1800 Baby Chicks
Fly In to Stock
Matanuska Farms
Eighteen hundred baby chicks
have been received air mail by
the Matanuska Valley Farmers
Co-Operative Assn., to fill imme
diate orders for Valley farmers.
Orders for at least 1,000 more
are expected, Carl Rasmusson,
acting manager, said. The ship
ment came Northwest Airlines
from the Washington Egg & Poul
try Co-Op. Assn., Seattle. The
chix are mostly White Leghorns
with some New Hampshires. They
are expected to add materially to
the overall value of the egg and
poultry business in the Matanus
ka Valley, which is valued con
servatively at $30,000 annually.
The chix arrived neatly pack
ed, 100 to the carton in partitions
of 25 each, neatly airholed and
with a minimum of fatalities.
They’ll be delivered in “excellent
condition” to the buyers.
A few more new hatched tur
keys may be coining in.
“There’s no reason why turkeys
should have to be shipped in. This
'is one of the finest places for
raising poultry — including tur
keys—in this entire region,” Ras
musson said.
Fertilizer 80% Cone
Approximately $100,000 worth
of fertilizer has been sold by the
Co-Op the past few days as in
coming shipments from the States
were unloaded by the farmers as
,fast as the cars reached Palmer
yards of The Alaska Railroad.
“About 80 percent has been
sold and delivered,” Rasmusson
HEARING CALLED
ON GULKANA
PUBLIC LANDS
A public hearing on the request
of the Department of the Army
for withdrawal of public domain
lands in the vicinity of Gulkana,
from all forms of appropriation
under the land and mineral laws,
will be held at 10 a. m. May 19,
in the U. S. Court Room, Federal
Building, Anchorage.
The Army proposes to use ap
proximately 772,000 acres of pub
lic land in the Gulkana area as an
artillery range. The area is ap
proximately 30 miles wide and 40
miles long and lies north of Glenn
Highway and west of Richardson
Highway.
Lowell M. Puckett, Bureau of
Land Management’s regional ad
ministrator in Alaska, will hold
the hearing.
The hearing will be open to all
interested persons.
Anyone wishing to be heard
with respect to the proposed with
drawal should inform Lowell M.
Puckett, Regional Administrator
of the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, Box 480, Anchorage, before
May 19, 1951.
summed it up. “We hope to get
more of super phosphate and
ammonium nitrate.”
More fertilizer has been sold
this year than ever before.
“From that amount of fertilizer
we should have a larger potato
acreage,” he said. “Crying need
for potato raisers is the problem
of better seed.” Initial steps have
been made through the “potato
clinic” but time is an important
element, he added.
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Queen of The May
Wilt Rule Grange Bali
There’ll be a maypole, and a
crowning of Queen of the May at
the Northland Pioneer Grange
Colony dance in the school gym
May 26.
The queen will be chosen by
ticket sales conducted before the
dance by candidates and mem
bers.
Any girl of high school age who
wants to be a candidate for queen
of the May should notify Mrs.
Carol Stephan, chairman, at the
Co-Op creamery before May 15.
Other members of the committee
are Mrs. Henning Blunck, Mrs.
Vi Stacey, Mrs. Harriett Bell and
Mrs. Jean Kyger.
Music will be by Shaefer’s or
chestra, and there’ll be a door
prize and other prizes.
"Meet Your Neighbor"
“Meet Your Neighbor” is the
theme of the Homemakers Club
tea, to be held at the United Pro
testant Church, May 3, Miss Mary
Lou Lashbrook announced this
week.
All club members are urged by
Miss Lashbrook to bring a neigh
bor as a guest. Following a short
program, the meeting will be de
voted to getting acquainted.
Coffee Insures Everything—
Remember?
PRICE DEADLINE
FOR RETAILERS
APRIL 30TH
Deadline for Palmer retail mer
chants to prepare and preserve
their price lists to comply with
the new ceiling price regulations
is April 30, the Territorial Office
of Price Stabilization warns.
By April 30, retail merchants
must:
1— Prepare a statement show
ing the categories of goods in
which they are doing business.
2— Prepare a list showing the
cost of each article in the base
period (December 19, 1950-Jan
uary 25, 1951.
3— Show the highest ceiling
price during this period.
4— State dollar-and-cents profit
they made on the article.
They may pass along increases
in invoice costs only to the extent
of the actual dollar-and-cents in
crease.
Freight charges may be added
to invoice costs only to the ex
tent of the actual freight charge
and all invoices and freight bills
must be preserved to substantiate
the retailer’s selling price.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES SET
The Rev. Albert J. Sayers of
All Saints Episcopal Church of
Anchorage will hold Episcopal
services Sunday, April 22 at 3
p. m. in the United Protestant
Church, Palmer.
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New Pharmacist In Palmer
New pharmacist at Bert’s
Drug Store, Palmer, is Bill Irons,
from Deer Park, near Spokane,
Washington. Irons is a graduate
pharmacist of Idaho State Col
lege, Pocatello, Idaho.
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