$3 MILLION IN
SUPPLIES TO BE
STOCKPILED BY CD
Allocation of the remaining $3
million in its $20 million stockpil
ing program for this fiscal year
was announced by the Federal
Civil Defense Administration.
Two million dollars will be spent
for medical items and $1 million
for technical items.
The FCDA previously announc
ed it is procuring an additional
reserve of blood plasma through
the National Blood Program at a
cost of $15 million. It has ear
marked another $2 million for
collecting and processing more
blood into plasma if the public
donates enough blood under the
National Blood Program. .
The $2 million to be spent for
medical items will procure 600,
000 bottles of dextrose and sodium
cholride injection; 600,000 bottles
of dextrose injection for intrave
nous fluid therapy of the seriously
injured who cannot take liquids
by mouth, and 600.000 intraven
ous injection sets; 200,000 leg
splints; and 398 portable field
operating lamps.
It will also pay for transporta
tion of 41,754 medical field kit
cases and 200,418 medical field
kit litter carrying straps, which
are being obtained without cost
from the Surgeon General’s Office
of the Department of the Army.
The $1 million for technical
items will procure 45 mobile
water chlorinator units, for de
contaminating broken water
mains; 81 five kilowatt portable
engine-driven generators, to fur- ;
nish power for flood-lighting
evacuee housing and mass feed
ing areas and for debris clear
ance; 81 forty-kilowatt portable
engine-driven generators, each of
which will provide enough elec
tricity to light a 200-bed emer
gency hospital; and almost three
million square yards of plastic
window closures, to repair shat
tered windows in hospitals and
other buildings which must con
tinue operations in emergency.
The FCDA stockpile, which is
part of the federal emergency re
serve, now amounts to $84.4 mil
lion in medical and engineering $
items on hand or on order, plus
the additional $2 million earmark
ed for plasma.
'WHAT TIME HAVE YOU GOT?
If you should have turned back
the clock 69 years and one day
on Tuesday (Nov. 18), where
would you have set the hand?
If your answer is exactly the
time you have now. you’re wrong
—thanks to the so-called day of
'Two Noons.
Therein lies the story of one of
the most unusual and—to the
average man—most confusing
events in American history: The
establishment of the standard
time zones by which we now
daily tumble out of bed, gulp a
cup of coffee, sprint for the bus,
push closed our desk drawers
after eight hours of work and fin
ally fold up the evening paper,
turn off television and slip back
between the sheets.
Prior to November 18. 1883,
every American community lived
in its own tight little world cir
cumscribed by local sun time.
It may seem horrifying to the
modern radio of television execu
tive, but seven decades ago when
it was noon in Chicago it was
12:31 P.M. in Pittsburgh, 11:50
in St. Louis, 11:27 in Omaha and
so on.
There was no radio of TV in
1869, but there were railroadmen
and to them the clock was a sin
ister master whose hands strang
led operation in every terminal.
There is no telling how many dif
ferent local times there were in
New Egg Rate
Announced by Co-Op
Effective December 27, Co-Op
members will be paid $1-00 per
dozen for their eggs and non
members will be paid 90 cents,
rhis five cent decrease will be
for only a temporary period, Fred
M. Zieke, general manager an
nounced, and was caused by an
?gg surplus. Regular rates will
be re-established in the near fu
ture he stated.
The new egg room in the pro
duce building will be ready short
ly after the first of the year,
Zieke said this week. Completely
modern, the room will be equip
ped with new and efficient equip
ment. Pete Walker is in chrage
jf the egg department.
Mrs. Richard Babineau and two
:hidren left Palmer this week en
:oute to their home in Monte
;amo„ Washington following sev
eral weeks vacation spent in the
Valley with her parents and sis
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Mc
Dlafferty and Rita McClafferty.
Jim Scott, USN, left for Seat
tle December 22 where he will
receive a new assignment. His
wife, the former Betty Harris,
will join him later.
the United States prior to the
adoption of standard time, but
,ve do know that there were at
east 68 different times used by
railroads. A traveler going from
Eastport, Me., to San Francisco,
if anxious to have the correct
railroad time, was obliged to
change his watch at least 20 times
during his journey.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25
CHRISTMAS DAY. Church ser
vices.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 27
CO-OP CHRISTMAS DANCE.
Employees and guests. School
gym. 9 p.m. >
MONDAY. DECEMBER 29
KTWANIS CLUB. Co-Op Club
Room, 12:05 p.m.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 30
BOY SCOUT MEETING, United
Protestant Church, 7 p.m.
BAPTISTS PLAN
MISSION FOR NATIVES
Seventeen ^thousand five hun
dred dollars has been appropriat
ed by the mission board of the
establish a native mission in An
Southern Baptist Convention to
chorage.
The mission is to'be located in
the vicinity of the Alaska Native
Hospital and a full time man will
be assigned to work in the field.
A similar misison is to be
eslabished in Seward. B. I.
Carpenter, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Ketchikan,
which he established five years
ago, has been assigned to the
Seward post.
The Anchorage mission will
provide a meeting place, cloth
ing center, and information for
natives and their families.
Its purpose is to fill all their
needs and help in any way pos
sible, both physically and spirit
ually, church/officials said.
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LIGHTING AND MUSIC
ADD TO HOLIDAY AIR
Saturday shoppers were pleas
antly surprised to hear favorite
Christmas carols wafting through
out the shopping areas in Palmer.
The music was coming from a
speaker system set up in the Co
Op business section and at the
Palmer Drug. In additon to the
large* tree, the entire Co-Op area
has been decorated for the holi
day season.
Outdoor home lighting is not
too much in evident in Palmer.
However, one very attractive sec
tion of town is the new Bureau of
Reclamation housing area on
Springer Road. Several homes
have done attractive outdoor and
window decorating. At St. John’s
Lutheran Church a Nativity
Scene in large cutouts is illumin
ated and very attractive to see.
Many families will be busy to
night adding last minute touches
to the Christmas tree; preparing
for Santa’s visit and completing
their shopping.
NEW BABIES
Roth
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Roth of
Green Acres are parents of a new
son, Thomas Lee. Born at Valley
Hospital December 20 .Tommy
weighed seven pounds at birth.
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INSURE
TODAY
One of the best plans for regu
lar saving is insurance. The
types of programs for insured
savings are many and varied to
fit all kinds of needs.
We will be happy to talk
over these plans with you.
Stop in soon . . . there is no
obligation.
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New Wright Building
REA CONSTRUCTION LOAN
ASKED BY FAIRBANKS
Nick Eiden left Fairbanks last
week on ihis way to Washington,
D. C. to attempt to expedite a
loan for construction of Golden
Valley Electric Association facil
ities.
He will see Claude Wickard ad
ministrator of the Rural Electirfi
cation Authority, about a request
for funds for the building of an
office building, warehouses and
garages and for the extension of
a power line down the Richard
son highway as far as Big Delta.
HOME FOR HOLIDAYS
Betty Blunck who has been
working as a nurse’s aide at St.
Joseph’s hospital in Fairbanks ar
rived in Palmer this week. She
will spend the Christmas holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henning Blunck. She is planning
to enter a hospital in Washington
j early next year to commence
GRANGE TO HOLD
NEW YEAR DANCE
Pioneer Grange No. 1 will hold
their annual New Year’s Eve
dance at the school gymnasium
Wednesday, December 31 start
ing at 9 p.m.
Henning Blunck, committee
man announced the dance will be
a semi-formal affair and that
Schaefer’s orchestra will play for
dancing.
There will be balloons, paper
hats and noise makers for all at
tending. The public is invited.
training as a nurse.
Carpenters, Remember!
Carpenters Local 2251
NO MEETING DEC. 24
Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday
Each Month
! SPECIAL
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I Palmer Cold Storage
MONEY
IS IT SAFE?
Of course it's nobody's business where your
money is i . . but you should be sure that you
know where it is and know that it is safe.
Consult the Mctanuska Valley Bank ... let us
explain our plans for safe keeping or invest
ment of your money.
| MATAMUSKA VALLEY BANK
Palmer, Alaska
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