KIWANIANS PUN
CHARTER NIGHT
DINNER DANCE
Tentative plans for the annual
charter night dinner dance for
local Kiwanians, their wives, and
honored guests, as announced by
the committee in charge at the
regular luncheon meeting Mon
day, set October 27 as the date.
These fectivities commemorating
the date when the local chapter
was admitted to membership in
Kiwanis International are the
highlight of the Kiwranis year.
Kiwanians Ed Smith and Rich
ard Washburn urged immediate
volunteer assistance to help the
Valley Hospital Board prepare
the local hospital for winter as a
result of a recent visit there. Ed
Smith, John Weisenberger and
Cy Brewer were commissioned to
return to the hospital for study .
of the problem in greater detail ’
and to plan ways to get the neces-!
sary work done.
Chairman Bill Rempel reported
that his winter show committee !
had decided that a minstrel show
should be sponsored by the Ki
wanis Club again this winter.
Ways and means of doing the
show will be discussed at the
monthly directors’ meeting to be
held Friday, October 5 at 8 p.rn.
in Dr. Bailey’s office. All direc
tors and members of the winter
show committee are urged to at
tend this meeting; all other mem
bers are welcome.
Guest speaker for the October
1 meeting was Richard Blue, re
cently appointed Agricultural Ex
tension Agent for this area. In
his talk, Blue emphasized that
cooperation is an important part
of the Extension program as 's
carried into its three main func
tions: Education, group action,
and home demonstration and 4-H
work. Teaching new and better
ways of farming or homemaking;
the organization of planning com
mittees, artificial insemination
and seed certification programs—
these are some of the more dy
namic manifestitations of the Ex
tension Service program.
Bill Zahradnicek’s guest, Mr.
E. E. Gregory of the Bohrman
Hotel Supply Co., Seattle, Wash.,
walked off with the prize from
the weekly drawing.
The community-wide organiza
tion meeting will be held at the
Co-Op club room Tuesday night,
October 9. All organizations are
invited to send a representative
to the meeting.
NOTES FROM YOUR
EXTENSION SERVICE
By Mary Lou Lashbrook
Plans for the 4-H Achievement
day were made at the council
meeting held September 26. The
local 4-H group has been invited
by the Wasilla council to go to
Wasilla on Saturday, October 20
at 2 o’clock to observe Achieve
ment day. All 4-H’ers and parents
are invited. An interesting pro
gram is planned.
Completed project books are
due in the Extension office before
October 15. We hope to have a
100 percent completion of all 4-H
projects this year. Congratula
tions to Waldine Lundberg, first
to bring in her project book.
October 11th is the deadline to
sign for the Homemaker Short
Course to be given at the Univer
sity of Alaska from October 26
to November 3. Information con
cerning the course was given in
a recent issue of the Valley Fron
tiersman and any additional
questions can be answered at the
Extension office.
New Council umcers
At a well-attended meeting Oc
tober 1, the Homemakers’ Coun
cil elected the following members
as officers for the new year: Mrs.
Newell Talcott, president; Mrs.
Howard Estelle, vice president;
Mrs. Bob Mielke, secretary, and
Mrs. Charles Nelson, treasurer. A
candlelight installation service
for the new council officers and
club officers will be held at a
future date.
Homemakers’ clubs were again
invited to the Butte Hall on Oc
tober 18th, starting at 11 o’clock
with a pot luck lunch at noon.
Mrs. Harold Thuma, Mrs. Don Ir
win and Mrs. Newell Talcott are
on the program committee. Any
suggestions for the program will
be welcomed by them. It is hoped
several of the clubs will give of
their talents through means of
skits.
The club’s program for the year
was planned. Demonstrations by
the home agent will be given at
four meetings, project leaders in
charge of four meetings and the
other four will be social meetings.
October starts the new year.
The home agent will attend each
club meeting, giving suggestions
on “Colors, and what they can
do”. Clubs are beginning their
new year; if you are a member,
please give your support by at
tendance and suggestions; if not
a member of a homemakers’ club,
your neighbor or the Extension
service will help you to become
one.
Coleman Heaters
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Dr. Fritz Tells of
Kiwanis Eye Bank for
Corneal Transplants
About 25 local people gathered
at the Co-Op club room Wednes
day evening, September 26. to
hear Dr. Milo Fritz of Anchorage
discuss diseases of the cornea—
more particularly, corneal ulcers.
His talk was illustrated with
colored slides taken by him. One
showed a corneal ulcer on the eye
of a Matanuska Valley child. Dr.
Fritz said that corneal ulcers re
spond rapidly to treatment with
the new drug cortisone if admin
istered in the first stage of the
disease. However, if the ulcer is
permitted to grow- unchecked, the
eye may be rendered useless.
When this occurs, Dr. Fritz ad
ded. vision may be restored by
j transplanting part of a good cor
nea into the diseased one. The
cornea of a person who has just
died may be used if it is taken
within a few hours of death. The
; Kiwanis Club of Anchorage is
sponsoring the organization of an
eye bank to which people may
bequeath their eyes for this pur
pose. Further details of the plan
will be announced when they
have been worked out.
BETA SIGMA PHI
STARTS FALL RUSH
Theta chapter, Beta Sigma Phi,
will begin its fall rush at its reg
ular meeting to be held October
15 in the basement of the Luth
eran Church at 8 p.m., Mrs.
Blanche Ryan, sorority president,
announced this week. Entertain
ment has been planned for the
evening and refreshments will be
served.
PaiMigtr S»rvlc«
FROM SEWARD
S.S. Denali — S.S. Baranoff
Thurs., Oct. 18—Thurs., Oct. 25
Valdez Sitka
Juneau Juneau
Petersburg Ketchikan
Wrangell
Ketchikan
.. Fr+lgkHr Smrylcm. .
From Seattle
S.S. Victoria
Leaves Seattle October 9 for
Seward only.
S.S. Nadina
Leaves Seattle October 10 for
Seward and Valdez.
rOR INFORMATION
T. J. MALONEY, Agent
Phoae 12001
Office: Westward Hotel
Anchorage, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Alaska Cost-of-Living
Surveys Victims of
Budget Cut
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
will not be able to undertake any
cost-of-living surveys in Alaska
this year, according to informa
tion given Delegate E. L. Bart
lett by Commissioner of Labor
Statistics Ewan Clague.
“We are very much interested
in carrying forward the work
which we have already done in
Alaska and we recognize the
value of it,” Commissioner Clague
stated, “but the only way we can
do studies in Alaska is to obtain
additional funds for that pur
pose.”
Delegate Bartlett had urged
that the Bureau of Labor Statis
tics compile on a continuing basis
cost-of-living statistics not only
in Anchorage and Fairbanks,
where surveys were conducted
early this year, but in other areas
of the Territory.
“Unfortunately,” Mr. Clague
declared, “neither the regular
funds of the Bureau nor the funds
for the revision of the consumers’
I
price index are sufficient to cover
studies in Alaska this year. I find
myself in the position of saying
this regardless of my awareness
of the emergency need of the peo
ple of Alaska for these studies
now. Our regular Bureau budget
was reduced by $800,000 from the
amount requested in the Presi
dent’s budget and the special ap
propriation for the revision of the
consumers’ price index was cut
by $178,000.”
The Dairymens’ Breeders’ As
sociation will hold their meeting
at the Thuma home, October 16
at 8 p.m., it was announced this
week.
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