryan,
Galloway is the dominant breed
of cattle on the island.
FAIRBANKS OK'S SALES TAX,
ANCHORAGE VOTES IT DOWN
Fairbanks voters approved a
one percent sales tax Friday, Sep
tember 21, by a vote of 260 to
163.
The Fairbanks school district
will hold another sales tax elec
tion in October. If passed, the
total sales tax collected in the city
will be two percent; outside the
city, one percent.
The city of Fairbanks plans to
use its one percent tax revenue
for an expanded program of
street paving, sewers, and other
improvements.
The Anchorage school district
voted down a two percent sales
tax proposition by a disapproving
two to one margin in an election
held September 18.
ANNUAL TURKEY DINNER
October 25th is the date set by
members of the St. John’s Luth- j
eran Church Ladies Aid for their
I annual turkey dinner.
Everyone who has attended one
of these dinners in previous years
will want to mark this Thursday
date with four red stars. ,
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Remember?
Fa%$enger S#rWce
FROM SEWARD
S.S. DENALI S.S. BARANOFF
Thurs., Oct. 4 Thurs., Oct. 11
Cordova Sitka
Juneau Juneau
Petersburg Ketchikan
Wrangell
Ketchikan
. . Freighter Service..
From Seattle
S.S. JOHN QUICK
Leave Seattle, Sept. 30, for
Seward, Valdez, Whittier.
M.S. SUSITNA
October 3 for Sitka, Cordova,
Seward, Womens Bay,
Kodiak.
FOR INFORMATION
T. J. MALONEY, Agent
Phone 12001
Office: Westward Hotel
Anchorage, Alaska
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THANK YOU NOTICE
We wish to thank all those who
were so kind and sympathetic
following the death of our wi#e
and mother, Mrs. Alberta Hayes,
September 2, 1951.
Laurel Hayes,
Robert Seiber,
Wesley Seiber.
Raymond Seiber,
Roger Seiber.
HILL TOP CAFE
Under New Management
Home Cooked Meals
We Are Also Specializing in
Hungarian Cooking
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