CONSERVATION
NOTES
by Lew Hanks
Next Tuesday, March 13, is the
monthly meeting of the Palmer
Soil Conservation Sub-district
supervisors. Dr. C. H. Dearborn
of the Experiment station will
be there to talk on his experience
in chemical weed control and
types of weed spray equipment.
You farmers in the area are in
vited to attend and learn some
thing really worth while. The
meeting will be held in the Soil
Conservation Service office in the
Neal Wright Bldg, at 8.00 p.m.
The sub-district supervisors are
thinking of buying spray equip
ment to assist farmers in control
ing weeds. This weed control
problem is just like wind erosion
control. It has to be attacked
from several angles. Sprays and
crop rotations that include gras
ses will help control the weed
situation, just as windbreaks,
wind stripping and crop rotations
will control wind erosion.
Go out and take a look at the
snow drifts in your fields. See
how far out the brush rows along
the road or the standing timber
protect the fields from blowing.
Go out and really take a look.
Find out where your fields were
protected by snow cover. Spend
just fifteen minutes figuring out
where windbreaks should be to
protect. That fifteen minutes can
mean the difference between
whether you leave a farm or a*
gravel pile to the little fellow
when he grows up. He’s worthj
it. So take a look.
You’ve got to start some time.
Leave a marker in the field
where windbreaks should be.
Leave something that won’t blow
away—something that you have I
to move before you plow. Then at
planting time you can drag that
row of brush across the field and
start Junior’s windbreak for him.
You don’t need a high-powered
technician to tell you where the
wind-breaks should be. You
know that farm better than any
technician could. You live on it
and it’s yours for as long as you
desire. Go take a look.
Beta Sigma Phi to
Meet Next Monday
Regular meetings of the Betaj
Sigma Phi sorority have been
scheduled for the second and
fourth Mondays during March,j
Mrs. Dorothy Saxton, president,
announced this week. The March
12 meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Jack Maze at 8 p.m.
All members are urged by the
sorority president to be in attend
ance. The second meeting of the
month will be on March 26, ac
cording to the announcement.
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POLARIS, SCHOOL
YEAR BOOK ON SALE
Seniors of the Palmer High
School are conducting a sales
campaign on the Polaris, school
year book, this week. Orfa Plum
ley is chairman of the committee
in charge of sales. She is being
assisted by seniors who take
turns each period during the day
in the sales campaign which will
be in progress at the school this
week only.
The year book which went to
press, last week, contains many
traditional features although sev
eral “surprises are also in store
for students.” Every effort has
been made to make this year’s
issue of Polaris a treasure which
each and every student of Palmer
High School as well as the seniors
will want to keep through the
years, members of the Senior
class stated in announcing the
publication.
The. Seniors elected the year
book staff at a class meeting in
November when Harvey Hiber
was chosen as editor-in-chief.
Bob Harris was named assistant
editor; Jean Smith, literary edit
or; Karen Bryant, assistant lit
erary editor. Rosie Miller was
elected business manager; Dave
Vigdahl, advertising manager;
Orfa Plumley, circulation manag
er; Pat O’Connor, art editor; Bill
Buzby, photographer; Lillian Lo
berg, Faye Werner and Gloria
CUB BLUE AND GOLD
BANQUET SET HERE
FOR MARCH 26
In an effort to get a successful
Cub Scout program under way
here a special invitation is ex
tended to all parents of the young
scouts to attend a Blue and Gold
banquet to be held by the Cubs
on Monday, March 26, at the Pal
mer School cafeteria.
In a special effort being made
by the Cubs to interest their par
ents in their activities a special
program has been arranged as en
tertainment at the annual dinner.
The program will include Cub
Scout skits and exhibitions. A
ceremony of induction and a wel
come to new members will also
highlight the evening.
Cub Scout mothers will be re
quested to bring dishes for the
supper menu which will be served
buffet style. Decorations for the
banquet will be made by the
Cubs at regular den meetings.
Plans for the Cub Scout banquet
were made at a regular Cub Scout
meeting held at Leader James
Kindler’s home on Wednesday,
March 7. One Cub parent was in
attendance at that meeting.
Wright, typists. William W. Elliot,
grade school principle, is sponsor.
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at 7:45 p.m. last Sunday at Prov
idence Hospital where he had
been undergoing treatments since
February 9.
He was a native of Finland and
is survived by a cousin, O. G. Nel
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