GRANGE TO MARK
NEW YEAR’S EVE
WITH ANNUAL DANCE
Completing plans for a New
Year’s Eve dance is the Pioneer
Grange No. 1 of Palmer who will
sponsor their annual affair De
cember 31 in the school gymi
nasium .
Dancing to Schaefer’s orchestra
will commence at 9 p.m. and con
tinue to 1 a.m., Gene Kirsch.
committeeman announced this
week. In addition to Kirsch, Hen
ning Blunck. Bruce Graham, and
Art Stacy are on the dance com
mittee.
Women of the Grange will con
duct a checking service. Balloons,
paper hats, and noise makers will
help add the holiday touch to the
evening’s festivities. The public
is invited to attend.
TO PUBLISH BOOK
OF FAMED ALASKAN
The name of the late Dr. Alfred
H. Brooks, famous Alaskan ex
plorer and scientist who died in
192*3 is once again going to make
news in the Territory, according
to tentative plans just announced
by the University of Alaska.
The occasion is the forthcom
ing publication of a book on Al
aska, written by Dr. Brooks some
30 cr 40 years ago. The University
of Alaska and the Arctic Institute
of North American are now com
pleting necessary arrangements
and expect to bring the book out
next spring.
Further details concerning the
publication will be announced as
soon as plans are complete.
Dr. Brooks, who for 25 years
was in charge of all Alaskan ac
tivit.es of the U. S. Geological
Survey, was considered at the
time of his death the foremost
authority on all things Alaskan.
The Brooks Range in northern
Alaska is named after him.
FCDA A1ANUAL TELLS
OF MORE CD EQUIPMENT!
How Territorial cities and!
communities can get needed civil!
defense equipment and materials j
with the Federal Civil Defense!
Administration paying three-'
four+hs the cost is outlined in’
a new FCDA manual, now avail-1
ab^e for distribution.
The manual gives Territorial
and local defense officials com-j
plete information on what they1
ran get and how to get it under,
.he Slo.G00.000 matching funds'
program Congress approved1
earlier this year.
On the Territorial level, the
FCDA has signed agreements for
the gTant of approximately $509,
81911 total cost matching fund
upplies to the Territory of Alas
ka They have further agreed to
meet the payment of these sup-j
plies and equipment on a 70%'
federal and 30% territorial basis.
The manual, entitled “Federal
Contributions,” is on sale for one
dollar by the Superintendant of
Documents, Washington, D. C.
Wiihsm F. Mulcahy Named
Easketball Commissionar
William F. Mulcahy of Anchor
age has been reappointed com
missioner of non-pro baseball for
Alaska for 1953, it was announced!
recently.
Mulcahy will supervise affiliat
ed leagues, organization of um
pire associations and determina
tion of the champion in final
Alaska playoffs, the National
Baseball Congress said.
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CONSERVATION
NOTES
I just read an article in The
Country Gentleman on dairy
feeding. Some farmers are finding
it pays to keep their cows in a
feed lot all the time. They cut
their pastures with a field chop
per and haul the green grass to
; the cows. That’s one way of prac
i ticing good pasture management
! and securing top grass production,
i The grass is all cut evenly, not
too close, and then allowed time
for regrowth. Under a lot of con
ditions, it may be the most effic
ient way to feed pasture grass.
If you let the old cows harvest
the grass, you've got to do a few
things to approach this degree of
utilization. A cow left to herself
, is a most inefficient harvester of
forage. Turn her and the rest of
her girl friends out under open
field grazing and watch how they
operate. They graze in patches;
any grass clump that gets a bit
large or weedy gets left. Every
young tender shoot gets an old
cow’s tongue wrapped around it
and eaten as soon as it sticks its
head above ground. No grass root
can stand this treatment very
long. It soon dies and you end up
at the end of the season with a
spotted, weedy pasture—part of it
in dry clumps and the rest eaten
into the ground. What is worse
you end up with only about fifty
percent of the potential grass pro
duction actually going into the
old gal’s stomach. The grass that
didn't grow or didn’t get eaten
doesn't make you any money.
The big idea is to make the
cows do the job right, if you have
not a field chopper- to harvest
your pastures. It takes a little pre
paration but it can be done. Fence
off an area that the cows can eat
in four or five days. Then shift
them to the next area, etc. Figure
on getting back to the first field
in three or four weeks. It’s simple.
All it takes is some electric fence.
You have quite a while before
spring to think it over. Think
hard.
DISNEY OFFERS
16MM FILMS AT
ANCHORAGE EXCHANGE
News long awaited by educa
‘ional, church, club and other
non-theatrical users of 16 millim
eter motion pictures, was an
nounced by Ray O. Disney, presi
dent of Walt Disney Productions,
in a statement disclosing that Dis
ney will make a number of films
available in this field beginning
shortly after February 1st.
Yielding to steadily increasing
demand for pictures from these
important sources, Disney will re
lease a varied list of attractions
which are both entertaining and
educational, with the list headed
by “Seal Island,” the first of his
true life adventure nature dramas
photographed on the mist hung
reefs of the Pribilof Islands.
All releases are in color by
Technicolor and will be handled
on a flat rental basis.
The scope of the 16mm de
mand has increased so enormous
ly since World War II that its
users are now numbered in the
scores of thousands. Not only
schools, churches, clubs and social
groups have become important
users of 16 mm films but many
industrial firms consider them
especially valuable in employee
morale building activities.
Under the direction of Carl j
Nater, heading the Company’s 16 !
mm distribution, Pictures, Inc.
with exchange facilities in Anch
orage will distribute Disney mo
tion pictures in the Territory of
Alaska.
FIRE DESTROYS
NENANA CHURCH
An early morning fire com
pletely destroyed the Catholic
church at Nenana recently, de
spite heroic efforts of the Nenana
volunteer fire department under
the direction of John B. Coghill.
Origin of the blaze was the kit
chen at the rear of the two-story
frame building. Bishop Francis
Gleeson, who was at Nenana at
that time, had started a fire in the
kitchen stove and had gone to the
front of the church, only to re
turn to see the blaze.
At day’s end some of the out
side walls were standing, but the
church, which had undergone ex
tensive repairs and remodeling
this past year, was considered a
total loss.
| Palmer Riflemen
Defeat Fairbanks
i Shooting Team
In the first of a series of six
postal matches, the Palmer Rifle
men defeated the Tanana Valley
Sportsmen Association rifle team
with the score of 1915 to 1880.
Murray Athearn of the Palmer
team was high shooter with a
total of 388. Leading the Fair
banks team was Roy Isackson
with a total of 384.
The Palmer riflemen plan to
fly to Fairbanks sometime in Feb
ruary to compete with the Tan
ana Sportsmen on their own
range.
Palmer Team PSK o.h. Tot.
Murray Athearn 99 100 98 91 388
K. Westenbarger 99 99 93 95 386
Lynn White 100 100 91 91
J. “Rip” Harris 100 98 92 90
Vern Donaldson 100 97 93 89
Total
382
380
379
1915
Fairbanks Team P S K oh Tot.
Roy Isackson 100
Robert Hayford 100
Chuck Lohr
Leroy Shebal
Rudv Voight
Total
100
99
100
99 95 90
98 91 92
99 92 82
96 93 87
96 93 78
384
381
373
375
367
1880
COURT NEWS
Found guilty on three charges
brought by the City of Palmer,
Wilbur E. Nolan was fined a total
of $175 following a plea of guilty
when he appeared before City
Magistrate John D. Shaw in City
Court December 29.
Nolan was arrested December
23 by Special Police Officer Jos
eph Lover and charged with driv
ing without a drivers’ license:
reckless driving and driving under
the influence of intoxicating li
quor.
Declining legal counsel, the de
fendant pleaded guilty to the first j
charge and not guilty to the lat
ter two charges, later changing
his plea to guilty on all three
charges.
In addition to the fines; driv
ers’ priveleges were revoked for
a period of six months and a 30
day suspended sentence was im
posed.
PetroSeum Explorations
Planned for Cock inlet
Shell Oil Company plans to
have two field parties of geolo
gists working in Alaska next
summer on petroleum explora
tion. the Alaska Development
Board has been advised by com
pany officials.
One party will operate in the
Katalla-Yakataga area and the
other on Cook Inlet. Preliminary
reconnaissance in eacn area was j
conducted for the company in
1952.
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COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31
WATCH NIGHT SERVICE,
Church of God, 8 p.m. to mid
night
NEW YEAR’S SERVICE, United
Protestant Church, 9 p.m. to
midnight.
WATCH SERVICE, Baptist
I Church 8 p.m. to midnight
NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE,
School Gymnasium 9 p.m. to 1
| a.m.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2
SQUARE DANCE CLUB, Moose
Hall, 8 p.m.
MONDAY, JANUARY 5
IKIWANIS CLUB, Co-Op Club
Room, 12:05 p.m.
BETA SIGMA PHI, Extension
Craft Room, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6
P-TA EXECUTIVE MEETING.
Palmer School, 8 p.m.
3T. MICHAEL'S ALTAR & ROS
ARY SOCIETY
BOY SCOUT MEETING, United
Protestant Church, 7 p.m.
MASONIC LODGE, Carpenters'
Hall, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
RALLY, Co-Op Club Room,
12:05 p.m.
LADIES AID, United Protestant
Church
MATANUSKA VALLEY
SPORTSMEN CLUB, Club,
Quarters, 8 p.m.
HOLD INSTALLATION
Matanuska Lodge No. 293. Mys
tic Knights of the S^a held an
installation of officers at a special
meeting held in Carpenters’ Hall
Tuesday evening, December 30.
M. E. .Burgan was installed as
master: Charles W. Wilson, senior
warden; Ivan Branton, junior
warden; Arthur Madison, secre
tary and William Head, treasurer.
Appointive officers will be filled
and announced at a later date.
NORTHERN
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Manufacturers of
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Store Fronts and Tube
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Corsages, Plants
and
Cut Flowers
For All Occasions
Anchorage Music and Flower Shop
746 4th Ave. Anchorage Tel. 42325 or 23351
CANADIAN FLAG
DISAPPEARS; REWARD
OFFERED BY KIWANIS
A wool Canadian flag, property
of the Kiwanis Club of Palmer,
has disappeared from its stand
ard in the Co-Op Club Room.
Club Room.
Ed Smith, club president an
! nounced this week that they
! would be happy to pay a reward
J for the return of the flag in good
| condition. Anyone having infor
mation as to the whereabouts oi
the flag is asked to contact Smith
or any other Kiwanian.
ADB SENDS WATER FOR
THEATRE ICE STAGE
Skaters at the world famous
■ Roxy Theatre in New York City
! are skimming this week on ice
| from the Yukon River. Theii
| blades are also cutting into thou
! sand-year-old ice from Menden
hall Glacier near Juneau.
All of this happened as a re
> suit of the Roxy management’s
j asking the Alaska Development
' Board .to send a quart of water
I from some famous river in the
! Territory to be frozen into the
surface of their theatre ice stage
for a pageant entitled “Stars and
Stripes Forever.”
The Development Board decid
ed that a pint from the Yukon
and a pint from the glacier would
be representative of Alaska in the
Rink which will consist of wat
ers from all the states and terri
tories.
A
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NEW YEAR'S EVE
PROGRAM PLANNED
AT UNITED PROTESTANT
The United Protestant Church
will sponsor a New Year’s eve
program of activities for mem
bers and friends of the church,
Rev. Brian Cleworth announced
this week.
The evening’s program will
start at nine o’clock with infor
mal games in the church base
ment. At 9:30 p.m. a motion pic
ture will be shown, followed by
refreshments at 10:30 p.m.
A Watch-Night service will be
gin in the sanctuary at 11:15 p.m.
The sacrament of The Lord’s
Supper will be celebrated.
The entire evening’s program is
for all folk, young or old. Those
who cannot attend the entire
program are invited to attend
whatever portion they can. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend the entire program are in
vited to attend whatever portion
they can. The public is cordially
invited to attend the entire pro
gram.
BARBER TAKES OVER
McCOOL BARBER SHOP
George Moran, formerly with
the Rex barber shop of Anchor
age is operating the former Mc
Cool Barber Shop in the Co-Op
i business section.
Bert McCool and his family
i have moved to Salem, Oregon
and plan eventually to locate
j around Grant’s Pass where Me
| Cool will attend a dental techni
tian school.
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