Matanuska Valley Fair
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on Sepl. 1, 2. 3. 4.
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
Municipal incorpora
tion hearing in district
court at 2:00 p.m. on
Sept. 22.
VOL. 3. NO. 51
PALMER. ALASKA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1950
PRICE 10c
Co-Op Gets $350,000 Army Milk Contract
Col. Ernest Manierre
To Speak Tomorrow
Al Air Ceremony
BULLETIN
No large planes will be al
lowed to land on Ihe Mananus
ka Valley Airport at Saturday's
dedication ceremonies, Tony
Schwamm. commissioner of
aeronautics, announced today.
Mr. Schwamm said the strip
would not be sufficiently com
plete to allow landings.
Clair Stock, member of the
Palmer Airport Association,
said last night that he had no
tified all Anchorage news
papers and radio stations of this
change in plans. The Airport
Association last week issued
invitations to airlines company
heads and operators of larger
planes, asking them to fly to -
ihe Valley for tomorrow's dedi
cation.
Col. Ernest Manierre, deputy
chief of staff, Alaska Air Com
mand, has been selected as prin
cipal speaker at the dedicatory
ceremonies for the Matanuska
Valley Airport, Roland Snodgrass
said today.
Governor Ernest Gruening has
declined his invitation to attend,
as has Walter Plett of the Civil
Aeronautics Administration. Oth
er answers to the 40 or more invi
tations the Palmer Airport As
sociation sent out last week had
not been received today.
Mr. Snodgrass said at Wednes
day’s committee meeting that a
75-foot wide strip, running the
length of the east-west runway,
will be ready for planes in time
for landings for tomorrow’s cere
mony. However the north-south
runway will not be ready for use
by tomorrow.
Members of the planning com
mittee are hoping that many vis
itors will fly to the ceremony
here.
Final plans for the dedication
will be outlined at a last commit
tee meeting, to be held in the
former library at the Rec Hall
at eight o’clock tonight.
Jonesvnie watchman
Dies Here Monday,
Funeral Is Tomorrow
Daniel McGinley, an Alaskan
for 52 years, died at the Valley
Hospital at two o’clock last Mon
day afternoon. He will be bur
ied in Palmer Cemetery tomor
row, following a funeral mass at
St. Michael’s Catholic Church at
10 a.m.
Mr. McGinley came to Alaska
in 1898, and for many years was
a miner and prospector here. For
the past nine years he had been
night watchman at the Evans
Jones mine. He was 78 years old
at the time of his death.
The miner was born in Donegal,
Ireland. His only known surviv
ors are three maiden sisters, all
residents of Philadelphia, Pa.
TEACHERS ARRIVE HERE
Three teachers checked into
Matanuska Lodge this week, and
prepared to take up their duties
at Palmer School. The three are
Miss Colleen Mealia, of Rose
ville, Calif., Mrs. Nettie D. Smith,
Mt. Giliad, Ohio, and Gottfried
Ste“rahn of Wiskak, North Da.
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1
1:00 P.M.—Carnival rides open for children in Valley children's
homes.
2:00 P.M.—Exhibits and displays open on Fairgrounds.
4:00 P.M.—Judging of exhibits begins.
10:00 P.M.—Calico and Jeans dance in Palmer Gymnasium.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 2
10:00 A.M.—Fair gates open.
10:00 A.M.—Carnival rides and entertainment opens.
1 1:00 A.M.—Vegetable grading demonstration begins.
11:00 A.M.—Flight of radio-controlled pilotless plane.
12:00 Noon—Fair dining hall opens, with meals served by Wasilla
Library Association.
1:00 P.M.—Demonstrations begin in 4-H Club Quonset Hut.
2:00 P.M.—Fowl Fashion Show in Poultryhouse.
2:00 P.M.—Dedication of Matanuska Valley Airport on field.
3:00 P.M.—Flight of radio-controlled pilotless plane.
4:00 P.M.—Qualification deadline in contest for Matanuska
Valley Fair Queen.
4:00 P.M.—Women's donkey softball game.
10:00 P.M.—Coronation Ball at Palmer Gym.
10:30 P.M.—Coronation of Queen.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
A.M.—Fair gates open.
A.M.—Carnival rides and mid-way attractions open.
A.M.—Union church service at Palmer Gymnasium.
A.M.—Flight of radib-controlled pilotless plane.
A.M.—Vegetable grading school opens.
Noon—Fair dining hall opens with meals served by Ladies
of Northland Pioneer Grange.
P.M.—Anchorage train arrives.
P.M.—Fowl Fashion Show in Poultryhouse.
P.M.—Horse races on Fairgrounds track.
P.M.—Flight of radio-controlled pilotless plane.
P.M.—Donkey softball game between Loyal' Order of
Moose and Palmer Kiwanis Club nines.
P.M.—Anchorage train departs.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
10:00 A.M.—Fair gates open.
10:00 A.M.—Carnival rides and mid-way attractions open.
1 1:00 A.M.—Flight of radio-controlled pilotless plane.
1 1:00 A.M.—Vegetable grading school opens.
12:00 Noon—Fair dining hall opens with meals served by Wasilla
Library Association.
1:00 P.M.—4-H Club demonstrations at Poultryhouse.
2:00 P.M.—Fowl Fashion show at Poultryhouse.
2:00 P.M.—Horse races on Fairgrounds track (tent).
3:00 P.M.—Flight of radio-controlled pilotless plane.
4:00 P.M.—Donkey softball game between Palmer and Wasilla
townsmen.
10:00 P.M.—Labor Day Ball at Palmer Gymnasium.
12:00 Midnight—Grand drawing for the 10 Fair prizes to be
given away.
WILL SUPPLY
30,000 CALLONS
OF MILK MONTHLY
The Matanuska Valley Farm
ers’ Co-Operating Association hr',
been awarded an Army contra,
calling for delivery of 30,000 gal
lons of recombined milk ano
4,300 gallons of ice cream each,
month, manager James Wilson
said this week. The Army order
to proceed on installation of
equipment came to Mr. Wilson
late last Friday. The contract will
give an added third of a million
dollars in business to the Co-Op..
First delivery on the Army con
tract is scheduled for Dec. 25.
The milk and ice cream is for
consumption at Fort Richardson
and at Whittier.
Mr. Wilson said the recombined
milk, to be packaged in half-pint
units, is destined for Army con
sumption only. “There is an am
ple supply of fresh milk in the
Valley to supply all civilian
needs,” he said. “However we
can’t begin to supply the Army’s
demands for fresh milk immedi
ately. Therefore we must supple
ment our own supply with re
combined milk until an adequate
expansion is made in Valley
dairying.”
The Co-Op’s contract, which
has a five-year option, does per
mit substitution of fresh milk,
when the Valley supply permits,
it.
The Army announcement gave
the green light to MVFCA plans
for expansion and installation of
equipment in the Palmer plant.
Work begins immediately on an
extension to the creamery here.
New equipment and plant im
provements, to cost $50,000, will
be necessary before the process
ing can be handled here. Some
equipment is already installed;
other machinery is en route and
will be here soon, the manager
said.
The milk contract announce
ment also gives the Co-Op the
go-ahead signal on its planned
switch to paper bottles. Machin
ery purchase has been held, up
awaiting the Army’s decision, ...
order to determine the size of
bottling machine needed. As soon,
as the changeover can be effected,
all MVFCA milk will be market
ed in paper bottles.
With the announced plant
changes here, comes a second an
nouncement concerning the op
eration of the Anchorage Dairy,
MVFCA outlet in Anchorage.
Hereafter all milk processing will
be handled in Palmer, and the
Anchorage establishment will be
a sales and distribution center.
Mr. Wilson said the change is
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