Merchants' Handicap
Shoot of 1950 opens at
Sportsmen's Range on
Next Monday at 8 p.
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VOL. THREE—NO. 18
Kalley Mrontiergman
PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MATANUSKA VALLEY
PALMER, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950
Benefits planned So
bolster Valley hospit
al's plumbing and
roof. (See last pagafe
PRICE II
Decision Reserved In Co-Op-Dairymen Case
REA’s Herbert Bryan
Tp Leave Valley
For Washington, D. C.
Herbert G. Bryan, Alaska rep
resentative tot the Rural Electri
fication Administration since May
of 1946, soon will return to duty
in Washington, D. C- Mr. Bryan
and his family will sail on the
Baranof, leaving Seward on Jan.
27.
The transfer to Washington has
been long overdue, Mr. Bryan
said, since it is REA’s policy to
keep its men in the field for a
period of not longer than two
years- It also has been brought
about by REA’s recently enacted
telephone bill, which is planned
to provide telephone service to
the rural consumer, and which
has required a general reorgani
zation of REA personnel.
Mr. Bryan’s engineering back
ground and Alaskan experience
will be of greater importance at
the headquarters office now, it is
felt. Meanwhile the expanding
REA program in Alaska has
reached a point where it is be
lieved specialized assistance is re
quired, rather than over-all aid.
This assistance will be supplied
through periodic visits of field
representatives of the various op
erating divisions.
The Alaskan headquarters of
fice in Palmer will be maintain
ed, Mr. Bryan assured. Its func
tion will be the handling of gen
eral inquiries of Alaskan bor
rowers, and it also will be a lia
son point for field personnel
working in Alaska.
D. T. Lowery, field engineer
for REA in Alaska, will remain
in the Territory. He is now at
tending a conference in Wash
ington, D. C., but expects to re
turn no later than Jan. 20.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bryan promis
ed that he would “always be a
friend of Alaska. Even though I
am in Washington,” he said,
“I’ll be doing my best for Alaska
in every way I can. It is my
hope that I’ll still be doing work
connected with Alaskan prob
lems, even there. I am truly sor
ry to leave, for we, my family and
I, have enjoyed our stay here.”
P-TA MEETS TUESDAY
The January P-TA meeting
will be held next Tuesday, presi
dent Mrs. Lucy Mick, reminded
today. The meeting will get un
der way promptly at 8 o’clock.
Program chairman Harry Wim
mer has planned an entertain
ment of Alaskan movies to follow
the business meeting, but it is
possible that this program may
be postponed in order to allow
P-TA members to attend the hos
pital benefit movie at the Valley
Theatre that evening.
TEACHER BREAKS ARM
WASILLA—Ernest Line, high
school teacher, slipped and fell in
the Wasilla Gymnasium this week
fracturing a bone in his arm. The
injury did not interfere with mid
term examinations at Wasilla
High School.
We Did It_
With Our Typewriter
The Valley Frontiersman
owes an apology to the U. S.
Soil Conservation Service, the
Alaska Soil Conservation dis
trict, and the proposed sub
district (or districts) now in
process of organisation at Chu
giak and Anchorage.
It seems we promoted mem
bers of the territorial board
right up to Federal ranks when
we wrote a headline with SCS
in it. rather than SC. We play
ed fast and free with the pro
posed Chugiak sub-district's
future, when we set their hear
ing date back to Feb. 11 rather
than Jan. 11.
It wasn't a holiday hang
over, it wasn't dirty politics,
and it wasn't that we didn't
know.—It was just that we
made a mistake. Thanks for
letting us know, Mr. Wilson.
Mining Students
To Learn Technique
Through Movies
Several moving pictures are to
be included in the classes of the
mining courses offered by the
University of Alaska in Palmer
this month. Classes begin next
Monday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p. m. in
the high school chemistry lab.
Instructor Eugene Erickson said
that the movies planned for the
course include several 15-minute
shorts and a full-length feature
of an hour and a half in length.
“Alaska Gold,” a film on placer
mining, tells the history of that
type of mining from its prospect
ing beginning to the present-day
dredge operation of the Fair
banks district. Other films de
scribe nickle mining and Alaskan
glaciation and erosion.
Classes will meet five nights
weekly for four weeks. Inter
ested students are requested to
pre-register at the Extension Of
fice here. There is no charge for
the course.
GIRL SCOUT TRAINING
CLASSES ANNOUNCED
The training class for Girl
Scout leaders will hold its initial
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Charles Wilson at 8 p. m. Tues
day, Jan. 17, it was announced
this week. A second training
session is scheduled between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. on
Wednesday, Jan. 18, and a third
at 8 p. m. on the evening of Jan.
18. All meetings will be held at
the Wilson home.
Mrs. L. M. Browning, training
director, and Mrs. C• T Manning,
president of the Girl Scout coun
cil for this area, will conduct the
classes Training will be given
for both Brownie and Intermedi
ate Girl Scout leaders.
Everyone interested is invited
i to attend one of the scheduled
■ sessions. Those who attend are
j asked to come prepared with pen
j cil and notebook for note-making
LOCAL HUNTERS ASK OPEN SHEEP SEASON,
MORE TIME IN SEPT. TO HUNT MOOSE
Palmer sportsmen want a long
er early season to hunt moose in
September, and they want a short
sheep season with shooting open
on all rams, they told Holger
larsen at last week’s hearing
held here by the Fish and Wild
life Service.
Specifically, the hunters asked
for a moose season lasting from
Sept. 1 to Sept 25 in this area,
with no open season in Decem
ber. Some men present at last
week’s hearing questioned the
reason for closing certain areas,
but were satisfied with Mr. Lar
sen’s reply that it made possible
better conservation measures.
One or two hunters spoke in
favor of simultaneous caribou and
moose seasons, but Mr. Larsen
again said that the staggered sea
son made for better conservation.
He explained that the FWS be
lieved, since hunters normally can
get off for only one season, most
hunters will get either a moose
or a caribou, but not both. It is
felt if the seasons were open at
the same time, many-more hunt
j ers would shoot both animals.
, Mr. Larsen polled hunters to
’ the FWS intended to recommend
i that the half-mile restricted area
r along the tracks of The Alaska
t Railroad be lifted. “The Alaska
i Railroad is killing too darn many,
anyway,” he said- “We might as
' well let the hunters get them
1 when the meat is good.”
' Palmer hunters expressed
[ themselves as satisfied with the
present caribou season dates and
regulations. Neither did they ask
: for any change in the goat sea
1 son. “Goats are able to take care
r
: CHILLIGAN CHILD
DIES HERE
5 Ralph Chilligan, 2%-year-old
, son of Mr- and Mrs. Joseph Chil
- ligan, died at Valley Hospital on
r the evening of Jan. 9- The child,
who had been hospitalized for
observation on several occasions
this fall, succumbed to pneumon
ia and complications.
The little boy will be interred
l at Knik, the parents said.
'• LOCAL RESIDENTS
; CALLED TO JURY DUTY
; Valley residents called to dutj
J on the petit jury in Third Districl
i court this month include:
1 Mrs. Esther Brock, John Bush
. Tex Cobb, Mrs. Ora Collier, Johr
t Dunlap, Mrs. Grace Tatro of Chu
giak, Noble Hamilton of Jones
1 ville, Mrs. Alice Snodgrass, Ottc
Peterson and Mrs. Gertrudt
. Larsh.
2 .
i IS RETURNING SOON
Mrs. Viola Cebula, employed ir
the local Soil Conservation office
1 is expected to return from a va
1 cation in the states next week
? Mrs. Cabula left in mid-Decem
-! ber for a visit with her mothei
.' in Seattle.
son is all right.”
of themselves,” one hunter as
serted, “so the length of that sea
Sheep were the topic of the
greatest discussion of the ev®
evening.. Concensus of those
present was that the sheep are
increasing in this area and that
there is no need for another clos
ed season next year. Hunters
looked with disfavor on Mr. Lar
sen’s proposal to open the season
for a month or six weeks, but to
allow only the shooting of rams
with horns of a prescribed curl.
Hunters voted overwhelmingly
in favor of the old short season’s
return, with every ram fair game
during the season- If an alter
native proposal is necessary, they
would prefer some sort of shoot
ing on a permit plan, with the
season closed as soon as the lim
ited number of rams prescribed
in the regulation had been taken.
Mr. Larsen polled hunted to
determine their opinion on the
present sheep population in this
area. However, he did not
answer the question of whether
the FWS had fornd that sheep
had increased in number because
of last year’s closed season.
A majority of the hunters pres
ent favored Bill Smith’s motion
for an Aug. 20 opening on brown
bear rather than at the present
Sept. 1 opening. Mr. Smith’s
contention was that this would
permit caribou hunters to shoot
a brown bear, also.
Hunters asked no change on
the present black bear season,
and trappers expressed satisfac
tion with the present trapping
regulations.
IS HOSPITALIZED
Ted DeLand is confined to Val
ley Hospital where he is receiv
ing medical treatment.
DIMOND EXPECTED
TO HAND DOWN
OPINION TOMORROW
The sixty-four dollar qnotion
—Are the six Valley dairymen
v.ho are selling milk to the Alas
ka Dairy breaking their contract
with the Matanuska Valley Farm
ers’ Co-Operating Association by
so doihg—was still the big ques
tion in everyone’s mind following
the hearing in Third District
Court last Monday.
That hearing, in which Judge?
Anthony Dimond reserved his de
cision, probably until tomorrow,
was to decide the question of
whether the six should be enjoin
ed from selling milk to any but
their Co-Op, until the big ques
tion of the contract can be set
tled by a proper trial at a later
date.
Attorney Wendall Kay, who*
presented the dairymen’s point of
view, argued that the injunction
should not be granted for four
reasons:
(1) That the contracts of all six
became ineffective when they fil
ed notice of withdrawal from the
Co-Op last March, unless a lease
arrangement for the Co-Op’s
creamery and dairy facilities
could be effected. Mr. Kay said
that a termination of member
ship automatically terminated the
marketing contract, for the two
must be considered to be synony
mous.
(2) That the contracts of Arvid
Johnson and Frank McAllister
must be considered to be expired
by their own terms, since McAl
ister’s ended its tenth year last
summer, and Johnson’s was more
than 12 years old- He based this
contention on a phrase of the
marketing contract itself, which
stated that it was bound by all
Alaskan laws pertaining to such
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TOM LEPAK. JR., first Valley baby of 1950. makes his first
apparrace in an audisnce with the press. Cameramen with
bulbs might hare been an old story to young Tom—he was bored by
the whole affair* Mama Irene Lepak is the bit player who appeased
with little Tom in hie Stella performance on Jan. 1.
—Photo by Ray Adamfk
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