CONSERVATION
NOTES
• By LEW HANKS
I have several items of interest
this week. The Palmer Soil Con
servation Sub-district will hold
an election to fill two positions of
Supervisor. Supervisors of a Soil
Conservation Sub - district are
nominated by petition of 10 or
more land occupiers and elected
by vote of the land occupiers of
the Sub-district. These supervis
ors are charged by Territorial law
with the responsibility and au
thority of supervising conserva
tion activities in their respective
districts. The Soil Conservation
Service can operate only under
their supervision and with their
consent. Supervisors whose terms
expire this year are Bill Roark
and Lucius Ross. The following
people have been nominated by
petition as candidates for these
vacancies: Bill Roark. Paul Nel
son, Robert Webb, Glen Woods
and Merle Anderson. Mr. Ross,
because of other duties asked that
his name be withdrawn as a can
didate.
A forage clinic or forage grad
ing demonstration is to be held
late in January. Various samples
of hay or silage brought in by
different farmers will be graded
as to their feed value. Some dem
onstrations and talks will also be
given on various types of forage
and their care. This will be a
joint effort of the Extension
Service, Experiment Station and
Soil Conservation Service. The
Grange and other farm groups
will also be invited to participate.
I’ve seen lots of forage this win
ter, excellent, good, bad and in
different. Here is a chance to see
how your hay or silage stacks up
in feed value. Sounds like a good
deal—more about it next week.
>1 Christmas Poem
By Robert Klem
Long-Time Valley Resident
I hope that Christmas will bring J
the cheer
That everyone’s hopes aspire; j
That everything done will be i
labour of love
And not for profit or hire.
A cheerful word or a helping
hand
And a real effort made to un
derstand
“It’s the spirit that goes with the
gift that counts”
And makes earth a wonderful
land.
I hope that you will steadfast be,
Ever a landmark for others to see
As a source of courage and com
mon sense,
An inspiration from now on hence.
Don't worry about the size of a
smile
Be it ever so small it’s still
worth while,
| And even a grin will deck you
out
In the latest of Christmas style.
Now some of the bargains we
have today
Is the laughter of children hard
at play
And the rays of light in their
faces bright
And the thanks they are trying
to say.
Oh! the Wisdom of Years I
would pass on
! Ere they put me under the sand—
Oh the Comfort that grows
and the rapture that flows
| Neath the weight of a kind
friend’s hand.
SORORITY TO MEET
NEXT ON JAN. 15
The next meeting of the Beta
i Sigma Phi will be held on Janu
I ary 15, Mrs. Dorothy Saxton,
! president, announced this week,
j The regular meeting date would
! fall on New Year’s Day and has
; been postponed, she explained.
The Following Merchants Are Co-Sponsoring 1
I +he |
| Big Christmas Party j
For All Valley Children
I ' • 1
Sunday, Dec. 24, 2:00 P.M.
I 4 l
at
( Valley Theatre j
1| ||
All-Comedy Show and Santa
4:00—Show for Adults
jj Neal Wright
Ij Palmer Cold
Storage
(Shamrock Bakery
REA Office
Palmer Bar
jii Matanuska Valley
* 1 Hofei
I Frontier Cafe
| Sourdough Bar
| Brown Cleaners
® Telephone .
Exchange
Tost's Service
Matanuska Valley
Bank
Trading Post
I Co-Op Garage
Don Irwin's Office
Alaska Railroad
Employees
Palmer Fountain
j|j and Cafe
;l; Dorothy Saxton
American Legion
Auxiliary
Moore Garage
Roy Knapp
Steve Ward
Koslosky's
Matanuska Press
and Frontiersman
MEA and
Employees
Palmer Drug
Matanuska Hotel
Coffee Shop
Shamrock Bar
Valley Cleaners
Valley Grocery
Clara's Variety
Dr. Bailey
Soil Conservation
Office
Road Commission
Employees
Ketchikan Spruce
Mills
Hartley Bros.
Betty's
Eino Wirtanen
Frontier Cafe
ARRC
Grasser's Hardware
North Palmer Store
Ron-Da-Voo
West Side Service
Station
Grahams' Garage
Geo. Johnson
Barber Shop
Loberg's Variety
Capital Beauty Shop
Carl Meier
Con Pearski
Kut 'n Kurl
Charlie's Bar-B-Que
Dee Jays
Perkins. Inc.
Dr. Simr.
Geological Survey
Employees
Ken's Electric
Valley Concrete
Products
Larry Bixby
Alaska Sales &
Service, Union Oil
Consignee
r.
Rainy Day Project
Next time it rains—try making
a doll house out of a cardboard
carton begged from your grocer.
With nimble fingers and a bit of
imagination many interesting
hours can be spent building this
inexpensive play house.
Begin with everyone gathering'
together a large variety of odds i
and ends, so that once the project!
starts .inventive genius has full ‘
swing. You’ll want old wall ;
paper, scraps of chintz and lace, I
gift wrappings, ribbons, and odd
bits of decals.
What to Use and How
Strips of jelly jar labels make j
French windows that look real
enough to open; lacy paper doilies j
fashion elegant curtains. For I
linoleum^ color-pencil a pattern
on embossed gift wrapping.
Gift papers in small floral pat
tern are folded accordion-wise to
resemble drapes, and these are
hung in place with Scotch tape.
Cut pictured furniture from an
old home furnishings magazine.
Mechanics of Assembling
Setting up the skeleton of the
doll house is easy. Especially
suitable is one of the Tide car
tons which package the all-pur
pose detergent, because the box
is large enough to partition into
four rooms, and yet shallow
enough for practical play. Cut
away one of the big sides of the
carton with a razor blade or a
very sharp paring knife. The
flooring and wall dividers are
made from the cut*-off front.
Small metal angle supports out of
Dad’s tool box make sturdy sup
port for this' flooring. It’s easy
to brass-staple or Scotch tape the
supports into the cardboard walls.
MRS. ROBERT BECK
RETURNS TO PALMER 1
Mrs. Robert Back returned to j
Anchorage Thursday from an ex-!
tended visit in Vernonia, Oregon.
While Mrs. Beck was Outside her ;
husband had the misfortune to j
crack up his small plane. On
December 10 while on a routuine ;
flight the engine failed and the
plane crash-landed four miles this j
side of Willow. The plane was
practically a total wreck, Mr. !
Beck said.
| Mr. Beck suffered the loss of j
I teeth and cuts and bruises. Darryl
i McKechnie, a friend of Mr. Beck j
( who was flying with him at the ;
time of the accident, escaped with
minor bruises.
CHARLES W. WORMAN
OUTSIDE FOR CHRISTMAS
Charles W. Worman, executive
of the Trans-House company,
' who has been in Palmer for the
! past several weeks, left for the
; states last week end to spend the
i Christmas holidays with his fam
: ily. While Outside Mr. Worman
i plans to go to Washington, D. C.,
, and Los Angeles, Calif., on busi
ness. His home is at Spokane,
Wn. He expects to be back in
j Palmer the second week in Janu
i ary to resume supervision of the
! installation of Transa - Houses
I here to be occupied by members
: of the Eklutna staff.
i Coffey Insures Everything—
Remember?
SCHOOL CAFETERIA
HAS NEW TABLE TOPS
Recent new improvements at
the Palmer school include brand
new tops for the tables. The at
tractive new table tops are of a
bright-colored linoleum material
and are fastened with stainless
steel binding.
Hugh A. Johnson Family
Moves to New Home
The Hugh A. Johnson family
moved into their new quarters at
Palmer last week end. Mr. John
son is economist with the Agri
cultural Research Administration
here. The family is now occupy
ing one of the new ARA staff
houses located across the street
from the laboratory building.
The ARA staff home to be oc
cupied by the Clarence I. Bran
tons was ready for the family to
move into when it caught on fire
last week. Everything was ready
for the Brantons Thursday of last
week when the fire was discov-*.
ered Friday morning. A smolder
ing fire which had apparently
been caused by spontaneous com
bustion burned a big hole in the
middle of the floor. Damage ap
proximated some $300 to $400.
STUDENT COUNCIL
SPONSORS CHRISTMAS
PARTY FOR HIGH SCHOOL
The student council sponsoi’ecl
a Christmas party for the high
school students at Palmer school
Wednesday afternoon. A train
ing film on safe driving was
shown at the beginning of the
program for the afternoon. The
film was one of several that have
been shown at the Palmer school
this semester through the cour
tesy of the chief of Alaska High
way Patrol at Anchorage, Frank
A. Metcalfe.
Following the movie there was
games and dancing at the gym
with refreshments of ice cream,
doughnuts and punch served.
Members of the high school fac
ulty were also in attendance at
the party.
EKLUTNA PROJECT STAFF
TO MOVE OFFICES TODAY
The office staff of the Eklutna
project was scheduled to move
| to new quarters in the partially
i completed American Legion
• building today. The 13 members
I of the staff will temporarily oc
; cupy two large crafting rooms
that have been completed in the
building, which is still under con
struction. The staff has occupied
offices in the Agricultural Re
earch Administration building,
since the Eklutna project got un
der way here this fall.
DON L. IRWIN. JR.. HOME
FROM COLLEGE FOR XMAS
Among college men who Ijave
returned to the Valley to spend
the holidays with their parents is
Don L. Irwin, Jr., son of Mr. and
i Mrs. Don L. Irwin. The junior
i Mr. Irwin arrived unexpectedly
i by plane to surprise his family
I last Saturday. He is a junior at
! Willamette University at Salem,
I Ore., where he is studying eco
nomics.
AN IDEAL GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS
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