VALLEY FRONTIERSMAN
PRINTED AT PALMER. ALASKA. EACH THURSDAY
By the Matanuska Press, Inc.
Entered as second class matter on Oct. 21. 1947, at the post office at
Palmer, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Publisher, Business Manager
A1 J. DeJulio'
Editor
Lucille Kennedy Mick
Associate Editor
Virginia Gallant
Barbara Carter
Wasilla Correspondent
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YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
*HOUR INAUGURATED
AT LUTHERAN CHURCH
nity are all invited to attend the
Teen-agers of Palmer and vici
Evangelistic Youth Service fol
lowed by Youth Fellowship Hour!
every Sunday evening from 7:00 j
to 9:00 at the Lutheran Church in
Palmer.
The Rev. Ed Imme of the Lu
theran Church says that the im
portance of youth work was
brought home to him by the
statement of the youthful leader
of a teenage gang in California.
When questioned by police this
dejected young man said, “Okay!
So maybe we are all wrong. But
why doesn’t someone give us the
answers?"
“That statement” says Pastor
Imme, ‘helped* me realize how
important it is to give a large part
of my ministry to the needs of
young people. We want young
people to think of Church as a
place where they can find real
understanding, inspiration, help
to overcome life’s problems, and |
warm fellowship with Christ and!
with other Christian young peo- {
pie.” j
The Sunday evening programs!
will begin at 7:00 with a youth
service of prayer, Christ-centered j
message and song. This will be I
followed by a Fellowship Hourj
with games and refreshments in |
the Church basement.
Plans are also being made for
a Christmas Party and a schedule
of outdoor winter activities.
„ Tickets on Sale for
PTA Hospital Benefit
Hard Times Dance
Tickets are already on sale for
the Palmer PTA Hard Times
Dance scheduled for Saturday,
December 15, from 10 p.m. to 2
a.m., Mrs. Russell Felzien an
nounced this week.
Proceeds of the dance will go
toward the Valley Hospital Fund.
The committee headed by Mrs.
Felzien has planned a number of
' prizes for those attending—prizes
for waltzing, jitterbugging, the
best hard time couple. There is
also a door prize of a 20-pound
turkey or the price of one.
Schaefer’s orchestra will fur
nish the music; Beta Sigma Phi
will be on hand with checking
service; and a catering commit
tee will serve hot dogs and cof
fee. Tickets are $2 for men. ladies
free.
SPORTSMEN TO VIEW
MOVIES ON HUNTING
AND FISHING IN ALASKA
An outstanding program of
sports movies will be the enter
*- tainment fare for the local
Sportsmen’s Club at their regular
meeting next Wednesday, Decem
ber 5, at Rec. Hall.
Two movies have been ob
tained from the Standard Oil Co.
on hunting and fishing in Alaska.
Leo and Margaret Lucas and A1
Kirsch are on the food committee.
Exp’l Station Men
Leave for Conference
Two Experiment Station de
partment heads are away for con
ferences this wreek and the direct
or will leave next week for an
extended stay in Washington,
D. C.
Dr. Allan Mick left Monday for
Logan, Utah, where he is to at
tend the Western Conference of
the Soil Research Committee. If
good connections can be made,
he will also make a side trip to
Michigan State College in East
Lansing to talk over newr devel
opments in soil research with for
mer colleagues there.
H. J. Hodgson is in Fairbanks
this week to check up on agrono
my research findings from the
past season and to make plans for
the next.
Director Don L. Irwin and Mrs.
Irwin expect to leave for Wash
ington, D. C. the latter part of
next week. Theirs will be a com
bined business and visiting trip.
Before moving on to Washington,
D. C., they will stop off in Port
land and Salem, Oregon (where
they will see young Don) and pos
sibly in Sacramento, California.
Mr. Irwin is due in Washington
the week of December 17 for an
important conference with Dr. P.
V. Cardon, Agricultural Research
Administrator, and University of
Alaska President Terris Moore.
Dr. Cardon, one of the members
of the Task Force Committee
whose 1946 study of Alaska re
sulted in the initiation of Alaskan
research under the Agricultural
Research Administration, will re
tire December 31. Following their
stay in Washington, the Irwins
will visit with friends and rela
tives in the mid-west, including
Mrs. A. J. Swanson, formerly of
Palmer and now living in Ne
braska.
FRANK TRAINERS LEAVE
FOR WINTER IN VIRGINIA
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Trainer
are leaving next Monday for
Charlottesville, Virginia, where
they will spend the winter before
returning to Alaska next spring.
Mr. Trainer will work on his
j^port of ground water investi
gations made in this area for the
U. S. Geological Survey at head
quarters located on the Univer
sity of Virginia campus. He has
been working on these ground
water investigations for the past
three seasons. Although his work
in Alaska will be continued next
year, it is not certain where he
will be located.
For Mrs. Trainer, the trip to
her husband’s alma mater will be
her first. The Trainers were mar
ried at her home in Berkeley,
California, just before they ar
rived in Palmer last June. Since
then Mrs. Trainer has worked as
secretary in the Experiment Sta
tion Agricultural Economics De
partment, and in her spare time,
for the Palmer City Council.
Wasilla Seed Growers
Hold Fail Meeting
The Wasilla District of the Al
aska Certified Seed Growers As
sociation held their Fall Meeting
last Monday night for the elec
tion of officers and a review of
the past season’s activities.
Dr. S. C. Litzenberger, agrono
mist from the Matanuska Experi
ment Station was the District’s
guest speaker. He discussed the
various experiments and trials
which have been conducted at the
station and throughout Alaska on
cereal grains.
Lloyd Short, President of the
Alaska Seed Growers Associaj
tion, presented Dr. Litzenberger
with a small gift and a lifetime
membership certificate for the
untiring and unselfish effort put
forth by him in supporting and
helping the association become a
live and going organization.
All of the present officers cf
the District were reelected: A. E.
Combs, president; Harold Harris,
vice-president; Ted Knutson, sec
retary; and Lloyd Short, repre
sentative to the Territorial Board
It was announced at this meet
ing that there will be a release
of a small amount of Climax Oat
seed from the Matanuska Station
this coming Spring, and mem
bers of the Wasilla District voted
to contract their share of it to be
grown by three of its members.
The increase of this planting will
be sold back to the District and
redistributed in the Spring of
1953.
According to Combs the am
ount of certified potato seed is
still very critical; however, re
lief is in sight. District members
report very satisfactory results
were obtained from the certified
Kennebec stocks. F-.
Kennebec stocks which they im
ported last spring, and with an
MOOSE
BASKET SOCIAL
BASKETS WILL
BE AUCTIONED
At 11:30 P. M.
All Members
Urged to Attend
HEAR
A. V. Richey. BA.. B.D., M.R.E.
Pastor
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
(Meeting in Carpenters' Hail)
Sunday School, 10 A.M.
Sermon, 11 A.M.
“WEIGHED IN THE
BALANCE"
Training Union, 6:30 P.M.
Sermon, 7:15 P.M.
"GOD'S INSURANCE"
IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
other year of increasing may be
able to furnish the trade with n
small quantity of seed in the
spring of 1953. Work is being
pushed, through tuber indexing,
etc., in order that we may have
some stocks of certified Arctic
Seedling potatoes available at
the same time.
Although extremely adverse
weather conditions spoiled a con
siderable amount of Edda barley
and Golden Rain oats for seed
purposes at harvest time this year
there is still enough for replant
ing, and persons outside of the
Association interested in seed
stocks of either of these grains
should contact Mr. Irving Abbott,
the Association's Secretary at
Fairbanks. These two grains have
proven to be all they were rec
ommended to be. and more, mem
bers leport.
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